A prominent labor and employment attorney filed a lawsuit against '80s rocker Eddie Money on behalf of the star's former bandm...
In a dispute over whether Hueston Hennigan LLP was too conflicted to represent the State Compensation Insurance Fund in a civi...
Law Practice
Attorneys advised to have face-to-face chats with potential clients, colleagues
By Lyle Moran
While new lawyers have many technology and social media options to engage with potential clients, veteran lawyers say face-to-...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Qualified immunity rejected for officers who detained attendees at child's party
By Saul Sugarman
San Diego police officers lost their bid for immunity Tuesday at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled they did not su...
Roughly four dozen plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against DirecTV over the company's football packaging deals are now on t...
Four years after a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. entered a contract, the ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Auditor blasts State Bar executives over leak
By Lyle Moran
The state auditor has accused State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker and other bar executives of violating st...
San Diego County Judge Michael Smyth wins praise from attorneys for his handling of trials.
With the launch of a corporate practice this month and the addition of intellectual property litigators over the past year, th...
Senior Vice President and Head of Business and Legal Affairs Jukin Media Inc. (Los Angeles) ...
Intellectual Property
Google attorney defends his client as an innovator against Oracle's infringement claims
By Tim O'connor
After two weeks of a trial devoid of emotion, Google Inc.'s lead attorney Robert Van Nest hit the parched jury in the Oracle-G...
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and VP of Human Resources GreatCall Inc. (San Diego) ...
Transactions
Biopharmaceutical company leans on Weil attorneys for $467M sale
By Banks Albachn
XenoPort Inc., a Redwood City-based biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of drugs approaching late-stage trials, will be ...
Plaintiffs' attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan's response to 34 objections filed against her settlement with Uber Technologies Inc....
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal, soon to leave the bench to join Facebook's legal department, recused himself Monday from a ...
Two California law schools are named defendants in a federal antitrust lawsuit brought against 11 law schools nationwide and b...
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has sued a developer over a December 2014 arson, which sent window-shattering heat wav...
Companies that supply hazardous materials could face tort liability if they do not provide explicit warnings to customers, the...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the California lawyers involved.
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement Friday with Lunada Biomedical Inc. for using deceptive marketing and adver...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court to review attorney fee awards in class actions
By Kevin Lee
It has been nearly four decades since the state Supreme Court established that attorney fee awards in class actions should be ...
Corporate
WilmerHale's L.A. office looks to Silicon Beach, grows IP practice
By Amanda Schallert
With starting a corporate practice this month and adding intellectual property litigators over the past year, the Los Angeles ...
Jessica S. Kantor was most recently vice president of business and legal affairs at Legendary Entertainment. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Film distributor faces string of lawsuits for contract breach
By Steven Crighton
A complaint filed by a Hispanic film production company is the latest in a string of recent lawsuits against Our Alchemy LLC, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules parents can intervene in suit on disability education centers
By America Hernandez
The court unanimously ruled that despite a months' long delay in filing, parents of disabled children had the right to interve...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Another State Bar employee alleges firing was whistleblower retaliation
By Lyle Moran
A former chief assistant general counsel has filed a formal government claim against the agency alleging that his termination ...
A potentially blockbuster gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit leveled against Broadcom Corp. by their former in-hous...
Superior Court Judge Riverside County (Blythe) ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Men earn right to sue U.S. government after contracting Valley Fever
By Phil Johnson
Two men who contracted Valley Fever during their time in Taft Correctional Institution won the right Friday to sue the U.S. af...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.