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Litigation


MGA requests arbitration award voiding

Feb. 8, 2013
By Jean Yung

MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a local court Monday to void last month's preliminary arbitration award of $23 million for unpaid...


Real Estate/Development


Public-private partnerships - projects funded and operated through a joining of government and private sector companies - are ...


San Bernardino County officials are meeting this week to decide their next move after a judge tossed the county's central clai...


Litigation


A Los Angeles jury is set to hear arguments next week in a hotly contested case in which the parents of a 25-year-old man cont...


Fearing the San Francisco Law Library will be literally homeless come May when its current space is closed for renovations, it...


A former Universal Pictures and Deutsche Bank executive filed a $20 million civil suit Wednesday, alleging two members of the ...


Litigation


A large class action lawsuit involving allegations a group of electronics companies fixed prices of lithium ion batteries will...


Menlo Park-based Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP lawyers guided clients on two stock offerings and a billion-dollar acquisition,...


Government


US attorney defends approach

Feb. 8, 2013
By Henry Meier

The federal civil case filed against Standard & Poor's on Tuesday in the Central District is without doubt one of the more...


Los Angeles lawyer and biofuels entrepreneur Justin Moongyu Lee faces State Bar disicipline for allegedly misappropriating $50...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Feb. 7, 2013
By Connie Lopezn

An advertising technology company leased a 17,800-square-foot building owned by an affiliate of Hackman Capital Partners LLC. ...


Litigation


While the suit could have been filed in a host of venues, it was brought in Los Angeles because the jurisdiction presented a b...


Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' lawsuit against the McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.'s Standard & Poor's rating services unit...


Perspective


Registered schools' important role

Feb. 7, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

A broader social context needs to be considered before any regulatory or legislative actions are initiated that narrow access ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


As commercial free and open-source software use transitioned from obscurity to ubiquity, the sophistication of software dilige...


Perspective


What makes the grant interesting is that Kandy-Kiss is no mere aberration. Rather, it follows other appellate court dec...


Litigation


Pot clubs face skeptical hearing

Feb. 7, 2013
By Emily Green

The hope for advocates of medical marijuana dispensaries all but disappeared when Justice Goodwin Liu opened up oral argument ...


Trial court judges across the state can take comfort in the fact that the state Supreme Court still seems prepared to endorse ...


Judicial Profile


Laura Taylor

Feb. 7, 2013
By Pat Broderick

Bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor relishes complex cases and the chance to clear up problems. ...


Government


California could reap nearly $170 million in federal funds for prison medical care over the next four years if it expands Medi...


Large Firms


After seven years of overseeing large, complex mergers and regulating competition at the Federal Trade Commission, J. Thomas R...


Large Firms


A former federal prosecutor joined Winston & Strawn LLP in its San Francisco office this week from Bingham McCutchen LLP. ...


Corporate


Gibson Dunn advises in $1.1 billion sale

Feb. 7, 2013
By David Ruiz

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented NuCO2 Inc. and its parent Aurora Capital Group in the $1.1 billion sale of NuCO2 t...


The good news for San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. is that he was tentatively awarded $47 million last week...


Corporate


Dozens of CA lawyers help take Dell private

Feb. 7, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Dell Inc. founder Michael S. Dell and Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake Partners will acquire the Round Rock, T...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Lawyers: Bank M&A activity will pick up in 2013

Feb. 6, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

While low interest rates particularly pose profitability challenges for smaller banks and community banks, many lawyers say th...


Government


The decision potentially invalidates virtually every NLRB decision issued since January 2012. By Denise M. Keyser and John R. ...


Appellate Practice


May an appellate decision's factual findings be used as an estoppel in the trial of additional issues on remand? By Michael M....


A driving force behind the current proposals is the sentiment shared by many practitioners that lack of uniformity in the law ...


Perspective


We must extend the law to cover additional family members, broaden the law's reach to protect more workers, and ensure access ...