California Courts of Appeal
Opinion reins in one product liability defense
By Ben Armisteadn
One appellate court has arguably tightened the application of the "sophisticated user" defense in California. By Brian Davies ...
Data Privacy
Attempt to harmonize European cybersecurity laws has flaws
By Katharine Malonen
The European Parliament recently passed a draft directive titled the Network and Information Security Directive. By Grant Davi...
The U.S. high court recently resolved a three-way split amonth the circuits regarding who has standing to bring a false advert...
A San Bernardino County judge got a break last week when he won an unusual lawsuit against the county that allowed him to keep...
Labor/Employment
Real estate appraisers settle lawsuit against Bank of America
By Laura Hautalan
The plaintiffs settled a wage and hour lawsuit with Bank of America Corp. and a subsidiary for $5.8 million, resolving the emp...
California Courts of Appeal
Ratings services ask appellate court to dismiss lawsuit
By Emily Green
Moody's Investor Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC asked an appellate court to throw out the lawsu...
Benjamin Blakeman balked after receiving a bill from the agency seeking upwards of $10,000, claiming his clients failed to re...
Goodwin Procter LLP grabbed corporate partner Rezwan D. Pavri from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC on Wednesday, welco...
It's a plaintiffs' attorney's dream: discovery unearthing a record in which the defendants agree to work out agreements "verba...
Law Practice
Law grad employment numbers stay largely flat in California
By Don Debenedictisn
Just under half of California's 2013 law school graduates had found good lawyer jobs by mid-February, compared to 57 percent n...
Litigation
HP's $108 million penalty illustrates government focus on foreign corruption
By Hadley Robinson
In three separate schemes in Russia, Poland and Mexico, employees of Hewlett-Packard Co. bribed foreign government officials w...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Sealing the deal: considerations for sealing court records
By Ben Armisteadn
Sealing court records is a tricky endeavor where one false step may expose confidential information to public view. By James C...
Northwestern has until Wednesday to appeal the decision and the players are scheduled to vote on union representation April 25...
In 2013 alone, over 825,000 patent applications were filed in China, a 26.3 percent jump from 2012. By Enshan Hong and Kent Ch...
In the latest legal shot against Sutter Health, the Sacramento-based healthcare provider has been accused of unfairly dominati...
Corporate
Bazaarvoice to sell assets after losing government antitrust case
By Hadley Robinson
To untangle an acquisition that a federal judge found consolidated too much power in the online ratings and reviews market, Ba...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Boutique health firms prepare for 'Obamacare' crunch
By David Ruiz
As pressures mount from the Affordable Care Act for small physician groups to join larger organizations, boutique health firms...
Los Angeles Unified School District will have to budget roughly $25 million a year for three years to fund programs in 37 stru...
Arthur F. Silbergeld and John G. Yslas join the firm as partners, accompanied by senior associate Jennifer A. Awrey. Both Si...
AB 2332 would limit courts' ability to approve contracts with outside companies to provide services to courts and revives a si...
Criminal
Mental illness reduces chances of three strikes sentence reduction
By Hamed Aleazizn
A recent study by Stanford's Three Strikes Project asserts that three quarters of inmates who have been denied sentence reduc...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In case echoing Kozinski's, 9th Circuit sympathetic to objectors
By John Roemer
Objectors seeking to derail a class settlement over allegedly defective Apple MacBook power cords got a cordial reception Tues...
Litigation
Lawyers say opinion could change landscape of elder abuse cases
By Chase Scheinbaum
An appellate opinion established that plaintiffs could only collect a $500 penalty for care violations once, no matter how man...
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