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Environmental


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has reached an $11 million settlement with a shuttered fireworks company...


Mergers & Acquisitions


The San Francisco-based video game developer announced the purchase of NaturalMotion, a mobile game maker based in Oxford, Eng...


Labor/Employment


Agency confirms it's looking into Lacy T.'s allegations that the team pays its cheerleaders $5 an hour. ...


Law Practice


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 ...


Judicial Profile


Cheryl Chun Meegan

Feb. 4, 2014
By Paul Jones

Cheryl Chun Meegan enjoys making an impact in her judicial work by relating to people.


Law Practice


On the Move

Feb. 3, 2014
By Kylie Reynolds

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.


Judicial Profile


Jon S. Tigar

Feb. 3, 2014
By Hadley Robinson

Judge Jon Tigar is known for tentative rulings in which he brings up cases not cited by lawyers.


Judicial Profile


Carol A. Corrigan

Feb. 2, 2014
By Emily Green

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Editor's Note


Editor's Note

Feb. 1, 2014
By Karisantos


Community News


Stanford hosts real estate law meeting

Feb. 1, 2014
By Ben Adlin

Legal professionals and city leaders met Wednesday for the third annual Real Estate and Law Symposium, held at Stanford Univer...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Choose your clients wisely

Feb. 1, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

There's much to read about what type of attorney conduct leads to malpractice claims. But what about the client? By Steven W. ...


Litigation


Beware the email foot-in-mouth syndrome

Feb. 1, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

There are very few cases in which it is impossible for any email data to be forensically retrieved or restored. By Daniel B. G...


Books


A multigenerational look at women at work

Feb. 1, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

"What Works for Women at Work," by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey, is a comprehensive guide for navigating office politic...


Perspective


Landowners routinely have to give up something to obtain a discretionary permit. And while there are limits, those limits only...


Chuck Reed said his only recourse for changing the language is to sue. The ballot measure aims in part to make certain parts o...


Community News


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


Smaller county courts across the state stand to benefit from changes to a workload-based funding allocation method that the Ju...


Community News


The Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco kicked off its 2014 "It Starts With A Day" communit...


Law Practice


Gibson Dunn lands former federal prosecutor

Feb. 1, 2014
By Kylie Reynolds

Eric D. Vandevelde has moved to the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as of counsel, the firm announced Th...


Government


California prosecutors and defense attorneys hailed separate moves by the U.S. Justice Department and the Senate Thursday to l...


Government


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 California Chief Justice Ronald M. George joined 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Richard M. Mosk for a conversatio...


Community News


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


The tech giant's willingness to part with Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion late Wednesday plainly suggests the real value f...


Community News


The Association of Business Trial Lawyers hosted a presentation Tuesday on the negative public perception of attorneys. Stanf...


Solo and Small Firms


After nearly 18 years at the Silicon Valley legal powerfouse, James C. Otteson has established an intellectual property firm t...


Environmental


Fearing that already unsustainable groundwater pumping in places like the Central Valley will now accelerate at an alarming ra...


Intellectual Property


A magistrate judge has sanctioned Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its client Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for vi...


Arbitrator Profile


Coming Clean

Feb. 1, 2014
By Henry Meier

To get the best out of mediator Jonathan H. Cannon, lawyers say, you have to trust him. ...