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


An effort by victims to hold the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission liable for failing to detect and halt Bernard L. Mado...


Labor/Employment


The Department of Labor Standards Enforcement fined a warehouse operator in Chino more than $1 million on Monday for unpaid ov...


Litigation


Six California cases challenging banks over the alleged conspiracy to manipulate global interest rates have been consolidated ...


Intellectual Property


In a win for Emeco Industries Inc.'s lawyers at Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP, Restoration Hardware agreed to stop selling i...


Sedgwick LLP claims the receiver cleaning up Medical Capital Holdings Inc. has sued the law firm over more disputed loans than...


Entertainment & Sports


Ray Charles' children have won control over the copyrights to 60 of the late, great soul singer's compositions. ...


Environmental


Giving a boost to the state's nascent cap and trade market, a San Francisco judge has ruled that regulators acted within their...


California Courts of Appeal


A recent appellate court ruling is ruffling feathers among some attorneys, who call the decision "radical" and claim it opens ...


Litigation


Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has preliminarily won $23 million in an arbitration involving alleged unpaid attorney fe...


Judicial Profile


Emily E. Vasquez

Jan. 30, 2013
By Paul Jones

Born to field workers, Emily E. Vasquez discovered the law's potential to bear fruit


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Jan. 29, 2013
By David Ruiz

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


Litigation


UK lawyers press L.A suit against British authorities

Jan. 29, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

A pair of prominent former London lawyers disbarred by British authorities have brought a $10 million RICO and race bias laws...


Corporate Counsel


Peter McGoff

Jan. 29, 2013
By David Ruiz

General Counsel of Box Inc. Los Altos Size of legal department: 4 lawyers ...


Perspective


It's not as if Ralphs is leaving California

Jan. 29, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Gideon Kanner's argument that union grocery clerks are "strangers" with no right to "intrude" on Ralphs Supermarkets' property...


Letter to the Editor


As a former prosecutor for the State Bar, I commend the State Bar Board of Trustees exploration into the issue of limited lice...


U.S. Supreme Court


Justice Scalia has lamented that Heller represents the Supreme Court's first in depth look at the rights bestowed by th...


Intellectual Property


Patent holders used to limit their damages cases to domestic activities; resolution of disputes today may not be so simple. By...


Corporate


AT&T buys Verizon licenses for $1.9 billion

Jan. 29, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Dallas-based AT&T Inc. announced it's purchasing dozens of licenses from Verizon Wireless with help from Sullivan & Cr...


Criminal


Rocker charged in bank fraud

Jan. 29, 2013
By Jean Yung

The frontman of a Los Angeles rock band called Lights Over Paris has been charged with defrauding banks of more than $6 millio...


Government


Counties make way through Prop. 36 process

Jan. 29, 2013
By Hamed Aleazizn

Chief among their tasks is obtaining prison files for inmates eligible to be resentenced under the proposition. But with scant...


Environmental


A federal judge on Friday appeared skeptical that an oyster farm, operating in a spectacular estuary north of San Francisco, s...


Government


AOC weighs fate of leased courthouses

Jan. 29, 2013
By Hannah Mitchelln

As many courts across the state have closed courthouses in response to budget cuts and could close more as funding constraints...


Judges and Judiciary


Courts funding meeting set

Jan. 29, 2013
By Paul Jones

Nearly a month after Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal provoked protest from courts funding advocates for keeping funding at ...


San Bernardino County officials are trying to force Caltrans, the county's transportation agency, and the city of Upland to pa...


A vicious fee-sharing fight waged by the San Francisco-based Alioto Law Firm and Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP will co...


Labor/Employment


In vacating a decision from the NLRB, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals fround that the early January 2012 appointments didn't o...


Judicial Profile


David H. Bartick

Jan. 29, 2013
By Pat Broderick

Magistrate Judge David Bartick, once a defense lawyer, now helps parties find neutral ground.


Law Practice


On the Move

Jan. 28, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property litigator Laura M. Bur...


Judicial Profile


Charles "Chuck" Poochigian

Jan. 28, 2013
By Emily Green

Former high-profile Republican legislator keeps a low profile in his role on the appellate court.


Judicial Profile


David Sotelo

Jan. 28, 2013
By Ryne Hodkowski

Judge David Sotelo transformed his passion for philosophy into a basis for judicial wisdom.