Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary for Square Enix Inc. El Segundo ...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
The video game makers are in the middle of a dispute over whether Zynga's virtual-world game "The Ville" is suspiciously simil...
Litigation
Southern California Edison strictly liable for property damage
By Michael Leen
The court held that a private public utility may be strictly liable in an inverse condemnation action for private property dam...
The Ford Foundation is providing Stanford University law students the opportunity to earn some money while doing public intere...
Judges and Judiciary
King succeeds Collins as Central District chief judge
By Ben Adlin
U.S. District Judge George H. King took over as chief judge of the Central District at the end of business day on Friday, the ...
Law Practice
Immigrant's brief argues immigration law can't pre-empt attorney admissions
By Don Debenedictisn
A brief by an undocumented would-be lawyer disputes arguments by the U.S. Department of Justice that federal immigration law p...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit blasts San Diego federal prosecutors for deporting witnesses
By John Roemer
Angered by San Diego federal prosecutors' handling of illegal alien witnesses at criminal trials, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
A lawyer who allegedly tricked underwater homeowners out of thousands of dollars should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered that a group of immigrants detained by the government for more than six months be g...
Intellectual Property
Eolas, UC file patent lawsuits against Facebook, Disney
By Hadley Robinson
The University of California and Eolas Technologies Inc. filed patent lawsuits against Facebook Inc., Walt Disney Company and ...
Intellectual Property
Apple does not infringe Samsung patents, ITC judge rules
By Hadley Robinson
In another blow to the power of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s smartphone and tablet patents, an International Trade Commissio...
New executive officers with the Administrative Office of the Courts, state appellate courts and the Supreme Court will have to...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate lawyers debate the effectiveness of illustrations in pleadings
By Emily Green
The use of graphics in appellate pleadings is on the rise, attorneys say, but their effectiveness as a persuasive tool is deba...
Hogan Lovells US LLP has strengthened its intellectual property practice in Northern California with the addition of five new ...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added Mahsa Aliaskari as special counsel in Century City. Aliaskari represents em...
A second turn at fatherhood has given Judge Steven R. Denton patience on and off the bench.
His wife's new career path steered Judge Richard Naranjo from manufacturing to the law.
Environmental
Farmers, environmentalists to battle in court over water pollution
By Fiona Smith
A Stanford Law School professor is heading to court today in Monterey County on behalf of an environmental group that is deman...
Sometimes police fall into a well-known cognitive bias: they discount evidence that does not support what they already believe...
On a recent trip, I had the chance to meet the court's newest justice. By Joan B. Kessler of ADR Services ...
Ironic, given that green chemistry programs are meant to encourage the design of products that minimize the use and generation...
Since the closure of the courtroom in June, the daily calendar of the combined courtrooms often exceeds 60 cases, beyond what ...
Lawyers with the 16-year-old Woodland Hills firm Kurtz Law Group APC say they've achieved their success by specializing solely...
Judges and Judiciary
King to take over Friday as Central District's chief judge
By Ben Adlin
U.S. District Judge George H. King will take over as chief judge of the Central District at the end of business on Friday, the...
The three-building University Circle complex in East Palo Alto just off U.S. Highway 101 has an eerie history with large law f...
Six months into his new position as managing partner, Kim D. Thompson of Costa Mesa-based Rutan & Tucker LLP is tasked wit...
Lawyers and judges from throughout California gathered in Beverly Hills Tuesday night to honor the state’s Top 100 Lawyers of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
State, three phone companies finalize $12 million settlement in '07 wildfire
By Alexandra Schwappach
The California Public Utilities Commission approved a $12 million settlement agreement Thursday, resolving issues surrounding ...
Richard Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss how to negotiate confidentiality agreements in M&A...