Napa County judges, lawyers and legal staff are juggling temporary office locations with near-normal caseloads as they cope wi...
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Latham helps video game streaming platform sell to Amazon for $970M
By Salvador Mares
Latham & Watkins LLP represented Twitch Interactive Inc. in its $970 million cash sale to Amazon.com Inc., a deal announce...
In her new book "Burning Down the House," Nell Bernstein maintains that the brutal conditions found on Rikers Island are not a...
Players in the mobile app industry have praised the FTC's new guidance, which is rare in light of the FTC's recent expansion o...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cravath, Davis Polk handle InterMune sale to Roche
By Salvador Mares
Brisbane-based drug developer InterMune Inc. tapped a New York-based team of attorneys at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP to h...
The UCLA Alumni Association Board of Directors has chosen an alumna as its new general counsel, Lisa Greer Quateman of Polsine...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime LA bankruptcy judge to be reappointed, 9th Circuit announces
By John Roemer
Barry Russell of Los Angeles, the longest-serving full-time bankruptcy judge in the U.S., will be reappointed to a new 14-year...
Criminal
Circuit reverses jail sentence due to invasive body cavity search
By Melanie Brisbon
Denouncing a "brutal and physically invasive" removal of drugs from a suspect at Long Beach City Jail, a 9th Circuit panel rev...
Judges and Judiciary
Kozinski challenges judge's letter over surveillance court legislation
By John Roemer
Quarreling over a congressional plan to relax the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's hush-hush practices, Chief Judge A...
A Redwood City-based pharmaceutical company developing a product to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea has hired its first ge...
Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rex Heeseman has stepped down from the bench to work as a neutral. Heeseman, ap...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court sets limit on reach of tipster protection
By Ben Armisteadn
The limitation on the international reach of Dodd-Frank's whistleblower protection comes on the heels of the expansion of Sarb...
Law Practice
CFPB's latest suit could signal change in debt collections industry
By Alexandra Schwappach
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's latest move - a lawsuit against a high-volume debt collection firm - has spurred ch...
Litigation
Judge balks at fees in HP shareholder settlement, but deal might happen anyway
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge refused to bless a settlement between Hewlett-Packard Co. and its shareholders Monday over the acquisition of ...
Many years ago, Judge Arthur Garcia rode his father's trash truck to court to be sworn in.
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Michael Acker unfairly attacks Judge Michael Levanas in his article, "Sterling ruling a blow to free speech" (Aug. 14). By Arn...
A large slate of proposed reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act failed to get out of the state Legislature last ...
A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity alleges that the EPA's permit for an industrial biomass energy facility...
The new plan, which recently concluded its public comment period, will allow the branch to seek special state funds dedicated ...
Hunt, who played a central role in steering the merger between McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen LLP and Bingham Dana LLP, ...
Honorees and their friends, colleagues and families gathered alongside judicial administrators and leaders at the Milton Marks...
The state Legislature has unanimously adopted Senate Bill 1135, addressing a California scandal of massive proportions: the st...
Immigration
Stanford, USF law school sending law students to aid with immigration cases
By John Roemer
The effort to aid immigrants in court got a boost last week as law professors at the University of San Francisco and Stanford ...
Attorneys say LA Judge Michael M. Johnson is unflappable in the midst of high-stakes chaos.
The number of cases involving the California Environmental Quality Act has tripled at the state high court in the past decade....
Criminal
San Diego court for split sentence offenders having success
By Kylie Reynolds
Since launching early last year, San Diego County's Mandatory Supervision Court has seen lower rates of recividism for its off...
General Counsel Zodiak Americas Santa Monica ...
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Los Angeles judge Michael Kellogg's career - from the NFL to the courtroom - defies convention.