Privacy law experts at an American Business Trial Lawyers event Tuesday discussed the difficulties associated with navigating ...
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc., a nonprofit that provides free civil legal services to thousands of low-income San Di...
The program could yield first case law on the practice of testing for impairment. ...
Criminal
Attorney sentenced for helping venture capitalists defraud government
By Saul Sugarman
A Carlsbad-based lawyer must serve more than five months in prison for helping a pair of clients squirrel away millions of dol...
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP helped prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Pa...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Attorney's effort to seal court records fails
By John Roemer
Lawyer and Bay Area real estate developer John T. Kontrabecki's effort to veil a discreditable episode from his past backfired...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Process servers want to be regulated by the State Bar
By Don Debenedictisn
New legislation pushed by process servers would move their oversight from county clerks to the State Bar. ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Bazaarvoice merger faces a bizarre fate after court ruling
By Ben Armisteadn
In 2012, Bazaarvoice acquired its next largest competitor in a transaction too small to require federal premerger notification...
Litigation
Appellate finding could be a game changer for eminent domain cases
By Alexandra Schwappach
For the first time in nearly 40 years, a state appellate court last week ruled an eminent domain statute unconstitutional. If ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit upholds DNA collection law
By Hamed Aleazizn
An en banc panel says police can collect cheek swabs from felony suspects. ...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Toyota criminal settlement could be boon for plaintiffs' lawyers
By Henry Meier
With the automaker facing a bevy of suits over alleged defects, the agreement with the Department of Justice could help push c...
This week, President Barack Obama and Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez released details of the latest push to revise...
Personal Injury & Torts
Websites may be new disability access target
By Ben Armisteadn
We've all heard of professional plaintiffs suing businesses because they don't have the proper disabled parking signage or the...
Transportation
High court backs landowners in abandoned railway dispute
By Ben Armisteadn
In the escalating national feud over former railroad rights of way, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with landowners wrestling...
Corporate
Perkins Coie helps Cloudera raise $160M in venture financing
By Salvador Mares
Big data startup Cloudera Inc. inked financing in a round led by T. Rowe Price. ...
Business owners pressed legislators on the need to further reform the state toxics and disability access laws Wednesday as par...
Nearly a year after the firm opened its first California office, in San Francisco, the firm has headed south to put down roots...
Labor/Employment
Wal-Mart warehouse workers settlement gets preliminary approval
By Laura Hautalan
A group of Mira Loma warehouse workers won tentative approval of their agreement with two staffing companies Wednesday, despit...
General counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president, Advent Software Inc. San Francisco Size of legal department...
Kevin Rosenberg has jumped to the Los Angeles office of Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP as general counsel and chair...
Cooley LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC attorneys in Seattle and Palo Alto are helping to take antibody drug de...
A federal judge Wednesday extended a previous order to the National Security Agency, preventing them from destroying evidence ...
The Supreme Court will decide whether a plaintiff can state a claim under federal securities laws regarding a statement of opi...
California Courts of Appeal
E-filing comes to a state appellate court, at long last
By Emily Green
Electronic filing has arrived to the 1st District Court of Appeal, the first in the state to require lawyers to submit writ pe...
Data Privacy
Plaintiffs denied class certification in Gmail privacy lawsuit
By Hadley Robinson
In a major win for Google Inc., a San Jose federal judge has rejected class certification in a lawsuit challenging the company...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Many firms have wised up to the possible recruiting perils that come with such discussions and imposed agreements meant to ke...
Native Americans
Recent legal developments give new energy to tribal joint ventures
By Katharine Malonen
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that state and local governments lack the power to tax permanent improveme...
Passage of the Orca Welfare and Safety Act, banning the use of orca whales for public entertainment or breeding additional per...