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Corporate Counsel


Sergio Garcia

Nov. 2, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary ZELTIQ Aesthetics Inc. Pleasanton ...


Perspective


The new FBAR filing procedures became effective Sept. 1. Those who qualify under the procedures will only have to file tax ret...


Labor/Employment


Language policy spawns huge payout

Nov. 2, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Some employers continue to insist on strict English-only policies based on generalized notions of business necessity that are ...


If you run a small business - or a small law firm - you know that what belongs to you and what belongs to the company can seem...


Insurance


Insurance agents key to insurer liability

Nov. 2, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

California courts have expanded an agent's duties under certain circumstances, extending liability to insurers based on the st...


Sonora city officials abused the election process by approving a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter without doing environmental rev...


Criminal


In the contentious battle for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the county's Association of Deputy District A...


Entertainment & Sports


Chinese, U.S. film execs talk deals

Nov. 2, 2012
By Jean Yung

Interest in potentially super-lucrative U.S.-China film co-productions remains at an all-time high, even if relatively few suc...


Criminal


A Cupertino resident recently received a 15-month prison sentence for selling to China an amplifier used in communications equ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Can investigators rely on canines' drug sniffing abilities to bring narcotics defendants to justice? That's the question the U...


Intellectual Property


In a bold move that could give it a victory in the smartphone legal wars, Apple Inc. offered Wednesday to pay $1 - or less - p...


Several of the companies implicated in price-fixing lawsuits involving liquid crystal display screens, disk drives and memory ...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Nov. 1, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

Kilroy Realty Corp. paid $52 million for nearly half an acre of fully entitled property at 350 Mission Street in San Francisco...


Law Practice


Orrick elects new chairman

Nov. 1, 2012
By Kevin Lee

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partners have selected Mitchell S. Zuklie to succeed Ralph H. Baxter as firm chairman. ...


Perspective


While there is some basis for this finger-pointing Citizens United, in fact, is not an obstacle to reining in the spend...


Law Practice


Retaining the professional retainer

Nov. 1, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

How can a professional ensure payment for services appropriately and professionally performed, even in the face of the client'...


Litigation


Loss aversion is a powerful behavioral concept and defendants, in particular, ignore its invisible influence at their peril. B...


Technology & Science


Microsoft's 'Surface' tests unfamiliar ground

Nov. 1, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

For 37 years, Microsoft has enjoyed a world that was software driven and software focused. Surface is the software giant's ver...


Perspective


Concerns swell over green chemistry

Nov. 1, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

An untested program that fails at the outset would overwhelm the DTSC and impacted parties and would undoubtedly do extensive ...


Corporate


Cyan adds first general counsel

Nov. 1, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Cyan Inc. announced Monday the appointment of its first chief legal officer. Kenneth M. Siegel will serve as vice president a...


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court has cancelled plans to hold its June 2013 oral arguments in Los Angeles in an effort to save money, th...


Intellectual Property


Just in time for Halloween, the ongoing tussle between sugar producers and manufacturers of high-fructose corn syrup is turnin...


Intellectual Property


Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. continued to press its argument Tuesday that jury foreman Velvin Hogan tainted its patent trial l...


Litigation


Thomas Jefferson law school fires back

Nov. 1, 2012
By Don Debenedictisn

Going on the attack against graduates suing over employment statistics, Thomas Jefferson School of Law asked a court to sanct...


Law Practice


Stutman, Treister & Glatt PC, a 29-lawyer Los Angeles bankruptcy firm, opened an office in New York to further build its c...


Litigation


State courts experienced a decline of roughly two percent, or 2.5 million cases, from 2009-10, according to a new report by th...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham & Watkins LLP advised Lucasfilm Ltd. in its $4.05 billion sale to The Walt Disney Company, which called on Skadden,...


Beginning next July, parole revocation hearings will cease to be held by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabi...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


With ongoing discipline cases against two California prosecutors, some observers believe the State Bar is out to prove a tough...


Government


Fraud statute invites bogus corruption charges

Oct. 31, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

This statute proscribes theft of "honest services." Unfortunately, the statute and case law construing it are unclear. By Dan ...