Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Los Angeles Specialty: employment defense, counseling
Greenberg Traurig LLP Los Angeles Specialty: employment defense
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Los Angeles Specialty: class action defense
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Menlo Park Specialty: wage and hour litigation
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP San Francisco Specialty: complex commercial litigation
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson APLC Oakland Specialty: public agencies
The Gillam Law Firm APLC Los Angeles Specialty: gender discrimination litigation
Baker & McKenzie LLP Palo Alto Specialty: international employment law
Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP Venice Specialty: civil rights employment and class actions
The deRubertis Law Firm APC Studio City Specialties: employment trials, appeals
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP San Francisco Specialty: plaintiffs' employment and consumer litigation
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles Specialty: high-stakes employment class actions
O'Melveny & Myers LLP Los Angeles Specialties: class action litigation, Title IX
Loeb & Loeb LLP Los Angeles Specialty: labor issues in the entertainment industry
Paul Hastings LLP Los Angeles Specialty: employment defense
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Los Angeles Specialty: immigration
Education
Judge's ruling in transgender student case leaves most dissatisfied
By Katie Lucia
A transgender woman will get some relief after a court has ruled California Baptist University violated state antidiscriminati...
The number of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. without inspection is rising. There are two immigration benefits that may...
Law Practice
Transparency is important to clients as well as lawyers
By Ben Armisteadn
Transparency is not a lofty, or overly ambitious goal. It is as important for lawyers as it is for clients. Not only does tran...
An attorney's failure to contest his juvenile client's 69-years-to-life sentence as cruel and unusual punishment amounted to i...
A federal jury awarded Apple Inc. a patent trial win late Friday, its second San Jose defense triumph in a month. ...
Litigation
No attorney fees yet in State Bar data lawsuit, judge rules
By Saul Sugarman
Plaintiffs' lawyers cannot yet grab $1.2 million in attorney fees in their lawsuit accusing the State Bar of withholding demog...
In McQueen, the state high court held that a conservator may not recover attorney fees incurred in fraudulent transfer action ...
London-based partner William Voge has been elected the firm's next global chairman and managing partner, edging out Los Angele...
Criminal
Orange County attorneys charged with trying to extort Saudi sheik
By Kylie Reynolds
Joseph G. Cavallo and Emanuel Karl Hudson, along with their client, are accused of requesting up to $20 million from the man i...
Rick Cohen is the new chief operating officer for the Neil Young startup. ...
Criminal
Criminal defense lawyer quits trial, then agrees to resume
By Don Debenedictisn
Steven A. O'Connor said he'd made mistakes and wouldn't continue in the sanity phase of a Modesto murder trial. Though the iss...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson advises Aecom in $6 billion acquisition of SF engineering company
By Salvador Mares
A planned $6 billion tieup of two California-based engineering and construction firms would create the largest publicly traded...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.