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Perspective


The suit challenging teacher tenure laws disregards the beneficial purposes of those laws and ignores the full context of prob...


Law Practice


Three Bingham litigators decamp to Sheppard

Feb. 13, 2014
By Joshua Seboldn

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has lured three partners away from Bingham McCutchen LLP, including a celebrated w...


Perspective


Bill will clean up recruiter practices

Feb. 13, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Last week, the state Senate unanimously passed SB 477, which attacks the rampant exploitation temporary foreign workers suffer...


Litigation


Spinal implant maker wins $48M verdict

Feb. 13, 2014
By Omar Shamout

Orthotec LLC won a unanimous $48 million jury verdict against a European company this week over claims that the defendants fra...


California Courts of Appeal


Homeowners who claim their former lawyers at Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack withheld almost half the funds from a $100 million ...


Top Verdicts


Top Appellate Reversals: Overview Chart

Feb. 12, 2014
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


Top Verdicts


Top Plaintiffs' Verdicts by Impact: Overview Chart

Feb. 12, 2014
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


Top Verdicts


Top Defense Results: Overview Chart

Feb. 12, 2014
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


Top Verdicts


Editors' Note

Feb. 12, 2014
By Craig Andersonn


Perspective


At the margins of taxpayer standing

Feb. 12, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Payers of state and local tax have broad standing to bring suits to restrain the waste of public funds. Of course, the plainti...


Government


State buys time with judicial panel's ruling

Feb. 12, 2014
By Hamed Aleazizn

A judicial panel's order Monday granting California a two-year extension to cut its prison roll could cede more control of the...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Legal observers said plaintiffs, in seeking to keep the case in state court, may have tripped over a California civil procedur...


Entertainment & Sports


Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday named entertainment law maven Kenneth Ziffren as a senior adviser charged with helping to slow t...


Litigation


An ineffective teacher turned an ambitious student into a nervous and demoralized ball of nerves, said the father of a 13-year...


Large Firms


"Re-equitization"is a term, and more importantly a process, which relates to law firm partnership and capitalization structure...


The plaintiffs' steering committee overseeing state litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden acceleration claims want...


Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh had reservations over the closing argument of Apple's lead trial counsel, but not enough to de...


Litigation


The gift is the largest in its 45-year history and one of the largest ever to a California bar group. ...


Litigation


How Vergara's arguments compare

Feb. 12, 2014
By Chase Scheinbaum

Several major education cases of the past five decades in which plaintiffs prevailed have each made constitutional claims. But...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Feb. 11, 2014
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Litigation


The plaintiffs in Vergara v. California have not publicly received support from advocacy groups experienced in litigating majo...


Judicial Profile


Peter A. Hernandez

Feb. 11, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Newly appointed Judge Peter Hernandez has shown himself to be flexible and reasonable, lawyers say.


Corporate Counsel


Michael W. Brown

Feb. 11, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Privacy Officer Clarient Diagnostic Services, Inc. Aliso Viejo...


Letter to the Editor


Live long and prosper, demurrer

Feb. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Re: "Put the Demurrer Out to Pasture?," Feb. 4. By Garth M. Drozin ...


California Courts of Appeal


Public officials, private emails, public records

Feb. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

You will not be shocked to learn that many government officials try to avoid public disclosure by using their personal email a...


Insurance


Policyholders and their attorneys had cause to celebrate in 2013, as the year culminated with several notable policyholder-fri...


Law Practice


Homegrown San Francisco law firm Sedgwick LLP will move many of its administrative functions to a central Kansas City office i...


Law Practice


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Louis M. Meisinger retired Friday after six years on the bench to return to his post at ADR S...


Law Practice


California legal job market remains sluggish, data shows

Feb. 11, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

But the nationwide legal sector saw a slight uptick in jobs last month, according to employment data released Friday. ...


Litigation


Cisco Systems Inc. and a Chicago-based patent holding company both claimed a favorable result after the Silicon Valley-based ...