Featuring Adam Winkler (Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law), John Eastman (Professor of Law at Chapman University's Fowler...
Litigation
San Jose technology company wins $139.8 million patent damages verdict
By Kevin Lee
Power Integrations Inc. won a $139.8 million verdict in a patent damages retrial against Fairchild Semiconductor International...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges owed raises plus interest, court rules
By America Hernandez
The state of California must reimburse judges millions of dollars in salary raises not paid from 2008 to the current year, a L...
Entertainment & Sports
Longtime civil rights lawyer's most recent cause? Pete Rose
By Matthew Blake
Mark Rosenbaum, director of Public Counsel, grew up a fan of Pete Rose and the Cincinnati Reds. Now, he's trying to get Rose i...
Vice President of Legal and Compliance Club W Inc. Los Angeles ...
Corporate
Report: High valuations and larger cash flow continue in seed funding for startups
By Banks Albachn
Seed stage venture funding has risen to a five-year high in 2015 and the median valuation in these early rounds has popped 30 ...
Riverside County courts sentenced eight people to death this year, the most of any county in the United States, according to a...
The 1st District Court of Appeal appeared reluctant Wednesday to revive a legal malpractice lawsuit against Hoge Fenton Jones ...
Los Angeles-based civil rights firm Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Supe...
Administrative/Regulatory
Sacramento Superior Court avoids court worker strike
By Phil Johnson
United Public Employees Local 1 reach accord over 3-year contract ...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeal court rules on chain-of-title lawsuit
By America Hernandez
The state supreme court has yet to decide if and when homeowners can sue for wrongful foreclosure where chain of title is disp...
The leader of the embattled State Bar is considering contracting with a public relations firm to help the agency improve its c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Dickstein Shapiro, Byran Cave close in on merger
By Steven Crighton
Dickstein Shapiro LLP and Bryan Cave LLP are one step closer to sealing a merger deal with the latter's partners set to vote o...
Media
Copyright Royalty Board releases new rates for streaming music providers
By Ashley Cullinsn
Pandora's streaming royalties raised, overall rates lowered in highly anticipated decision ...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
Year In Review: Innovations have firms facing new competition
By Steven Crighton
Non-traditional competitors, like quasi-legal services and larger legal departments, had firms re-thinking the paradigm in 201...
Attorney general, Alameda County DA team up for investigation into allegations of improperly disposing of electronic equipment...
A San Francisco federal judge has dismissed a putative class that accused the government of Japan, motor companies and other m...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ex-bar director withdraws injunction request
By America Hernandez
A judge indicated he would not grant a motion asking the State Bar to either reinstate former executive director Joseph L. Dun...
The California Public Utilities Commission proposal issued Tuesday gives a boost to the solar industry and denies utilities' d...
A family law judge called on Tuesday a record $2 million attorney fee request emanating from a divorce proceeding between two ...
Should rumors pan out, the number of mergers in 2015 would tie the all-time record set two years ago ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court strengthens Federal Arbitration Act in split decision
By Ashley Cullinsn
The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered its landmark opinion in Concepcion Monday with a 6-3 decision that further holds the Federal ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme court strengthens Federal Arbitration Act in split decision
By Ashley Cullinsn
The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered its landmark opinion in Concepcion Monday with a 6-3 decision that further holds the Federal ...
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LinkedIn Corp., Mountain View ...
Litigation
Preliminary proceedings begin in Berkeley balcony collapse case
By Phil Johnson
Judge rules Monday that 13 separate suits will be bundled into a single, complex case ...
Litigation
Appellate court stays Riverside County debt-relief deal
By Amanda Schallert
A state court of appeal put a hold on a debt-relief deal between Riverside County and several of its cities Friday, giving som...
Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer to review a verdict ag...
After 15 years of liquidation proceedings, the California Insurance Commissioner has said the Superior National Insurance Co. ...
Litigation
Investigative reporter fends off subpoena for unpublished research notes
By Gautham Thomas
A Central District magistrate judge denied a motion to compel a reporter to turn over any unpublished notes to a coal company ...