White & Case LLP has boosted its Silicon Valley corporate bench with the addition of two new partners who most recently se...
Thompson & Knight LLP will open its first West Coast location in Los Angeles Monday and plans to focus on commercial, corp...
Large Firms
Three lawyers rejoin Ballard Spahr after brief Alston & Bird stint
By Ameera Buttn
Ballard Spahr LLP welcomed back to its Los Angeles office Tuesday three lawyers who had departed the firm earlier this year fo...
Judges and Judiciary
Stewart chosen as San Francisco's next assistant presiding judge
By Saul Sugarman
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John K. Stewart has been selected as the next assistant presiding judge of the court...
Intellectual Property
ActiveVideo settles patent lawsuit with Verizon Communications
By Fiona Smith
San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks Inc. has settled its patent dispute with Verizon Communications Inc. over interactive tele...
Three former presiding judges and nine current supervising judges have endorsed Pomona's Dan T. Oki in the upcoming election f...
Government
Courts look to reduce pay increases to employees to save money
By Paul Jones
Due to budget cuts, court administrators at several of the state's larger courts have frozen cost of living adjustments, and a...
Senior Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcón has strong views about the state's death penalty system.
Nearly a year into California's realignment law, debate over the radical legislation shifting responsibility for tens of thous...
Internal investigators can no longer request that witnesses refrain from discussing the subject matter of the investigation wi...
Sellers and service providers regularly extend credit to their customers, and often end up with general unsecured claims in th...
Perspective
NLRB's social media guidelines apply to nonunion workforces
By Michael Leen
The board has made it clear that its guidelines on social media issues apply to all employers, not just those with unionized w...
It is the total equity invested in the enterprise relative to the need for short term working capital that matters, not how mu...
Letter to the Editor
Compelled mediation not the same as coerced settlement
By Ben Armisteadn
Parties contractually obligated to mediate are not required to settle. Made to talk, yes, but to agree, no. By Scott Markus of...
The State Bar should be commended for examining the campaign materials of every lawyer who ran for judge this year. By Ming W....
The California Corporations Commissioner recently adopted a new exemption from registration for certain investment advisers in...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco County Superior Judge Ellen Chaitin retiring
By Saul Sugarman
After two decades on the bench, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ellen L. Chaitin is retiring. ...
A former client of SNR Denton US LLP is alleging the law firm was slow to revise a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fil...
Government
State Bar task force considers training requirement for lawyering skills
By Hannah Mitchelln
Members of a special State Bar task force are not sure what sort of training in practical lawyering skills they may demand of ...
Judge Rebecca C. Hardie's work as a probation officer influenced her approach on the bench
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego County civil departments to lose court reporters
By Saul Sugarman
San Diego County Superior Court's civil departments will lose court reporters in November, a court spokeswoman announced Tuesd...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Unjustly imprisoned man to get another chance to seek damages from detectives
By Fiona Smith
A man who served 19 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit got a second chance to seek damages from Los Angeles...
Labor/Employment
Wal-Mart gender discrimination suit heads to class certification
By Laura Hautalan
Plaintiffs in the leaner version of an 11-year-old gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart passed the motion to dismiss...
A former top antitrust official at the Justice Department says she expects President Barack Obama to continue to take a hard l...
Intellectual Property
Irell helps TiVo win another big patent settlement
By Saul Sugarman
Verizon Communications Inc. will pay more than $250 million to settle a patent lawsuit with TiVo Inc., which accused Verizon o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Binding mediation case leaves questions unanswered
By Ben Armisteadn
The 4th District became the first to publish precedent enforcing a commercial binding mediation award in Bowers, but be...
Perspective
Getting 'real' about debt and equity as factors in law firm financial stability
By Ben Armisteadn
The critical problem in firms is not undercapitalization, whether sourced in equity or debt. It is overdistribution<...
Litigation
Arnold & Porter attorneys accused of switching sides in patent case
By Hadley Robinson
A patent licensing company accused Arnold & Porter LLP of an ethical breach, saying some of the firm's attorneys switched ...
Intellectual Property
Irell helps TiVo collect more in patent settlements
By Saul Sugarman
Verizon Communications Inc. will pay more than $250 million to settle a patent lawsuit with TiVo Inc., which accused Verizon o...
Trigild Corp., a real estate and fiduciary services company based in San Diego, has appointed a new general counsel, the compa...