Labor/Employment
Labor board rules for California workers disciplined for protests against Wal-Mart
By Laura Hautalan
California employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have scored a victory after a National Labor Relations Board administrative law j...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Labor/Employment
California security checkpoint employee suits face uncertain future
By Laura Hautalan
The fate of several California employment lawsuits over whether workers must be paid for time spent waiting at security checkp...
Wearables like Google Glass and Fitbit, and myriad others, are not only revolutionary, but also key instruments in the phenome...
California's anticipated recreational marijuana ballot initiative in 2016 will have global effects far beyond state borders. B...
Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote to the Federal Aviation Administrator signaling her intent to pursue legislation to exp...
Law Practice
Knobbe Martens attorneys manage patents for in-demand medical device
By Kibkabe Arayan
Three IP attorneys helped Aethlon Medical Inc. in San Diego sort through the patent process in the U.S. and Europe for the Ath...
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...
Litigation
New plaintiff emerges and may save plaintiffs' lawyers suit against Apple
By Craig Andersonn
Plaintiffs' lawyers on Tuesday appear to have rescued their federal antitrust class action against Apple Inc., which they accu...
Christopher D. Jaime, a shareholder at Maupin, Cox & LeGoy PC in Reno, Nev. , will fill the seat vacated by the retirement...
Government
Departures, job shifts create Northern District U.S. attorney's office vacancies
By Hadley Robinson
Several senior prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District are leaving or changing jobs in the coming m...
The film and TV production company has cast the former senior vice president of business and legal at Focus Features in a simi...
Chief Financial Officer Peggy Van Horn was placed on paid administrative leave late last week, according to State Bar Presiden...
There appears to be an effort to respond to Vergara, at least in part, with the state Legislature's recent enactment of...
Education
New courses prep law students for marijuana legalization issues
By Alex Shively
The law schools at Santa Clara University and Stanford University are offering classes for the spring semester that invite stu...
Government
Chief justice offers more reserved assessment of judiciary's funding fight prospects
By Paul Jones
In a talk with reporters Tuesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye suggested the judiciary's aggressive funding plan in Janu...
James L. Crandall gives minor criminal defendants second - and third and fourth - chances.
Chief Legal Officer Frontier Communities Rancho Cucamonga ...
Judges and Judiciary
New 9th Circuit may shift the influential appeals court to the left
By John Roemer
Chief Judge Sidney R.Thomas keeps a low profile, but the President Bill Clinton appointee is a liberal centrist now at the for...
Causation is a legal concept that seems straightforward and simple. But, as I remember from law school, when you dig deeper yo...
Constitutional Law
When police officer immunity goes further than necessary
By Ben Armisteadn
During the course of arrests, police officers sometimes damage private property. A question courts often face is whether offic...
On Nov. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for certiorari brought by 21 states, an electric utility industry group a...
Law Practice
Lewis Brisbois forced out of LA office after massive fire next door
By Melanie Brisbon
Lawyers work from home after the fire guts an adjacent development under construction. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules against California lawyers' ability to use bar results to practice in Arizona
By Saul Sugarman
California lawyers cannot take their successful bar exam results and use them to practice law in Arizona, the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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, Gibson, Simpson advise on $3.5B real estate deal
By Alex Shively
Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher advised Hudson Pacific Properties as the REIT purchased Bay Area office p...
California Courts of Appeal
Class status denied in lawsuit against health care provider
By Emily Green
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
BASF names Yolanda Jackson executive director and GC
By Joshua Seboldn
The Bar Association of San Francisco named Yolanda Jackson as its executive director and general counsel, after she served in ...
Subject to a handful of exceptions, federal appeals must follow a final judgment. Interlocutory orders generally are reviewabl...
Dozens of personal injury lawsuits involving allegations of specific crashes that were caused, at least in part, by malfunctio...