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Litigation


MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a federal court for permission to revive its trade-secret claims that an appeals court threw out ...


Law Practice


Bar suspends lawyer over Ponzi scheme

Mar. 1, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

The State Bar has suspended former Nixon Peabody LLP partner David M. Tamman based on his conviction on charges related to hel...


Labor/Employment


Attorneys for a putative class of California Kmart cashiers filed a motion Wednesday to add two new name plaintiffs to their s...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Facebook Inc. in its purchase of Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite for an undisclo...


Perspective


If Los Angeles wants its residents to make intelligent decisions in its elections, then it needs to make serious reforms regar...


U.S. Supreme Court


Prop. 8 briefs deluge justices

Mar. 1, 2013
By Emily Green

Everyone's asking: How do we get the U.S. Supreme Court to read our amicus brief in the Proposition 8 case?


Perspective


The years to come will not allow "business as usual," so we should now consider dramatic and bold responses to a system in cri...


The Pacific Legal Foundation is demanding public records about whether UC Bekeley and UC Davis consider race and gender in sel...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Mar. 1, 2013
By David Ruiz

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


Neither employers nor the plaintiffs' bar perceives Harris' mixed-motive decision as a "big win," and it remains to be ...


Corporate


New wind projects continuing

Feb. 28, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

Two months after the extension of the PTC, new wind projects - and lawyers - are benefiting from a tax credit that could have ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Prescription drug overdoses: Who's to blame?

Feb. 28, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Over 100 people die every day in the U.S. from drug overdoses, 60 percent of which are caused by prescription drugs. A lack of...


Perspective


The FTC released "Green Guides" last year to provide guidance for businesses marketing their products as environmentally frien...


Perspective


Special education in California

Feb. 28, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

You know the feeling - a valued client calls with a problem in an area of the law where you do not practice. That urgency is e...


U.S. Supreme Court


US high court scales back major antitrust exemption

Feb. 28, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

In Phoebe Putney, the Supreme Court held that a state's grant of general corporate powers to government entities does n...


Government


Port of LA taps new general counsel

Feb. 28, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

On the heels of a near-shutdown that drew national attention to the nation's busiest seaport, the Port of Los Angeles announce...


A federal appellate court Wednesday allowed Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano's creditors to pursue claims against the bu...


Government


A bill that would force holding companies to pay legal costs for patent defendants was re-introduced in Congress on Wednesday.


Clearwire Corp., currently sadwiched between a bidder's war involving Sprint Nextel Corp. and Dish Network Corp., announced We...


Energy Law


Federal judge approves major wind project

Feb. 28, 2013
By Fiona Smith

A San Diego federal judge gave the green light to a major wind project Wednesday.


Large Firms


Reed Smith attorney decamps to Winston

Feb. 28, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Susan C. Alker jumped from Reed Smith LLP to the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP on Wednesday, part of the firm...


California Courts of Appeal


Appellate court won't reinstate Pfizer verdict

Feb. 28, 2013
By Emily Green

A biomedical research nonprofit has failed in its effort to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated.


Judges and Judiciary


San Diego judge to retire

Feb. 28, 2013
By Pat Broderick

San Diego Superior Court Judge Lisa A. Foster will retire on Feb. 28 following 10 years on the bench.


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Feb. 28, 2013
By Connie Lopezn

Newmeyer & Dillion LLP inked a $6.9 million, five-year lease at 895 Dove Street in Newport Beach with Glenborough Realty T...


Obituaries


David S. Smith, 1917-2013

Feb. 28, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

One of the oldest attorneys still practicing law in California and a founding partner of what's now Richards, Watson & Ger...


In a victory for defense lawyers, a magistrate judge ordered federal prosecutors Wednesday to identify which documents - out o...


On the eve of her trial, the final defendant in a stock options backdating case against Mercury Interactive LLC executives - f...


California Courts of Appeal


The roughly $350 million estate that Herbalife founder Mark R. Hughes left his young son Alex has spawned some nasty legal fig...


Top 40 Under 40


Editors' Note

Feb. 27, 2013
By David Houstonn


Top 40 Under 40


Top 20 Under 40

Feb. 27, 2013
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP