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Entertainment & Sports


Roger Kaplan's familiarity and expertise in the niche field is unquestioned, but a recent lawsuit in federal court raised ques...


Family


When to renew a restraining order

Dec. 4, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

A Court of Appeal recently found that a litigant is not required to show a reasonable apprehension of future physical abuse to...


Perspective


Data 'dirtboxes' are a dirty practice

Dec. 4, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Reports of government using planes to collect location data from cellphones of suspects through fake communication towers on p...


Corporate


SanDisk Corp. has filled its vacant chief legal officer spot with 14-year Broadcom Corp. veteran Mark Brazeal. ...


Greenberg Traurig's answer to the claims of a client's litigation opponent that it should pay sanctions to the tune of nearly ...


Law Practice


On the heels of an expansion into Los Angeles and Spokane, Wash., Andrews, Lagasse, Branch & Bell LLP announced Tuesday th...


Administrative/Regulatory


Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer says Nestdrop LLC's mobile app to deliver medical marijuana to residences is illegal. ...


Entertainment & Sports


A federal judge's ruling unsealed Monday leaves music publishers free to jump in or out of the next blanket licensing deal bet...


Law Practice


In the wake of the absorption of Bingham McCutchen by Morgan Lewis, Daniel Cooperman has moved from Bingham's Silicon Valley o...


Perspective


Brown's picks will elevate judiciary

Dec. 4, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Gov. Jerry Brown's recent nominees for the California Supreme Court have been showered with unusual advance criticism, primari...


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


Seeking to safeguard California from rail shipments of crude oil in allegedly unsafe tank cars, environmental groups on Tuesda...


Litigation


Plaintiffs' attorneys told a federal jury on Tuesday that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law, costing consumers and resellers m...


Even after a 2012 law reformed the state's rules for filing disability access suits, a handful of attorneys have continued fil...


Judges and Judiciary


NBC has announced they are cancelling their short-lived comedy, "Bad Judge." It's about time. By Anthony J. Mohr ...


Perspective


Private equity: not a black sheep buyer

Dec. 3, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Why would a business entrepreneur ever consider a sale to a money-chasing private equity fund rather than another strategic bu...


Transportation


We must hold automakers accountable

Dec. 3, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

To be sure, 2014 will be remembered as a year the world changed - the year that honest disclosure gave way to raw deception; t...


Criminal


Questions about prosecutorial discretion

Dec. 3, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

The Michael Brown shooting case provides an opportunity to explore important issues concerning the role of the prosecutor. By ...


Public Interest


The nonprofit organization will welcome a new president and vice president along with seven new board members. ...


Administrative/Regulatory


State Bar leaders began exploring how to replace fired executive director Joseph L. Dunn, including whether the replacement mu...


Wireless phone service provider Cricket Communications Inc. has agreed to a settlement with federal prosecutors, ending a disp...


Corporate Counsel


Stephanie King

Dec. 3, 2014
By Alison Frost

General counsel of AdRoll Inc. San Francisco Size of legal department: 1 lawyer ...


Judicial Profile


Harry M. Dorfman

Dec. 3, 2014
By Emily Green

Harry Dorfman considered a show business career but found his true calling in the courtroom.


Project finance attorney Adam S. Umanoff will move from Akin Gump to take the top legal spot at Edison International in Januar...


Twitter Inc. was unable to persuade a Northern District federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses the soci...


Intellectual Property


James H. Pooley, a longtime Silicon Valley litigator turned international diplomat, has moved into private consulting and arbi...


In an opinion this fall, the 2nd District Court of Appeal refined the limits of title insurance policies. ...


Public Interest


Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors receiving German pensions related to their imprisonment in Nazi-controlled facilities...


Perspective


VIDEO: More than one way to terminate copyright

Dec. 3, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Some literary estates might want to pay attention to a little-known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act. By John M. Gr...


Law Practice


Leaders at Locke Lord LLP and Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP announced Monday their partnerships had approved the planned merger o...


More than 100 healthcare, pharmaceutical and other companies - as well as legal counsel - could face vexing securities law iss...