This California Rule May Prevent Some In-House Counsel Moves

Rule 9.46 of the California Rules of Court allows an attorney who is licensed to practice law in one or more jurisdictions of the United States other than California to register to provide legal services in California as in-house counsel exclusively...

Professor Asks The Wrong Question About Lawyers' Role

Professor Stephen Bainbridge's blog yesterday highlighted a recent article by his Sung Hui Kim entitled "Do Lawyers Make Good Gatekeepers?" In answering this question, Professor Kim distinguishes between in-house and outside counsel. As to the...

Did This Corporation's Law Firm Unwittingly Join The Criminal Prosecution Team?

In Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the Supreme Court held that the prosecution has a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause to disclose evidence to a criminal defendant. The former Chief Executive Officer of IAR Systems...

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