Intellectual Property
Wireless patent licensing dispute is first of its kind in California
By Kevin Lee
A spat between computer chip producers is set to become the first trial in the state in which jurors decide the licensing term...
In a decision announced last month, the U.S. high court affirmed immunity for an air carrier under federal law against a defam...
In order for Bitcoin to become a viable tool for mainstream use, companies that receive bitcoins as payment need to be able t...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Richman will be given back his old post presiding over a felony trial court down...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Federal defender's funding litigation puts court in murky conundrum
By Henry Meier
In a recent writs with the 9th Circuit seeking funds to purchase transcripts of trial court cases, Sean Kennedy, the federal p...
This has been suggested as a way to combat gun violence -- but it fails to take into account the ramifications of federalizing...
General Counsel of Realty Mogul Co. Beverly Hills ...
Firm helps the Los Angeles-based ad tech company with its initial regulatory filing. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley helps Crescendo Bioscience sell to Myriad
By Salvador Mares
In a deal nearly three years in the making, South San Francisco-based molecular diagnostic test maker Crescendo Bioscience Inc...
Labor/Employment
NLRB to hasten union elections with proposed rule changes
By Laura Hautalan
The proposed amendments would bring "a number of changes to the Board's representation case procedures aimed at modernizing pr...
Under a rule being floated by the state judicial branch, judges may soon be barred from membership in the Boy Scouts of Americ...
In the first instance, communications between the policyholder and its broker are almost never privileged. Of course, there ar...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Disability rights advocates get mixed results in 9th Circuit ruling
By John Roemer
A circuit panel put on hold the advocates' suit to force CNN to aid the hearing-impaired by captioning news videos posted to i...
Litigation
Both sides of dog poop fight heave mental illness accusations
By Omar Shamout
In his closing arguments, the city prosecutor who charged Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Richman with misdemean...
A New York judge hit Butler & Dodge LLP with a more than $12 million judgment in a lawsuit brought over claims the firm de...
Litigation
Irell represents plaintiffs in suit over stake in music company
By Saul Sugarman
Three men represented by Irell & Manella LLP accuse New York-based music company SFX Entertainment Inc. of denying them a ...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Bradley Lynn Jensen will be suspended from practice for 120 days beginning next week for leaving his 9-month-old daughter unat...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Health insurers, providers combine amid raft of deals
By Salvador Mares
Hyper-consolidation within the health care industry is making strange bedfellows of hospital groups and insurance providers. ...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Menlo Park ...
Cooley LLP Santa Monica ...
Fenwick & West LLP San Francisco ...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Palo Alto ...
Cooley LLP San Francisco ...
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP Redwood City ...
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP Redwood City ...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC San Francisco ...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles ...