Chris Manderson, of Manderson, Schafer & McKinlay LLP, took a break from corporate transactional work to represent one of ...
Perspective
Contractors, Be Sure to Maintain Your Workers’ Compensation Insurance
By Genevieve Knollen
Contractors' failure to maintain workers' compensation insurance can result in an automatic suspension of their licenses. By M...
Labor/Employment
A Six Million Dollar Reminder of the Importance of the Family Rights Act
By Karen Natividadn
The improper handling of family and medical leave requests leaves one company with a multi-million dollar penalty. By Elizabet...
Perspective
Opportunities for Insurance Coverage in Intellectual Property Disputes
By Seena Nikravann
Recent cases have found coverage for patent infringement under commercial general liability and directors and officers policie...
Environmental
New CEQA Mediation Rules May Create More Delay and Confusion
By Seena Nikravann
New CEQA rules appear to encourage settlement, but may actually hinder resolution of disputes. By James L. Arnone, Damon P. Ma...
New lawyers face the worst job market since the mid-1990s, a new report found, with 87.6 percent of 2010 law school graduates ...
San Francisco stalwart Hanson Bridgett is set to launch an office across the Bay in Walnut Creek. ...
After a massive security breach of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Network last month, two class actions have been filed seeking comp...
Foley & Lardner announced Wednesday it's starting its own $4 million venture capital fund to invest in clients. Law firm v...
As the nation's real estate market is plummeting, veteran lawyers in the field have launched a boutique offering fixed fees an...
Law Practice
Former Federal Judge Exits Plaintiffs' Firm After 18 Months
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Eighteen months after stepping down from the federal bench to join Girardi Keese, former U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson...
Commissioner John R. Johnson looks closely at defendants' circumstances in crafting pleas.
Like more than a hundred judges before him over the years, when former Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker found himself in a pickle ...
Carlo F. Van den Bosch and Robert D. Rose, two partners with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, won a defense verdict ...
Dale E. Bonner, former secretary of business, transportation and housing under Gov. Schwarzenegger, jumped back into private p...
Stephen C. Ferruolo will be bringing with him a formidable combination of skills when he taks over as dean of the University o...
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye named three new members to the judiciary's governing body Wednesday while also ma...
Continuing recent expansion efforts, Best Best & Krieger LLP, the Inland Empire's largest law firm, said Wednesday that it...
A state appellate panel appeared deeply divided Wednesday over whether State Bar exam records should be made public. ...
A roundup of real estate transactions around California and the lawyers who assisted on them.
Lawsuits against corporations for marking products with false patent numbers, which exploded onto the scene last year after a ...
Superior Court Judge Kern County(Bakersfield) ...
Privileged notes may no longer be confidential if a careless client reads them when testifying. By Richard La Fianza and Frank...
A list of objections to use sparingly, or not at all. By Richard C. Neal and Barbara A. Reeves Neal of JAMS ...
Intellectual Property
You Stole My Idea — Contract Claim or Just Copyright?
By Seena Nikravann
The 9th Circuit clarifies its position on copyright pre-emption of idea-theft claims. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich &...
Insure yourself against the uninsured. By Kenneth Szeto Abiri & Szeto LLP ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the due process protections for suspects identified under "suggestive circum...
Legislation that would force out-of-state, online retailers to collect a use tax passed the California Assembly 47 to 16 Tuesd...