The San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association argues a measure banning the possession of high-capacity magazines runs ...
In what has amounted to one of the largest settlements for a case of this type, Mission Viejo based Ensign Group will settle c...
Intellectual Property
Patent board rising as a preferred dispute venue
By Ben Armisteadn
The PTAB is now the third busiest venue for challenging patents. By Ben M. Davidson ...
Intellectual Property
Lawyers for smartphone giants wrap up arguments in patent damages retrial
By Craig Andersonn
An Apple Inc. attorney asserted Tuesday that a low patent damages award against rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. would hinde...
Litigation
Faulty metal hip implants cost Johnson & Johnson $2.5 billion
By Omar Shamout
The health care manufacturer will pay to settle 8,000 lawsuits concerning the medical devices. Some 3,000 others cases are not...
Lawyers say Terry B. O'Rourke's experiences help him put cases in 'the proper context.'
Superior Court Judge, Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...
As the Bay Area continues to absorbs the shockwaves caused by labor negotiations in two of its main commuter transit systems, ...
Outraged protestors forced New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to cancel a recent lecture at Brown University - a unive...
Law Practice
Jackson Lewis steals Hunton & Williams' SF office managing partner
By Joshua Seboldn
A recent lateral hire by labor and employment law firm Jackson Lewis LLP is set to become managing partner of its San Francisc...
Litigation
Hotel owners ink $1.5 million settlement in suit brought by tenants
By Chase Scheinbaum
A lawsuit brought by tenants of the low-income residential Huntington Hotel claimed the owners improperly increased the rent a...
Litigation
Prosecutor accuses lawyer of telling lies in drug-planting case
By Don Debenedictisn
The only way jurors could find an Irvine lawyer not guilty of planting drugs in a school volunteer's car or calling in a phony...
Law Practice
Tort lawyer lobby convention focuses on MICRA, court funding
By Paul Jones
At a conference in San Francisco, California's consumer attorney lobby emphasized its intention to fight the state's cap on me...
Better to be a careful writer, and avoid even the smallest mistakes, so the reader will infer that you are also a careful thin...
Perspective
Attorneys caught in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's cross hairs
By Ben Armisteadn
The CFPB has not been shy about targeting lawyers. By Richard Gottlieb and Jonathan Cannon ...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit chief judge has unusual courtroom role: objector
By Hadley Robinson
Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, spoke up Monday against a proposed class action settl...
Intellectual Property
Apple to get another chance for injunction against Samsung
By Craig Andersonn
Apple's push for a permanent sales ban against Samsung will be reconsidered by a district court judge, a Federal Circuit panel...
Palmdale attorneys have asked a California appellate court to overturn a Los Angeles County Superior Court injunction and allo...
A roundrup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Companies are flocking to the public markets this year, and attorneys say the surge is having a discernible impact on mergers ...
General Counsel and Executive Vice President of KIT Capital LLC New York ...
The idea that after 50 years some have finally stumbled onto the truth should be greeted with skepticism. By Richard M. Mosk ...
The same 9th Circuit panel recently issued a pair of decisions that reached very different results on whether to enforce arbit...
Intellectual Property
Translation service company gets injunction against rival
By Kevin Lee
TransPerfect Global Inc. has secured a permanent injunction against competing language translation service provider MotionPoin...
As part of a yearlong push to build its West Coast operations, Winston & Strawn LLP has snagged two project finance partne...
Labor/Employment
Real estate appraisers get go-ahead on class arbitration
By Laura Hautalan
A judge ruled the court did not have the authority to decide whether the arbitration agreement allowed for class arbitration. ...
Former Texas prosecutor Ken Anderson deliberately withheld evidence that supported Michael Morton's innocence. By Jacqueline G...
Intellectual Property
Apple, Samsung lawyers battle over Cupertino company's clout, innovations
By Craig Andersonn
How much in patent infringement damages Apple Inc. receives from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. may ultimately come down to whic...
A federal judge postponed implementation of a proposed government rule that would authorize expedited post-conviction proceedi...
Corporate
MoFo helps logistics facility operator set up $3B investment fund
By Salvador Mares
A transnational MoFo deal team helped Global Logistic Properties Ltd. establish a large fund to invest in warehousing and logi...