Reed Smith LLP San Francisco Specialties: public pensions, municipal finance, complex litigation
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo Cerritos Specialty: labor and employment litigation
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC Santa Monica Specialty: municipal bankruptcy
Los Angeles city attorney's office Los Angeles Specialty: Civic governance
Colantuono & Levin PC Los Angeles and Penn Valley Specialties: conflicts of interest, constitutional law, elections law,...
Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP San Francisco Specialties: public sector litigation, labor law and collective bargaining
Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP Oakland Specialty: public sector litigation
Best Best & Krieger LLP Irvine Specialties: zoning, land use, water rights, economic development, affordable housing
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson APLC Oakland Specialties: labor negotiations and litigation for public entities
Over the past decade, a number of large law firms sought to make a name for themselves in the industry. But now the market is ...
California has the largest number of veterans in the nation, and a significant number of veterans face a wide range of legal ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Informational calls could land businesses in the hot seat
By Ben Armisteadn
As of Oct. 15, a new standard of consent articulated by the FCC went into effect for certain telemarketing call. By Becca Wahl...
Labor/Employment
Labor investigation hints at dispute over local hiring provisions
By Laura Hautalan
An ongoing investigation of a Chinese electric bus manufacturer in Los Angeles has resulted in allegations of California wage ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a 9th Circuit opinion and remanded a case involving a police officer who pursued a s...
The Justice Department has awarded nearly $400,000 to the San Francisco public defender's office to develop a system to guide ...
A federal jury in Delaware found last week that Sunnyvale-based Ruckus Wireless Inc. did not infringe two wireless Internet ac...
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Scios Inc., based in Fremont, resolved claims that it marketed a heart failure drug for uses ...
Andrew N. Thomases joined as a partner in the firm's intellectual property litigation group Nov. 1. ...
Discipline
Attorney duo could lose licenses over mortgage modification ruse
By Don Debenedictisn
A pair of Bay Area lawyers should be disbarred for running a fraudulent foreclosure-rescue company in conjunction with a forme...
The real estate boutique opened a new office Friday after closing down in Palo Alto the day before. That location had dwindled...
Gibson Dunn, Allen Matkins and O'Melveny are among the firms that guided the homebuilder's merger with a real estate unit of t...
The hospital chain, Sutter Health, has agreed to settle claims that it misled or defrauded insurance companies and patients wh...
Intellectual Property
Netflix, Roku win defense ruling in patent complaint
By Kevin Lee
Los Gatos-based Netflix Inc. and Saratoga-based Roku Inc. were cleared in a patent lawsuit brought by Rovi Corp. and its subsi...
A lawsuit disputing the ownership of popular photo-messaging mobile application Snapchat has added several Silicon Valley ven...
Reopening GM's bankruptcy would have threatened the viability of the reconstituted GM, and initiated a firestorm of litigation...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Convicted wiretappers ask 9th Circuit to overturn verdict
By Henry Meier
Attorneys representing Anthony Pellicano and five other defendants convicted in a massive wiretapping conspiracy that took dow...
U.S. Supreme Court
Facebook settlement approved, but chief justice dubious about cy pres
By John Roemer
Chief Justice John G. Roberts on Monday signed off on the deal, but raised "fundamental concerns" about settlement awards that...
After a slow start, David Thompson said he's 'about to start asserting' himself on the appellate court.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
New zone allows for majority foreign ownership of certain companies looking to set up shop in China's biggest urban region ...