Mergers & Acquisitions
Irell, Skadden Advise on Met West Merger
By Christian Berthelsenn
The TCW Group will acquire Los Angeles-based Metropolitan West Asset Management, the companies said last week. ...
A small, rural San Joaquin Valley city has come under fire over what attorneys are rising water and wastewater rates, which ar...
Addressing a delicate separation of powers issue, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday weighed the constitutionality of a section of ...
Letter to the Editor
Litigation Survey is Rant Against Civil Justice System
By Sharon Liangn
Christopher Dolan, President of Consumer Attorneys of California, comments on a survey addressing California's litigation tren...
Theresa Lopez and Mark DeSouza of Crowell & Moring explain why knowledge of California's E-discovery Act is a time and mon...
The Senate rejected a Republican effort to cap attorneys' fees in medical malpractice cases when it voted down an amendment to...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court To Review Hastings Dispute With Christian Group
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review whether UC Hastings College of the Law can refuse to register a Ch...
Attorney and inventor Scott Harris addresses the inherent conflicts law firms face when prosecuting and litigating patent issu...
Alan Jampol of Jampol Zimet Skane & Wilcox examines stays of declaratory relief actions in the context of insurance covera...
Fresno County (Clovis) Superior Court Judge University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law ...
It took a couple of years and a long interval of silence, but on Monday the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a long-pe...
Instead of following its tradition of "once recused, always recused," the California Supreme Court has loosened its guidelines...
San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe made public its pay scale after abandoning its lockstep advancement for...
About a month after the Administrative Office of the Courts said it was considering taking court security away from sheriffs, ...
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that patent holding companies cannot avoid being sued by corporations even if they craft ...
U.S. Counsel James Wong of Chinney Capital asks whether the new U.S.-China concordance on climate change will breakthrough in ...
David Skinner of Meyers Nave comments on legislative action taken after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Look No Further for Guidance On International Arbitration
By Sharon Liangn
Justice Richard M. Mosk reviews the 5th edition of Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration, published by Oxford...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.— San Diego ...
Attorney Richard Chrystie says operation costs would be cut if there were no jury trials for minor offenses and no requirement...
Defense attorneys are arguing that a high-profile judicial bribery case should be thrown out because prosecutors failed to pro...
James Rule of UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society examines the blurring of boundaries protecting our privacy...
An attorney for a key witness in the Broadcom stock option-backdating trial testified before a jury Friday that a federal pros...
The legal services industry lost 2,900 jobs in November, according to preliminary data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor ...
Kevin Culhane has learned from life's lessons, starting from the loss of his sister at a young age to the loss of a law partne...
A federal judge has ruled that a $5 million putative class action lawsuit alleging Starbucks Corp. failed to pay overtime and ...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
A federal judge on Friday heard arguments and debated with attorneys about whether the taking of someone's DNA upon a felony a...
As the new president of the San Diego County Bar Association, Patrick Hosey wants to help prepare lawyers, both young and old,...
A San Francisco federal judge again has rejected plaintiffs' arguments that New York-based Pfizer's $68 billion acquisition of...