The American Bar Association on Aug. 9 presented San Francisco-based attorney Elizabeth J. Cabraser an award for the outstandi...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
'Sudden acceleration' suit can rely on Toyota advertisements
By Omar Shamout
A judge ruled Thursday that Toyota Motor Corp.'s advertisements about its cars' safety can play a role in the first sudden acc...
San Diego-based Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has bolstered its Menlo Park office with three more lawyers, brin...
Community News
After years of waiting, leaders break ground on new courthouse
By Ben Adlin
A host of dignitaries from various branches of government spoke and helped break ground at the future site of the new federal ...
The Landau Lawyers League softball playoffs have drawn to a close for the spring-summer season, with local attorneys having ta...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit panel possibly poised to further enforce arbitration clauses
By John Roemer
At an oral argument last week, a 9th Circuit panel appeared ready to end California's Broughton-Cruz rule barring arbitration ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Federal judges complain to Congress about budget woes
By John Roemer
The chief judges of 87 U.S. district courts have written to congressional leaders warning of serious trouble with the administ...
Perspective
A CEO's guide to the nuts and bolts of litigation defense
By Ben Armisteadn
The worst wounds in litigation are self-inflicted; this is not the time to be impulsive or to overreact. By Robert E. Gipson
Corporate lawyers say nuanced legal questions about a section of the JOBS Act allowing general solicitation for securities off...
Senior Vice President, legal and public affairs; General Counsel and Secretary at Provide Commerce Inc. San Diego ...
Perspective
Cultural literacy helps lawyers in a multiculutural community
By Ben Armisteadn
As our world grows smaller attorneys who are able to understand and work with cultural nuances will be more competitive in an ...
Perspective
Federal immigration reform must address disproportionate penalties
By Ben Armisteadn
The law should distinguish between minor crimes and more serious offenses that should trigger deportation. By Jeff Rosen ...
State Senate Judiciary Committee member Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, a strong ally of trial attorneys and an influential member...
Seyfarth Shaw LLP represented John Hancock, the U.S. division of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp., in its $135.5 million...
Litigation
Differing interpretations of health law at heart of autism lawsuit
By Chase Scheinbaum
Two state agencies that regulate health care take opposing views on a law that governs coverage of autism treatments. The rift...
Corporate
Online lender names former consumer bureau attorney as GC
By Caitlin Johnson
San Francisco-based online microlender BillFloat Inc. announced Wednesday that it had named a prominent consumer credit advoca...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Piano maker Steinway sells to a hedge fund with Skadden's help
By Dominic Fracassan
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates lawyers in California counseled a special committee to the board...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' attorneys may whittle claims against Toyota in 'sudden acceleration' trial
By Omar Shamout
Attorneys for the family of a woman killed when her Toyota Camry accelerated and smashed into a tree appeared ready to drop th...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council committee recommends allocation of $93M to special court programs
By Paul Jones
The distribution of funding for programs such as self-help legal services is essentially flat from last year.
A bill to cut off state funding to charter cities that don't pay prevailing wages passed a vote by the Assembly Labor and Empl...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New ABA president weighs in on hot-button legal issues
By Emily Green
New York attorney James R. Silkenat took over this week as president of the influential American Bar Association. He spoke wit...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Obstruction statute doesn't apply to FBI investigations, panel rules
By Hamed Aleazizn
In a move that sets precedent throughout the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel ruled Wednesday that "a criminal inves...
Education
Chapman receives $55 million gift from local real estate investor
By Don Debenedictisn
Chapman University School of Law will receive a $55 million gift from a real estate develope in what it believes is the second...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Immigration judges push for reforms that include more of them
By John Roemer
Overworked immigration judges watch closely as reform efforts proceed in Congress. Among the items in the senate bill passed i...
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP San Francisco Specialties: joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, finance ...
Sidley Austin LLP Los Angeles Specialties: transactions, financing, workouts ...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP San Francisco Specialties: workouts and acquisitions and sales of distressed debt ...
Polsinelli LLP Los Angeles Specialties: capital markets, corporate and securities ...
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Los Angeles Specialty: transactions, financing and joint ventures ...