Government
Ballot initiatives bill could spur litigation against backers
By Paul Jones
Legal experts say a bill to require ballot initiative backers use some volunteers could face a constitutional challenge if sig...
Law Practice
MoFo plans Germany expansion with Hogan Lovells office scoop
By David Ruiz
Morrison & Foerster LLP announced Tuesday plans to open in Berlin, its second office in continental Europe after Brussels....
Environmental
Rite-Aid settles hazardous waste claims for $12.3 million
By Fiona Smith
Rite Aid Corp. will pay $12.3 million to settle claims it mishandled hazardous waste around the state, the Los Angeles County ...
Women are still underrepresented in corporate boardrooms both globally and in California. But legislative changes and recent s...
Apple boasts the new iPhone's "Touch ID" as "faster, easier, and even a little futuristic." But when it comes to privacy, anot...
A judge is set to hear arguments today on whether to dismiss a suit in which Ontario accuses Los Angeles' airport authority of...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil tapped by Applied Materials for merger with Japanese rival
By Salvador Mares
Santa Clara-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Applied Materials Inc. tapped Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's S...
Judge Rafael Ongkeko and his staff have a system to field roughly 6,000 personal injury cases.
Thousands of inmates across California went weeks without food this summer as a sign of their opposition to the state's practi...
The question everyone is asking about Aaron Alexis now is whether he should have been able to carry a gun in the first place. ...
Intellectual Property
What the 9th Circuit thinks of commercial-skipping enablers
By Ben Armisteadn
Dish Network's customers -- not Dish -- are the ones that push the record button on its commercial skipping feature. By David ...
In a case that has implications for filmmakers, the 9th Circuit held that the unauthorized use of a street artist's work in a ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Kirkland handles private equity deal worth $644 million
By Salvador Mares
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented San Francisco-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in its all-cash acquisition...
The U.S. legal education system needs to change how schools are financed and accredited and how lawyers-to-be are trained, a s...
David M. Tamman was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for his role in a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of som...
The bankruptcy and corporate restructuring attorney, a founder of Los Angeles-based Stutman, Treister & Glatt PC, died of ...
Entertainment & Sports
Jones Day helps New Zealand team in America's Cup
By Joshua Seboldn
Emirates Team New Zealand's run at the America's Cup was backed by pro bono representation from Jones Day. ...
Intellectual Property
HTC blasts Cupertino holding company in patent trial
By Kevin Lee
A Cooley LLP lawyer for Tawianese smartphone maker HTC Corp. lambasted a Silicon Valley patent holder during the first day of ...
Litigation
Toyota brake override would've made no difference, jury told
By Omar Shamout
A braking expert told jurors that the override was unlikely to have stayed activated during Noriko Uno's high-speed half-mile ...
Goodwin Procter LLP brought in former Amazon.com Inc. senior corporate counsel Jared G. Jensen to serve as a private equity pa...
The law places some of the responsibility for compliance upon advertisers, dictating that they must not provide adult advertis...
One of the largest providers of laboratory and X-ray services to nursing homes on the West Coast agreed to pay $19.4 million t...
Seeking to hold PG&E senior management financially responsible for the 2010 San Bruno gas main explosion, a longtime PG&am...
Litigation
In antitrust trial, government argues merger is harming competition
By Hadley Robinson
In opening statements of a bench trial questioning the merger of two rivals in the online retail review business, government a...
Attorneys defending companies that manufactured lead paint said Monday in closing arguments that their product was safe, at le...
Delbert Gee's mentorship has helped many Asian judicial candidates secure appointments.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Assembly Bill 370 would do little more than to bewilder companies and consumers. By Alan L. Friel ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Government attorney installed as head of women lawyers group
By Kylie Reynolds
Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney Anne C. Tremblay was inducted this month as the 2013-14 president of the Women Lawyers Ass...
A number of bills heading to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk would ensure people who give CPR or try and save lives aren't smacked wit...