Perspective
Securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove materiality at class certification stage
By Ben Armisteadn
Although the court's decision in Amgen is interesting, its significance remains to be seen. By Eric S. Waxman and Virgi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar committee backs dues surcharge, but not without dissent
By Craig Andersonn
A State Bar committee vote on Wednesday moved the agency one step closer to levying more dues annually on all licensed Califor...
After leaving Adobe Systems Inc. and taking some time off to travel, Karen Cottle has landed as senior counsel at the Palo Alt...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, visiting the state capital Wednesday ahead of the unveiling of a library in his na...
Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday that the latest version of its Series Seed documents have been hosted on the widely...
Law Practice
Litigator captures highest honor from American Friends of the Hebrew University
By Alexandra Schwappach
Litigator Patricia Glaser of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP was given the National Scopus Award on ...
Lawyers from game publishers, developers and outside firms will be among the roughly 50 panelists in an inaugural gaming law c...
Richard D. Henick of Appel & Henick LLP helped Alder Law PC ink a two-year sublease for the 15th floor of The Plaza in Cen...
Law Practice
Arent Fox LLP officially nails down lease in San Francisco
By Joshua Seboldn
Arent Fox LLP made its move into San Francisco official Wednesday when it announced it has nailed down office real estate.
California Courts of Appeal
No go for additional $3 million in attorneys' fees, court rules
By Emily Green
A prominent plaintiff's attorney and Los Angeles law firm lost their bid for an additional $3 million in attorneys' fees just ...
Entertainment & Sports
Talent Agencies Act withstands another constitutionality test
By Ryne Hodkowski
A federal judge's dismissing the latest case challenging the constitutionality of the California Talent Agencies Act didn't co...
Cooley LLP continued its raid on the corporate law department of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP with the hiring o...
To begin with, there are no Tesla dealerships. Rather, Tesla is reinventing the purchase experience by replicating a sales exp...
One by one, the state is losing small satellite courthouses to budget cuts. While the closures result in job losses and inconv...
Confusion between bankruptcy and receivership is quite common, even with creditors and attorneys, especially those who do not ...
Today, despite the guarantees of the Equal Pay Act, gender based wage disparity persists. Women still earn on average 77 perce...
The law has withstood U.S. Supreme Court review and endured public scrutiny in a hotly contested 2012 presidential election, b...
In return for upholding American values, many immigrants seek to improve the quality of life by paying taxes to support commun...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit: Debtor can avoid lien on Mercedes used for work
By Emily Green
A debtor can avoid a lien on a motor vehicle -- even a Mercedes -- if it is a "tool of the debtor's trade," the 9th U.S. Circu...
Stanford Law School announced Tuesday that electoral law professor Nathaniel Persily will join its faculty this summer from Co...
El Segundo-based Mattel Inc. sold $500 million in bonds with help from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
Northern Marin County-based commercial aircraft engine leasing company Willis Lease Finance Corp. on Tuesday announced the cha...
Litigation
San Mateo lawyer personally liable for paying award to former colleague, judge tentatively rules
By Craig Andersonn
San Mateo-based plaintiffs' lawyer Michael Danko is a step closer to getting an overdue payday from his former colleague, whom...
A San Diego-based partner won a cutthroat race to steer part of the shareholder litigation against Hewlett-Packard Co. after p...
A federal appeals court will reconsider a case over whether the government properly considered the imperiled delta smelt fish ...
The reality of sequestration is moving into clerk's offices and chief judges' chambers this week, as leaders in California fed...
California Supreme Court
Court weighs unions' right to public employees' home addresses, phone numbers
By Emily Green
Never before has Los Angeles County provided the home addresses and phone numbers of its 55,000 employees to the workers' unio...
Thompson & Knight LLP announced the opening of its second California Office Tuesday, with the addition of one partner and ...
Environmental
Los Angeles fighting back in federal court over dust payments
By Fiona Smith
The city of Los Angeles is struggling to gain the upper hand over a small air pollution control agency in a power struggle tha...
Many lawyers have probably encountered Section 409A of the tax code without knowing it, and that in itself is frightening, as ...