A retired Santa Clara County judge now at ADR Services Inc., Murphy wins praise as a mediator for methodically and calmly find...
The Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its 15th annual Charity Golf Classic and dinner...
Firm cut technology staff jobs in Los Angeles, becoming the latest law firm to trim its ranks. ...
Intellectual Property
Samsung, Quinn Emanuel face possible sanctions over leak in Apple case
By Kevin Lee
Electronics giant and its outside counsel leaked confidential terms of licensing agreements Apple entered into with other comp...
The Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area Chapter held an in-house counsel summit in Palo Alto on Sept. 17. The event was a w...
Entertainment & Sports
Kasowitz launches talent-side entertainment practice
By Kylie Reynolds
Two former NBCUniversal Inc. lawyers have jumped to the Los Angeles office of Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, where...
The California Supreme Court Historical Society named Jonathan Mayer, a 2013 graduate of Stanford Law School, as the first-pla...
Gordon Gerson's San Diego real estate boutique made a name for itself by handling problem loans in bulk while offering lower r...
After months of anticipation, San Francisco-based micro blogging website Twitter Inc. finally unveiled the details of its plan...
Problems arise when initial negotiations break down, and one of the parties attempts to enforce the terms of the preliminary d...
Corporate
Oracle executive compensation battle unlikely to land in court
By Salvador Mares
Shareholders who want to change the way the company's top brass is compensated aren't likely to achieve their goal through a "...
California Supreme Court
Pro-defendant rulings out of the 5th District catch high court's eye
By Emily Green
The state high court has depublished one opinion out of the court, and its mulling depublishing a second. ...
Intellectual Property
Patent holding company gets small damages award against HTC
By Craig Andersonn
The Cupertino-based plaintiff got a much smaller damages award than it sought Thursday in an infringement trial against HTC Co...
Litigation
Attorneys: Host of issues ripe for appeal in wake of Jackson verdict
By Chase Scheinbaum
Public remarks by the jury foreman and the court's ruling that Michael Jackson's physician Conrad Murray was an independent co...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Though general counsel remain outnumbered by chief financial officers and CEOs in corporate boardrooms, companies are increasi...
General Counsel and Vice President of Maxim Integrated Inc. San Jose ...
In San Bernardino more than 90 percent of alleged felons cannot make bail. By Richard La Fianza ...
Intellectual Property
U.S. Supreme Court to consider copyright, patent appeals
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted three cases focused on intellectual property issues this week. ...
Big Law Partners APC, a real estate law firm in Los Angeles, was founded by a former law firm associate who, after a stint in-...
Law Practice
Analysts: Dentons, McKenna Long merger would shake up firms' culture
By Alexandra Schwappach
Bigger is better must be the adage on the minds of leaders at global firm Dentons and Atlanta-based McKenna Long & Aldridg...
A judge ruled that the city cannot hold a November election as planned since its "at-large" voting system violates the 2001 Ca...
Litigation
Plaintiffs rail against state's treatment of mentally ill inmates
By Hamed Aleazizn
Attorneys for mentally ill inmates Wednesday continued their criticism of state corrections officials' use of force against th...
A variety of changes to court procedures proposed by the judicial branch to save money and bring in more revenue were approved...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini, Latham guide Monsanto's $930 million big data purchase
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Monsanto's buy is the latest example of interest in California's agricultural technology as companies seek to help farmers imp...
After five months, mountains of evidence, hundreds of exhibits and scores of witnesses, a jury Wednesday declined to hold AEG ...
Barry Baskin has a different perspective on the US justice system.
Just days before the trial of a central figure in the Bell case — one of the state's biggest municipal corruption scandals — t...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.