Intellectual Property
Haynes & Boone gets $8.5 million settlement for client
By Rachel Swan
Irvine-based attorneys at Haynes and Boone LLP scored a huge victory in a trademark and trade dress infringement case over hai...
After announcing his planned departure from SanDisk Corp. to return to private practice, the company's longtime chief legal of...
More details emerged Tuesday regarding the L.A. County Superior Court's impending budget cuts for fiscal year 2013-2014. Pers...
Terre Verde Group LLC, a real estate investment company, acquired Ranch Las Flores, a 9,850-acre master-planned residential co...
In an ever-changing corporate climate, chief legal officers are taking an increasingly active role in business decisions, top ...
Can an employer refuse to reinstate an employee that it discovers is working another job while on medical leave? A recent opin...
Labor/Employment
NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness ruling consistent with precedent
By Ben Armisteadn
The ruling reaffirms decades of precedent affirming the principle that employers cannot enter into individual agreements with ...
Governance methods, operating procedures and protocol that worked when firms had 20, 50, even 70 partners, became increasingly...
Have you ever dreamed of traveling the world while somehow managing to make money on the road? Here's one attorney's story. By...
San Bernardino is trying to reject its CalPERS contract as an executory contract in its bankruptcy case -- raising some intere...
Citing federal law, a Los Angeles attorney has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of 110 chimpanzees from o...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals court deals setback to UC Santa Cruz expansion effort
By Fiona Smith
A state appellate court dealt a setback to the University of California's effort to expand its Santa Cruz campus, ruling Tuesd...
Litigation
Hewlett-Packard faces shareholder lawsuit as FBI probes Autonomy acquisition
By Hadley Robinson
The litigation has officially started in the debacle of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s losing acquisition of Autonomy Corp. PLC last ye...
Well-regarded intellectual property attorney Carol L. Smith, a former Intel Corp. lawyer who built a repuation helping younger...
Corporate
Wilson Sonsini aids solar installer as it revises down IPO expectations
By David Ruiz
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC is representing San Mateo-based solar panel installer SolarCity Corp. in its plans to ...
UCLA School of Law announced Tuesday the launch of a new master of laws specialization in law and sexuality geared at providin...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cloud company purchases prize growth potential as well as employees
By David Ruiz
Recent purchases in cloud computing have varied in size and value, but in most cases the buyers have sought a solid employee t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appeals court reverses drug conviction
By Saul Sugarman
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a conviction against an immigrant from El Salvador who lost a jury trial accusin...
Law Practice
Firms increasingly using unconventional tools to find attorneys
By Ryne Hodkowski
Firms are beginning to consider studies showing that undergraduate and law school grade point averages and LSAT scores and law...
One of the most difficult jobs facing general counsel today is how to effectively manage an intellectual property case. A rece...
Whatever the impetus for thinking about your California tax bill, it can be awfully tempting to tally up the tax savings by le...
Every year on Veterans Day America recognizes and applauds veterans for their service, and this year was no different. Yet, 20...
Every few years commentors solemnly pontificate about how fiscal problems, a bad business climate, or too many regulations hav...
The city of Victorville reached a $54 million settlement with a company that oversaw a failed power plant project the municipa...
A Los Angeles federal judge dismissed claims last week against two Wikimedia Foundation Inc. users who were accused of violati...
Criminal
Retrial of AU Optronics executive accused of participating in price-fixing conspiracy starts
By Hadley Robinson
The executive who ran the computer monitor division of AU Optronics Corp. was back in a federal courtroom Monday, being retrie...
Labor/Employment
Arbitration trumps state public policy again in high court decision
By Laura Hautalan
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the Oklahoma Supreme Court should not have decided the legality of a n...
Intellectual Property
Patent office director's upcoming departure will leave major void, lawyers say
By Craig Andersonn
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David J. Kappos, who won praise during his three-year tenure for implementing reform...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted the Federal Communications Commission an en banc rehearing of its deci...
In an effort to smooth the process of sorting through large quantities of potential evidence in a civil trial, a committee tod...