Law Practice
Cooley enters Los Angeles market, opens office in Santa Monica
By Andrew Mc Intyre
The firm's choice of tech-heavy Santa Monica for its Los Angeles office is consistent with its previous office openings. ...
In six cases last term, the U.S. Supreme Court considered shielding government authorities from liability for allegedly violat...
Intellectual Property
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: the next SOPA-PIPA
By Ben Armisteadn
TPPA will internationalize some of the worst aspects of U.S. IP legislation. By K.J. Greene of Thomas Jefferson School of Law ...
Jurist's 'forced feeding' opinion put spotlight on right-to-die and quality of life issues. ...
Perspective
Appellate courts split on appeals from orders approving good faith settlements
By Ben Armisteadn
Courts of Appeal are split as to whether an order approving a good faith settlement is an appealable final order when there ar...
In the past, the Court of Appeal seemed loathe to label an appeal frivolous. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich & Purdy LL...
Hundreds of judges, commissioners and interested parties across the state have submitted comments overwhelmingly in support of...
Intellectual Property
Kodak to appeal ITC ruling that key patent invalid in legal battle with Apple
By Hadley Robinsonn
Eastman Kodak Co. vowed to appeal a U.S. International Trade Commission declaring one of the key patents in its arsenal invali...
Pillsbury partner Jorge A. del Calvo led the Nicira Inc. deal team in the Palo Alto-based company's $1.05 billion sale to VMWa...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judges have discretion on attorney sanctions
By John Roemer
A San Francisco lawyer who protested he was too broke to cough up $350,000 in sanctions for misconduct in a civil rights case ...
Litigation
Suits against California law schools moving ahead for now
By Don Debenedictisn
Angry graduates suing their law schools over allegedly dubious employment data have now been thrown out of courts in Michigan ...
California lawyers grabbed a share of the legal work generated Monday by the sale of Emeryville-based Peet's Coffee & Tea ...
Cooley LLP announced today the opening of an office in Santa Monica, its first Los Angeles office and fifth in California. ...
U.S. District Judge
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Diversity, problem-solving goals for new State Bar president
By Don Debenedictisn
Patrick M. Kelly , who will become State Bar president in October, wants to expand on the bar's efforts to ensure lawyers are ...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Money Mailer LLC Garden Grove ...
Criminal
LA district attorney accused of violating due process under Brady
By Karen Natividadn
The ACLU claims that the policies of the LA district attorney's office violate the constitutional rights of defendants. By Don...
Clearly, the current system has not helped avoid frivolous lawsuits and the system needs to adapt in the tumultuous economic c...
Law Practice
Latham & Watkins LLP releases legal jargon glossary iPhone app
By Ameera Buttn
Ever wonder what a 'deal toy' was? That's a gift handed out to deal participants after the closing. Read that definition and m...
Intellectual Property
Judge rejects arbitration in sex discrimination case, but appeal could delay proceedings
By Saul Sugarman
A female partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm notched another win in a sex discrimination case against her company...
Lawsuits continue to derail California's high-speed rail project, but for one Bay-Area attorney, rail litigation has been full...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge now at center of botched settlement fallout
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
The fallout from a personal-injury settlement that imploded when the plaintiff's lawyer said he lacked his client's permission...
Jackson Lewis LLP has hired former chief counsel of Caesars Entertainment Corp. Ann H. Fromholz as a partner, the firm announ...
A Feb. 5 trial date has been in set for a San Francisco Giants fan who was savagely beaten last year in the Dodger Stadium par...
When it comes to how much bankruptcy lawyers charge law firm estates for their work, lawyers on the East Coast - and particula...
U.S. Supreme Court
Attorney challenges appellate division's time pressures
By Emily Green
A petition filed at the state Supreme Court alleges that Division 5 of the 2nd District Court of Appeal imposes a "draconian b...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Morrison & Foerster LLP named Larren Nashelsky as chair, effective in October. Nashelsky is a member of the firm's executi...
Commissioner Nori Anne Walla says she learned a lot about herself handling family disputes.