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Soured Lemon: What's next for the State's religion clauses?

Sep. 30, 2024

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A 9th Circuit panel draws lines on firearms in 'sensitive places'

Sep. 26, 2024

In Wolford v. Lopez, the 9th Circuit assessed whe...

By George M. Lee

Section 998's cost-shifting mechanism: A closer look at the controversy

Sep. 23, 2024

The cost-shifting mechanism under California Code of Civi...

By David B. Wasson

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State Bar & Bar Associations

Some independent mediators have raised concerns that the program - to be administered by the State Bar -- could speed up a trend of the industry consolidatin...


Immigration

With the political environment growing chillier for asylum seekers and illegal immigration during the presidential campaign and possibly afterward, attorneys...


Technology, Intellectual Property

Acknowledging there is no controlling law on the question, a federal judge has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal if AI output must be an exact copy ...


U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said there needed to be language in the agreement that made clear the property belonged to the homeless and temporarily h...


Civil Litigation

Lawsuit claims panty liners contain PFAS

Oct. 3, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The lawsuit alleges violation of California's Proposition 65, which requires businesses to warn consumers if a product contains cancer-causing chemicals such...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

A lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County accuses the tech giant of using monopolistic power to "exercise unfettered authority to determine what content and ads ...


Columns

Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation

Giuliani's homestead hustle

Oct. 2, 2024
By Baruch C. Cohen

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is facing a legal battle over his claim to a homestead exemption for his Palm Beach con...


Labor/Employment

Tips for addressing incivility in the workplace

Oct. 2, 2024
By Melanie L. Chaney , Peter Q. Nguyen

Workplace incivility hurts employee satisfaction and can drive turnover. Employers can combat this by fostering a healthy cult...


Labor/Employment

The Cemex may offer a new path to union representation and access to voluntary labor arbitration by establishing a new ...



Verdicts & Settlements

False Claims Act City of San Diego et al. ex... $19,992,900
Malpractice Minor Doe v. Roe OB/GYN, Ro... $7,250,000
42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Antonio Lopez, individually... $6,100,000
Premises Liability Christopher Grijalva v. Jan... $3,500,000
Premises Liability John Doe v. Roe Stadium $3,300,000
Gabriela Rivera De Cruz and... $2,500,000
School Incident Raquel Morales v. Los Angel... $2,250,000
Auto v. Motorcycle Miguel Ernesto Ortega Bauti... $2,045,371
Premises Liability Colomba Osorio v. Sierra Cr... $2,000,000
Wage and Hour Michael Bravo, individually... $1,750,000

On the Move

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Oct. 3, 2024


Alistair D. Blacklock as Partner in San Francisco

Blacklock focuses on litigating and resolving complex disputes, including multidistrict litigations, contested bankruptcy proceedings, appeals and confidential arbitrations.


Michael Brar as Partner in San Francisco

Brar specializes in investment fund work.


Psalm Cheung as Partner in San Francisco

Cheung is a member of the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. She advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including merger clearance, government investigations and day-to-day antitrust compliance.


Benjamin J. Jain as Partner in San Francisco

Jain's practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising companies with respect to corporate governance, joint ventures and other corporate matters. He currently serves on the board of the Glenn Gould Foundation.


Todd Melchor as Partner in San Francisco

Todd Melchior specializes in investment funds work.


Sean O'Connell as Partner in San Francisco

O'Connell specializes in transaction work.


Seth J. Pritchard as Partner in San Francisco

Pritchard is a member of the Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group where he concentrates on intellectual property, technology, cybersecurity, and privacy aspects of complex corporate transactions, including carve-outs, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and venture capital and private equity investments.


Michael White as Partner in Palo Alto

White concentrates his practice on complex business transactions, including carve-out transactions, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, recapitalizations, private equity and venture capital investments, growth equity investments, investment exits, executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements, and related general corporate counseling.


Julia Waterhous as Partner in San Francisco

Waterhous is a member of the Firm's ESG & Impact Practice Group, which advises some of the world's most sophisticated and dynamic private equity firms, corporations, and project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving legal issues relating to ESG and climate-related regulatory requirements, investor demands, strategic opportunities, and voluntary reporting frameworks and coalitions. Her practice includes ESG risk assessment, management, and mitigation with a focus on developing and evolving legal, regulatory, and market risks.


