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Government


A bill that would increase judicial discretion by making detailed reports available to bench officers in charge of setting or ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


To deter insider trading, brokerage houses can keep their financial advisers on a short leash by forbidding them from opening ...


Judges and Judiciary


An Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted two successful efforts by courtworkers unions to protect their mem...


A Los Angeles-based partner who worked at auditing behemoth KPMG LLP is under federal investigation for allegedly selling priv...


California Supreme Court


When the state Supreme Court takes up the case next month to determine how to value petroleum refineries in the state, three s...


Labor/Employment


In a move aimed to end deadlock in the National Labor Relations Board process, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wil...


Judicial Profile


Sandra Ann Thompson

Apr. 11, 2013
By Blake Edwardsn

Judge Sandra Ann Thompson is known for her ability to put cranky defendants at ease.


Congress is entertaining the idea of a visa category for entrepreneurs. Yet observers say pressure in the current Congress to ...


Litigation


It is no secret that class action lawsuits have become harder to certify in federal court; in the Central District of Californ...


Large Firms


Orange County boutique to merge with international firm

Apr. 10, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

International firm Brown Rudnick LLP will merge with Orange County-based boutique Rus Miliband & Smith in an effort to exp...


Law Practice


Reed Smith LLP, in concert with San Francisco attorney Robert Rubin, recently took over the representation of a Haitian teen a...


A San Jose judge has ruled that the federal government failed to address the potential environmental impacts of fracking when ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Jon M. Alexander's title is still district attorney of Del Norte County, despite having his law license suspended Sunday after...


Law Practice


Howrey estate files new wave of lawsuits

Apr. 10, 2013
By Kevin Lee

The Howrey LLP estate has launched a second wave of litigation against seven law firms that hired former Howrey partners as it...


Litigation


Judge denies former OC sheriff's resentencing request

Apr. 10, 2013
By Don De Benedictis

Michael S. Carona has lost a bid to have his 51/2-year federal prison sentence reduced on the grounds the Supreme Court has si...


Corporate


U.S. venture capital firms raised less money across fewer funds this quarter compared to the year-earlier period, though Silic...


Entertainment & Sports


A constitutional challenge of the state's Talent Agencies Act is heading to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...


Litigation


A pro bono team from K&L Gates LLP helped successfully shoot down California's motion to dismiss a decades-long case regar...


Litigation


Anti-hacking law gets tested before jury

Apr. 10, 2013
By Emily Green

Opening statements began Monday in a case that tests the limits of a federal anti-hacking law and raises questions of when tak...


Labor/Employment


U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $29.75 million class action settlement in an em...


Wall Street companies fought bankruptcy protection for Stockton, fearing city employees would be shielded at their expense. Bu...


Law Practice


California companies and law firms could see more litigation financing as a result of Chicago-based Gerchen Keller Capital LLC...


Four Chinese companies have again dodged involvement in an economic espionage case, leaving federal prosecutors frustrated in ...


Judicial Profile


Michael I. Begert

Apr. 10, 2013
By Saul Sugarman

Family Court Judge Michael Begert hopes to have a positive impact, no matter the assignment


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Apr. 9, 2013
By David Ruiz

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


Labor/Employment


Unions look to alternative organizing tactics

Apr. 9, 2013
By Laura Hautalan

As unions have seen their membership decline precipitously since the 1980s, they have developed alternative techniques for adv...


The former deputy general counsel for Zynga Inc. has left the gaming company to take a break from work. ...


Perspective


Fewer lawyers per capita in French system

Apr. 9, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

It is reasonable to suppose that Americans can learn from the French example (or from other comparative law examples), and cou...


Labor/Employment


A federal judge denied, for now, class certification for former employees at Silicon Valley technology behemoths but gave the ...


Perspective


US investors could see a tax bill from China

Apr. 9, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

A U.S. investor with no residence in China that sells shares of a Cayman Islands company, which in turn holds shares in a Chin...