Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP Los Angeles Specialty: Entertainment
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Bingham McCutchen LLP San Francisco Specialty: Environmental
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles Specialty: real estate, land use
Concerned that the steep jump in deliveries will bring fiery derailments, oil spills and increased air pollution to the state,...
California Supreme Court
A potential high court headache for architects, designers
By Ben Armisteadn
On Wednesday, the state high court will hear arguments regarding to whom architects and designers owe a duty of care. By Neal ...
Environmental
Underground acquifer company Cadiz defeats legal challenges
By Fiona Smith
The company behind a controversial bid to sell water from an underground aquifer in the Mojave Desert to thirsty Southern Cali...
California Supreme Court
State high court: Juvenile offenders should not get "presumptive" life sentences
By Emily Green
Judges have misinterpreted a California law for 20 years to say certain juvenile offenders should be "presumptively" sentenced...
In one of the state's most aggressive DA campaigns, the candidates for Riverside County's top prosecutor post are taking heat ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
New Bar civility oath may have come too late for new crop of lawyers
By Don Debenedictisn
Officials said the revised "oath cards" might not be printed in time to include in the packets being mailed to the new admitte...
Intellectual Property
Quinn Emanuel strategy pays off for Samsung in Apple patent trial
By Kevin Lee
Many observers think Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP succeeded in ...
Judge Alvin M. Harrell III of Fresno always preferred the courtroom to the partnership track.
After seven years, Robert K. Rasmussen will be stepping down as dean of USC Gould School of Law.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The companies developing technology and securing patents and marketing in this space have to consider if the software applicat...
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. New York ...
The food industry may be catching on to the growing trend of binding arbitration agreements. By Claudia M. Vetesi and Lisa A....
Recently, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers jointly published proposed regulations to define those waters falling under ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Google faces shareholder lawsuit for antitrust allegations
By Laura Hautalan
Google Inc. faces further litigation over allegations it made pacts with several other tech companies to avoid recruiting each...
Arent Fox LLP and Archer Norris PLC snagged the three name partners at Hewitt Wolensky & McNulty LLP on Thursday. ...
Intellectual Property
Jury denies Apple the major patent damages it sought against Samsung
By Kevin Lee
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will only have to pay a fraction of the amount of damages Apple Inc. sought for infringing severa...
California Courts of Appeal
Justices dial back caustically worded opinions
By Emily Green
Justices of the 4th District tone down accusations in sex offender opinions ...
Learning Rights Law Center and Minds Matters hosted their second annual "A Taste for Education" benefit at Barsha Wines and Sp...
Education
Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law name new president
By Don J. De Benedictis
The Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law announced Friday that educator Charles McClintock will be their new president. ...
Private industry employment numbers may have finally bounced back to pre-recession levels, but the legal market last month end...
The American Bar Association waded into the debate on law firm bankruptcies Friday, filing an amicus brief that echoes argumen...
California Courts of Appeal
Lawyer narrowly escapes admonishment in juvenile court matter
By Emily Green
An attorney who advocated that a child be reunified with her mother against the recommendations of the child's court-appointed...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit clears path for groundwater contamination trial
By Henry Meier
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner erred in excluding the city of Pomona's...
Diamond McCarthy LLP added a San Francisco office with the addition of five attorneys from bankruptcy boutique Greenfield Sull...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Gun rights appeal could be moot
By John Roemer
Further appeals in a major California gun rights case could fizzle now that the San Diego sheriff has declined to challenge a ...