New Jersey’s new medical marijuana law has yet to take effect, but a state appeals court ruling that affirms a man’s conviction for growing pot offers a whiff of the kind of litigation that is sure to arise.

New Jersey’s new medical marijuana law has yet to take effect, but a state appeals court ruling that affirms a man’s conviction for growing pot offers a whiff of the kind of litigation that is sure to arise.

A California court ruling last week added some clarity to a controversial area of commercial property foreclosures. Siding with developers, a judge ruled that Wachovia could not force the sale of a property through receivership.

In this Q&A with The Am Law Daily, Dan Woods, the White & Case commercial litigator who won the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” case last week, reflects on a court ruling that was six years in the making, how the law firm took up the case, the highly charged testimony of servicemembers, the government’s strategy and the next steps in the legal process.

Non-clients have no standing to disqualify attorneys from jointly representing others, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday, despite a federal trial court ruling that seemed to suggest otherwise. The ruling reverses a trial court’s disqualification of Calabasas, Calif., attorney Bruce Graham and his firm, Graham & Associates, from representing clients with some allegedly opposing interests in a libel and breach of contract suit.