Community News
Fidler Institute honors four, hears from legendary defense attorney Judy Clarke
By John Michael
After a full day of panels and talks by criminal justice luminaries, four individuals were honored for their outstanding contr...
Intellectual Property
Facebook, Timelines settle trademark infringement suit
By Kevin Lee
Menlo Park-based social networking company Facebook Inc. has settled a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Chicago-based T...
Government
Many smell political posturing in Maldonado's call for realignment repeal
By Hamed Aleazizn
Gov. Jerry Brown's landmark criminal justice legislation known as realignment is facing heavy criticism from a potential elect...
Litigation
Attorney General charges JPMorgan Chase with flooding state courts with specious lawsuits
By Chase Scheinbaumn
In a stinging complaint filed Thursday in state court in Los Angeles, Calif. Attorney General Kamala Harris accused the nation...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The world of craft beer is rapidly growing from a backyard hobby to a popular industry. Accordingly, attorneys are starting to...
According to a study, every year about 115,000 women in the U.S. lose their private insurance coverage as a result of a divorc...
Insurance
State courts split on whether insurers obligated to pay attorney fees
By Ben Armisteadn
There is a clear split of state appellate court authority, but only one decision is the correct decision. By Neil Selman ...
This includes the legalization of sports betting in the face of a federal ban, regulation and licensing of online poker, and t...
Entertainment & Sports
Viacom asks court to dismiss Cablevision's antitrust claims
By Ryne Hodkowski
Viacom asked a New York court to dismiss claims by Cablevision that the media conglomerate violated antitrust laws by bundling...
Labor/Employment
LA votes to settle 25-year legal battle with gay police officer
By Laura Hautalan
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve a $600,000 settlement with an openly gay police officer who claimed he w...
Criminal
Immigration officials charged with taking bribes from Los Angeles lawyer
By Don Debenedictisn
Federal prosecutors have accused four current and former immigration officials with taking bribes from a Los Angeles lawyer to...
California Speaker of the Assembly John Perez on Wednesday called for restored funding for the state's judicial branch but war...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC represented San Francisco-based real estate search engine Trulia Inc. in its $355 mill...
Senior Vice President, Business Administration and General Counsel for the San Diego Padres San Diego ...
Intellectual Property
Reed Smith helps 3M subsidiary win favorable settlement of patent case
By Kevin Lee
Monrovia-based 3M Unitek, a subsidiary of 3M Co., announced Wednesday that it has settled patent infringement claims under fav...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
County is liable for DA's informant policies, panel rules
By Hamed Aleazizn
Los Angeles County can be held liable for the district attorney's policies regarding jailhouse informants, an appellate panel ...
Central Valley dairy farm worker Jose A. Arias sued the owners of Angelo Dairy and their lawyer Wednesday, claiming attorney A...
California Supreme Court
Justices lean toward broader application of settlement tool
By Emily Green
The state Supreme Court took up a case Wednesday that could dramatically change lawyers' calculations for when to make and acc...
California Supreme Court
Insurance company may face false advertising lawsuit after repeatedly lowballing customer
By Emily Green
The justices appeared inclined to let a woman sue her insurance company for false advertising after it repeatedly stalled and ...
Entertainment & Sports
Proskauer Rose helps Levi's in 49ers stadium naming deal
By Ryne Hodkowski
Proskauer Rose represented Levi Strauss & Co. in the apparel giant's 20-year $220 million deal to name the new San Francis...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit panel skeptical of ineffective assistance of counsel claim in fraud appeal
By John Roemer
A man serving 22 years for fraud hopes that attacking his trial lawyer on appeal will be his path out of prison, but his claim...
Attorneys Jennifer L. Keller, Kay Rackauckas, Thomas J. Umberg and Dean J. Zipser will head the new Irvine-based firm under th...
Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services Inc. advised One Morgan LLC in its purchase of a 94,250 square foot indus...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit waters down Supreme Court's tougher pleading standards
By John Roemer
In two big cases, the U.S. Supreme Court made it harder for plaintiffs to plead their cases - only to have the 9th U.S. Circui...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Irvine Practice type: litigation ...
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