Labor/Employment
Brinker announces $56.5 million settlement of meal and rest claims
By Laura Hautalan
After 10 years of litigation, a group of restaurant workers has agreed to settle a wage and hour class action against the pare...
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Labor/Employment
Workplaces walk a tightrope when it comes to employee handbooks
By Laura Hautalan
Management-side attorneys see the National Labor Relations Board's recent scrutiny over the wording in employee handbooksrulin...
On July 21, President Barack Obama signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT ...
The American Civil Liberties Union has opened an office in San Bernardino to serve the Inland Empire, expanding its reach into...
Criminal
San Francisco raises bail fees for dozens of felony and misdemeanor offenses
By Kylie Reynolsd
The move is a recent example of what observers say is the continuing increase of bail schedules statewide, which has drawn cri...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Rocket Fuel buys competitor but suffers stock drop
By Salvador Mares
Rocket Fuel's $230 million acquisition of [x + 1] Inc. this week did little to help the Redwood City-based digital advertising...
The patent litigation slugfest between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. took another step toward winding down after...
Litigation
Judge tosses city's suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. over foreclosure crisis
By Henry Meier
A federal judge this week tossed a case by the city of Los Angeles against JPMorgan Chase & Co. over the company's role in...
Government
Judicial branch proposal aims to improve interpreter services in courts across state
By Paul Jones
The multiyear proposal, put out by a group of judges and other stakeholders at the behest of branch leadership, is undergoing...
California Supreme Court
Cuellar endorses realpolitik view of judging in academic writing
By Emily Green
Strategic. Practical. Attuned to the relationship between the courts and politicians. Those traits emerge in California Suprem...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Pasadena ...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Immigration
SF public defender adds immigration attorney to represent those facing deportation
By Joshua Seboldn
The San Francisco Public Defender Office hired a civil immigration attorney to assist criminal defendants in immigration court...
Thousands of consumers make vehicle buying decisions every day, thinking that they are purchasing a vehicle that has certain c...
Prompted by state budget challenges, the Santa Clara Superior Court announced late Tuesday that it would close civil, small cl...
Litigation
Groups file notice of intent to sue EPA over airplane emissions
By Hadley Robinson
Several California groups plan to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to test the dangers of airplane emission...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham advises health IT company in $1.3B deal
By Salvador Mares
In the second of two billion-dollar deals announced Tuesday, Latham & Watkins LLP represented Kansas City, Mo.-based healt...
The Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco presented its Tara L. Riedley Barristers Choice Award to retired 1...
China's three decades of unprecedented development have delivered prosperity and economic opportunity to hundreds of millions ...
A special committee of independent directors at Irvine-based real estate investment trust Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II ...
Litigation
Attorneys duel before court over law school job placement data litigation
By Saul Sugarman
Graduates of a pair of San Francisco law schools faced a healthy amount of skepticism Tuesday from a judge over whether their ...
Litigation
Surge in disability suits causing headache for tort lawyer lobby
By Paul Jones
While the suits may sound like a loser for the business community, the actions of a few attorneys across the state also concer...
Financial institutions have been pelted with a number of lawsuits from their small business clients in recent years after hack...
Perspective
Death penalty ruling gets it right, but fails to nix bad precedent
By Ben Armisteadn
The state high court was right to reverse a death sentence due to juror misconduct, but it should have taken the opportunity t...
Here's the trailer: John Travolta is currently embroiled in litigation that provides a lesson about California's anti-SLAPP st...
California Supreme Court
Home health care workers assume the risk of injury, state high court rules
By Emily Green
An in-home health care worker who suffered severe injuries at the hands of her elderly Alzheimer's patient cannot sue the pati...
Private mortgage insurance company National Mortgage Insurance Corp. announced Friday the appointment of its new general couns...
Criminal
Judge rules OC DA's office committed serious misconduct with use of informants
By Don Debenedictisn
Law enforcement's misuse of jailhouse informants in Orange County was serious misconduct but not malicious, a judge has ruled....