Community News
Arnold & Porter, BayBio host panel talk on FDA approval process
By Ben Adlin
Arnold & Porter LLP's San Francisco office hosted a panel discussion Monday aimed at providing an update on recent regulat...
Should the feuding toymakers Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. wish to continue their decadelong battle of the dolls, the...
The Bar Association of San Francisco held its annual membership luncheon and officer installation Dec. 17 at the Westin St. Fr...
Latham & Watkins LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP are among the firms who worked on Essex Property Trust Inc.'s approximately $...
With well over 200 bench and jury trials between them to date, the name partners at Marcin Lambirth LLP pride themselves on th...
Litigation
Second judge withdraws from case with 9th Circuit chief judge as objector
By Hadley Robinson
Another federal judge opted out of a case Thursday because 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski inserte...
Law Practice
Firms reinvent office managing role amid changing legal environment
By Kylie Reynolds
As practice group leaders take on greater responsibility for strategy and business development, firms are increasingly opening...
The Affordable Care Act's rollout has generated substantial legal work for attorneys in the health care industry. While some o...
California Supreme Court
Law professor may yet get data about California bar applicants
By Emily Green
A California law professor seeking to study what he contends are harmful effects of affirmative action policies on minority st...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
One year after retiring from the bench, Ware is diligently trying to drum up business for himself in the saturated world of ne...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The state of Texas sued the EEOC requesting a federal district court to declare invalid the EEOC's enforcement guidance the us...
After years of growing attacks, the efficient-market hypothesis, along with the fraud-on-the-market theory, is now on the chop...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court agrees to review punitive damages case
By Omar Shamout
The outcome could drastically alter the punitive damage landscape in the state. ...
As part of a plan to capitalize on Southern California's growing intellectual property market, the firm intends to open an off...
The longtime California jurist, who presided over a famous kidnapping case and whose descendents include several judges, died ...
Labor/Employment
Female Costco employees settle for $8 million in damages
By Laura Hautalan
The big box retailer and a class of women lay out an unusually tailor-made system for awarding damages to individual class mem...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Firm loses arbitration bid after litigating for six months
By Omar Shamout
Korean media concern waived right by delaying arbitration request, appeals court says. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson Thacher advises Silver Lake in talent agency deal
By Giles Clarke
Acquisition of IMG by William Morris Endeavor and its backer Silver Lake is estimated to be valued at $2.4 billion ...
Criminal
Blame Congress, not prosecutors, for the absurdity of mandatory minimums
By Ben Armisteadn
The public needs to hold their politicians directly accountable for the runaway sentences, not the prosecutors who must play o...
Litigation
Jackson attorneys object to $900,000 of defense's expenses
By Chase Scheinbaum
Panish, Shea & Boyle calls O'Melveny's bill for fighting Michael Jackson's wrongful death suit 'excessive' and 'unreasonab...
Senators are drawing partisan lines in the sand over legislation to curb frivolous patent infringement lawsuits, two weeks aft...
General Counsel and Vice President of the Americas for Avnet Inc. Milpitas ...
Plaintiffs in privacy lawsuits against technology companies have often been stopped cold by the significant hurdle of establis...
Litigation
Orange County judge tosses 884-count fraud indictment
By Don J. Debenedictis
Court rules prosecutors failed to present exculpatory evidence to a grand jury in a $17 million fraud case against two doctors...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Privacy took center stage in 2013 as a topic of public discourse. Companies' online privacy policies became a subject of great...
California Treasurer Bill Lockyer plans to wrap up his last year in public office working part-time with Brown Rudnick LLP. Th...
The number of people beginning law school in the U.S. has fallen 24 percent since 2010, according to figures released Tuesday ...