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Law Practice


Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, a federal prosecutor responsible for some of the Central District's biggest public corruption convic...


Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. in its intent to offer $1 billion in ...


Judges and Judiciary


District court caseloads see a bump in California

Mar. 13, 2013
By Hadley Robinson

Each district judge in the state handles more than the nationwide average, with the Eastern District the worst off. Bucking a ...


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


Lawsuits against airlines could soar thanks to a ruling Tuesday that the federal Air Carrier Access Act can work in harmony wi...


Education


California law schools fall in rankings

Mar. 13, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

Most California law schools dropped in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, and no school moved up as the news ma...


Law Practice


The Howrey LLP estate launched its first wave of clawback suits against California-based lawyers and others who it says profit...


Top Firms


P. Craig Cardon

Mar. 13, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Partner Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Century City


Government


Bill would nix impersonation loophole in rape law

Mar. 13, 2013
By Hamed Aleazizn

Legislation proceeded through the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that would rid California of a legal technicalit...


Top Firms


James P. Beaubien

Mar. 13, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Partner Latham & Watkins LLP Los Angeles


Law Practice


With the ranks of senior attorneys growing dramatically, some worry that many lawyers have failed to take proactive steps to p...


Books


Baseball, a unique antitrust exemption

Mar. 12, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

"The Baseball Trust" is about one of the oddest features of our legal system, the near-complete exemption of baseball from ant...


Criminal


In the wake of a series of shootings by mentally ill men, I thought it would be instructive to examine one way California trea...


Perspective


Divided infringement claims revived

Mar. 12, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

A 2012 Federal Circuit decision restores a type of patent infringement claim that it had extinguished five years earlier. By S...


Corporate


WSGR, Goodwin assist in Trulia's follow-on offering

Mar. 12, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Goodwin Procter LLP represented real estate search engine Trulia Inc. and its und...


Government


Amid allegations that overcrowding in state prisons has led to deficiencies in inmate care, a discovery dispute has uncovered ...


Government


Los Angeles court 'hubs' gain opposition

Mar. 12, 2013
By Connie Lopezn

Los Angeles County residents facing eviction will soon have to travel farther to have their day in court. On March 18, people ...


Law Practice


Houston firm opens Los Angeles office

Mar. 12, 2013
By Joshua Sebold

Diamond McCarthy LLP, a national firm with a large presence in Texas, announced the opening of its first office west of Denver...


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


A seven-second clip of Ed Sullivan in 1966 introducing the Four Seasons - shown as part of the current touring musical 'Jersey...


Law Practice


The Corporate Work Study at Verbum Dei High School, an all-male Jesuit preparatory school in Los Angeles, allows students to w...


Law Practice


The Heller Ehrman LLP estate scored a major victory Monday in its pursuit of millions of dollars from four law firms that took...


Large Firms


Latham & Watkins LLP adds attorney from Manatt

Mar. 12, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Latham & Watkins LLP on Monday welcomed a litigator who represents Chinese and Taiwanese clients in a move intended to enh...


Intellectual Property


The Federal Trade Commission's proposed settlement with Google Inc. has lawyers for technology companies buzzing about how the...


Government


Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye warned of the consequences of recent budget cuts for the state's courts in her second ann...


Law Practice


If Congress enacts major immigration reform, one thing is certain: It will be accompanied by widespread fraud targeting illega...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Mar. 12, 2013
By David Ruiz

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


Court officials are nixing a small part of a costly and controversial San Diego courthouse project.


More employers may consider taking advantage of the program now that the IRS has expanded it. ...


As legislators debate altering the state's landmark environmental law this session, they are not just looking at the law itsel...


Perspective


The guides take a pragmatic, factually intensive approach that is based on the perception of the consumer and the factual basi...


Health Care & Hospital Law


For employers, the most important provision of health care reform is the "play or pay" mandate which requires large employers ...