Transportation
High court backs landowners in abandoned railway dispute
By Ben Armisteadn
In the escalating national feud over former railroad rights of way, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with landowners wrestling...
Corporate
Perkins Coie helps Cloudera raise $160M in venture financing
By Salvador Mares
Big data startup Cloudera Inc. inked financing in a round led by T. Rowe Price. ...
Business owners pressed legislators on the need to further reform the state toxics and disability access laws Wednesday as par...
Nearly a year after the firm opened its first California office, in San Francisco, the firm has headed south to put down roots...
Labor/Employment
Wal-Mart warehouse workers settlement gets preliminary approval
By Laura Hautalan
A group of Mira Loma warehouse workers won tentative approval of their agreement with two staffing companies Wednesday, despit...
General counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president, Advent Software Inc. San Francisco Size of legal department...
Kevin Rosenberg has jumped to the Los Angeles office of Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP as general counsel and chair...
Cooley LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC attorneys in Seattle and Palo Alto are helping to take antibody drug de...
A federal judge Wednesday extended a previous order to the National Security Agency, preventing them from destroying evidence ...
The Supreme Court will decide whether a plaintiff can state a claim under federal securities laws regarding a statement of opi...
California Courts of Appeal
E-filing comes to a state appellate court, at long last
By Emily Green
Electronic filing has arrived to the 1st District Court of Appeal, the first in the state to require lawyers to submit writ pe...
Data Privacy
Plaintiffs denied class certification in Gmail privacy lawsuit
By Hadley Robinson
In a major win for Google Inc., a San Jose federal judge has rejected class certification in a lawsuit challenging the company...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Many firms have wised up to the possible recruiting perils that come with such discussions and imposed agreements meant to ke...
Native Americans
Recent legal developments give new energy to tribal joint ventures
By Katharine Malonen
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that state and local governments lack the power to tax permanent improveme...
Passage of the Orca Welfare and Safety Act, banning the use of orca whales for public entertainment or breeding additional per...
Firms looking to add data security attorneys have deviated from standard recruiting practices due to the high demand and small...
Dallas-based McCathern PLLC, known for representing the Dallas Cowboys, broke into California recently by picking up an L.A. b...
General counsel movement shot up dramatically last year, and companies have seized on the turnover as an opportunity to place ...
Litigation
San Bernardino County corruption case heads back to trial court
By Katie Lucia
The two-year appellate battle in one of the state's biggest public corruption cases appears to have drawn to a close, after a ...
Intellectual Property
Stock photo company wins 9th Circuit copyright ruling
By Fiona Smith
A federal appeals court ruled that a stock photo company can sue for copyright infringement against a publishing company even ...
Law Practice
Firms' castoffs can be boon for others in search of talent
By Alexandra Schwappach
Firms' cost-saving measures are triggering departures, and legal experts say the fallout could bode well for other firms looki...
Just as firms conduct due diligence before acquiring a lateral partner, it's equally important for you, the candidate, to do y...
Litigation
Judge to consider how much surveillance data government must maintain
By Craig Andersonn
A federal judge will be asked Wednesday to determined how much data relevant to ongoing litigation over the government's colle...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit considers whether convicted murderer really asked for a lawyer
By John Roemer
A convicted murderer who was 19 when he told police interrogators in vain to "give me a lawyer" got a rare second en banc hear...
Litigation
Land use ordinance could broadly impact where 'formula retail' businesses can operate
By Chase Scheinbaum
If Malibu adopts a benchmark governing formula retail in the municipality, it could become a battleground for what some attorn...
Administrative/Regulatory
Future of class-arbitration waivers unclear under agency
By Ben Armisteadn
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was granted authority to limit mandatory arbitration clauses in certain contracts. It...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Questions for both sides in wake of PAGA opinion
By Ben Armisteadn
The 9th Circuit has determined that PAGA actions are not removable to federal district court under the Class Action Fairness A...
Securities
Shearman counsels underwriters on hotly anticipated Weibo IPO
By Salvador Mares
Palo Alto-based Shearman & Sterling LLP partner Alan Seem is leading the firm's representation of the underwriters in conn...
Corporate securities and technology partner Alan B. Kalin left the firm for Pillsbury Winthtrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He is at lea...