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If there are lawyers in the afterlife, Sei Fujii is one of them now. The California Supreme Court granted Fujii a law license 63 years after he died, acknowledging that he was wrongfully denied during his lifetime. The justices praised him for his contributions to society in the face of discrimination and disadvantage. “Despite his unjust exclusion from the legal profession, Fujii undertook extraordinary efforts to apply his education and talents to advancing the rule of law in California,” the court said....

The Department of Justice announced earlier this week that it was charging three Chinese citizens with insider trading, after they traded on info obtained by hacking into the emails of M&A lawyers. The trio was able to purloin insider information after using the credentials of firm employees to gain access law firm servers. The news was another in a long series of revelations that hackers were targeting law firms – and often succeeding in gaining access....

“A hacker did it.” Not to be judgmental, but that could be the weakest excuse since the dog ate your homework. However, that is the excuse given by an attorney from Florida whose Facebook account featured a rather distasteful post. The attorney made clear that he considered the post to be “disgusting.” He Said, Hacker Said According to reports, attorney Albert Sauline’s Facebook post offered sympathy and legal services to drunks in compromising situations....

‘We’re number two! We’re number two!’ Rarely does that statement raise the roof. But for California lawyers, it’s almost something to brag about because California is no longer the No. 1 Judicial Hellhole in the nation. Florida has snatched that title from the Golden State, which has been a perennial leader in the annual ranking. It’s not easy to lead a nation into a litigious hell, but somebody has to do it....

If you don’t follow celebrity gossip (or news), then you may have missed the big fake Kim Kardashian news that Kanye West seemed to announce out of the blue: Okay, maybe it wasn’t out of the blue, after all Kanye was talking about how Kim has been fired up about social justice, particularly related to drug sentencing reform. However, clearly Kanye doesn’t understand law student and lawyer social media, which just absolutely lit up after that statement, but would have gone absolutely bananas if Kim had really started law school this year....

Defendant’s conviction and sentence for multiple crimes is affirmed as the trial court did not err in imposing the upper term of sentence as prior juvenile adjudications that are of increasing seriousness may be used in imposing the upper term under California Rules of Court, rule 4.421(b)(2). Read People v. Quiles, No. A119615 Appellate Information Filed September 10, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Needham Counsel For Appellant: Law Office of Paul Kleven For Appelle: Edmund G....

For former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress, a prison sentence meant he could not play football for nearly two years. His recent release from Oneida Correctional Facility in New York means that he may be making his way back onto the field once again, reports the Los Angeles Times. Burress famously shot himself in the leg at a New York nightclub then served 20 months in jail for a criminal gun possession charge in August 2009....

With one week left until the primaries, the race for Superior Court judgeships is getting expensive, and heated. In one race, a candidate is on the verge of setting a spending record. Despite the hundreds of thousands expended, however, the race is expected to be close. And The Record Is … Two years ago, now-Judge, then-Deputy District Attorney Sean Coen spent a record $450,000 on the primary race. This year? Deputy District Attorney Helen Kim is inching closer, with $415,000 spent as of May 17....

Most of you graduated law school with dreams of big cities, big salaries and Big Law. Sorry. If it hasn’t happened yet, it isn’t happening anytime soon. But if you’re still intent on raking in a six-figure salary, the ABA Journal is touting 10 smaller legal markets that pay just as much, if not more, than their regional metropolis counterparts. Though a six-figure income can go a long way in these fly-over cities, the list represents an odd mixture of Southern hicksville, Midwestern small town, and Western nothingness....

Sports and law intersect more often than one may expect. In 2014, several high-profile athletes were charged with crimes or involved in criminal proceedings. But legal troubles weren’t just limited to athletes. Cheerleaders and team owners also got into the mix with headline-grabbing legal issues of their own. What were this year’s biggest sports-related legal stories? Here are the 10 most popular posts from FindLaw’s Tarnished Twenty in 2014: That’s it for the 2014 Tarnished Twenty all-star squad....

