Business law firm Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey APC will move from its current location at 1920 Main Street in the I...
Public Interest
Morrison & Foerster's pro bono coordinator, who blazed new trails, is retiring
By Joshua Seboldn
The lead counsel for MoFo's legal aid program is retiring Thursday after 23 years of service. Kathi J. Pugh is thought to be t...
Perspective
Warning for purchasers of subdivision properties in development
By Ben Armisteadn
A state appellate court rejected the attempt of a purchaser of lots, also the subdivider's lender, to enforce subdivision impr...
Use common sense and your instinct. You don't need to take any case; there are plenty out there.
Since 1975, nothing has changed in the law. Literally. Nothing. Not even an adjustment for inflation. By Bradley I. Kramer ...
This is the first new corporate form with a national scope to be introduced into American law since the LLC in 1977. By Jonath...
Litigation
Intuit settles anti-poaching lawsuit ahead of next phase of class certification hearings
By Saul Sugarman
Mountain View-based software maker Intuit Inc. is the lastest company to settle allegations that it tried to control employee ...
Law Practice
Mixed results for defendant firms in Heller Ehrman bankruptcy hearing
By Joshua Seboldn
Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy took some interesting turns this month as a judge rejected one of the estate's theories for end...
After about five years with Hewlett-Packard Co., Marcel Valenta, the company's senior corporate counsel for mergers and acquis...
Litigation
HP replaces outside counsel defending Automony class action - again
By Hadley Robinson
Hewlett-Packard Co. is running through law firms hired to defend the company against a cluster of putative shareholder class a...
Retail workers sued Apple Inc. on Thursday claiming unpaid overtime for the time spent waiting in a security line before leavi...
Criminal
Petitioners lobby officials to end indefinite isolation of prisoners
By Hamed Aleazizn
Two women with family members in California prisons delivered a petition boasting more than 40,000 signatures to Gov. Jerry Br...
Government
Bill introduced to add 29 federal judgeships in California
By Hadley Robinson
Two Democratic senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would create 91 federal judgeships, 29 of them in California ...
A nascent regulatory effort to alter warning labels for products is ratcheting up pressure on businesses to take a legislative...
Judges and Judiciary
Superior court judge admonished for misconduct in son's case
By Don Debenedictisn
The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge on Tuesday for going beh...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Best Buy, lacking arbitration clause, must face class action claims
By John Roemer
In an illustration of the value of arbitration clauses, DirecTV avoided a consumer class action while Best Buy did not in a Tu...
Litigation
City's plan to seize mortgages could lead to court fights, attorneys say
By Omar Shamout
Lawyers are gearing up to challenge Richmond's controversial plan to seize underwater mortgages through eminent domain, likely...
Labor/Employment
Kmart seating settlement steps forward despite judge's concerns
By Laura Hautalan
A federal judge will allow Kmart to move toward settling a lawsuit filed by former cashiers but said he's concerned that class...
Eastern District Chief Judge Morrison England is known for being affable and a team player.
Law Practice
Incubators ease new attorneys into full-time practice
By Don Debenedictisn
Long present in the business world, incubators have begun to multiply within the legal industry, allowing newer lawyers an opp...
Failure to disclose a pending or potential civil action can be drastic for a debtor/plaintiff and result in the ultimate sanct...
San Diego-based energy services holding company Sempra Energy has announced that Martha B. Wyrsch will succeed Javade M. Chaud...
Law Practice
Event explores legal issues affecting U.S., South Korea
By Alexandra Schwappach
Legal professionals gathered Saturday at the 3rd annual U.S.-Korea Law Day to discuss the intersection of American and Korean...
After losing its two core partners and one associate in the past two months, San Francisco plaintiffs' firm Sher Leff LLP fill...
Government
State Bar General Counsel Starr Babcock will step down in January
By Don Debenedictisn
State Bar General Counsel Starr Babcock will retire next year after about 25 years working for the bar and the state judiciary...
Judges and Judiciary
State attorney general declines to pursue case against longtime, "temporary" judge
By Saul Sugarman
The state attorney general's office has refused to pursue a case against a retired Shasta County Superior Court judge, who has...
Immigration
Hurdles remain for implementation of judge's order on counsel for immigrant detainees
By Henry Meier
Three months after a judge issued an injunction requiring the government to provide legal counsel for mentally incompetent imm...
Intellectual Property
Patent office finds Apple patent invalid, but ruling isn't final
By Hadley Robinson
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office determined Apple's "pinch to zoom" patent, which a jury had nabbed Samsung Electronics Co...
Government
Proposition 13 reform push likely wouldn't help bankrupt cities
By Paul Jones
When Stockton sought bankruptcy protection in March, its creditors said the city should have tried to raise taxes first. Propo...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit grants habeas petition after dog's sniff called into question
By Hamed Aleazizn
Prosecutors' failure to disclose a police dog's history of mistaken scent identifications could mean freedom for a convicted m...