Hanson Bridgett LLP San Francisco Specialties: tax and employee benefits ...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Sacramento Specialtiy: restructuring ...
Colantuono & Levin PC Los Angeles Specialties: municipal finance, litigation, city attorney matters ...
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore Los Angeles Specialities: public employee retirement plans, retiree health insurance issues, labor ...
Williams & Sorsensen LLP Oakland Specialties: complex public litigation and projects ...
The Affordable Care Act and related health care reform laws amended the rules that apply to wellness programs offered by emplo...
After three years, 700,000 pages and $1.5 million later in legal fees and costs, the Securities and Exchange Commission contin...
I read with interest Eli Kantor's article, "NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness Ruling Consistent With Precedent," Nov. 28. ...
These municipal laws, which have a larger goal of limiting criminal background checks for job applicants, are becoming broader...
In many ways, 2012 was a trying time for municipalities. Some, we now know, entered the year on the cusp of filing for bankrup...
A decision reiterates the rule that an appellate opinion's dispositional language controls the scope of the trial court's juri...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court mulls statute of limitations in commercial suit
By Emily Green
State Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic to a plaintiff who was barred from suing a business because he failed to bri...
Government
Courts slash reporters, eliminate hours as budgets are trimmed
By Saul Sugarman
A number of superior courts across the state have recently announced reductions in service and layoffs as they continue to adj...
Government
Sheppard Mullin associate launches nation's first Thai American Bar Association
By Ameera Buttn
Juthamas Judy Suwatanapongched formed the Thai American Bar Association, a Los Angeles-based organization geared at helping me...
Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a candidate for Los Angeles city attorney, is recovering in intensive care after a car accident on Mon...
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open a Paris office shortly after the beginning of the year, creating its fourt...
Criminal
Prosectors' approaches to Innocence Project inquiries vary by county
By Katie Lucia
While some prosecutors cooperate with innocence investigations, others require the groups to litigate every step of the way, s...
Environmental
San Diego regional planners did not properly examine climate change, judge rules
By Fiona Smith
Regional planners in San Diego failed to properly examine the climate change impacts of their long-term transit plan and must ...
Litigation
San Francisco legal fee fight follows trans-Pacific probate battle over huge estate
By John Roemer
A trans-Pacific fee fight between lawyers in Guam and San Francisco is playing out in state court here over legal work stemmin...
Intellectual Property
Patent office hires veteran Bay Area IP lawyer as administrative judge
By Rachel Swan
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has hired veteran Bay Area IP attorney Neil A. Smith as an administrative law judge in it...
Santa Monica estate and tax attorney Robert M.L. Baker III must spend three years in federal prison and pay more than $2 milli...
Patent attorney Scott M. Smith has moved to the Palo Alto office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP as partner, a little more than a ...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court wrestles with hot-button discrimination law issue
By Emily Green
State high court wrestles with whether employers can avoid liability if they admit to discrimination but prove they would have...
Litigation
Judges split on constitutionality of state law banning gay conversion therapy
By Hadley Robinson
Two federal judges issued opposing rulings this week over the constitutionality of a California law banning gay conversion the...
Law firms and corporate counsel can find a new source of revenue while reducing costs to clients by implementing litigation re...
Law firms and corporate counsel can find a new source of revenue while reducing costs to clients by implementing litigation re...
Law Practice
Munger Tolles at 50: A look at how the law firm defied conventional wisdom and became a success
By Andrew Mc Intyre
The Los Angeles-based law firm built a national client base despite the fact that it never expanded outside of California. ...
The EPA recently concluded an investigation that revealed that Hyundai and Kia overstated fuel efficiency numbers on 900,000 o...
I am confident in the assertion that, when it comes to communication, our friends in the business community are no less suscep...
Labor/Employment
Wet Seal racial discrimination case gets boost from EEOC
By Laura Hautalan
An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation of Wet Seal Inc. unearthed discrimination against an African American...