Corporate
Bill to ban corporate fee shifting bylaws and narrow forum selection passes Delaware House
By Banks Albachn
Delaware's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Thursday crafted by the state bar's council on corporate law tha...
Environmental
Environmental group uses Prop. 65 to go after fracking wastewater wells in Central Valley
By Fiona Smith
The Center for Environmental Health is preparing a novel lawsuit against a company for allegedly violating the state's consume...
Litigation
Judge to give final approval to Hyundai, Kia mileage inflation settlement
By America Hernandez
U.S. District Judge George H. Wu on Thursday blessed Hyundai and Kia's move to pump up the claims rate by considering drivers ...
Of seven lawyers disbarred recently, all had been disciplined before, and five were disbarred for disobeying probation terms i...
Increasingly, legal nonprofits representing workers are facing a new challenge: responding to the employment rights of their s...
Intellectual Property
Music licensing regime is out of tune with technology
By Ben Armisteadn
New technology and shifting consumer habits require we rethink how performance rights are licensed. By Michael R. Morris ...
Employers can no longer skirt California's generous employee rights laws with forum selection clauses that force employees to ...
Associate General Manager and Chief Legal Executive Salt River Project Phoenix ...
Litigation
Squire Patton Boggs scores defense win in invention ownership case
By Kevin Lee
A Northern California federal jury determined Tuesday that Singapore-based Venture Corporation Ltd. did not breach contracts, ...
Litigation
Judge appears poised to toss suit over state safety standards for lead in tentative ruling
By Fiona Smith
An Alameda County Superior Court Judge appears poised to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to abolish a state safety standard for...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Chip consolidation continues as activists set sights
By Banks Albachn
Amid an ongoing wave of consolidation in the semiconductor industry,, Milpitas-based Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc. announc...
State Bar & Bar Associations
California attorneys to head new National Cannabis Bar Association
By Joshua Seboldn
A group of attorneys with experience handling matters related to marijuana businesses launched the National Cannabis Bar Assoc...
Criminal
Immigration lawyer indicted for witness tampering in 'birthing house' raids
By Don Debenedictisn
Irvine immigration lawyer Ken Zhiyi Liang was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for allegedly trying to help smuggle ...
Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $100 million to end a shareholder class action concerning the company's bungled 2011 pur...
Steven Vartazarian urged the jury to find Wright Medical Technology Inc. liable for negligence in its manufacture and design o...
Litigation
Former Dodgers player files suit against insurance company
By Deirdre Newmann
Major league baseball player Kevin J. Correia sued Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, alleging the insurance behemot...
It is time to revise the mandatory court form used to issue subpoenas in state courts. As written, it is placing an unintended...
Litigation
ADA suit over fee for gluten-free restaurant food could be sign of future litigation
By Kibkabe Arayan
Lawyers are closely awaiting the outcome of a tentatively dismissed case in San Jose federal court that could signal whether r...
Litigation
Federal agency ignores risk of increased oil development in state, suit contends
By Fiona Smith
Environmental groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wednesday claiming it did an inadequate environmental review of i...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Labor/Employment
Transgender employees get more support for restroom access
By Kibkabe Arayan
To complement case law, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced it supports transgender employee...
The strength of the dollar against the euro (and to a lesser extent, the pound) over the last few months has already attracted...
Johnnie Cochran, who passed away 10 years ago, was much more than O.J. Simpson's lawyer. By Dan Lawton ...
Should two people convicted of the same crime be subject to different immigration consequences for reasons outside of their co...
Obituaries
Aviation litigator Clinton Coddington, dead at 75, was known for winning major trials
By Joshua Seboldn
Clinton H. "Bud" Coddington, a renowned aircraft litigator who handled a litany of high stake trials involving catastrophic ai...
After nearly five years at Snell & Wilmer, M.C. Sungaila is now partner at Haynes and Boone LLP in Costa Mesa. She is the ...
California Courts of Appeal
Plaintiff's lawyer loses bid to overturn medical malpractice cap, but vows an appeal
By Philip Johnsonn
A state appeals court panel rejected a bid Tuesday to overturn a controversial 40-year-old cap on medical malpractice payouts ...
Obituaries
Vincent Bugliosi, Manson prosecutor and bestselling author, dies
By John Roemer
Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr., the literary Los Angeles prosecutor who in 1971 persuaded jurors to put Charles Manson and his "famil...
Corporate
Google general counsel calls for Silicon Valley to push for patent litigation reform
By Alison Frost
J. Kent Walker Jr, senior vice president and general counsel at Google, asked the audience of the Stanford E-Commerce Best Pra...
Law Practice
National law firm celebrates 25-year milestone in Orange County
By Deirdre Newmann
National law firms usually seek out Los Angeles or San Diego as strategic outposts for putting down stakes in Southern Califo...