Intellectual Property
Three steps to an effective open source strategy
By Ben Armisteadn
It is crucial to remember that it is still a copyrighted work subject to a software license that often comes with strings atta...
Intellectual Property
Thwarting 'the great patent revolt' in your engineering organizations
By Ben Armisteadn
There are several myths that make the rounds in engineering organizations and generally mar the reputation of the patent proce...
The Landau Lawyers League capped off its 2013 fall basketball season with playoffs that pitted top teams from each of its "A,"...
On the road to an expected 2014 initial public offering, San Francisco-based New Relic Inc. announced on Wednesday the appoint...
Partners at Minami Tamaki LLP have formed seemingly disjointed groups where their work hardly overlaps, but they say their sha...
California Courts of Appeal
Arbitration award stands even though panel member represented firm
By Emily Green
Bryan Cave LLP did not have to disclose its relationship with an arbitrator who served on a panel that awarded the law firm mo...
Weinberg has settled a number of cases not so much because of his understanding of the problems involved, he said, but because...
A federal judge in Washington state has agreed to take on a case involving an objection to a class action settlement by 9th U....
Litigation
San Francisco company pays $5 million to settle SEC fraud suit
By Fiona Smith
Diamond Foods Inc. agreed to resolve claims it defrauded shareholders by manipulating payments for walnuts, the Securities and...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Google wiretap plaintiffs face a hurdle: the large size of the class
By John Roemer
Now that Google Inc. has lost its bid to find a Wiretap Act escape hatch from the huge class action brewing over its Street Vi...
Attorneys from Miller Starr Regalia reviewed major developments in land use law from 2013 in the firm's annual land use progra...
The San Diego County Bar Association inducted its 2014 president, Jon R. Williams, last month at the group's annual "Stepping ...
The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region hosted its Centennial Gala Celebration Dec. 10 at the Beverly Hilton Hot...
Community News
Jenner & Block sponsors foster teenager assistance organization
By Ben Adlin
Jenner & Block attorneys and staff donated gifts this holiday season to foster teenagers enrolled in Walden Family Service...
Once largely the purview of public relations departments, such issues have gained the attention of legal compliance officers a...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs’ attorneys deluge defendants with arbitration cases
By Laura Hautalan
By amassing a large group of plaintiffs and class members ahead of time, plaintiffs' lawyers hope to inundate employers with i...
Except in the most extreme cases, the prevention of the transmission of communicable diseases is properly a function of our pu...
Holding a press conference a day early because his budget proposal was leaked, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday called to increase...
When they get more upset, you become calmer: not just outwardly, but inwardly as well. By Paul Fisher and Juli Adelman
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Education
What non-ABA law schools can teach their accredited peers about holding down tuition
By Don Debenedictisn
In California, law schools accredited by the State Bar and unaccredited schools are much cheaper than the better known schools...
Words matter to Judge Daniel Brenner - whether in his role as FCC advisor, judge or stand-up comic.
The Garcia court's opinion and the new law are the direct product of two serious legal errors committed in the legislat...
Civil Code Section 1717 sounds straightforward and if it applied to every single suit involving a contract fee provision, it w...
On Jan. 7, nine lawmakers sent a public letter to Gov. Jerry Brown imploring him to impose a complete moratorium against frack...
General Counsel of Advent Companies Inc. San Juan Capistrano ...
California Judges Association plans to reformulate its attempt to seek legislation that would give judges more leeway to defen...
The city has settled a two-year challenge to its at-large election system and will let voters decide whether to usher in a dis...
JPMorgan's lawyers unsuccessfully tried to convince a Los Angeles County judge that litigation privilege surrounding the compa...