Perkins Coie LLP Location: San Francisco Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Patent infringement, trade secret...
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Media and entertainment, inte...
Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice speci...
Crowell & Moring LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: White collar Practice specialty: Regulatory enforcement
The worst of the economic crisis may have passed, but legal nonprofits are still struggling under a rash of foreclosures, bank...
Judge Jerome E. Brock, who has handled 10 murder cases in the past 18 months, is known for writing well-thought-out opinions a...
A federal judge in Santa Ana has ruled that a jury should be allowed to determine whether employees at a state-owned corporati...
Law Practice
Keeping the Shiny Side Up: Restraining Modified Cash Basis Accounting Creativity in Law Firms
By Karen Natividadn
Learn the early warning signs of possible law firm troubles ahead. By Edwin B. Reeser and James B. Hunt ...
TiVo Inc. won a tactical victory in a lawsuit with Microsoft Corp. that is part of a sprawling feud between the maker of digit...
Oracle founder Lawrence J. Ellison is involved in a lawsuit in San Francisco that accuses a couple of letting their trees get ...
Senate Bill 603 will expand the protections afforded by the vexatious litigant statute. By Kim Stone of the Civil Justice Asso...
The two defendants pleaded guilty in a Northern California mortgage fraud case that some lawyers said signals federal and stat...
Perspective
Death of Osama bin Laden: Could There Have Been a Trial?
By Karen Natividadn
Did America's killing of Osama bin Laden send the wrong message to the international community? By Joseph F. C. DiMento of UCI...
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Fortinet Inc. Sunnyvale ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Homebuyers Seek to Sue Developers
By Laura Ernden
California homebuyers who got squeezed in the collapse of the housing market might get a second chance to blame developers for...
Federal prosecutors faced renewed criticism Monday for their handling of a closely watched foreign bribery trial as the judge ...
Quest Diagnostics Inc., the state's largest diagnostic testing laboratory, has agreed to pay $241 million to settle claims it ...
Latham & Watkins LLP advised sports apparel company Volcom Inc. on its $607.5 million acquisition by French holding compan...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC turned 50 this year - it was founded in 1961 as McCloskey, Wilson & Mosher - and i...
Chief business officer, general counsel and senior vice president for PacketVideo Corp. San Diego ...
1936-2011 ...
Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc., which persuaded a jury last month to hit Mattel Inc. with an $88 million judgment i...
Labor/Employment
Pension Advisors and Prison Wardens — the Reality Show
By Genevieve Knollen
The government declares war on retirement fiduciaries who violate the law. By David McFarlane of Snell & Wilmer LLP and Sa...
The legal services sector added 1,500 jobs in April, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The largest increase since Septem...
Perspective
State Municipalities, Beware of SEC Administrative Proceedings
By Karen Natividadn
The imbalance of power in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in administrative law courts is shockingly cons...
Farmers Group Inc. is trying to block a consumer rights group from conducting unusual post-settlement discovery in connection ...
Closing arguments in one of the most significant federal criminal trials to date involving the FCPA ended the four-week trial ...
The State Bar may post warnings on its webpage against lawyers facing discipline charges involving mortgage modification. ...
Law Practice
Turning Up the Turbo Boost: Manipulation of Modified Cash Basis Accounting in Law Firms
By Karen Natividadn
Don't drive blind. Know your firm's financial reporting practices. By Edwin B. Reeser and James B. Hunt ...
Bankruptcy Judge Catherine E. Bauer combines empathy from watching relatives endure bankruptcy with her experience working for...