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Delaware's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Thursday crafted by the state bar's council on corporate law tha...


The Center for Environmental Health is preparing a novel lawsuit against a company for allegedly violating the state's consume...


U.S. District Judge George H. Wu on Thursday blessed Hyundai and Kia's move to pump up the claims rate by considering drivers ...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Jun. 12, 2015
By Don Debenedictisn

Of seven lawyers disbarred recently, all had been disciplined before, and five were disbarred for disobeying probation terms i...


Labor/Employment


Questions raised after legal nonprofits unionize

Jun. 12, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

Increasingly, legal nonprofits representing workers are facing a new challenge: responding to the employment rights of their s...


Intellectual Property


New technology and shifting consumer habits require we rethink how performance rights are licensed. By Michael R. Morris ...


Litigation


Employers can no longer skirt California's generous employee rights laws with forum selection clauses that force employees to ...


Corporate Counsel


Michael O'Connor

Jun. 12, 2015
By Chris Gilfillan

Associate General Manager and Chief Legal Executive Salt River Project Phoenix ...


A Northern California federal jury determined Tuesday that Singapore-based Venture Corporation Ltd. did not breach contracts, ...


An Alameda County Superior Court Judge appears poised to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to abolish a state safety standard for...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Amid an ongoing wave of consolidation in the semiconductor industry,, Milpitas-based Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc. announc...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A group of attorneys with experience handling matters related to marijuana businesses launched the National Cannabis Bar Assoc...


Irvine immigration lawyer Ken Zhiyi Liang was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for allegedly trying to help smuggle ...


Litigation


HP to pay $100 million to settle shareholder suit

Jun. 12, 2015
By Philip Johnsonn

Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $100 million to end a shareholder class action concerning the company's bungled 2011 pur...


Litigation


Deliberations begin in hip implant defect case

Jun. 12, 2015
By America Hernandez

Steven Vartazarian urged the jury to find Wright Medical Technology Inc. liable for negligence in its manufacture and design o...


Litigation


Major league baseball player Kevin J. Correia sued Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, alleging the insurance behemot...


Law Practice


Subpoena form places unintended burden on some

Jun. 12, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

It is time to revise the mandatory court form used to issue subpoenas in state courts. As written, it is placing an unintended...


Lawyers are closely awaiting the outcome of a tentatively dismissed case in San Jose federal court that could signal whether r...


Environmental groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wednesday claiming it did an inadequate environmental review of i...


Transactions


Dealmakers

Jun. 11, 2015
By Jason Pafundin

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.


Labor/Employment


To complement case law, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced it supports transgender employee...


GC Email


The strength of the dollar against the euro (and to a lesser extent, the pound) over the last few months has already attracted...


Perspective


Cochran legacy a model for young lawyers

Jun. 11, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Johnnie Cochran, who passed away 10 years ago, was much more than O.J. Simpson's lawyer. By Dan Lawton ...


Criminal


Should two people convicted of the same crime be subject to different immigration consequences for reasons outside of their co...


Clinton H. "Bud" Coddington, a renowned aircraft litigator who handled a litany of high stake trials involving catastrophic ai...


Law Practice


Appellate guru heads to Haynes and Boone

Jun. 11, 2015
By America Hernandez

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


A state appeals court panel rejected a bid Tuesday to overturn a controversial 40-year-old cap on medical malpractice payouts ...


Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr., the literary Los Angeles prosecutor who in 1971 persuaded jurors to put Charles Manson and his "famil...


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 firms usually seek out Los Angeles or San Diego as strategic outposts for putting down stakes in Southern Califo...