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Environmental


Since it began implementing AB 32, CARB has been sued by both regulated parties and environmentalists challenging the manner i...


Intellectual Property


Lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are jousting over a federal judge's suggestion to stay their second pa...


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


In a watershed privacy case, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday approved - with conditions - ...


Law Practice


Conference seeks to 'reinvent' law

Mar. 11, 2013
By Kevin Lee

Startup founders, programmers, investors and lawyers from across the country gathered at the Computer History Museum in Silico...


A federal judge has denied Apple Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in a suit alleging that it gathered location data from unw...


Judges and Judiciary


Authorities said Friday they were continuing to investigate allegations that Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner ...


Porn, offshore holding companies, allegations of stolen identities, copyright infringement lawsuits and a highly unusual order...


Litigation


A Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million to a victim of a defective all-metal hip implant in a bellwether case against DePuy Or...


Large Firms


Ogletree adds former Drinker Biddle lawyer in LA

Mar. 11, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC added labor and employment shareholder David H. Raizman to its Los Angeles off...


Entertainment & Sports


Judge won't punish Superman lawyer

Mar. 11, 2013
By Jean Yung

A federal judge shut down Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s efforts to punish lawyer Marc Toberoff for misconduct while repres...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Mar. 11, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Cooley picks up two corporate lawyers from Sheppard Mullin


Video


VIDEO: M&A mock negotiations: indemnification

Mar. 8, 2013
By Rei Estrada

Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss indemnification provisions in the M&A context.


Perspective


Mediation offers tremendous benefits. To get those benefits, you must recognize that, when you go to mediation, you have right...


Perspective


Email chains and the attorney-client privilege

Mar. 8, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Privilege logs are expensive. And as any junior associate will confirm, they are tedious and an absolute pain to compile. Emai...


Law Practice


The California authority on point suggests that a jury does not have discretion to award prejudgment interest as damages in a ...


Perspective


Sotomayor shares her life story - from her youth in a South Bronx housing project, to her challenges as one of a handful of La...


U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen has sent a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. back to state court and awarded costs to the plaint...


Law Practice


Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC will welcome David H. Raizman as shareholder in its Los Angeles office Friday,...


Government


Los Angeles County Superior Court's alternative dispute resolution department, which its officials tout as the largest in the ...


Government


Finishing up a two-day meeting, the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California voted to move forward with a legislative ...


A forthcoming analysis projects that by 2015, the number of inmates in correctional control will be nearly equal to the popula...


Corporate


Shearman helps with REIT offering in Canada

Mar. 8, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Shearman & Sterling LLP advised the lead underwriters in Milestone Apartments REIT's Toronto Stock Exchange $200 million i...


Perspective


A judgment lien is one of the most powerful tools in the creditor's arsenal, but its effect can be severely curtailed by a ban...


A federal judge expressed skepticism Thursday that an arbitration agreement at Hausfeld LLP is unconscionable, making it unlik...


Criminal


Jury convicts OC doctor of Medicare fraud

Mar. 8, 2013
By Henry Meier

An Orange County doctor was convicted Thursday of fraudulently billing medical procedures and prescriptions, bilking nearly $3...


Corporate


Cooley assists in $600 million Hot Topic sale

Mar. 8, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Cooley LLP advised retailer Hot Topic Inc. in its $600 million cash sale to Sycamore Partners, announced Thursday.


Some small legal shops claim they're wrongly excluded from accelerators and incubators, which give coveted sponsorship opportu...


Law Practice


Latham & Watkins LLP looks poised to strengthen its intellectual property litigation practice after weathering some partne...


California Supreme Court


In the past two years, two members of the Gentry, Discover Bank and Sonic-Calabasas majority have retired...


California Supreme Court


A man who received a 25-years-to-life sentence after a stove he stole fell from the back of his truck more than an hour after ...