Labor/Employment
Doubts over NLRB recess appointments leave businesses, workers hanging
By Laura Hautalan
While the Supreme Court decides if it will review the validity of Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations ...
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As globalization increases, the world shrinks, allowing small and mid-sized American firms to do what might have been inconcei...
Silicon Valley lawyers are leveraging their expertise advising emerging companies and venture capitalists to snap up clients i...
The era of globalization is here. For the legal profession, that means looking more out than in, making strategic decisions f...
Those who serve as neutrals are in a unique position to affect the outcome of a case by virtue of their own biases. By Mari J....
Perspective
Council ignores problems with proposed green chemistry regulations
By Ben Armisteadn
Following a cursory review of the regulation, the council "conclusively determined that the proposed regulations will not have...
After grappling with this "perplexing" issue, Judge William Fletcher concluded that the U.S. Supreme Court itself has been inc...
Intellectual Property
Appeals filed in 'dancing toddler' case over copyright takedown notices
By Rachel Swan
A long-running court battle over a dancing toddler video may be headed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals now that both...
Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, a federal prosecutor responsible for some of the Central District's biggest public corruption convic...
Corporate
Wilson Sonsini, Latham aid in $1 billion Salesforce note offering
By David Ruiz
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. in its intent to offer $1 billion in ...
Judges and Judiciary
District court caseloads see a bump in California
By Hadley Robinson
Each district judge in the state handles more than the nationwide average, with the Eastern District the worst off. Bucking a ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit decision could lead to more lawsuits against airlines
By John Roemer
Lawsuits against airlines could soar thanks to a ruling Tuesday that the federal Air Carrier Access Act can work in harmony wi...
Most California law schools dropped in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, and no school moved up as the news ma...
The Howrey LLP estate launched its first wave of clawback suits against California-based lawyers and others who it says profit...
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Legislation proceeded through the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that would rid California of a legal technicalit...
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Law Practice
Lawyers must plan for unforeseen end to practice, experts say
By Ameera Buttn
With the ranks of senior attorneys growing dramatically, some worry that many lawyers have failed to take proactive steps to p...
"The Baseball Trust" is about one of the oddest features of our legal system, the near-complete exemption of baseball from ant...
Criminal
Rethinking California's approach to mentally ill defendants
By Ben Armisteadn
In the wake of a series of shootings by mentally ill men, I thought it would be instructive to examine one way California trea...
A 2012 Federal Circuit decision restores a type of patent infringement claim that it had extinguished five years earlier. By S...