Perspective
Say-on-Pay Vote Proxy Filings Hit 40 Percent Mark, What’s New?
By Alexander Phersonn
Four months into the 2011 proxy season, focus has shifted dramatically from the say-on-pay frequency vote to the general advis...
An international company that places foreign technology workers in jobs for U.S. clients is being accused of wrongfully making...
A U.S. judge in Santa Ana issued an order Wednesday that revealed for the first time that lawyers for the FBI have been making...
In a major victory for corporate America, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a California law does not bar arbitratio...
Nossaman LLP Irvine Notable clients: Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, Kern County Water Agency 738,000 acres | Total Squa...
Farella Braun & Martel LLP San Francisco Notable Clients: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Live Nation Worldwide Inc....
Alston & Bird LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.; Alameda Corridor Transportation Autho...
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP Oakland Notable Client: Port of Oakland 70 acres | Total Square Feet/Acres of Projects ...
Energy Law
State's Green Energy Mandate Lifts Effort to Reform CEQA Rules
By Erica E. Phillips
Ask nearly any land-use lawyer in California and they’ll tell you without hesitation: developing a project in California is mo...
Real Estate/Development
This Appraisal Stinks — I Know My Property Is Worth _____!
By Michael Gottliebn
Many believe that real estate appraisers are retained to achieve favored results and are confused and angered when those expec...
Real Estate/Development
Protect Your Development Approvals During Market Cycles
By Michael Gottliebn
Among the many lessons to be learned from the recent real estate downturn, probably the most important one is the simplest: It...
Real Estate/Development
Recovering Lost Profits In Real Estate Transactions
By Michael Gottliebn
The court of appeals in Greenwich S.F., LLC v. Wong (190 Cal.App.4th 739 (2010) recently addressed for the first time the issu...
Real Estate/Development
Accounting Changes and Their Effects on Corporate Executives
By Michael Gottliebn
Upcoming changes to lease accounting rules will have significant business and legal implications for all companies renting com...
Latham & Watkins LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Westfield Group, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, A...
Best Best & Krieger LLP Irvine Notable Clients: City of Lake Forest, city of Aliso Viejo, Helix Irrigation District 1,3...
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market, San Diego County Water...
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP San Francisco Notable Clients: Google Inc., Chadmar Group, Essex Property...
Latham & Watkins LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Loyola Marymount, World Oil Corp., NBCUniversal Media LLC, Majestic Re...
Gilchrist & Rutter PC Santa Monica Notable Clients: Lennar Communities, Hanjin International Corp., Mountains Recreation...
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson Oakland Notable Clients: Port of Los Angeles, University of California Regents, city ...
Newmeyer & Dillion LLP Newport Beach Notable Clients: Scalzo Family Trust, R&H Wildomar 1 LLC 1,000 units of reside...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Orange County Notable Clients: Newport Banning Ranch LLC, Lytle Development Company, Shea ...
Schools struggle to provide a safe learning environment as technology evolves. By Gretchen Shipley and Namita Brown of Fagen F...
Litigation
What Is Not Collateral Source and What Is: A Difference That Matters
By Alexander Phersonn
Misunderstanding the collateral source rule can be fatal to your client's case. By Will Jay Pirkey of the Los Angeles city att...
Morgan Miller Blair Walnut Creek Notable clients: Blackhawk, Leona Quarry, Syers Properties, City of Hercules 100,000 acres...
Alston & Bird LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Playa Vista, Westfield, Southern California Edison, Pacific Theaters, Hom...
The controversial Trial Court Rights Act is jumping between committees like a sack of hot potatoes. The bill will be heard onl...
Thorough investigation of a target company's electronic data will help avoid post-integration costs and blunders. By Daniel B....
A federal judge in the Central District has given the green light to a profit participation dispute between Warner Bros. Enter...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles Notable clients: Ryder Integrated Systems Inc., GMAC Residential Funding Compa...