Law and Legal

The stem cell article by Jennifer Washburn in the April 12, 2006 issue of the Los Angeles Times mentioned Jeanne Loring, an embryologist at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla: In 1999, Loring tried to launch a company to work with stem cells, but the firm quickly collapsed when it […]

Legal consulting firm Altman Weil released its fifth annual Law Firms in Transition Survey, which revealed that since the survey’s inception in 2009, there has been wider acceptance of legal outsourcing as a business driver. In the survey, nearly 50% of L.F. leaders believe that outsourcing legal work is now […]

A career in private investigation is versatile and many people pursue it as an alternative career option. There is a growing demand for private investigators. This is chiefly because of the increase in the number of crimes and the resulting fear and tension, an increase in litigation and the need […]

INTRODUCTION Patient rights are under siege, as evidenced in a recent survey conducted by the National Institute for Patient Rights (NIPR). NIPR staff compiled the results based on responses from one-thousand randomly selected, former hospital patients who took part in the study. The results of the survey show that, despite […]

When used together, Health Care Proxies, Living Wills and Powers of Attorney can be powerful tools in making sure that your legal and medical wishes are carried out if you are unable to implement them yourself. These documents offer relatively inexpensive alternatives to costly guardianship proceedings for incapacitated loved ones. […]

Project Finance has become an increasingly attractive technique for financing infrastructure projects in developing countries over the last twenty years. Furthermore, the use of project financing raises difficult legal issues with respect to the ability of developing countries’ governments to control the provision of public services that are intimately connected […]

While the recession KO’d some industries entirely, other fields are showing staying power in the twelfth round. One of these is criminal justice. According to a March 20 Wall Street Journal article entitled “More Ex-Cons on the Streets, Fewer Jobs,” many states that are struggling to make their budgets are […]

Whether you are employed as a scientist or as a company do research anywhere in California, including cities where biotechnology and other medical science is being studied or where research takes place, especially the areas around cities such as San Diego, Irvine, Orange County, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Riverside, Fullerton, […]