San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program held its annual Justice For All Celebration on Sept. 13. Those honored at the event were (f...
Solo and Small Firms
Aerlex Law Group's six lawyers focus on the unusual niche of aviation law
By Ryne Hodkowski
Aerlex Law Group is an all-encompassing service for any aviation related legal matter, representing private charter companies ...
Lawyers, clients and friends of the firm gathered at Fenwick & West LLP’s headquarters in Mountain View last week to celeb...
Neutral James P. Lingl considers himself a stubbornly sincere holdout for the possibility of compromise between litigants -- e...
Attorneys at Best Best & Krieger’s Riverside office held an open house on Sept. 13 to celebrate its new location at the Ci...
Community News
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc, honors Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
By Henry Meier
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. held an awards ceremony last Saturday and honored the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Mille...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar shuts down lawyer's practice because of fraud
By Emily Green
Ontario lawyer Gary David Tracy mislead distressed homeowners, according to the bar. Among his abuses included filing shell pe...
Intellectual Property
Amazon.com asks judge to strike Apple false advertising claim
By John Roemer
Striving to carve away part of Apple Inc.'s trademark lawsuit over use of the term "App Store," defendant Amazon.com Inc. on W...
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP welcomed a commercial litigator specializing in complex business disputes and anti...
As part of a broader effort to increase efficiency and accountability in the judicial branch, council leaders are working to r...
With Monday's one-year anniversary of realignment, the ACLU is one of many organizations looking at initial results of the law...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Beverly Hills Bar president keeps association's history alive
By Jean Yung
John K. Rubiner, president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, doesn't intend to lose sight of the bar's true center of grav...
The humorous opening, "how much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette?" frames the issue from the egg industry's perspect...
Follow these rules and you'll reduce your chances of coming to grief from the Internal Revenue Service - in your practice and ...
Adidas is closing its factory in China, Starbucks will move manufacturing of its mugs back to the U.S., and Home Depot plans t...
Labor/Employment
Class certified in Costco gender discrimination case
By Laura Hautalan
A federal judge granted certification to two putative classes of female Costco Wholesale Corporation employees on Tuesday, re...
Judges and Judiciary
Race for Los Angeles County assistant presiding judge grows heated
By Ben Adlin
The election of assistant presiding judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court has turned increasingly contentious as the coun...
Litigation
Sanctions sought against San Francisco attorneys in antitrust case
By Saul Sugarman
Three prominent defense attorneys based in San Francisco have been accused of making "demonstrably false" claims in an ongoing...
Litigation
No proof Hurd's severance package excessive, judge rules
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge said Hewlett-Packard Co.'s shareholders did not prove directors gave an excessive severance package to former ...
California Supreme Court
Employment, business disputes highlight upcoming state Supreme Court session
By Emily Green
Employment - and its parameters, limitations and conditions - is one dominant theme among the civil cases pending before the s...
Corporate
advertising technology company hires first chief legal officer
By David Mc Afee
OpenX Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of digital and mobile advertising technology, has appointed its first ch...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Immigrant children who get too old for visa get 9th Circuit relief
By John Roemer
Children of lawful immigrants whose bids to accompany their parents to the United States were stalled by paperwork delays got ...
Large Firms
Ex-Luce Forward lawyers sacked as McKenna downsizes
By Alexandra Schwappach
Six months after merging with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has shed 15 lawyers nat...
The Stonecrest office building, located at 9640 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego, scored $4.2 million in first mortgage refina...
Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a Redwood City-based online games publisher, announced Tuesday the appointment of its first ...
Law Practice
Estate wants former Dewey partner to recoup fees for it from his Dodgers work
By Kevin Lee
The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is seeking to hire Jones Day partner Bruce Bennett to pursue a cut of the legal fees from t...
Intellectual Property
Craigslist accused of antitrust violations by Web company it sued for copyright infringment
By Hadley Robinson
Internet company 3taps Inc. responded this week to Craigslist Inc.'s claims of copyright infringement by calling the lawsuit a...
A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday struck down film financier David Bergstein's $100 million complaint against two law firm...
The California Center for Sustainable Energy has selected Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as its outside general counsel. ...