Scott P. Barlow and John H. Ernster met on a 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to the Bay Area in 2003. What could have been a...
Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Administrative Officer for California Independent System Operator Folsom ...
Oracle Corp. got some promising news Wednesday in the form of jury notes in its lawsuit claiming Google Inc. infringed el...
Antonio "Tony" C. Piazza , who co-founded Gregorio, Haldeman, Piazza, Rotman, Frank & Feder , started a new practice at th...
Many people don't realize that California law is sufficient to protect basic assets brought into marriage. By Veronika Melamed...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Former Bush attorney has immunity in alleged torture of convicted terrorist
By John Roemer
Former Bush administration attorney John C. Yoo is off the hook in a civil suit seeking to hold him liable for the detention ...
Facing dual pressures of budget cuts along with state-mandated reforms, Los Angeles County's family courts are taking strong m...
The California Bar Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of the State Bar, has awarded 15 scholarships to third-year law students ...
Spokeo Inc., the developer of a people search engine and social network aggregator website, appointed its first general counse...
Law Practice
Law schools fight back against enrollment data lawsuits
By Don Debenedictisn
The five California law schools sued over their graduate employment data have turned to the same attorney to plead their case ...
Bond insurers facing accusations of scheming to degrade the credit ratings of public entities suffered a setback when a San ...
Litigation
California courts should revisit medical causation after Roberti
By Ben Armisteadn
Roberti has helped make California a perfect haven for scientifically questionable personal injury cases. By Catherine ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson Thacher advises Silver Lake in William Morris acquisition
By Robert Pierce
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped guide Menlo Park-based private equity fund Silver Lake in its agreement to acquire a...
The judicial system is evolving, perhaps not at the same pace as technology, but it is progressing with respect to discovery. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Generic drugs and the new norm in pharmaceutical litigation
By Michael Leen
The impact of PLIVA is to let many generic manufacturers off the hook. By Patricia L. Zlaket of Case Cherry Schenk Fran...
A changing of the guard is underway inside a key unit of the U.S. attorney's office - the major fraud section. ...
In a matter the State Bar called one of the largest misappropriation cases ever handled by its Office of Chief Trial Counsel, ...
McKool Smith, the Dallas firm that's recently bustled onto the California legal scene with the acquisition of Los Angeles bou...
The state Administrative Office of the Courts must pay more than $4 million in a dispute with a construction company, a jury f...
Law Practice
At Dewey, venders repossess copy machines and associates ask, 'what about us?'
By Casey Sullivan
'How could something like this happen?' asks former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, who is now of-counsel in the...
A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS Act, which the president signed into law last month, could provide a boost to an ...
Twitter, in an unusual move, is giving its employees more control over their inventions. By Jennifer Urban and Jason Schultz o...
A federal judge has removed a well-known Baker & McKenzie LLP attorney from a criminal case after prosecutors claimed he ...
Despite the efforts of the last 20 years, in 2012 we know the fragility of progress. By Judge David S. Cunningham III of the L...