The Boy Scouts of America prevailed in a long-running legal dispute over whether a city could give land use rights to a religi...
The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters at 4101 Westerly Place in Newpor...
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP represented Mountain View-based Google Inc. in the sale of its Motorola Home business...
Intellectual Property
Apple appeals judge's denial of injunction in Samsung smartphone case
By Rachel Swan
Apple Inc. is pressing on with its demand for a permanent injunction blocking the sale of various Samsung mobile devices in th...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil Gotshal advises Oracle in its latest cloud company purchase
By David Ruiz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Oracle Corp. in purchasing cloud marketing management company Eloqua Inc. for $871 ...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced Thursday that 17-year company veteran Karen Roberts will be its new executive vice president a...
Community News
San Francisco law firm gives back during holiday season
By Caitlin Johnson
On Dec. 19, attorneys and staff in the San Francisco office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP donated time to the Glide Memori...
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is accustomed to complex, multifaceted deals, such as helping represent Skype's founders in the...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved. ...
Loyola Law School hosted its 2012 Alumni Grand Reunion at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. Several alumni (pictu...
On Dec. 6, Tipping Point Community, the Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization, honored Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein retiring from the bench
By Saul Sugaramn
Katherine A. Feinstein, presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court, will retire from the bench early next year, cl...
Litigation
City of Oakland and federal government argue in court over marijuana crackdown
By John Roemer
Medical marijuana advocates and the city of Oakland lined up in federal court Thursday to try to derail a U.S. government crac...
Law Practice
Attorneys gain professional, social connections through wirelawyer.com
By Ryne Hodkowski
With tweets and "friend" requests crowding the Internet, another social media network is jumping into the marketplace - but th...
Alexander L. "Lex" Brainerd, a veteran intellectual property lawyer, has been busier than he expected since joining JAMS as a ...
On Dec. 14 the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic and its chorus, Legal Voices, performed a holiday gala concert for a capacity ...
Loyola Law School hosted the 11th annual National Civil Trial Competition, presented along with Greene Broillet & Wheeler ...
California Courts of Appeal
Court jolts law governing attorney fee-sharing agreements
By Emily Green
An appellate court sided this week with lawyers allegedly jilted in a fee-sharing agreement in a decision that could have broa...
California Courts of Appeal
Three appellate court appointees win easy confirmation
By Emily Green
Three nominees to the state appellate courts won unanimous approval from the Commission on Judicial Appointments Thursday, inc...
Judges and Judiciary
New San Francisco presiding judge shakes up bench assignments
By Saul Sugarman
New assignments for several judges on Friday shocked attorneys and members of San Francisco County Superior Court, which will ...
Initial public offerings rose in 2012, apparently boosted by entrepreneur-friendly provisions of the JOBS Act. ...
Letter to the Editor
Rethinking the approach to continuing legal education
By Ben Armisteadn
Most attorneys specialize in one or two areas and to require that they catch up on areas that they never use is just unproduct...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit decision could change method claim litigation
By Ben Armisteadn
The Federal Circuit issued an important en banc opinion in August in two related cases involving the divided infringement of m...
Although cultural competency is a developing area of scholarship, the use of culture in criminal defense strategies is not a n...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Don't drag our federal courts over the cliff
By Ben Armisteadn
Want to try a civil case after we go off the fiscal cliff? Don't hold your breath. And don't look to the state court...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped Agoura Hills-based video game company THQ Inc. in a Chaper 11 agreement wherein affilia...
Director of legal affairs for the San Francisco 49ers Santa Clara ...
Intellectual Property
Kodak sells digital imaging patent portfolio for less than it wanted
By Hadley Robinson
Eastman Kodak Co. announced the sale and licensing of its digital imaging patent portfolio Wednesday for $525 million to a gro...
Every year, TV networks try to transplant the success of their strongest shows in the form of spinoffs. But if a new show shar...
A jury delivered a resoundingly pro-defense verdict late Wednesday in a federal lawsuit accusing former Los Angeles District A...