General Counsel Postmates Inc. (San Francisco) ...
San Diego life sciences and tech transactions guru John E. Wehrli has jumped ship from Latham & Watkins LLP to join Jones ...
Litigation
Jury awards HP $3 billion in Oracle breach of contract trial
By Phil Johnson
In the face of a second defeat in its contract dispute with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle Corp. has vowed to appeal — aga...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles would not have been a reality if not for the health care at...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar increasing fee for failing MCLE audit
By Lyle Moran
The State Bar is increasing to $200 the fee assessed to lawyers who fail the agency's annual audit of their compliance with co...
The attorney who led the charge against Led Zeppelin in a recently resolved copyright infringement trial has been suspended fr...
The ACLU threatened to sue the Orange County district attorney's office over its response to a request for records related to ...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Judge Manuel Covarrubias aims to run an orderly family law courtroom in Ventura County.
San Joaquin County Judge Carter Holly traveled the country before settling in his community.
As Gov. Jerry Brown's prisoner early release initiative heads toward the November ballot, the state's district attorneys — the...
Firm Profile
Women-run law firm changes with the times in handling difficult family law cases
By Renee Flannery
When Lisa H. Meyer began practicing law in the 1980s she observed the male-dominated field around her and knew she would event...
Litigation
VW says it is working on plan to deal with more polluting vehicles
By Tim O'connor
After agreeing to settle hundreds of lawsuits by consumers and two by the U.S. government that includes buying back 475,000 em...
An attorney for Apple Inc. intentionally misled a judge about when acquisition talks between Apple and Beats Electronics LLC b...
Orange County-based WFBM LLP, better known as Walsworth, has been recognized by a nonprofit group for its high percentage of f...
California Supreme Court
Expert testimony limited in gang prosecutions by state high court
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court established broad restrictions on expert witnesses who rely on out-of-court documents and statements t...
Sharon L. Petrosino has served as interim public defender since Frank Ospino left for an Orange County Superior Court judgeshi...
A federal judge has denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs in a long-pending lawsuit in which they accuse the soc...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Retired San Francisco judge is enjoying switching gears as a neutral
By Tim O'connor
A kinder, gentler Jim McBride is enjoying life in his second career as a neutral for ADR Services Inc. ...
The Court of Appeals found erroneous jury instructions created a prejudicial error in a duo’s convictions for the 2005 murder ...
Litigation
Judge dismisses mobile home park owner's suit over relocation fees
By Tim O'connor
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Palo Alto mobile home park owners who accused the city of wrongly ordering th...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
POM Wonderful wins round in pomegranate juice war
By Renee Flannery
In an extensive trademark case between competing pomegranate juice makers, a Los Angeles federal court judge denied defendant ...
Litigation
Bakersfield student subject of dog-piling incident turned violent settles for $10.5 million
By Justin Kloczko
A former student subjected to the incident during a 2010 pep rally at Bakersfield High School settled with the Kern High Schoo...
Cooley LLP plucked life sciences lawyer Mika Reiner Mayer and intellectual property litigator Bobby Ghajar, perhaps the firm's...
For the second time in less than a month, the fate of legislation that would authorize the embattled State Bar to collect atto...
Judge Karen Dixon draws on her family law background in Siskiyou County criminal court.
Litigation
Two optical disk drive companies settle lawsuit for more than $100M
By Saul Sugarman
More than $100 million has been tacked onto a settlement deal in a Northern District case accusing several Japanese and Korean...
A former Orange County attorney who resigned from the State Bar in 2011 is facing 7 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading...
General Counsel Square One Development (San Diego) ...