The American Business Trial Lawyers' Northern California chapter held a panel on June 25 discussing how to communicate effecti...
Recent developments make the SEC's administrative forum an attractive alternative to federal court for the commission to prose...
Litigation
White collar practitioners find synergies in data breach work
By Joshua Seboldn
Former federal prosecutors have discovered that their knowledge of cybercrime is a good complement to their white collar pract...
California Supreme Court
Mexico native has strong academic credentials, no courtroom experience
By John Roemer
An authority on transnational security and immigration policy, Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar got an early look at the Mexi...
White Collar Crime/Securities
Editors' Note
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP
Litigation
States challenge constitutionality of California's chicken-coop law
By Fiona Smith
A group of states led by Missouri is squawking over a California law that frees egg-laying hens from cramped cages. ...
Although an employee may have engaged in what may be considered misconduct and grounds for termination, that conduct may be in...
When considering what elements are necessary to prove mail or wire fraud, the 9th Circuit has changed course on the elements a...
Employers should be wary of considerable hidden costs that can arise if plaintiffs fail to respond to California's recent mini...
Litigation
Electronics companies targeted in Northern District antitrust complaint
By Craig Andersonn
Several electronics companies have been hit with a Northern District lawsuit accusing them of fixing the price of common elect...
Law Practice
Data security boutique co-founder leaves for Baker & Hostetler
By Melanie Brisbon
Tanya Forsheit has joined the Los Angeles office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. She comes to the firm from InfoLawGroup LLP, a...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit chief judge calls for firing squads in opinion
By John Roemer
Execution by lethal injection is a hopelessly flawed technique that should be replaced by the firing squad, Chief Judge Alex K...
Solo and Small Firms
Pittsburgh firm Leech Tishman expands in California
By Joshua Seboldn
Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl has brought on seven attorneys from Pasadena intellectual property boutique Sheldon Mak &am...
California Courts of Appeal
Sutter Health class action rejected by state appeals court
By John Roemer
A state appellate panel on Monday shot down a potential class action by Sutter Health patients whose records were compromised....
Government
More than a dozen candidates vying for Central District US attorney post
By Henry Meier
Sources said the front-runner appears to be Carolyn Kubota, an O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner and former assistant U.S. att...
Litigation
Former Autonomy exec objects to HP-plaintiffs' shareholder suit settlement
By Hadley Robinson
Represented by John W. Keker, San Francisco-based partner at Keker & Van Nest LLP, Sushovan Hussain - Autonomy's former ch...
California Supreme Court
Brown names Stanford Law School professor to Supreme Court
By Henry Meiern
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Stanford Law School professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar as the newest member of the California Sup...
Ex-prosecutor Daniel B. Feldstern runs a felony trial court in close-knit San Fernando.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Corporate
Attorneys oversee resurgence of secondary markets for employee options
By Salvador Mares
Instead of a free-for-all, as occurred when some Facebook Inc. employees sold their shares before the company went public, wor...
General Counsel of GoPro Inc. San Mateo ...
With 62 percent of voters supporting Proposition 42 last month, Californians added two new open government provisions to the s...
At its Sept. 29 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a petition for certiorari in "the foie gras case." By Calvi...
Another Southern California city accused of not holding elections fair to minority voters and scheduling regular elections in ...
Litigation
Quinn Emanuel hired by GM amid recall investigations
By Alexandra Schwappach
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has been hired to conduct a review of the way General Motors Co. lawyers handle lit...
The State Bar Board of Trustees named Craig Holden, center, to become president of the bar for 2014-15. Holden, 44, is a partn...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar gears up to protect child migrants
By Don De Benedictis
Some lawyers and those posing as lawyers appear to be preparing to take advantage of immigrant children arriving here from Cen...
Criminal
More than 2,500 federal drug offenders in California could be eligible for reduced sentences
By Kylie Reynolds
The Central District is poised to face the highest number of reviews from current inmates who could get lower sentences for th...
Litigation
FedEx indictment part of long crusade against online pharmacies over drug sales
By Hadley Robinson
Last week's indictment by San Francisco federal prosecutors against one of the country's biggest package delivery services is ...
Judge James McBride was once criticized for rudeness, but now he relies on respectful humor.