Insurance
Should your company require arbitration in its insurance contracts?
By Michael Leen
Most often the matter is left to risk management personnel responsible for buying the company's insurance, who may pay little ...
Private equity investment for the second quarter was the lowest for any quarter since 2009, a Pitchbook report showed. ...
Technology & Science
Regulators warn Congress about patent 'hold ups'
By Robert Iafolla
Federal regulators decried Wednesday the misuse of U.S. International Trade Commission's exclusion orders to block patent-infr...
Product Liability
Circuit court says no duty to provide bilingual warning labels
By Ben Armisteadn
An 11th Circuit decision provides some guidance for manufacturers and distributors. By Janine Schwerter of Snell & Wilmer ...
Real Estate/Development
New theories for a lender’s recovery following foreclosure
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent decision creates new worries for commercial mortgagors, and new opportunities for secured lenders with commercial mor...
When the San Bernardino City Council voted to pursue bankruptcy on Tuesday - becoming the third California municipality to op...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Bucking trend toward immunity, circuit allows case to proceed
By John Roemer
Bucking a trend set by the U.S. Supreme Court toward immunity from civil liability for government officials, a federal appella...
Litigation
Plaintiffs net additional $571 million in settlements in price-fixing case
By Saul Sugarman
A class of indirect purchasers of LCD panels has reached settlement agreements totaling $571 with three defendants. ...
An Alameda County Superior Court Judge was admonished Wednesday for inappropriately forcing an attorney to remain in court for...
In the largest U.S. industrial portfolio sale this year, Seyfarth Shaw LLP helped Sydney, Australia-based Dexus Property Group...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Seeking answers, but not often
By John Roemer
Thanks to a prominent San Francisco lawyer's crusade in the 1990s, there is a way for the 9th Circuit to formally seek answer...
Appellate Practice
Proposal for centralized review of choice of venue in federal court
By Michael Leen
Appeal options are extraordinarily limited when it comes to the grant or denial of a motion to transfer venue. By Harvey Safer...
Estate planning firm Weinstock, Manion, Reisman, Shore & Neumann now goes by a shorter name: Weinstock Manion, a law corpo...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. in a series of agreements with ASML Holding N.V. wo...
Employee Benefits
Legislature once again modifies, but does not fix, CalPERS retired annuitant rules
By Michael Leen
California's local government entities that contract with CalPERS must respond to changes to the statutory rules governing emp...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it has reached a $14.6 million settlement to clean up contaminated groun...
Employee Benefits
Equitable relief in the 9th Circuit just got better for consumers
By Michael Leen
Insurers may be forced to accept limited equitable relief in order to gain the benefits of reduced costs and preemption of sta...
The order may have unintended consequences that are not so dreamy. By Eli M. Kantor ...
California Supreme Court
High court decision is latest boosting death row inmates' appeals
By Emily Green
A man on death row for nearly two decades should receive a retrospective competency hearing and possibly a new trial, the stat...
Binding mediation makes no sense for a reason. By Scott Markus of PMA Dispute Resolution ...
The estate of defunct law firm Heller Ehrman LLP and law firms that took on former Heller partners and their work have mapped ...
Fewer clients and increasing specialization are prompting longtime attorneys to question the future of the banking law practic...
A long-running legal battle over a Humboldt County landowner's property sales will go back to court later this month in a case...
The new suit alleges that the district attorney's office imposes policies on its prosecutors that violate their disclosure res...
The sole district judge in Riverside, Virginia Phillips pays special attention to the juror experience.
Litigation
Plaintiffs net additional $571 million in settlements in price-fixing case
By Saul Sugarman
A class of indirect purchasers of LCD panels has reached settlement agreements totaling $571 with three defendants.
Litigation
Judge won't allow arbitration in venture capital firm sex discrimination case
By Saul Sugarman
A female partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm has moved one step closer to a sex discrimination trial against her ...
Law Practice
Practice makes perfect? Some professors want to return to the courtroom
By Don Debenedictisn
Law schools are under pressure to provide more practical training to their students, but professors seem to be left out of tha...
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP announced Monday the hiring of intellectual property litigator Behrooz Shariati for th...
Criminal
Stop-and-frisk doesn't work and results in racial profiling
By Ben Armisteadn
San Francisco is considering adopting New York's stop-and-frisk program. By Alan Schlosser of the ACLU of Northern California ...