Former Howrey vice chairman Henry Bunsow said the firm's profits are down. ...
Intellectual Property
As Appliance Innovator Grows Up, So Does Its Litigation
By Gabe Friedmann
Dyson Technology has battled some of the largest names in the home appliance industry from Hoover to Maytag. And now Garry Vac...
Perspective
The False Claims Act: A Comparison of California and Federal Law
By Karen Natividadn
California has one of the most powerful anti-fraud statutes in the country. By Matthew Zandi of Steel Zandi. ...
Employers who routinely interact with non-employees risk greater exposure to bad conduct. By D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenz...
A recent 9th Circuit case establishes that unsolicited promotional CDs are subject to the first sale doctrine, regardless of l...
Perspective
The Preservation of Future Intellectual Property Rights
By Karen Natividadn
Choose the wrong language of assignment, and you may lose your claim to intellectual property created in the future. By Stan G...
The role of love and drugs in the practice of law. By criminal defense attorney Richard M. Chacon. ...
The Sunrise Powerlink - billed as a $1.8 billion, 117-mile, 500-kilovolt electric "superhighway," running from Imperial County...
The family of James R. Robie will hold a celebration of his life on Jan. 30 at Bel Air Bay Club. ...
The state Supreme Court Wednesday declined to review a landmark appellate ruling ordering the release of private files of accu...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman crossed the million-dollar threshold for profits per equity partner for the first time in 2010...
Federal prosecutors and former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz have both unceremoniously dropped their respective appeals in the real...
The U.S. Supreme Court signaled it would block a lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers for overcharging medical clinics...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's background checks did not violate the privacy rights of employees at Pasad...
With pensions for public employees under attack throughout the state, an appellate court heard arguments Wednesday in a case t...
Specialty drug developer Depomed Inc. will go up against a pharmaceutical giant in mediation over a contract worth hundreds of...
On Friday, an Oakland federal judge ruled lawsuits accusing Abbott Laboratories of unlawfully raising an anti-HIV drug's price...
Two more California-based Howrey partners are leaving the firm. Robert Gooding Jr. and Scott Garner are joining the Irvine off...
Attorneys for the city of Vallejo filed its plan of adjustment this week, paving the way for the city's exit from bankruptcy n...
Orange County D.A. Tony Rackauckas is expected to personally ask a state judge today to allow his office to try the first in a...
The Law Office of Peter N. Brewer, a firm specializing in real estate matters, purchased a 4,200-square-foot office building i...
A second blind law school graduate has taken aim at administrators of the national bar exam after his request to use special s...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Considers Bankruptcy Law in Anna Nicole Smith Case
By Robert Iafolla
While America's tabloid media long ago lost interest in the protracted legal battle over deceased Playboy playmate Anna Nicole...
Personal Injury, Kings County Superior Court, Hanford ...
Take any major copyright infringement cases filed by Hollywood studios in recent years and chances are Andy Coombs filed it. T...
Growing up in the civil rights era and experiencing segregation gave Judge Rise Pichon patience and understanding essential in...
This week's presidential meeting will set the tone for the coming era of U.S.-China relations. By James Wong of Chinney Allian...
New laws attempt to remedy problems in estate planning. By Mark J. Phillips and Megan L. Ferkel of Goldfarb, Sturman & Ave...
Multinationals in China must navigate its sinuous tax structure. By Allan Marson, Kelly Going and Grace Shie of Baker & Mc...