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Labor/Employment


Black Friday spotlights worker organization tactics

Nov. 29, 2013
By Laura Hautalan

As labor advocates and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers gear up to protest the employment practices of the nation's largest priva...


Judicial Profile


Louie Vega

Nov. 29, 2013
By Pat Broderick

Louie Vega held an assortment of jobs before finding a niche on the Kern County Superior Court.


Environmental


Mojave Desert water fight headed to court

Nov. 27, 2013
By Fiona Smith

The struggle over a major source of groundwater in the Mojave Desert will play out in court next week as environmentalists and...


Labor/Employment


Minding the generational gap

Nov. 27, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The conventional wisdom says that there are distinct challenges in managing Millennials. By John F. Baum and David Baum


Obituaries


Robert S. Schlifkin, 1939-2013

Nov. 27, 2013
By Kylie Reynolds

The Los Angeles trial attorney, known for his medical expertise and involvement with the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association...


Litigation


Ruling tosses privacy class action against Apple

Nov. 27, 2013
By Hadley Robinsonn

A federal judge in San Jose has tossed the remaining claims in a privacy class action alleging that software on the electronic...


Mergers & Acquisitions


The firm represented the San Francisco-based private equity firm in its acquisition of Applied Systems Inc., an Illinois-based...


Entertainment & Sports


The Beastie Boys taken to court by toymaker

Nov. 27, 2013
By Giles Clarke

Girl-centric educational toy maker GoldieBlox Inc. filed for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the music grou...


Litigation


A San Francisco judge allowed investors to continue pursuing claims against Hewlett-Packard Co. and its CEO and president Marg...


Litigation


Yelp must pay firm's attorney fees

Nov. 27, 2013
By Saul Sugarmann

Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith ruled Monday that Yelp must pay nearly $5,000 in attorney fees to the McMillan Law Group, which the ...


Intellectual Property


A San Jose federal judge on Tuesday rejected Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s bid to stay proceedings in the just-concluded pate...


Labor/Employment


California Attorney General Kamala Harris this week interjected in a First Amendment challenge over union spending by schoolte...


Law Practice


Enter the academic-entrepreneur

Nov. 27, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Once a rarity, research faculty who are actively interested in bringing their technologies to the marketplace are increasingly...


Law Practice


Dentons, McKenna Long drop plans to merge

Nov. 27, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

After weeks of talks about a potential union, the firms ditched plans to merge Tuesday after partners voted against the propos...


Government


Some plaintiffs' lawyers in California superior courts question whether they will take as many cases to trial.


The New Lawyer Supplement


Running the Numbers

Nov. 27, 2013
By Riley Guerin


The New Lawyer Supplement


The New Lawyer Supplement

Nov. 27, 2013
By Riley Guerin


The New Lawyer Q&A


Question 1

Nov. 26, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn


The New Lawyer Q&A


Question 5

Nov. 26, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn


Companies are concerned that the more they share information about data breaches, the more they open themselves up to privacy ...


The New Lawyer Supplement


What size fits me?

Nov. 26, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

There are many kinds of firms: big, small, local, national, virtual, and the list goes on. By Valerie Fontaine


The New Lawyer Supplement


Loyola Law graduates start unique immigration clinic

Nov. 26, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Home Base Immigration Clinic is the only law school program to take on immigration cases that involve a criminal matter, accor...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Friyana Dadabhoy sat in an immigration court in August as the sole representation for a client seeking asylum.


The New Lawyer Supplement


For many people, the bar's moral character review presents no problems. But for some, the bar committee must look into the app...


The New Lawyer Supplement


For many aspiring lawyers, the summer after law school graduation is a time to buckle down and study for the bar exam. But if...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Family law clinic provides educational escape from classroom

Nov. 26, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

The clinic is run primarily by UCI law students who come in from 1p.m. to 5p.m. every Friday during the spring and fall semest...


The New Lawyer Supplement


California's overpacked prisons, at about 150 percent capacity with roughly 120,000 inmates, include thousands of life sentenc...


The New Lawyer Q&A


Question 2

Nov. 26, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn


Intellectual Property


Laches is, after all, an equitable defense created by the courts, and as such, it stands in tension with copyright, a wholly s...


Litigation


Laying out their defense for the first time in court papers, lawyers for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are trying to convince a jud...