U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to reconsider pro-firearms concealed carry gun ruling
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Thursday that it will rehear en banc the question of concealed carry rules and...
The state Supreme Court on Thursday appointed William Kearse McGill to sit on the State Bar Court in Los Angeles. ...
Inland Valley Arbitration and Mediation Services San Bernardino and Riverside counties ...
The lead of Netflix's "House of Cards" series often gives advice to the audience that could also prove useful in negotiating s...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Sharing office space to save on expenses?
By Ben Armisteadn
It sounds like a good idea to save on expenses, but be wary of how clients perceive the arrangement. By J. Randolph Evans, Sha...
A recent ruling cleared the way for the first biosimilar of a biologic product sold in the United States. By Stephen M. Hankin...
Criminal
United Commercial Bank executive found guility in TARP fraud case
By Laura Hautalan
A guilty verdict has resolved the first charges ever filed against an executive at a bank receiving funds from the Troubled As...
Litigation
Diablo wins trade secrets trial against former partner Netlist
By Kevin Lee
Diablo Technologies Inc. has won a defense ruling against former business partner Netlist Inc. after Northern District of Cali...
Plaintiffs' lawyer Brooks Cutter, founder of Cutter Law PC, wants his partners to develop their own unique practice areas unde...
Litigation
Jury awards amputee $28 million in medical malpractice case
By Kibkabe Arayan
Kaiser Permanente Insurance Co. must pay a young amputee $28 million for failing to conduct an MRI before a tumor took her le...
Community News
Veterans Legal Institute honors appellate justice Eileen Moore
By John Michael
Veterans Legal Institute honors appellate justice Eileen Moore ...
California Courts of Appeal
Apellate Court hesitant to throw out 'Napoleon Dynamite' decision
By America Hernandez
A three-judge panel seemed reluctant to disregard an 80-page opinion favoring Fox in a DVD royalty dispute against producers o...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers behaving badly... in mediation
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent Court of Appeal ruling reaffirms that the absolute confidentiality of mediations survives even malpractice claims. By...
Labor/Employment
WARN Act class action against Space X proceeds, but defamation claim doubted
By Matthew Blaken
Plaintiffs say the company laid them off without warning, but Space X claims dismissals were performance-based. ...
Litigation
Ellen Pao was not qualified to be a senior partner, Kleiner Perkins' attorney argues
By Philip Johnsonn
Ellen Pao was not in "the universe of qualifications" for a promotion to senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer...
Legal Director of Marin Clean Energy San Rafael ...
Often, planners don't give the governance issues high priority in these transactions - but they should. By Stephen Glover and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will again wade into the patent waters, this time to decide whether a good faith belief that a patent i...
Entertainment & Sports
'Napoleon Dynamite' producers appeal $10 million suit against Fox
By America Hernandez
After the studio was vindicated in a private trial in Superior Court, the independent filmmakers say a contract term's definit...
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP partner Martin R. Barash will be appointed as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for...
Intellectual Property
Split ruling in Intellectual Ventures case against Motorola Mobility LLC
By Kevin Lee
A federal jury in Delaware issued a divided decision Wednesday in a patent infringement case involving licensing entity Intell...
Corporate
Berkshire Hathaway taps Munger in historic food and beverage deal
By Banks Albachn
A team of Los Angeles attorneys at Munger, Tolles & Olson advised Berkshire Hathaway, a financial backer of H.J. Heinz Co....
Government
Attorney General Kamala Harris seeks to block initiative that calls for killing of gays
By Paul Jones
Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday sought relief from the state judiciary from her office's duty to issue title and s...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice to retire after more than 30 years on the bench
By Melanie Brisbon
After a legal career that spanned more than 50 years, Justice Norvell "Fred" Woods, of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Div...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justices should review SF gun law
The U.S. Supreme Court should review a case challenging an ordinance requiring guns kept in the home be "stored in a locked co...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court to review attorney fees in class actions
By Matthew Blaken
The case represents a culimination of the work for class action plaintiff attorney fee crusader Lawrence W. Schonbrun. ...
Solo and Small Firms
Veteran San Francisco antitrust plaintiffs' lawyer splits with Zelle Hofmann
By Laura Hautalan
Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
For Google Inc., the legal hits from a federal antitrust probe that ended five years ago just keep coming. This week, the tech...
Whether she knows it or not, Meili Cady's new book "Smoke" places her squarely in the evolving and maturing national conversat...