Is Carder.su's wrongdoing is so comprehensive and organized that the U.S. government needs to use the RICO statutes to prosecu...
There can be no doubt that judges need to adapt to changing technologies, as much as the law itself has to run to keep up. By ...
The passing of this June marked 60 years since J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked as a national security r...
In one of its most anticipated decisions of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a favorable ruling for securities class ac...
Recent data from the Labor Department marks June as a good month for the U.S. economy with an uptick in jobs for the nationwid...
Experts in branding and communications say the judicial branch's decision to stop referring to its state administrative office...
Community News
California Rural Legal Assistance welcomes new deputy director
By John Michael
California Rural Legal Assistance welcomes new deputy director ...
Firm leadership says it's well poised to take a leap abroad, but some observers say McKenna's California offices - arguably ma...
In nation's largest county, some defendants choose guilt over trip to court. ...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
A boom in Silicon Valley's startup economy amid the rise of cloud computing and big data is driving up the demand for corpor...
The latest issue of a journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences explores the complex shifts occurring in U.S cour...
"The Science of Persuasion," by Brad Bradshaw, examines the way jurors make decisions, and how that knowledge can be used effe...
In "Burning Down the House," author Nell Bernstein examines how juvenile incarceration often makes problems worse for our yout...
The harsh reality is that sterilizations have been taking place in our women's prisons for many years in different forms. By M...
The majority in Hobby Lobby presented a decision both morally correct and historically sound, consistent with the firml...
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP won a significant arbitration victory this week on behalf of two Lafayette-based firms seeki...
Former Goldman banker Matthew Korenberg had been under investigation since 2009. The case had been given prosecutorial authori...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Seragon sells to Roche for up to $1.7B with counsel from Wilson Sonsini
By Salvador Mares
San Diego-based breast cancer drug developer Seragon Pharmaceuticals Inc. relied on Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Sanctions overturned against court-appointed criminal defense lawyer
By John Roemer
When a court-appointed California lawyer sought compensation for representing his federal murder defendant client, a judge unf...
Stanford puts on e-commerce conference ...
Just as Aereo retrofitted antiquated regulation to cover emerging technologies, Hobby Lobby quietly updated the ...
Law Practice
Report: law firm mergers continue at record-breaking pace
By Joshua Seboldn
Small law firms are driving an uptick in legal industry mergers, as they actively seek to consolidate their regional power or ...
Litigation
International antitrust case to be reconsidered by appeals court
By Hadley Robinson
In a lawsuit with major implications for price fixing cases in California, a federal appeals court decided to rehear a case it...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Kenly Kiya Kato, a sole practitioner in Riverside County, will sit in the court's Eastern Division. ...
W. Davis Smith's tenure was marked by a rapidly evolving energy industry as well as challenges to some of the company's bigger...
Litigation
Hewlett-Packard resolves shareholder suit by teaming up in litigation
By Hadley Robinson
To resolve federal and state lawsuits against HP and many of its executives for the botched acquisition of Autonomy Corp. the ...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued opinions in the remaining civil cases it had on its docket this term. Here's a summar...