On Sept. 29, California made an unfortunate move away from meaningfully protecting endangered and threatened species when Gov....
Elder Law
Care facility 'bill of rights' may create wave of litigation
By Ben Armisteadn
California has just enacted a far-reaching set of laws which grants many new statutory rights for patients in private resident...
PepsiCo Inc. has named Associate Attorney General Tony West as the company's next general counsel. West is a former San Franci...
Richard J. Welch, co-chairman of Bingham McCutchen LLP's corporate practice, former managing partner of the firm's L.A. office...
Santa Monica-based solar technology company SolarReserve LLC announced Tuesday the appointment of its first vice president and...
Despite an unusual high-profile loss in a recent mortgage fraud case, U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner is pressing forward with his ag...
Criminal
Former bank vice president pleads guilty to producing false statements
By Hadley Robinson
A former vice president of a San Francisco-based bank pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to produce false notes and statemen...
A mainstay of the Northern District bench, D. Lowell Jensen, will step down at the end of October after a storied career that ...
Corporate
MGM hires EVP of business and legal affairs for television division
By Alison Frost
NBCUniversal, GE alum Laura Black Dawson joined studio this week ...
William B. Chandler III, who joined the firm in 2011 after retiring from a chancellorship on the Delaware Court of Chancery, ...
California Courts of Appeal
Firm entitled to interest on attorney fees, appellate court rules
By Saul Sugarman
An Oakland firm is entitled to recover interest on attorney fees awarded in a lawsuit that it brought in Alameda County Superi...
Data Privacy
Twitter sues government to disclose more about data requests
By Hadley Robinson
Twitter Inc. sued the federal government Tuesday in San Francisco over its restrictions on allowing technology companies to di...
Litigation
Writ likely unnecessary to review order rejecting 'no poach' deal
By Ben Armisteadn
A federal district judge's recent ruling rejecting a proposed class action settlement involving several well-known technology ...
Corporate
Allergan seeks to block Pershing Square from voting in buyout row
By Salvador Mares
The Irvine-based drugmaker filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking a Santa Ana federal court judge to block the hedge...
An ongoing $94 million patent trial Hawaii-based patent asserter GPNE Corp. is pursuing against Apple Inc. may have a late plo...
Orange County Judge Sherri Honer has considerable experience, in practice and for the court.
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary LifeLock Inc. ...
Amid stiff competition for viewers, companies like Disney and DreamWorks Animation are betting on YouTube channel aggregators ...
Two bills recently vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown deserve our attention as they provide interesting insights into some of the crit...
When Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill that equalizes criminal penalties for many crack and powder cocaine offe...
If your company takes orders over the by telephone, by mail or online, the FTC's Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandis...
Carmakers have been waxing on about self-driving automobiles for the past 80 years with the same conclusion: They are about 20...
By not taking a case between Warner Bros. and the heirs of a Superman co-creator, the U.S. Supreme Court has begged off on con...
Labor/Employment
Legal aid organizations sue car wash companies for unfair labor violations
By Kibkabe Arayan
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Wage Justice Center represent two plaintiffs fired after parti...
Online real estate company Zillow Inc. announced Monday the promotion of its assistant general counsel to general counsel. Bra...
Merger and acquisition activity through the first three quarters of the year in the U.S. reached levels not seen since before ...
Constitutional Law
Serious constitutional concerns in '3 strikes' case
By Ben Armisteadn
As the new U.S. Supreme Court term commences, public attention is inevitably focused on the potential blockbuster cases. But p...
Public defenders clamoring for more social workers to achieve better outcomes - both legally and socially - for adults. They a...
Litigation
Despite plea in criminal case, class certification denied in disc drive conspiracy
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge has denied certification of several classes of purchasers that claimed they were overcharged because of price ...
Mark A. Talamantes, who took the Marin County bench in 2012, pushes hard for settlements. -->