Maisie Allison as Partner in Los Angeles

Allison is a litigator. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-profile cases across the nation. Her practice covers a broad range of substantive areas, including breach of contract, fraud, unfair competition and antitrust, and she has experience with all stages of litigation, including fact development and investigation, pleadings, motions to dismiss, discovery and related motion practice, depositions, summary judgment, trial, and mediation and settlement.


Elena Babakhanyan as Partner in Los Angeles

Babakhanyan specializes in corporate work.


Spencer Brass as Partner in Los Angeles

Brass specializes in corporate work.


Aura Gilham as Partner in Los Angeles

Gilham specializes in transaction work with a focus on the formation, structuring, marketing, management and regulatory compliance of investment funds, as well as the operational, legal and regulatory issues faced by their sponsors.


Nathaniel E. Haas as Partner in Los Angeles

Haas is a litigator. He has taken and defended depositions of key witnesses; briefed and presented arguments in connection with a variety of motions and appeals; and examined key witnesses at trial.


Phillip M. Kim as Partner in Los Angeles

Kim's practice focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures for institutional investors, owners and developers.


Leland Langston as Partner in Los Angeles

Langston is a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group. His practice focuses on private investment funds and investment advisers. Leland provides regulatory advice on a wide variety of matters, including the formation, offering and operation of private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and credit funds, as well as on adviser-led secondary transactions.


Arman Zadeh as Partner in Los Angeles

Zadeh specializes in corporate work.


Andrew Won as Partner in Los Angeles

Won specializes in debt finance work.


Van Whiting as Partner in Los Angeles

Whiting specializes in capital markets with a concentration in corporate finance, securities regulation, and corporate governance. He advises issuers and sponsors in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, while also providing strategic counsel on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, and other complex transactions. Additionally, he offers comprehensive corporate and securities law counsel, with a focus on corporate governance, disclosure matters, periodic reporting, Section 16 compliance, and stock exchange listing requirements.


Philippe Simard as Partner in Los Angeles

Simard specializes in corporate work.


Michael J. Shea as Partner in Los Angeles

Shea focuses his practice on representing domestic and international fund sponsors in the structuring, formation, and management of private investment funds. His expertise spans buyout funds, growth equity funds, debt funds, real estate funds, and other private investment vehicles. He also advises on the organization, structuring, and operations of their management companies.


Christian Rivas as Partner in Los Angeles

Christian Rivas specializes in debt finance work.


Joseph E. Porter as Partner in Los Angeles

Porter specializes in mergers and acquisitions.


Ugo Nwasike as Partner in Los Angeles

Nwasike specializes in corporate work with a focus on capital raising. He advises private equity, venture capital and real estate sponsors on the formation, structuring and management of their private investment funds, as well as the operational, legal and regulatory issues facing them.


Peter Liskanich as Partner in Los Angeles

Liskanich's practice encompasses general corporate and business law, with an emphasis on representing private equity firms and private and public companies on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, board governance and debt and equity offerings.


Sarkis Haroutunian as Partner in Los Angeles

Haroutunian's practice includes the representation of institutional real estate investors, developers and joint ventures in the acquisition, disposition, financing and development of commercial, office, industrial, hotel, residential and mixed-use properties across the United States.


Timothy M. Cory as Partner in Los Angeles

Cory advises clients on all matters relating to the formation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, as well as the operational, legal and regulatory issues faced by their sponsors. In addition, he has experience representing investors with respect to their interest in private investment funds.


Christopher Simpson as Partner in San Francisco

Simpson advises and represents clients with respect to complex business transactions in the private funds market, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, minority interest sales and other transactions involving investment management firms and on the establishment of structuring and execution of secondary transactions and other liquidity solutions.


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Community News

Community News

Dickinson Wright opens San Diego office

Oct. 2, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Three intellectual property lawyers have joined the firm from Sheppard Mullin.



Attorney Profiles


Daily Appellate Report

Criminal Law and Procedure

In re Maury

Despite capital defendant's objection to counsel's presentation of mitigation evidence, *McCoy* was not implicated where defendant personally requested that the jury give him the death pe...


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Harris

Despite initially ruling that defendant was entitled to resentencing, trial court had inherent authority to reconsider its decision and deny resentencing.


Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence

People v. Ellis

Admission of propensity evidence of uncharged acts and instructing jury accordingly was not error where trial court conducted the analysis required by Evidence Code Section 352 pretrial.


Contracts

Bennett v. Isagenix International, LLC

District court erred in treating the parties' contractual limitation on consequential damages as a basis for finding irreparable harm.