A court recently addressed whether attorney billing statements are covered by the attorney-client privilege. By Emily H. Wood
Environmental groups claim state regulators are failing to protect groundwater by allowing the oil industry to continue inject...
Irell & Manella LLP snatched up a pair of entertainment litigation rainmakers from O'Melveny & Myers LLP Thursday. Man...
Heather King joins Theramos Inc. from Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Washington, D.C.
After two years of fruitless negotiations, U.S. Senate leaders from both political parties are bullish that Congress will pass...
Litigation
Oil companies settle with state over alleged gas tank violations
By Phil Johnson
Two oil companies will pay the state of California a combined $11.5 million to settle alleged violations of state environmenta...
Attorney Kimberly L. Bick wanted to offer high-caliber legal services at lower rates than bigger law firms charged, so she ope...
Among lawyers disbarred recently, four got in trouble for mortgage modification and foreclosure rescue schemes - including one...
Should we weaken the legislative promise of mediation confidentiality and, if so, in what way? By Rebecca Callahan
Administrative/Regulatory
Despite drama at State Bar, president soldiers on with platform
By Don Debenedictisn
State Bar presidents typically tour the state spreading the gospel of court funding, legal services or other high-flying goals...
California Supreme Court
Pharmaceutical company's agreement could violate Cartwright Act
By Kibkabe Arayan
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Barr Laboratories Inc. may have violated the state's antitrust law when it ac...
A rapid-fire series of headline-grabbing deaths of unarmed men at the hands of police in recent months have made harder work f...
A recent Delaware Supreme Court decision, in conjunction with California broad exceptions to the internal affairs doctrine, ma...
As competition for engineering talent continues to intensify in Silicon Valley, some privately held technology companies are c...
In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th District said a lower court erred in denying jurors instructions on the different states of unconsci...
Law Practice
Pillsbury chair announces he's stepping down at the end of next year
By Deirdre Newmann
The chairman of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP will step down at the end of his newly-elected term in December 2016, the ...
U.S. District Judge James J. Donato appears poised to give another victory to law firms fighting clawback cases from the bankr...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Former PG&E auditor sues utility, claiming he was fired for reporting safety issues
By Philip Johnsonn
A former Pacific Gas and Electric Company auditor, whose attorney says the utility "does not do anything about safety," allege...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
State high court asked to decide if consumers must give information during buys
By Saul Sugarman
A federal appellate panel is asking the state Supreme Court for help in deciding whether California consumers must provide per...
AB 1123 will provide a conflict of interest for superior courts who administer DRPA funding.
Entertainment & Sports
Parts of artist royalty law unconstitutional
By America Hernandez
The 9th Circuit decided en banc that it could not force art sellers or agents to pay artists 5 percent of the sale price when ...
I wonder if Mr. Blair and Mr. Curtis were twirling in their graves as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the same-sex m...
If artificial intelligence constructs can diagnose diseases, then it certainly can notch up analysis of cases so as to improve...
A Superior Court judge here on Tuesday pushed Joseph L. Dunn's lawsuit over his firing as State Bar executive director into se...
Law Practice
Robins Kaplan appoints two attorneys into new leadership roles
By Melanie Brisbon
Robins Kaplan LLP litigator Roman M. Silberfeld became the national trial chair and Michael A. Geibelson succeeded him as mana...
A San Francisco federal jury has awarded Fujifilm Corp. more than $10.2 million in patent infrinement damages in a split verdi...
A name partner at Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP, the Los Angeles-based business litigation boutique started by for...
Renewable Energy Trust Capital Inc. announced Tuesday the appointment of Michael Young as vice president of legal and administ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting ready to make a big move into regulating public companies that experience cy...