Litigation
Lawyers in price-fixing case seek fees without client recovery
By Hadley Robinsonn
A federal judge must determine what Best Buy's attorneys should be paid in a price-fixing case in which they were technically ...
The East Bay Community Law Center celebrated its 25th anniversary Nov. 12 with a gala at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland. Over th...
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP held the first open house at its Menlo Park office on Nov. 14. The firm invited b...
California Courts of Appeal
California appeals court sides with Indian Child Welfare Act
By Emily Green
A girl of Chickasaw descent was improperly placed in a non-Indian home, violating the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, a stat...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, right, administers the oath of office to the 2014 CAL-ABOTA officer...
Community News
Lawyers' basketball league hosts all-star game, skills challenge
By Ben Adlin
The Landau Lawyers League held its eighth annual fall basketball all-star games on Nov. 14, bringing together top players nomi...
Phyllis W. Cheng, director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, discussed current gender and housing d...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Nicole Gesher decided to go to law school because she had lofty dreams of changing the world. But she has found satisfaction a...
California Courts of Appeal
Two more justices on LA appellate court to retire
By Emily Green
That brings the total number of vacancies on the court to six.
Multimillion-dollar commercial real estate projects aren’t likely targets for small-time investors, but that may be changing. ...
Intellectual Property
Jury awards Apple another $290 million in patent damages against Samsung
By Craig Andersonn
The federal jury ordered Samsung to pay $290.4 million for patent infringement - bringing the total award to $929.8 million ag...
Cy pres dollars can mean the difference between a legal aid clinic being able to serve indigent clients and having to turn the...
Litigation
Hung jury in trial of OC lawyer accused of false imprisonment of school volunteer
By Don Debenedictisn
Eleven Orange County jurors were ready to convict former Stradling Yocca partner Kent W. Easter of knowingly calling in a fals...
Government
Senate filibuster vote boost Obama's California judicial hopefuls
By John Roemer
The U.S. Senate's vote Thursday to limit the filibuster for most judicial nominees looks like good news for President Barack O...
Entertainment & Sports
Performers' union seeks to boot spat over foreign royalties
By Giles Clarke
SAG-AFTRA wants a federal judge to toss a suit by actor Ed Asner and others over foreign royalties and residuals they allege h...
The guiding rule is that any prohibition on doing business with customers must directly correlate with the use of protectable ...
Litigation
US Supreme Court to take up land use case with broad implications
By Chase Scheinbaum
If the federal government prevails in the case, legal observers say, it could take former railroad rights of way from landowne...
Litigation
Jurors in false imprisonment case against attorney can't reach verdict
By Alexandra Schwappach
Resolution of the trial against Kent W. Easter, a former law partner accused of planting drugs in the car of a school voluntee...
Intellectual Property
Samsung seeks to stop trial after Apple patent invalidated
By Craig Andersonn
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made an 11th-hour bid to halt the ongoing patent infringement damages trial against rival Apple I...
Christopher J. Warner sued CalPERS when officials told him he would not be able to collect both a disability retirement benefi...
Litigation
Oakland city attorney's office wins judgment against immigration fraudsters
By John Roemer
Immigration scammers in Oakland who defrauded immigrant families are on the hook for a record $15.1 million judgment, city off...
The company, which owns the Power Rangers franchise, the Paul Frank brand and entertainment platform Vortexx, appointed Michae...
Labor/Employment
High Court ponders union tactic in neutrality agreement case
By Laura Hautalan
The court's decision could deal a blow to a core union organizing strategy and have a ripple effect on the partnerships betwee...
Administrative/Regulatory
Investigation of former regulator shows "revolving door" laws tricky to enforce
By Paul Jones
A state regulator who switched sides to join a company she investigated is the subject of a Fair Political Practices investiga...
General Counsel of Wine.com Inc. San Francisco ...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
With the Insurance Frauds Prevention Act, California has adopted the FCA approach to health care fraud. By Robert J. Nelson an...
Perspective
Prop. 65 reform is still wanting despite recent amendments
By Ben Armisteadn
Even after the passage of AB 227, Prop. 65 "shake down" lawsuits will continue. By Michael B. Adreani and Jason L. Weisberg
Generally, cyclists are held to the same standard as vehicle operators under the California Vehicle Code. By Erik Feingold