Last year saw a flurry of activity among real estate investment trusts as REITs took full advantage of low home prices, cont...
After months of widespread speculation, Twitter took to its own social media platform to announce that it had taken the first ...
American International Group Inc.'s sale of Los Angeles-based International Lease Finance Corp. to AerCap Holdings NV was the...
Berkshire Hathaway turned to its longtime counsel at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP last winter in their $28 billion takeover ...
Top Deals
Once a cottage industry, mergers litigation reaches new heights
By Salvador Mares
A recent study found that in 2013, fully 97.5 percent of public company buyouts valued at $100 million or above triggered a sh...
A growing fraternity of advertising technology companies, or "ad tech" in the streamlined parlance of Silicon Valley, is growi...
The largest M&A transactions and IPOs in California in 2013, plus a list of the leading private equity and emerging compan...
Many clients are unfamiliar with the federal government's recent efforts to require any entity that receives federal financial...
The legal uncertainty surrounding drones is not likely to be resolved anytime soon, it seems. By David Goldberg and Jason Knig...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court considers life sentences for juveniles
By Craig Andersonn
Justices debated a law that has been interpreted to say juveniles aged 16 and 17 who are convicted of special circumstance mur...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit revives consumer report class action
By John Roemer
Pasadena-based people search website Spokeo.com is back in the crosshairs of a potential national class action alleging that i...
Mary A. Nolan, who practiced in San Ramon, must spend two years in prison for evading taxes and for her role in bugging the ca...
As mobile advertising sector continues to heat up, San Francisco-based mobile ad platform Tapjoy Inc. is beefing up its legal ...
Litigation
ACLU sues secretary of state to allow former felony inmates to vote
By Hamed Aleazizn
California unconstitutionally excluded nearly 60,000 former inmates from voting, plaintiffs' attorneys claimed in a lawsuit fi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit judge among finalists as UC Berkeley School of Law dean
By John Roemer
Four finalists including the 9th Circuit's William A. Fletcher are in the running to succeed Christopher Edley Jr. as dean of ...
Education
Law school clinics don't up tuition, professor tells State Bar panel
By Don Debenedictisn
Clinics don't increase law school tuition, a professor told a committee plotting out how the State Bar could boost the practic...
Litigation
Judge denies Snapchat's bid to change venue for suit
By Alexandra Schwappach
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner rejected arguments by the photo messaging company that new claims against it fell under f...
If the state high court fails to overturn a recent verdict, it will effectively bless the dangerous conflation of simple contr...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge charged with pushing a woman to the ground after an argument about dog poop told jur...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marc Marmaro granted the defendants' motion for a new trial and partial judgment notwithstand...
Labor/Employment
PetSmart settles wage suit with groomers for $10 million
By Laura Hautalan
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