Environmental
Group seeks regulations to protect birds from wind turbines
By Fiona Smith
Seeking to rein in bird deaths from wind turbines, a nonprofit has asked for regulations to protect birds from the growing num...
State Bar & Bar Associations
OC Legal Aid Society offers help to tenants facing eviction
By Don Debenedictisn
Despite steep cutbacks in legal services funding and growing demand from clients, the Legal Aid Society of Orange County for t...
A popular incentive for renewable energy projects was dealt a blow this week when the Republican-led U.S. House of Representa...
Looking forward to next year, we decided to take a look back at five key lateral hires of 2011 and the consequences that flowe...
A tale of caution for attorneys representing insureds that are in, or considering, bankruptcy. By John J. McLeod, Daniel H. Ry...
There's one potential liability that may come as a surprise to many charity board members. By Fred Reish and Bruce Ashton of D...
A federal appellate court held Monday that California overtime laws apply to out-of-state residents working here, a ruling exp...
Law Practice
Cooley partners open firm’s first international office in Shanghai
By Kevin Lee
Cooley LLP has opened its first international office in Shanghai, China, the firm announced Tuesday.
Litigation
PG&E admits liability, could limit damages in San Bruno explosion cases
By Amy Yarbroughn
Pacific Gas & Electric said Tuesday it will admit liability for a 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight peop...
Government
Judicial Council approves $2 million in emergency funds for San Joaquin court
By Laura Ernden
Despite qualms from some trial judges facing their own budget woes, the Judicial Council on Tuesday approved $2 million in eme...
Here are five insurance bad faith scenarios where the anti-SLAPP statute can be used. By Theona Zhordania of Luce, Forward, Ha...
Investments
Clean-tech investment: What every entrepreneur should know
By Sharon Liangn
There are deeper challenges, besides the economic slow-down, facing clean-tech investors. By James C. Chapman of Foley & L...
Political fundraising entered the digital frontier this week as California allowed political contributions via text messaging...
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Paul J. Watford enjoyed a brisk, controversy-free hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday for h...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit wary of overstepping in veterans' mental health care case
By John Roemer
Testing federal courts' power over the executive branch, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard oral argument ...
How do California's privacy laws protect consumers? By Brian Kabatack and Evan Zucker of Kabatack Brown Kellner LLP
Jive Software Inc. started trading on Tuesday after raising $161.3 million dollars in its initial public offering. Wilson Sons...
Bankruptcy
District judge will have the final say in Heller bankruptcy suits
By Jill Redhage
Only district judges can enter final judgment in certain suits stemming from law firm bankruptcies, a federal judge ruled Tues...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Privacy laws could trip up health data companies
By Mandy Jacksonn
Many high-tech companies are getting into the health care data business, but not all of them fully understand the responsibili...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
A memorial celebration of the life of retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Loren Miller Jr. will be at 2 p.m. Wedne...
The general counsel for computer giant Hewlett Packard Co. has left the company just three months after HP named former eBay ...
Litigation
Judge dismisses most of firm's suit over taxes on profits to partners
By Amy Yarbroughn
A judge on Monday threw out most of a law firm's suit against the city and county of San Francisco over whether it was improp...
Retired Alameda County Superior Court judge loses his battle with multiple myeloma.
An eight-justice U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider Arizona's controversial immigration law, with Justice Elena Kaga...
How Delaware's clerkship requirement changed my mind forever about pro bono work. By Mark H. Smith of Sharma, Smith & Gray PC
In a rare, unanimous pro-immigrant decision temporarily blocking one man's deportation, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ...
Sidley Austin LLP snagged intellectual property litigator Vernon M. Winters from Greenberg Traurig LLP, adding him as a partne...
A roundup of cases granted or denied for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Commercial Law
Pre-purchase exposure: Defeating class certification in false advertising cases
By Sharon Liangn
With social media and new ad avenues, the variability of consumer exposure may defeat class certification. By Gregory J. Sater...