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California employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have scored a victory after a National Labor Relations Board administrative law j...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Dec. 11, 2014
By Jason Pafundin

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


Labor/Employment


The fate of several California employment lawsuits over whether workers must be paid for time spent waiting at security checkp...


Litigation


Wearables: your next trial witness?

Dec. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Wearables like Google Glass and Fitbit, and myriad others, are not only revolutionary, but also key instruments in the phenome...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Pot's future, internationally speaking

Dec. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

California's anticipated recreational marijuana ballot initiative in 2016 will have global effects far beyond state borders. B...


Transportation


Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote to the Federal Aviation Administrator signaling her intent to pursue legislation to exp...


Law Practice


Three IP attorneys helped Aethlon Medical Inc. in San Diego sort through the patent process in the U.S. and Europe for the Ath...


Education


Loyola Law School dean will step down

Dec. 11, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Dean Victor J. Gold says, after more than seven years at Loyola's helm, it's time for new energy leading the school. He will r...


Plaintiffs' lawyers on Tuesday appear to have rescued their federal antitrust class action against Apple Inc., which they accu...


Bankruptcy


Christopher D. Jaime, a shareholder at Maupin, Cox & LeGoy PC in Reno, Nev. , will fill the seat vacated by the retirement...


Several senior prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District are leaving or changing jobs in the coming m...


Corporate


The film and TV production company has cast the former senior vice president of business and legal at Focus Features in a simi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar executive placed on leave

Dec. 11, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Chief Financial Officer Peggy Van Horn was placed on paid administrative leave late last week, according to State Bar Presiden...


Education


A tepid Legislative response to Vergara

Dec. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

There appears to be an effort to respond to Vergara, at least in part, with the state Legislature's recent enactment of...


The law schools at Santa Clara University and Stanford University are offering classes for the spring semester that invite stu...


In a talk with reporters Tuesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye suggested the judiciary's aggressive funding plan in Janu...


Judicial Profile


James L. Crandall

Dec. 11, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

James L. Crandall gives minor criminal defendants second - and third and fourth - chances.


Corporate Counsel


J.B. Rowberry

Dec. 10, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Chief Legal Officer Frontier Communities Rancho Cucamonga ...


Judges and Judiciary


Chief Judge Sidney R.Thomas keeps a low profile, but the President Bill Clinton appointee is a liberal centrist now at the for...


Perspective


Causation is a legal concept that seems straightforward and simple. But, as I remember from law school, when you dig deeper yo...


Constitutional Law


During the course of arrests, police officers sometimes damage private property. A question courts often face is whether offic...


Environmental


EPA rules would hit coal plants hard

Dec. 10, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

On Nov. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for certiorari brought by 21 states, an electric utility industry group a...


Law Practice


Lawyers work from home after the fire guts an adjacent development under construction. ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


California lawyers cannot take their successful bar exam results and use them to practice law in Arizona, the 9th U.S. Circuit...


Community News


Daily Journal Holiday Party

Dec. 10, 2014
By John Michael

On December 3, the Daily Journal hosted an open house for judges and attorneys. Guests enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and socialized w...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher advised Hudson Pacific Properties as the REIT purchased Bay Area office p...


California Courts of Appeal


A state court of appeal upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging a San Diego healthcare provider unfairly charged the u...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The Bar Association of San Francisco named Yolanda Jackson as its executive director and general counsel, after she served in ...


Perspective


A new wrinkle in appeal analysis

Dec. 10, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Subject to a handful of exceptions, federal appeals must follow a final judgment. Interlocutory orders generally are reviewabl...


Litigation


Dozens of personal injury lawsuits involving allegations of specific crashes that were caused, at least in part, by malfunctio...