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
Brokerages can require advisers to trade with the 'company store'
By John Roemer
To deter insider trading, brokerage houses can keep their financial advisers on a short leash by forbidding them from opening ...
Judges and Judiciary
Unions push for court worker protection in legislature
By Paul Jones
An Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted two successful efforts by courtworkers unions to protect their mem...
Government
Los Angeles-based KPMG partner sold client information to stock trader, companies say
By Hadley Robinson
A Los Angeles-based partner who worked at auditing behemoth KPMG LLP is under federal investigation for allegedly selling priv...
California Supreme Court
Three state Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from oil, gas case
By Emily Green
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
Obama nominates Los Angeles management partner to NLRB
By Laura Hautalan
In a move aimed to end deadlock in the National Labor Relations Board process, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wil...
Judge Sandra Ann Thompson is known for her ability to put cranky defendants at ease.
Corporate
Startup community fights for visa reform for foreign-born entrepreneurs
By David Ruiz
Congress is entertaining the idea of a visa category for entrepreneurs. Yet observers say pressure in the current Congress to ...
Litigation
Central District Local Rules further hinder class certification
By Ben Armisteadn
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
By Alexandra Schwappach
International firm Brown Rudnick LLP will merge with Orange County-based boutique Rus Miliband & Smith in an effort to exp...
Reed Smith LLP, in concert with San Francisco attorney Robert Rubin, recently took over the representation of a Haitian teen a...
Environmental
Judge orders federal government to look at risks of fracking in Monterey County
By Fiona Smith
A San Jose judge has ruled that the federal government failed to address the potential environmental impacts of fracking when ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Del Norte County district attorney suspended without pay after State Bar misconduct ruling
By Saul Sugarman
Jon M. Alexander's title is still district attorney of Del Norte County, despite having his law license suspended Sunday after...
The Howrey LLP estate has launched a second wave of litigation against seven law firms that hired former Howrey partners as it...
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...
U.S. venture capital firms raised less money across fewer funds this quarter compared to the year-earlier period, though Silic...
Entertainment & Sports
Constitutional challenge of Talent Agencies Act heads to 9th Circuit
By Ryne Hodkowski
A constitutional challenge of the state's Talent Agencies Act is heading to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...
Litigation
K&L Gates helps defeat state's motion in prison overcrowding case
By Hamed Aleazizn
A pro bono team from K&L Gates LLP helped successfully shoot down California's motion to dismiss a decades-long case regar...
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
$29.75 million settlement in Indian workers class action approved
By Laura Hautalan
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $29.75 million class action settlement in an em...
Bankruptcy
Stockton bankruptcy could settle pension, Chapter 9 questions
By Paul Jones
Wall Street companies fought bankruptcy protection for Stockton, fearing city employees would be shielded at their expense. Bu...
Law Practice
Litigation financing fund could expand options for law firm clients
By Andrew Mc Intyre
California companies and law firms could see more litigation financing as a result of Chicago-based Gerchen Keller Capital LLC...
Criminal
Judge again rejects federal prosecutors' bid to serve Chinese defendants in espionage case
By Hadley Robinson
Four Chinese companies have again dodged involvement in an economic espionage case, leaving federal prosecutors frustrated in ...
Family Court Judge Michael Begert hopes to have a positive impact, no matter the assignment
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
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. ...
It is reasonable to suppose that Americans can learn from the French example (or from other comparative law examples), and cou...
Labor/Employment
Class certification in anti-poaching case denied, for now
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge denied, for now, class certification for former employees at Silicon Valley technology behemoths but gave the ...
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...