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Legal experts say a bill to require ballot initiative backers use some volunteers could face a constitutional challenge if sig...


Law Practice


Morrison & Foerster LLP announced Tuesday plans to open in Berlin, its second office in continental Europe after Brussels....


Environmental


Rite Aid Corp. will pay $12.3 million to settle claims it mishandled hazardous waste around the state, the Los Angeles County ...


Corporate


Women are still underrepresented in corporate boardrooms both globally and in California. But legislative changes and recent s...


Constitutional Law


iPhone 5s' big privacy dilemma

Sep. 26, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Apple boasts the new iPhone's "Touch ID" as "faster, easier, and even a little futuristic." But when it comes to privacy, anot...


Litigation


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


Santa Clara-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Applied Materials Inc. tapped Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's S...


Judicial Profile


Rafael Ongkeko

Sep. 26, 2013
By Omar Shamout

Judge Rafael Ongkeko and his staff have a system to field roughly 6,000 personal injury cases.


Litigation


Thousands of inmates across California went weeks without food this summer as a sign of their opposition to the state's practi...


Criminal


What warning is enough?

Sep. 25, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

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


Dish Network's customers -- not Dish -- are the ones that push the record button on its commercial skipping feature. By David ...


Perspective


Can you depict street art in your own art?

Sep. 25, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

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 & Ellis LLP represented San Francisco-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in its all-cash acquisition...


Education


Draft report urges sweeping changes to law schools

Sep. 25, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

The U.S. legal education system needs to change how schools are financed and accredited and how lawyers-to-be are trained, a s...


Criminal


David M. Tamman was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for his role in a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of som...


Obituaries


Herman L. Glatt, 1929-2013

Sep. 25, 2013
By Kylie Reynolds

The bankruptcy and corporate restructuring attorney, a founder of Los Angeles-based Stutman, Treister & Glatt PC, died of ...


Entertainment & Sports


Emirates Team New Zealand's run at the America's Cup was backed by pro bono representation from Jones Day. ...


Intellectual Property


A Cooley LLP lawyer for Tawianese smartphone maker HTC Corp. lambasted a Silicon Valley patent holder during the first day of ...


Litigation


A braking expert told jurors that the override was unlikely to have stayed activated during Noriko Uno's high-speed half-mile ...


Law Practice


Goodwin Procter LLP brought in former Amazon.com Inc. senior corporate counsel Jared G. Jensen to serve as a private equity pa...


Government


Governor signs privacy bill to protect minors

Sep. 25, 2013
By Joshua Seboldn

The law places some of the responsibility for compliance upon advertisers, dictating that they must not provide adult advertis...


Litigation


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...


Litigation


Seeking to hold PG&E senior management financially responsible for the 2010 San Bruno gas main explosion, a longtime PG&am...


In opening statements of a bench trial questioning the merger of two rivals in the online retail review business, government a...


Litigation


Attorneys defending companies that manufactured lead paint said Monday in closing arguments that their product was safe, at le...


Judicial Profile


Delbert Gee

Sep. 25, 2013
By Laura Hautalan

Delbert Gee's mentorship has helped many Asian judicial candidates secure appointments.


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 24, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

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


Government


Privacy law will confuse consumers, businesses

Sep. 24, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Assembly Bill 370 would do little more than to bewilder companies and consumers. By Alan L. Friel ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney Anne C. Tremblay was inducted this month as the 2013-14 president of the Women Lawyers Ass...


Government


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...