An untested program that fails at the outset would overwhelm the DTSC and impacted parties and would undoubtedly do extensive ...
The Youth Law Center honored five individuals with the "Loren Warboys Unsung Hero" award on Dec. 3 in a ceremony and reception...
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP were crowned champions at the conclusio...
Community News
SDCBA installs 2013 board of directors at annual holiday reception
By Caitlin Johnson
On Dec. 7, the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA) hosted "Stepping Up to the Bar," its annual holiday reception and inst...
Community News
Inner City Law Center celebrates the holidays with clients and their families
By Caitlin Johnson
Inner City Law Center hosted a holiday celebration for clients and their family members, which included over 100 children. The...
Dedication to Asian clients and businesses comes naturally to Margolis & Tisman LLP. Two of the firm's 14 attorneys are b...
An Orange County jury has returned a defense verdict in a personal injury case in which the plaintiff claimed $27.6 million in...
Community News
Lawyers Club of San Diego celebrates the holidays with North County Judiciary
By Caitlin Johnson
On Dec. 7, the Lawyers Club of San Diego, hosted its annual Twilight Holiday Gathering honoring the North County judiciary and...
Community News
ADL honors attorney and celebrates 100 years of impact
By Caitlin Johnson
The Anti-Defamation League kicked off its centennial year with its Annual Dinner Celebration on Dec. 11 at the Beverly Hilton ...
Civil rights lawyer Barrett S. Litt, known for taking on the Los Angeles County Jail system and whose clients have included th...
Law Practice
Paul Hastings fails to move Brobeck dispute to district court
By Kevin Lee
A federal district judge on Wednesday denied a second request from Paul Hastings LLP to move a lawsuit from bankruptcy court t...
California Supreme Court
Lawyers, courts split over when a judgment is final
By Emily Green
When is a judgment deemed final for purposes of appeal? That's a question many lawyers are debating, while courts across the c...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
California's Medi-Cal spending cuts are constitutional, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
California can slash Medi-Cal spending on poor residents, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panels held Thursday in an opini...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Hedge funds are slowly returning to the film finance market as the economy continues its tepid recovery, but terms have become...
General Counsel of ReachLocal Inc. Woodland Hills ...
Criminal
Oregon mall shooting: a case for censoring the killer's name
By Ben Armisteadn
The incident should reignite the debate over how the media should cover these killers, who frequently claim that they committe...
A federal judge denied cosmetics company Avon Products Inc.'s effort to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of testing foreign-marke...
San Diego Superior Court Judge Luis Vargas is scheduled to retire Jan. 6 after 20 years on the bench and will immediately star...
Cooley LLP represented the newest "big data" venture fund devoted to seed funding and Series A financing as the industry pulls...
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP has bucked a lot of law firm trends. The firm doesn't have a summer associate program. It hi...
Government
Bar accuses lawyer of defrauding elderly doctor of $3.5 million
By Don Debenedictisn
Stanford Law School graduate Wade A. Robertson Jr. could be disbarred for allegedly misappropriating $3.5 million from a Maryl...
Golden Gate University School of Law on Wednesday announced Rachel Van Cleave as its new dean. ...
In a decision closely followed by lawyers involved in major law firm bankruptcies, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini gets job for Gilead in $510 million deal
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC got the job of working for the Foster City-based company, the first acquisition the fi...
Invesco Advisors purchased a 278,000-square-foot industrial building in La Mirada for $27.5 million. Shaw Industries previousl...
Labor/Employment
Workers face uphill battle in circumventing arbitration agreements
By Laura Hautalan
With the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, employers are playing with a strengthened hand...
School districts have admitted that using tracking devices allows them to retain more state funding, which is tied to attendan...
Perspective
Appellate courts sharply disagree over continuing impact of Concepcion
By Ben Armisteadn
These issues are likely to come to a head over the next few years, as the U.S. Supreme Court, 9th Circuit and state Supreme Co...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to consider whistleblower case en banc
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voted to review en banc a whistleblower case involving a Burbank police detec...