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Law Practice


After helping lead the Los Angeles-based firm to global prominence, chairman and managing partner Robert M. Dell will retire a...


Criminal


Testifying in his own defense, Orange County lawyer Kent W. Easter denied planting drugs in a school volunteer's car but said ...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Nov. 14, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.


A police commissioner who helped raise more than $1 million to roll out 600 wearable recording devices says the model could be...


Entertainment & Sports


Hollywood ethics and the Talent Agencies Act

Nov. 14, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The act places overly broad limitations on attorneys and managers that ignore the fast face of the entertainment industry. By ...


Corporate


Procopio plans to expand startup incubator

Nov. 14, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Firm wants to add three to its four existing residents ...


The New Lawyer


Survey: Demand for legal services stagnant

Nov. 14, 2013
By Joshua Seboldn

Demand in the legal industry has remained largely flat over the past two years, according to a recent report. ...


Law Practice


Pepper Hamilton opens in Silicon Valley

Nov. 14, 2013
By David Ruiz

The firm has opened its third California office in Redwood Shores with three partners from Goodwin Procter LLP's Menlo Park of...


Litigation


Dr. Frank Hsu, former medical director at Montclair Hospital Medical Center, contends Prime Healthcare Services LLC stripped h...


Intellectual Property


A prospective juror told U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh that he had talked about the case to others also waiting to be screen...


Corporate


Occidental Petroleum GC heads to Texas

Nov. 14, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

John C. Ale will return to the Lone Star State to head the legal department of Southwestern Energy Co., the Houston natural ga...


California Supreme Court


The 9th Circuit recently launched a hot potato regarding minimum statutory damages onto the state Supreme Court's docket. By ...


A deputy district attorney and a defense lawyer used the lead detective's testimony to support their versions of whether a law...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Judges explain themselves at length and sign their work in opinions and orders at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But s...


Litigation


Several days after accusations surfaced that state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon took bribes, his lawyer came out swinging Wednesday...


Judicial Profile


Stephanie Sontag

Nov. 14, 2013
By Pat Broderick

Stephanie Sontag set a career goal and followed through.


Law Practice


Managing your dismissive and bully peers

Nov. 13, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the dysfunctional relationships between attorneys. By Paul Fisher and Juli...


Real Estate/Development


As lending rises for the fourth straight year, lawyers are working with their clients to understand what have become more comp...


Insurance


Firestorm: surviving the loss of your home

Nov. 13, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

I know firsthand that those whose homes are destroyed by fire or other perils will face many challenges in the following days ...


Law Practice


Irma E. Gonzalez is one of the rare federal judges from the Southern District to take on a role as a neutral, having started o...


Litigation


Defense attorneys discussed filing a demurrer and said they plan to ask the court to determine whether the details of JPMorgan...


Obituaries


Marvin N. Shapiro, 1936-2013

Nov. 13, 2013
By Kylie Reynolds

The workers' compensation lawyer and longtime Rose, Klein & Marias LLP partner died Nov. 2 at the age of 77. He is remembe...


California Courts of Appeal


The OC Register fought and won an appeal from a disgruntled reader who claimed the newspaper violated the terms of its user ag...


For years, San Bernardino County court officials have eagerly awaited the opening of a new courthouse. But the facility's plan...


Intellectual Property


As Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. open a patent damages retrial in San Jose, observers said a jury verdict is unl...


Corporate


MoFo guides Tsinghua Unigroup's $910 million buy

Nov. 13, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Firm represents investment arm of Tsinghua University in its purchase of RDA Microelectronics Inc., a Shanghai-based and U.S.-...


Law Practice


Pepper Hamilton moves into Silicon Valley

Nov. 13, 2013
By David Ruiz

Pepper Hamilton LLP has opened its third California office in Redwood Shores with three partners from Goodwin Procter LLP's Me...


U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal is giving Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP a ch...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Nov. 12, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of weekly mergers & acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Litigation


As the explosion of cases claiming food companies mislabel products make its way through the courts, Northern District judges,...