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ABTL hosts leadership development program

Jul. 24, 2014
By John Michael

The American Business Trial Lawyers' Northern California chapter held a panel on June 25 discussing how to communicate effecti...


Securities


SEC may ramp up administrative proceedings

Jul. 24, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Recent developments make the SEC's administrative forum an attractive alternative to federal court for the commission to prose...


Litigation


Former federal prosecutors have discovered that their knowledge of cybercrime is a good complement to their white collar pract...


California Supreme Court


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

Jul. 23, 2014
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


A group of states led by Missouri is squawking over a California law that frees egg-laying hens from cramped cages. ...


Perspective


Although an employee may have engaged in what may be considered misconduct and grounds for termination, that conduct may be in...


Criminal


When considering what elements are necessary to prove mail or wire fraud, the 9th Circuit has changed course on the elements a...


Perspective


With wage hikes, consider the big picture

Jul. 23, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Employers should be wary of considerable hidden costs that can arise if plaintiffs fail to respond to California's recent mini...


Several electronics companies have been hit with a Northern District lawsuit accusing them of fixing the price of common elect...


Law Practice


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


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


Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl has brought on seven attorneys from Pasadena intellectual property boutique Sheldon Mak &am...


California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate panel on Monday shot down a potential class action by Sutter Health patients whose records were compromised....


Sources said the front-runner appears to be Carolyn Kubota, an O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner and former assistant U.S. att...


Represented by John W. Keker, San Francisco-based partner at Keker & Van Nest LLP, Sushovan Hussain - Autonomy's former ch...


California Supreme Court


Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Stanford Law School professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar as the newest member of the California Sup...


Judicial Profile


Daniel B. Feldstern

Jul. 23, 2014
By Chase Scheinbaum

Ex-prosecutor Daniel B. Feldstern runs a felony trial court in close-knit San Fernando.


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Jul. 22, 2014
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Instead of a free-for-all, as occurred when some Facebook Inc. employees sold their shares before the company went public, wor...


Corporate Counsel


Sharon Zezima

Jul. 22, 2014
By Alison Frost

General Counsel of GoPro Inc. San Mateo ...


Perspective


Impact of public records initiative uncertain

Jul. 22, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

With 62 percent of voters supporting Proposition 42 last month, Californians added two new open government provisions to the s...


Perspective


Lame duck challenge to foie gras ban

Jul. 22, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

At its Sept. 29 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a petition for certiorari in "the foie gras case." By Calvi...


Litigation


Bellflower hit with Voting Rights Act lawsuit

Jul. 22, 2014
By Kibkabe Araya

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

Jul. 22, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has been hired to conduct a review of the way General Motors Co. lawyers handle lit...


Community News


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

Jul. 22, 2014
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...


The Central District is poised to face the highest number of reviews from current inmates who could get lower sentences for th...


Last week's indictment by San Francisco federal prosecutors against one of the country's biggest package delivery services is ...


Judicial Profile


James J. McBride

Jul. 22, 2014
By John Roemer

Judge James McBride was once criticized for rudeness, but now he relies on respectful humor.