At its peak in 2006, Thelen LLP employed more than 600 lawyers and had offices abroad. Since its dissolution in 2008, many of ...
Litigation
Lawsuit filed challenging Bay Area housing and transportation plan
By Fiona Smith
A group of San Francisco Bay Area residents sued the Association of Bay Area Governments Tuesday alleging its long-term housin...
A corporate and securities attorney with Torrance-based Petillon Hiraide & Loomis LLP and a devoted champion for small bus...
Government
DEA evidence-sharing program sparks constitutional questions
By Hamed Aleazizn
Revelations of a Drug Enforcement Administration program that funnels evidence to federal and local law enforcement have raise...
Litigation
Toyota's defense in acceleration trial to center on blood sugar level
By Omar Shamout
A centerpiece of Toyota Motor Corp.'s defense in an upcoming trial over the carmaker's acceleration problems appears to be the...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appeals court ruling for hearing-impaired students could have broader impact
By Saul Sugarman
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Tuesday could cost public schools a lot of money to accommodate students with ...
Litigation
CalPERS sued over management of fund for long-term care insurance
By Chase Scheinbaum
A class action suit filed Tuesday alleges that California Public Employees' Retirement System badly mismanaged a $3.6 billion ...
Labor/Employment
Judge rejects narrower class in Wal-Mart discrimination case
By Laura Hautalan
In yet another blow to their efforts to hold Wal-Mart Stores Inc. responsible for alleged systemic gender discrimination, for...
Litigation
After long legal saga, asylum seekers from China awarded $1.2 million
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge has awarded two Chinese women $1.2 million, finding the U.S. government liable for emotional distress they suf...
Frank Johnson enjoys his trial assignment, a big switch from his previous general civil calendar.
Labor/Employment
Suitable seating cases reassessed after minimal Kmart settlement
By Laura Hautalan
The less-than-profitable resolution of the Kmart case likely indicates the popular employment lawsuits don't have any oomph be...
Perspective
Fraud concerns as SEC lifts decades old ban on solicitation
By Ben Armisteadn
The lone dissenter in the SEC warned that the new rule "will prove be a great boon to the fraudster" and could "lead to econom...
The National Transportation Safety Board issued a recommendation that all 50 states ban any form of cell phone use while drivi...
Does the state of national security put the Silicon Valley business model in jeopardy? By Martin Kenney ...
A judge denied a motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from representing Snapchat in litigation regar...
Intellectual Property
Apple seeks inroads against Samsung following Obama veto
By Kevin Lee
Riding a wave of momentum after action from the Obama administration, Apple Inc. is seeking to step up the pressure this week ...
Vinson & Elkins LLP has recruited the former managing partner of Hogan Lovells US LLP's Bay Area offices. ...
Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. are fighting plaintiffs' efforts to require its top North American executive to testify in pe...
Discipline
Lawyer deemed inactive for taking advance fees for loan modification work
By Don Debenedictisn
A Garden Grove lawyer already on trial for taking illegal advance fees for mortgage modification work has been put on inactive...
Government
Speaker Perez calls MICRA ballot initiative a 'strategic error'
By Paul Jones
California Speaker of the Assembly John Perez on Monday criticized a push by trial lawyers and consumer advocates to lift the ...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, who is presiding over a ream of Toyota unintended acceleration case...
California Supreme Court
Divided state Supreme Court approves rail project but may change environmental review
By Fiona Smith
In a decision expected to change how agencies must evaluate the environmental impacts of large infrastructure projects, a divi...
Litigation
Influential agency begins studying possible exceptions to mediation confidentiality laws
By Emily Green
At the Legislature's directive, the California Law Revision Commission is set to begin studying the relationship between media...
Stockton Judge Roger Ross recovered from a life-threatening illness to reassume the bench.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Entertainment & Sports
State law risks pulling plug on online concert-hiring service
By Ryne Hodkowski
Upstart website Gigit.com allows individuals to hire bands to play shows at a private venue. But it's also gained the attentio...
General Counsel for Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. Santa Monica ...
Letter to the Editor
Immigration association slams defective fraud bill
By Ben Armisteadn
Re: "Bills May Set Limits on Fees Lawyers Charge Immigrants," June 24. By Lisa Baker Jones ...
As the state high court recently held, prosecutors must actually produce evidence rather than just arguments. The U.S. high co...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Running over the same old health care ground
By Ben Armisteadn
Is modern American health care truly at a strange new crossroads, or have we as a nation traveled this path before? By Craig B...