More women than ever served as general counsel at top companies across the country last year, and California leads the upward ...
Chief Legal Officer of Stamps.com El Segundo ...
It's astonishing how, in this day of potentially high exposure liability, the major differences between an "Additional Insured...
Perspective
America Invents Act harmonizes US and foreign patent systems
By Michael Leen
New post-grant procedures for challenging patents in the Patent Office take effect next month. By Joe Liebeschuetz and Elizabe...
Government
Homeowner's Bill of Rights opens door to frivolous lawsuits
By Michael Leen
While the HBOR has some useful and reasonable provisions, it is likely to result in delayed foreclosures without obtaining the...
Toshiba Corp. has agreed to settle claims with a group of plaintiffs that last month won an $87 million verdict against the el...
Personal Injury & Torts
US, inmate settle Valley fever lawsuit for $425,000
By Ben Adlin
The U.S. government will pay $425,000 in a first-of-its-kind settlement over claims a former prison inmate contracted a potent...
A Los Angeles jury awarded Hollywood financier David Bergstein $50 million in damages late Tuesday in his legal malpractice ca...
Proskauer Rose LLP advised longtime client Ares Management LLC in closing a $4.7 billion private equity investment fund, the L...
Law Practice
As budget cuts hit, plaintiffs' bar looks to other venues
By Brian Sumersn
With budget cuts seemingly hitting urban courts disproportionately hard, some plaintiffs' lawyers say they're considering fili...
The latest amended complaint against Thomas Jefferson School of Law accuses the school of some outright lying, not just exagge...
A bill introduced by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, to prevent warrantless surveillance of people through GPS-enabled ...
Intellectual Property
Jurors in Apple-Samsung trial face daunting verdict form
By Craig Andersonn
The lengthy and complex verdict form in Apple Inc.'s patent and trade dress infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics C...
Hogan Lovells LLP advised Ivanhoe Cambridge, a Canada-based pension fund and one of the largest global real estate investors, ...
California Supreme Court
Justice Liu's opinions may target audience of the future
By Emily Green
Since joining the state Supreme Court last year, Justice Goodwin Liu has authored more concurring and dissenting opinions than...
Perspective
Continental: policyholders entitled to full limits on all triggered policies
By Karen Natividadn
The decision should enhance policyholders' ability to obtain coverage for progressive damage occurring over many years. By Bro...
In the technology and creative sectors, copyright is king. By Richard E. Neff of Neff Law Firm ...
Perspective
Pinnacle: the latest on the enforceability of arbitration clauses
By Ben Armisteadn
The state Supreme Court surprised many observers by reversing a trend of lower court decisions. By Valentine S. Hoy and Timoth...
Travel websites Expedia and Travelocity are among several accused of price fixing in a proposed class action filed in the Nort...
Criminal
Prosecutors banding together in effort to defeat death penalty repeal
By Henry Meier
Support for capital punishment among California prosecutors runs high and many are banding together to try to defeat an attemp...
EIG Global Energy Partners LLC, a spinoff of investment firm The TCW Group Inc., has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to h...
Litigation
Clovis sex education policy violates state law, lawsuit claims
By Fiona Smith
Concerned parents and a chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics sued the Clovis Unified School District Monday, arguing ...
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside has been removed from a case for failing to call for a competency hearing f...
The State Bar appears to be closer to buying a building for its Los Angeles headquarters. ...
Lawrence M. Chu officially joined Goodwin Procter LLP's Menlo Park office Monday, becoming the latest Wilson Sonsini Goodrich ...
Los Angeles has been without an NFL team since 1994 yet finds itself as the league's venue of choice for its lawsuit against 3...
Intellectual Property
Apple, Samsung attorneys clash in closing statements of major patent trial
By Craig Andersonn
In closing arguments Tuesday, lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. laid out different reasons why the stake...
Audit blames state judicial branch's lack of involvement for building program's inefficiency ...
Superior Court Judge San Francisco County ...
Toshiba Corp. has agreed to settle claims with a group of plaintiffs that last month won an $87 million verdict against the el...