Tomlinson v. County of Alameda, A125471, concerned a challenge to the trial court’s denial of plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of administrative mandate on the ground that the proposed subdivision was exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under the categorical exemption for in-fill development, in plaintiffs’ petition challenging the decision of a county to approve a subdivision development proposed by developers. Ramirez v. Wong, B217957, involved two female tenants’ suit against their landlord, claiming that the resident manager of their apartment building entered their apartment in their absence, opened their dresser drawer and removed and sniffed their underwear in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act and other sections of the Civil Code that provide the right to be free from violence or intimidation by threat of violence based on sex and that prohibit sexual harassment....

Viral video of an incident entitled “Redneck Road Rage / Instant Karma” got the attention of Florida law enforcement, and landed the alleged road rager behind bars. Jeffrey White, 33, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving, and not wearing a seatbelt, according to Tampa’s WTSP-TV. Turns out legal karma is a b—- too. But what about the other driver who captured the video on a cell phone while behind the wheel herself?...

As the world remembers Justice Scalia this week, plenty of attention has been given to his role as the Supreme Court’s conservative leader, originalism’s most successful advocate, or even the bench’s most sarcastic judge. But many of the retrospectives miss a major part of Justice Scalia’s life: his time as a law professor. Justice Scalia spent much of his early career bouncing back and forth between practice and academia, including seven years teaching law at the University of Chicago....

Employers accused of discriminating on the basis of age in hiring just got some good news from the Eleventh Circuit. Earlier this month, the circuit ruled that only employees, and not job applicants, may bring disparate impact age discrimination claims. The split en banc decision is a significant blow to applicants (and the plaintiff’s bar), limiting the reach of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act protections to current employees only....

Discovery got you down? Have you been chewed out by a partner after working the whole weekend? Would you rather stay in bed all day? Sounds like you could use some inspiration. Thankfully, TED Talks – those quick combos of smart thinking, great storytelling, and PowerPoint mastery – specialize in inspiration. Here are seven of our favorites that can remind you why you became a lawyer, how you can work for justice, and how you can use your skills to persuade and inspire others....

The Judicial Council of California earned some harsh criticism earlier this week from state legislators during a hearing at the State Capitol in Sacramento. The Chief Justice of California, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, has said over the past several years that the state court system needs more money; indeed, state courthouses have been closed, and employees laid off, to save money. In spite of that, though, an independent audit of the judiciary’s finances showed $30 million in questionable spending....

The phrase “cat burglar” normally refers a burglar who is as stealthy as a cat. Although, as FindLaw Senior Writer for Legal Professional Blogs Casey Sullivan pointed out, it could also refer to cats who burgle. Rarely, if ever, does it refer to a burglar who steals cats. But one thief fits that description after breaking into a Pennsylvania man’s home and absconding with his feline friend. Oh, and the thief turned off the heat as well....

In a class action lawsuit against Sprint alleging that cell phone handsets sold by the defendant-company secretly had been locked with programming locks to prevent the use of the phones on other services providers’ networks, judgment of the trial court is affirmed where: 1) because the trial court’s ruling accorded too large a role to objecting class members in the fee setting process, the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to approve the fee arbitration provision where it had already determined that the range of possible fee awards was reasonable and that there was no evidence of collusion by the parties to the settlement; but 2) defendant has failed to show actual prejudice resulted from determination of the amount of the attorney fee award by the court rather than by the arbitrator selected by the parties....

In an Ohio courtroom this week, one lawyer had a worse day than any other lawyer in the country: Attorney Aaron Brockler, while standing next to his client at sentencing in the courtroom, was punched in the face by his client after the 47-year sentence was handed down. Brockler states that he recalls waking up on the ground, and explained that prosecutors were pulling him away because his client was on the ground biting his butt....

In a landlord-tenant dispute, trial court’s grant of defendants’ SLAPP motion in striking plaintiff’s six of ten causes of action is reversed where the defendants’ section 425.16 motion in the trial court did not, on the facts and pleadings of the case, satisfy the first prong of that statute and therefore, the trial court erred in granting it as to any of the causes of action in plaintiff’s complaint. Read Delois v....