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...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Fenwick reps Cisco in $310 million small-cell company buy
By David Ruiz
Fenwick & West LLP represented Cisco Systems Inc. in the company's intent to purchase small-cell maker Ubiquisys Ltd. for...
A focus on animation is what the two-attorney team at Klein & Wilson said separates them from its big firm competition. Wi...
The legal industry saw the highest number of law firm mergers and acquisitions in a single quarter since the first quarter of ...
Litigation
County not liable for correctional officer's wrongdoing, appellate panel rules
By Hamed Aleazizn
A man whose identity was used by a Fresno County correctional officer to send "inflammatory" letters to jail inmates cannot co...
Neutral Steven Block's specialty is handling difficult clients, angry litigants, and hard feelings. ...
Famed class-action litigator Melvyn I. Weiss is not likely to face any significant jail time as a result of a drunk driving ar...
Early-stage companies are involving more investors in funding rounds, while the average dollar amount of such rounds has incre...
Amazon wants to own the top-level domain name dot-app, but so does Google. And 11 others. And they may be on the brink of a b...
Government
Legal questions brew over what constitutes a redevelopment agency
By Katie Lucia
Since the state's redevelopment agencies began to dissolve last year, California has faced a torrent of litigation over specif...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nothing to be embarrassed about: disclosing cyberattacks to investors
By Ben Armisteadn
Any company that has suffered a cyberattack needs to know that the SEC is taking an increasingly hard line on what must be dis...