The University of San Diego School of Law will host a special sitting of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, Feb. 6

The San Diego Superior Court is closing all its courtrooms and business offices for two days in February.

Last week Punxsutawney Phil made it official – San Diego businesses have to cope with six more weeks of winter. In the coming week there are numerous speakers and activities that will help us make it through the dreary days ahead.

Kramm Court Reporting will host a seminar on business presentations Feb. 16 from noon-1:30 p.m. as part of its speaker series.

Jeremy Roth, managing shareholder of Littler Mendelson's San Diego office, has been named a “Client Service All-Star” by The BTI Consulting Group. It's the second time he has landed on the prestigious list.

Upon entering Andrew Skale's office, a visitor is just as likely to be treated to a magic trick as to receive legal advice.

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro ordered the complete dismissal on Jan. 30 of a whistleblower suit against San Diego-based Millennium Laboratories brought by a former Calloway Laboratories' senior officer.

Enzo Life Sciences, which makes products used to genetically screen for disease, sued rivals Roche Diagnostics Corp., Life Technologies Corp. and Gen-Probe Inc., claiming infringement of a U.S. patent.

Five more partners have left the law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP ahead of its planned March 1 merger with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.

S. Andrew Pharies has joined DLA Piper as a partner in the firm's trusts and estates group while Michelle C. Glasser joins the firm as an associate. Pharies and Glasser both move to DLA Piper from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where Pharies was the head of the firm’s private client group.

University of San Diego School of Law professor Michael Ramsey has been appointed director of the school's international and comparative law programs, the school announced Tuesday. He assumed his new role on Jan. 1.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law students Elizabeth Knowles, Man Huynh and Kim Bui recently received scholarships from two of San Diego’s legal associations. The Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego (FALSD) awarded Knowles and Huynh with $1,000 each while Bui received a $1,000 scholarship from the Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego (PALSD).

Lawyers often use social media websites in a fashion that arguably comes close to the line of unlawful attorney advertising.

S. Andrew Pharies has joined DLA Piper as a partner in the firm's trusts and estates group while Michelle C. Glasser joins the firm as an associate. Pharies and Glasser both move to DLA Piper from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where Pharies was the head of its private client group.

University of San Diego School of Law professor Michael Ramsey has been appointed director of the school's International and Comparative Law Programs, the school announced Tuesday. He assumed his new role on Jan. 1.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Julie Greenberg's new book "Intersexuality and the Law: Why Sex Matters" has attracted widespread interest and critical acclaim. Greenberg has been invited to discuss her book Friday at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute Book Series and on March 4 at the University of New Mexico Faculty Colloquium series as well as on April 3 at the University of California, San Diego Osher Institute.

Xuanning “Ning” Lu has joined the law firm Pettit Kohn Ingrassia & Lutz PC as an associate on the retail and product liability teams.

California Western School of Law student Jaclyn Simi is the recipient of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLPís 2012 Native American Law Educational Internship.

Procopio Cory recently voted to extend the term of Thomas W. Turner Jr. as its managing partner through 2015 and to extend the tenure of Craig A. Ramseyer on its management committee for four more years.

California Western School of Law student Jaclyn Simi is the recipient of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP’s 2012 Native American Law Educational Internship.