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Community News


Chile's Minister of Justice Patricia Pérez Goldberg addressed 226 graduates from California Western School of Law at a ceremon...


Community News


San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack provided a $3,500 scholarship to California Western School of Law student Thomas Wan...


Community News


Rutan & Tucker alumni recognized

May 4, 2013
By John Michael

Rutan & Tucker LLP hosted an alumni reception on April 26 to honor past and present attorneys at the Orange County-based l...


Appellate Practice


Sargon's 2003 trial verdict is upheld

May 4, 2013
By Riley Guerin

The dental implant developer has been battling USC for more than a decade in a case that went to the Supreme Court and back. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Everett A. Hewlett

May 4, 2013
By Laura Hautalan

With lots of experienced former judges, commissioners and lawyers to fill the role of neutral, one has to stand out to succeed...


While Bob King's firm, Legally Nanny, is booming, the Orange County attorney is also wrestling with increasingly complex legal...


A lead acid battery recycling plant just south of downtown Los Angeles is under growing legal pressure after regulators report...


Corporate


Publicly traded drug giants have taken an interest in the high-risk-high-reward game of very early stage drug development. ...


Books


True story of greed, corruption in Appalachia

May 4, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

In the nonfiction legal thriller "The Price of Justice," bestselling author Laurence Leamer traces the 14-year struggle of two...


A judge is set to hear arguments in a case in which a global debt insurer claims California's redevelopment dissolution law im...


Corporate


Dealmakers

May 3, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


San Joaquin County Superior Court hasn't set a trial date for the more than 800 small claims cases filed since September, and ...


Corporate Counsel


Julie Brooks

May 3, 2013
By Paul Jones

General Counsel of Conceptus Inc. Mountain View ...


The California housing boom that occurred in the mid-2000s means that hundreds of thousands of homes are about to reach the en...


This summons requires Wells Fargo to hand over data on U.S. taxpayers with accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Firs...


While the court reached the right result, it omitted to analyze recent U.S. Supreme Court authority on a key issue. By Maytak ...


A lawsuit filed by Craigslist Inc. against several technology companies that aggregate and republish its online advertisements...


Law Practice


Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC is in the process of scooping up intellectual property partner Paul Davis from Go...


Asia's biggest drugmaker won an unexpected victory Tuesday when a judge overturned last week's ruling that its blockbuster dia...


Entertainment & Sports


DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has agreed to purchase teen-oriented YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for roughly $33 million in ca...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP helped Warren E. Buffett's comglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with its $2.05 billion purchase...


Government


A major push to reform a state environmental law that has spurred thousands of lawsuits stalling development projects reached ...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

May 2, 2013
By David Ruiz

New York-based Sorgente Group of America Corp. purchased the Santa Monica Clock Tower for $34.3 million from a private investor.


U.S. Supreme Court


A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling put an end to an interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute that for the past 30 years has al...


The fight over regulating fracking is heating up in Sacramento as the Legislature has introduced a raft of bills proposing eve...


A new appellate decision clarifies the duties owed by insurance brokers to third-party claimants. By Robert J. McKennon and Vi...


Labor/Employment


This generally results in fewer people being included in the representative action (though it might not mean less exposure giv...


Perspective


No one expects Congress to approve additional Central District judgeships, so we are forced to do more with less. One solution...


Litigation


In response statewide cuts to court budgets, the Orange County Superior Court announced a round of courthouse changes on Tues...


A state appellate court Tuesday ordered a new trial in a decade-long scuffle over unpaid legal fees after a Santa Monica attor...