U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court strikes down part of Port of Los Angeles truck pollution program
By Fiona Smith
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the Port of Los Angeles' landmark effort to clean up diesel truck pollution in a u...
Public Interest
Immigration push inspires legal assistance groups to gear up to help
By Laura Hautalan
With comprehensive immigration reform once again front and center, legal nonprofit California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. and ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham counsels Safeway on sale of Canadian operations
By Dominic Fracassan
Canadian food retailer Sobeys Inc. made a major play to expand its reach into Western Canada after acquiring the entirety of S...
Intellectual Property
Impact of Supreme Court's gene patent ruling uncertain for biotech companies
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday that human genes cannot be patented left legal observers divided over how the decisio...
Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. on Thursday averted what might have been a $920 million payout as i...
Judges and Judiciary
Amid looming layoffs and cuts, LA court employees wait for word
By Chase Scheinbaum
With layoffs set to gouge the nation's largest trial court Friday, it's still not clear which workers will be left standing or...
A roundup of recent mergers & acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Real Estate/Development
REITs reap benefits from single-family rentals, so far
By Dominic Fracassan
Real estate investment trusts acting as landlords for large clusters of single-family rental homes are planning initial public...
These folks are sophisticated. They want to know, in advance, how to structure their acquisition of U.S. real property. By Br...
A new graduate could be excused for thinking the State Bar is more concerned with legalizing the practice of law by nonlawyers...
Enforcing domestic lien rights against a judgment debtor's property in a foreign country just got a bit more difficult. By Jos...
Perspective
When $63 million is not enough: justice denied for Californians
By Ben Armisteadn
While $63 million is grossly inadequate to remedy the damage, it is a step in the right direction. It is certainly better than...
Los Angeles litigation firm Browne George Ross LLP will open an office in San Francisco July 1, featuring former U.S. Attorney...
Law Practice
Bingham McCutchen partner leaps to Arnold & Porter in SF
By Joshua Seboldn
Bingham McCutchen LLP litigation partner Peter Obstler plans to jump to Arnold & Porter LLP in San Francisco on June 18, h...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel for BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Novato ...
Labor/Employment
Kmart cashiers get new shot at suitable seating argument
By Laura Hautalan
Kmart cashiers have won another chance to prove that the retailer should have provided them seated workstations in an ongoing ...
Intellectual Property
At long last, Rambus and Hynix reach settlement in patent case
By John Roemer
Chip designer Rambus Inc.'s legal crusade against technology companies over patent infringement and antitrust claims ended in ...
Paul Hastings LLP is representing Dole Food Co. Inc. Chairman and CEO David H. Murdock in his $645 million unsolicited offer t...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Superior Court to cut 500 jobs, including 177 layoffs Friday
By Chase Scheinbaumn
The Los Angeles County Superior Court announced 177 layoffs and the elimination of hundreds of vacant positions to help close ...
Litigation
Judge dismisses suit challenging bar passage accreditation rule
By Don Debenedictisn
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out Southern California Institute of Law's challenge to new regulations requiring that at l...
In the first ruling of its kind, a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office board created by the 2011 patent reform law has ruled that...
Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...
Los Angeles-based developer The Ratkovich Co., in partnership with National Real Estate Advisors and Blue Vista Capital Manage...
Former unpaid interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures prevailed Tuesday when a judge granted conditional certification to a ...
Government
Bill to expand discretion in drug prosecutions clears Assembly hurdle
By Hamed Aleazizn
The Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday approved SB649, which would allow county prosecutors the discretion to char...
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, a 75-attorney San Francisco firm, added trial lawyer Jessica Grant as a partner. She rece...
Law Practice
Texas-based firm launches Los Angeles outpost with several new hires
By Alexandra Schwappach
Texas-based Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP snatched a top malpractice attorney and seven other lawyers to set up a sub...
A federal judge certified a new class of Kmart cashiers in an ongoing lawsuit against the big box retailer for failing to prov...
Steven L. Harmon has wasted no time instituting a series of aggressive - and sometimes controversial - changes aimed at revamp...
State lawmakers late Monday cut the amount of extra money they planned to grant California courts to $63 million as a result o...