A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
Labor/Employment
On worker rest-day issue, Nordstrom may have racked up victory
By Matthew Blake
In interpreting an 1893 statute on what defines a work week, the state Supreme Court Tuesday looked inclined to agree with Nor...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA rejects controversial bar exam passage resolution
By Banks Albachn
The American Bar Association has rejected a resolution to raise the bar passage rate. After a debate stretching longer than an...
Government
Bill would sanction attorneys who use tenants' immigration status against them.
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A trio of Assembly Democrats have introduced a bill to sanction landlords — and their attorneys — who attempt to use a tenant'...
Intellectual Property
Apple-Samsung design patents case remanded to San Jose judge
By Joshua Seboldn
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has punted the Apple Inc. design patents case against Samsung Electronics Co...
California Courts of Appeal
Roger Boren, unassuming justice with a page-one career, retires without fanfare
By America Hernandez
2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Roger W. Boren quietly left the bench Jan. 31 after 33 years. ...
Defendant ScoreInc.com is facing an uphill battle to win legal fees from plaintiff DisputeSuite.com LLC following oral argumen...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Co-author defends report critical of former State Bar director
By Lyle Moran
Mark B. Helm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP said his firm did not have an agenda to get former State Bar Executive Director...
Herbert Curtis III died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after negotiating with SWAT officers. His victim died of gunshot w...
ADR Provider
Mediator's laid-back style earns client trust, attorney praise
By Matthew Blake
Mediator's laid-back style earns client trust, attorney praise
Solano County Judge Michael Mattice manages to maintain the jury's attention to speed cases.
EVP and General Counsel Content Partners LLC (Los Angeles) ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Key figures in State Bar case offer dueling narratives
By Lyle Moran
Former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn and former Chief Trial Counsel Jayne Kim said each other's wrongdoing was to blame fo...
Litigation
Former Bio-Rad general counsel wins wrongful termination suit
By Joshua Seboldn
A federal jury decided Monday afternoon that Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. should pay its former general counsel, Sanford S. Wadle...
Judges and Judiciary
Ethics hearing starts for San Diego County Judge Gary Kreep
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A Commission on Judicial Performance panel on Monday heard from five attorneys who described courtroom conduct by a San Diego ...
Environmental
Citing new state law, judge revives cities' lawsuit against Monsanto
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Months after he dismissed their initial cases, a San Jose federal judge has ruled that a new state law has given three cities ...
Judges and Judiciary
Collaborative court leader retires from SF County court
By Malcolm Maclachlan
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ronald E. Albers has retired after a four-decade legal career. ...
UCLA School of Law womens' group meets for first large-scale networking conference. ...
Entertainment & Sports
NCAA to pay student-athletes for unfulfilled scholarship funds
By Paula Lehman Ewing
The National Collegiate Athletic Association settled a class action antitrust suit Friday when it agreed to pay $209 million i...
Etra, who died suddenly on Jan. 28 at 69, branched out into more of the possibilities that a legal career can yield than many ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Complexion of 9th Circuit panel suggests immigration ban will remain enjoined
By Eli Wolfe
A motions panel of three appellate judges appointed by three different presidents will decide whether to stay a decision made ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Briefs pour in opposing travel ban
By Steven Crighton
Law school professors, technology companies, and civil rights group have weighed in on the executive order. ...
Labor/Employment
Office Depot hit with $10 million verdict in employment case
By Matthew Blake
Office Depot Inc.was on the losing end of a $10 million verdict Monday as a downtown Los Angeles jury found that the company w...
Plaintiffs may face uphill battle voiding arbitration agreement in $300M hotel dispute
By America Hernandez.
Attorneys who successfully persuaded a U.S. Magistrate Judge to recuse himself amid accusations of bias seemed to face an uphi...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
Immigration
Immigration attorneys scramble to assess limits of Trump's order in light of emergency court rulings
By America Hernandez
The time lapse between the State Department's revocation of visas and several judicial orders protecting valid visa holders fr...
Transactions
Canadian company files infringement case against Snap Inc.
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on Feb. 2, the same day Snap filed for an initial $3 billion publi...
General News
Court overturns $24 million verdict against pipe supplier
By Thor Kamban Biberman
The Fourth District Court of Appeal overturned a $24 million construction defect verdict levied against MWI, Inc. for allegedl...
The judge found the bar owners who tried to sell the work could not claim ownership. ...
Legal employment in California increased in December, adding 1,100 jobs, according to the latest data from the California Empl...