Web Exclusive - Lawyers for defendants in the Broadcom stock-option backdating case joined in a motion that aggressively probe...
For years, patent attorneys representing defendants complained about being forced to try infringement cases in the Eastern Dis...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Creates Center to Settle Public Land Use Disputes
By Greg Katzn
Mediator and attorney Len Levy remembers being glued to public access television in 2006, as the Los Angeles City Council, fla...
Winston & Strawn adds a labor and employment litigator in Los Angeles.
Real Estate/Development
Judge Rules L.A. Planners Hid Environmental Reports, Violated Brown Act
By Peter Matuszakn
Open government advocates won a victory last week when a judge ruled that the city's practice of using internal city codes to ...
The prevailing theme Friday as officials laid out a plan for trial court funding was, it could have been much worse. ...
A new regulation will impose fines on ER doctors who send patients the bill instead of sorting it out with health plans. But m...
Law Practice
Banks' Action Forces Heller to Lay Off Large Group of Employees
By Jill Redhage
San Francisco's firm-in-dissolution, Heller Ehrman, laid off a large number of its employees Friday, a source at the firm with...
Equitable estoppel is a powerful doctrine that prevents a party from escaping responsibility for losses incurred through condu...
Just as nature abhors (and will fill) a vacuum, jurors hate blank spots in a case and will spontaneously fill them — often in ...
Law Practice
McAfee Settlement Gets Preliminary Nod From Federal Judge
By Craig Andersonn
A U.S. judge has given preliminary approval to a backdating lawsuit against former McAfee Inc. officers and directors that exc...
Legal malpractice expert co-founded Los Angeles law firm ...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Prop 8 Would Codify the Kind of Intolerance We Fight Against Abroad
By Sara Libbyn
Prop 8 would amend the California Constitution to codify the kind of societal human rights violation that we've been fighting ...
A federal judge Friday refused to give homeowners allegedly cheated by failed IndyMac Bank more time or assistance to file cla...
Law Practice
S.D. City Attorney Sues WaMu, Alleging Unfair Lending Practices
By Pat Broderick
San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre Friday filed suit against Washington Mutual, Inc., over its lending practices. ...
Web Exclusive - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and class action lawyers filed a unique motion against Blue Cross, seeking to h...
Law Practice
U.S. Circuit Affirms San Jose Judge's Decision Invalidating 'Obvious' Patent
By Craig Andersonn
Last year, a federal judge tossed out a $74.7 million patent infringement verdict in favor of Fremont-based Asyst Technologies...
A state appellate court ruled Friday that Los Angeles County is not allowed to give its judges extra compensation on top of th...
Former San Francisco County Supervisor Edmund Jew pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of mail fraud, bribery and extortio...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Four more former Heller Ehrman attorneys have joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as pa...
"I think if this proves successful, that we could be taking more of our California litigation in-house," Robert A. Gordon, gen...
Pounding away at a 26.2-mile marathon in Carlsbad two years ago, San Diego lawyer Laura Roppé's next challenge suddenly became...
For the first time, the Federal Circuit has addressed the rights of open source creators — those who dedicate their copyrighte...
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether employees are protected from being fired or demoted under the Civil Rights Act if t...
An appellate court in San Diego shed light Thursday on exactly what it takes for companies that suffer collateral damage in tr...
Additional details about San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman's finances came to light Thursday when legal blog abovethelaw.com o...
Verdicts
Seafood Distributor Hauls in $4 Million in Trade Secrets Case
By Noah Barronn
There was nothing shrimp-like about the $4.5 million catch of the day for a San Pedro seafood distributor. ...
John McCain's health care plan is only appealing to people who are young and healthy - those who need insurance least. ...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has scooped up 27 partners and one senior counsel from Heller Ehrman, the firm announced Th...