Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP earned its reputation as one of America's best litigation and trial law firms by winning cases and consistently providing clients with sophisticated, result-oriented strategies. Sedgwick is one of the largest firms focusing on corporate litigation. As the firm enters its eighth decade of practice, its representations span the globe. Today Sedgwick provides clients multi-jurisdictional legal services that parallel the global marketplace.

Founded in 1933 as a three-person firm in San Francisco, Sedgwick now has over 400 attorneys in offices in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Orange County (California), Paris, San Francisco, Zurich and an affiliated office in Bermuda. Our clients include nearly 100 Fortune 500 companies and other international businesses. Sedgwick attorneys take pride in our long-standing client relationships and in our well-earned reputation for effective and economical representation of some of the nation's largest companies.

California Court Upholds Pollution Exclusion to Bar Coverage for Injuries Caused by Chemicals Released in Sewer
Katherine E. Mast, April 4, 2008
In American Casualty Co. of Reading, PA v. Miller, 2008 WL 223456 (Cal. App. 2d Jan 29, 2008), a California Court of Appeal upheld the application of a commercial general liability policy's pollution exclusion to bar coverage for bodily injuries resulting from methylene chloride discharged into the...

California Supreme Court: Medicinal Marijuana Prescription Won't Protect Your Job
Aaron Colby, Leonora (Lenny) M. Schloss, April 4, 2008
The California Supreme Court in Ross v. Ragingwire Telecommunications, Inc. has held that an employee fired for his use of medicinal marijuana cannot sue his former employer for disability discrimination or wrongful termination under California law. The court ruled that The Compassionate Use Act of...

Employer Victory Regarding the Use of Workplace Email Systems
Marc A. Koonin, April 4, 2008
On December 16, 2007, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision, The Guard Publishing Company, holding that: (1) employees generally do not have a right to use employer email systems for union organization purposes; (2) employers can maintain nondiscriminatory email policies allowing...