A judge recently appointed a receiver to run the business operations of a company that grows organic microgreens, finding the ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Orange County jury orders FedEx to pay mother $7.5M in wrongful death case
By Don Debenedictisn
The plaintiff's attorney, Brian J. Panish of Panish Shea & Boyle, said he believes the verdict may be the highest ever awa...
Thomas J. Mattei Jr. is the coffee maker and distributor's second general counsel in its 102-year history. ...
Community News
Lawyers hold rally to call attention to recent shootings of black men
By John Michael
Lawyers hold rally to call attention to recent shootings of black men ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
San Jose company sanctioned for firm's irrelevant discovery requests
By Emily Green
An electronics distributor, represented by the law firm Berliner Cohen, has been slapped with a $4,800 fine for pursuing "wild...
Litigation
Potential class action again accuses hedge fund of insider trading in Allergan stock
By Don Debenedictisn
Investors claiming they lost out in the hostile takeover bid for Allergan Inc. have filed a potential class action against the...
A commission that vets judicial nominees has given state Supreme Court nominee Leondra R. Kruger its highest rating of "except...
An en banc 9th Circuit painted a picture Tuesday of a fine arts resale law that may break the commerce clause but could be at ...
General counsel and director of operations of Funding Circle USA Inc. San Francisco ...
The holiday season brings with it much tradition. One tradition being the National Labor Relations Board dropping new law-chan...
Perspective
In 2014, indicted companies chose trial over settlement
By Katharine Malonen
The most compelling white collar criminal development in California in 2014 is the choice of two large companies to reject con...
Thursday marks 70 years since Korematsu v. US, in which the Supreme Court upheld the ethnic cleansing of all persons of Japane...
Recent analysis by BTI Consulting Group revealed that global companies will add $1 billion to their outside counsel spending i...
Judges and Judiciary
Two California bankruptcy judges reappointed by 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
Two bankruptcy judges have been reappointed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Alan Jaroslovsky of the Northern Distric...
Professor Emeritus George N. Gafford, who left a big legacy at California Western School of Law, has died. He was 98. ...
Civil Rights
ACLU eyes $1 million in attorney fees as part of LA County jail abuse settlement
By Daina Beth Solomon
The American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Hastings LLP could receive $950,000 as part of the settlement of its 2012 lawsuit ...
Anti-Defamation League hands out honors at annual gala ...
San Diego-based Volcano Corp. tapped Cooley LLP in connection with its sale to Dutch technology conglomerate Royal Philips NV ...
The City of Upland settled remaining bad faith claims related to a group of its insurers for $3.5 million Friday, ending litig...
A federal judge affirmed in part Wednesday an earlier sanctions ruling against a translator who publicly posted sealed documen...
One of the final cases by plaintiffs over allegedly misleading representations regarding Countrywide Financial Corp.'s mortgag...
Sherman Oaks-based residential retail mortgage lender Prospect Mortgage LLC announced Wednesday the appointment of Joseph J. G...
Intellectual Property
Ambry Genetics, McDermott win Federal Circuit patent ruling
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declared Wednesday that certain portions of three gene testing patents asser...
Government
Senate confirms former prosecutor as Northern District judge
By Hadley Robinson
In the quickest route from nomination to confirmation of any of President Barack Obama's 11 appointees in the Northern Distric...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New Bar Association of San Francisco president focuses on pro bono work
By Saul Sugarman
Timothy W. Moppin, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, plans to emphasize pro bono work while trying to...
Litigation
Powerful plaintiffs' law firm jumps into fray of Sony suits
By Matthew Blaken
Michael W. Sobol of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP is suing Sony Pictures on behalf of former and current employee...
Litigation
In win for NFL, judge dismisses retired players' class action over prescription drugs
By Hadley Robinson
Retired football players must defer to collective bargaining agreements to resolve claims they were overprescribed drugs to ke...
Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP filed suit against online storage company Bitcasa Inc. after it eliminated an unlimited cloud stora...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
The improving economy has buoyed several practice areas in California this year. The hottest among them: data security and pri...