U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules in government's favor on Central Valley drainage
By John Roemer
The federal government scored a win in the Central Valley water wars Friday as a 9th Circuit panel held the U.S. Department of...
Entertainment & Sports
Attorney fees request denied on "Raging Bull" suit
By Ryne Hodkowski
The 9th Circuit denied MGM and Loeb & Loeb's request for attorney fees following the studio's August win in litigation ove...
Law Practice
Legal jobs tick upward in U.S. after declining earlier this year
By Ameera Buttn
The nationwide jobless rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in March, according to data released Friday from the U.S. B...
Litigation
Judge rejects effort to repeal federal oversight of state prisons
By Hamed Aleazizn
In Friday's order, U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton ruled that the state failed to convince him that it was not violati...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Global M&A activity drops in first quarter as U.S. activity rises
By David Ruiz
Despite global M&A decline in the first quarter, U.S.-based M&A shot up by 33.6 percent in terms of deal value compare...
A statewide ethics committee gave judges the go-ahead to ask attorneys to help convince lawmakers that courts need more money ...
"Are we there yet?" It's a familiar refrain to anyone who has ever been on a long car trip with a child. It's also the theme u...
Litigation
Toyota settles Orange County DA lawsuit over unintended acceleration
By Don Debenedictisn
Toyota Motor Corp. will pay the Orange County district attorney's office $16 million to settle an unfair competition lawsuit o...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Del Norte County DA may lose job after State Bar disbarment recommendation
By Saul Sugarman
Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexander conceded Friday he may have to give up his job after a State Bar prosecuto...
Juvenile Court Judge Zeidler fights for fairness for gay couples, children and everyone else.
General Counsel, Senior Vice President and Secretary for Splunk Inc. San Francisco ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Dickstein Shapiro LLP added Atulya R. Agarwal as a partner in its Palo Alto office. He joins the firm from Elan Pharmaceutical...
Michael Raphael strives to fit rulings within a broad legal context, a nod to his appellate work.
Judge Larry Errea attended six post-secondary schools before finding his legal niche in Kern County.
Mergers & Acquisitions
VIDEO: Negotiating "sandbagging clauses" in the M&A context
By Rei Estrada
Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges stage a mock negotiation debating the inclusion of "sandbagging claus...
Now, as clarified by the FEHC, it may be a reasonable accommodation to allow an employee and a job applicant to bring an "assi...
Medicare and Medicaid comprise 21 percent of the federal budget. As such, I want to look at some ways of raising revenues for ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
New HIPAA rules impact 'business associates'; compliance deadline fast approaching
By Ben Armisteadn
The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule went into effect on March 26. Covered entities and business associates have a little less than si...
More than any other substantive area of law, securities class actions rarely go to trial and are either resolved in motion pra...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Executor who filed late estate taxes cannot blame accountant, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
Trusting your accountant's advice about when your taxes are due might be a big mistake, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pa...
Frustration bubbled over among attorneys as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali rejected yet another attempted lawsuit agains...
Government
Assembly subcommittee blesses three of Brown's proposed court fee hikes, service cuts
By Paul Jones
An Assembly budget subcommittee Wednesday gave its support for some less controversial proposed court fee hikes and service cu...
Community News
From left: Pasadena Mayor Bob Bogaard, Foothill Unity Center executive director Betty McWilliams and lawyer Donald P. Schweitz...
Ballard Spahr LLP along with CSG Advisors held its 3rd Annual Western Housing Conference on March 22 at the Hyatt Regency Cent...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court weighs clerical mistake at heart of foreclosure case
By Emily Green
An alert to the math-impaired: those clerical calculation errors could come back to haunt you if the state Supreme Court rules...
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC added a product liability group to its San Francisco office when it brought on tw...
Entertainment & Sports
Court throws out Warner Bros.' tortious interference claims against Superman lawyer
By Ryne Hodkowski
A judge Thursday released Superman attorney Marc Toberoff from claims of tortious interference by Warner Bros. Entertainment I...
Community News
Alston & Bird LLP honors women of distinction at its annual reception
By John Michael
From left: Sharon F. Rubalcava, partner at Alston & Bird; Jacqueline Caster, director at Everychild Foundation; Sandra Phi...
On March 21, the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance held its first instillation dinner and celebrated 20 years of s...