Environmental
EPA reaches $11 million settlement with fireworks company
By Riley Guerin
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has reached an $11 million settlement with a shuttered fireworks company...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sullivan, Fenwick counsel on $527M Zynga acquisition
By Salvador Mares
The San Francisco-based video game developer announced the purchase of NaturalMotion, a mobile game maker based in Oxford, Eng...
Labor/Employment
Labor department investigating Raiderette's unpaid wages claim
By Laura Hautalan
Agency confirms it's looking into Lacy T.'s allegations that the team pays its cheerleaders $5 an hour. ...
Law Practice
Amid rocky San Diego legal market, K&L Gates merges office with OC outpost
By Alexandra Schwappach
The closure is the latest in a handful of departures from San Diego - what some experts say suggests a flat lateral market and...
A rare three-page veto by Gov. Jerry Brown last fall killed a bill that would've extended the statute of limitations in child ...
Cheryl Chun Meegan enjoys making an impact in her judicial work by relating to people.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Judge Jon Tigar is known for tentative rulings in which he brings up cases not cited by lawyers.
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Legal professionals and city leaders met Wednesday for the third annual Real Estate and Law Symposium, held at Stanford Univer...
There's much to read about what type of attorney conduct leads to malpractice claims. But what about the client? By Steven W. ...
There are very few cases in which it is impossible for any email data to be forensically retrieved or restored. By Daniel B. G...
"What Works for Women at Work," by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey, is a comprehensive guide for navigating office politic...
Landowners routinely have to give up something to obtain a discretionary permit. And while there are limits, those limits only...
Employee Benefits
San Jose mayor to sue AG over "loaded" ballot wording for pension reform measure
By Laura Hautalan
Chuck Reed said his only recourse for changing the language is to sue. The ballot measure aims in part to make certain parts o...
The 56th annual Grammy Awards came to Los Angeles Sunday, and a number of the city's law firms joined in the festivities by th...
Judges and Judiciary
Tweaks to funding algorithm could be boon to small courts
By Paul Jones
Smaller county courts across the state stand to benefit from changes to a workload-based funding allocation method that the Ju...
The Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco kicked off its 2014 "It Starts With A Day" communit...
Eric D. Vandevelde has moved to the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as of counsel, the firm announced Th...
Government
DOJ calls for clemency requests amid shifting stance on drugs
By Hamed Aleazizn
California prosecutors and defense attorneys hailed separate moves by the U.S. Justice Department and the Senate Thursday to l...
Government
CAL-ABOTA president makes push for jury service his passion
By Chase Scheinbaum
Steven C. Glickman, the 2014 president of the state chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, plans to launch a series...
Community News
Former chief justice talks shop at public forum in Los Angeles
By Ben Adlin
Former California Chief Justice Ronald M. George joined 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Richard M. Mosk for a conversatio...
Community News
Trial advocacy group holds Q&A with the state's chief justice
By Ben Adlin
The falloff in the number of civil jury trials in California has largely matched the drop in revenue to the state's courts, Ch...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil advises Lenovo acquisition of Google's Motorola handset business
By Salvador Mares
The tech giant's willingness to part with Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion late Wednesday plainly suggests the real value f...
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers hosted a presentation Tuesday on the negative public perception of attorneys. Stanf...
After nearly 18 years at the Silicon Valley legal powerfouse, James C. Otteson has established an intellectual property firm t...
Fearing that already unsustainable groundwater pumping in places like the Central Valley will now accelerate at an alarming ra...
Intellectual Property
Quinn Emanuel chastised over disclosure, but avoids major punishment
By Craig Andersonn
A magistrate judge has sanctioned Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its client Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for vi...
To get the best out of mediator Jonathan H. Cannon, lawyers say, you have to trust him. ...