Labor/Employment
Black Friday spotlights worker organization tactics
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...
Louie Vega held an assortment of jobs before finding a niche on the Kern County Superior Court.
The struggle over a major source of groundwater in the Mojave Desert will play out in court next week as environmentalists and...
The conventional wisdom says that there are distinct challenges in managing Millennials. By John F. Baum and David Baum
The Los Angeles trial attorney, known for his medical expertise and involvement with the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association...
A federal judge in San Jose has tossed the remaining claims in a privacy class action alleging that software on the electronic...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson works on Hellman & Friedman's $1.8 billion buy
By Andrew Mcintyre
The firm represented the San Francisco-based private equity firm in its acquisition of Applied Systems Inc., an Illinois-based...
Girl-centric educational toy maker GoldieBlox Inc. filed for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the music grou...
Litigation
Judge allows shareholder suit against HP, chief executive to proceed
By Hadley Robinsonn
A San Francisco judge allowed investors to continue pursuing claims against Hewlett-Packard Co. and its CEO and president Marg...
Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith ruled Monday that Yelp must pay nearly $5,000 in attorney fees to the McMillan Law Group, which the ...
A San Jose federal judge on Tuesday rejected Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s bid to stay proceedings in the just-concluded pate...
Labor/Employment
Attorney general intervenes in union spending case, pushes court for ruling
By Laura Hautalan
California Attorney General Kamala Harris this week interjected in a First Amendment challenge over union spending by schoolte...
Once a rarity, research faculty who are actively interested in bringing their technologies to the marketplace are increasingly...
After weeks of talks about a potential union, the firms ditched plans to merge Tuesday after partners voted against the propos...
Some plaintiffs' lawyers in California superior courts question whether they will take as many cases to trial.
Government
Liability fears mount among legislative efforts to stop cyberattacks
By Joshua Seboldn
Companies are concerned that the more they share information about data breaches, the more they open themselves up to privacy ...
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
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
Asylum cases give UCLA student experience, satisfaction
By Kylie Reynolds
Friyana Dadabhoy sat in an immigration court in August as the sole representation for a client seeking asylum.
The New Lawyer Supplement
How State Bar committee assesses moral character of would-be lawyers
By Don Debenedictisn
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
San Diego law student hurdles toward Rio Summer Olympic Games
By Caitlin Johnson
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
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
Berkeley law students work to ease parole process in California
By David Ruiz
California's overpacked prisons, at about 150 percent capacity with roughly 120,000 inmates, include thousands of life sentenc...
Intellectual Property
Big stakes for copyright infringement plaintiffs in laches case
By Ben Armisteadn
Laches is, after all, an equitable defense created by the courts, and as such, it stands in tension with copyright, a wholly s...
Litigation
JPMorgan cites litigation privilege in AG's 'robosigning' suit
By Chase Scheinbaum
Laying out their defense for the first time in court papers, lawyers for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are trying to convince a jud...