California Supreme Court
Court clarifies rule on unlawful judicial plea bargaining
By Emily Green
Judges can't offer defendants lighter sentences for striking a plea deal, even with the goal of clearing clogged courts, the s...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
Tort plaintiff bar associations redouble diversity effort
By Don Debenedictisn
Bar associations for lawyers who represent tort plaintiffs, such as Consumer Attorneys of California, are working to overcome ...
General Counsel of YuMe Inc. Redwood City ...
Corporate
Shareholders can't block asset sales when receivers manage
By Ben Armisteadn
Minority shareholders owning 10 percent of a corporation can block a sale of assets to the controlling shareholders in dissolu...
Perspective
California first to declare comprehensive social media privacy laws, but are they enough?
By Ben Armisteadn
A closer look at the statutes reveals employers can still access social media information, and a weak remedial scheme leaves t...
CalPERS is the largest creditor in both cases and is governed by statutes providing that its contracts cannot be rejected in a...
Perspective
SEC says Facebook, Twitter disclosures capable of complying with Regulation FD
By Ben Armisteadn
The intersection of social media and Regulation FD has received a lot of attention, particularly following the announcement of...
Law Practice
Goodwin Procter scoops corporate partner from Gunderson Dettmer
By Joshua Seboldn
Goodwin Procter LLP expanded its technology companies group Wednesday when it announced the addition of David W. Van Horne Jr....
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
State's anti-SLAPP law under 9th Circuit scrutiny
By Kevin Lee
The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invited an appeal after ruling that a lawsuit by a private for-profit...
An 87-year-old Davis attorney and his wife were found dead on Sunday evening in a scenario police officials are investigating ...
Litigation
Standard & Poor's enlists legal heavyweights in securities case
By Henry Meier
Observers say the agency's choice of John W. Keker, Elliot R. Peters and Jennifer Keller to defend it against allegations of m...
Months after general practice boutique Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP celebrated its first anniversary, the firm st...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court rules HIV status protected under discrimination laws
By Emily Green
An anesthesiologist's refusal to perform medically necessary surgery on an HIV-positive patient constitutes discrimination, th...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court sanctions SoCal law firm for filing frivolous suits
By Emily Green
The 4th District Court of Appeal has sanctioned a Southern California law firm $61,227 for bringing frivolous lawsuits on beha...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
City's mobile home park rent control ordinance isn't a taking, 9th Circuit rules
By Henry Meier
The ruling, involving one of a string of court fights in which parks are seeking to reverse statutes capping the amount of ren...
The news last month that the Blackstone Group joined with Insight Ventures Partners and Francisco Partners to submit a bid in ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit panel seems skeptical of challenge to state's gay conversion therapy ban
By John Roemer
Challenges to California's new law banning gay conversion therapy for minors looked likely to fail as a 9th U.S. Circuit Court...
Once a hard-nosed prosecutor, Senior US District Judge D. Lowell Jensen now exhibits kindness.
Dallas, Texas-based real estate and development firms Lincoln Property Co. and Phoenix Property Co. began development on the R...
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