The proliferation of these policies affects the rights and obligations of homeowners, developers, general contractors and subc...
Won't this mega-merger just knock out another competitor and further exacerbate the already deplorable cable service we receiv...
I love movies. I also happen to be a litigator, so sometimes it's a bit difficult for me watching lawyers on the big screen. H...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Mandatory school tee shirt struck down in First Amendment case
By John Roemer
For the second time in less than a month, UCLA School of Law's Eugene Volokh has scored a free speech win before the 9th U.S. ...
Law Practice
Veteran land use lawyer survives cancer, changes approach to life
By Fiona Smith
This year, Timothy A. Tosta is marking two anniversaries - 40 years practicing law and a decade visiting the poor at a San Fra...
Law Practice
New ABOTA president maintains national fame through obsessive preparation
By Don Debenedictisn
As the 2014 president, Mark P. Robinson Jr. will turn his intense work ethic to the American Board of Trial Advocates' mission...
High speed rail proponents Friday urged a judge not to consider key claims by rail opponents that the design of the statewide ...
Corporate
Kirkland aids in $825M sale of Eddie Bauer to Jos. A. Bank
By Salvador Mares
San Francisco-based private equity firm Golden Gate Capital relied on counsel from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the sale of por...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appealing orders compelling arbitration just got tougher
By Ben Armisteadn
The 9th Circuit recently adopted a rebuttable presumption that an order compelling arbitration stays, but does not dismiss, an...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court to consider sex offender registration
By Emily Green
The California Supreme Court is considering reversing course and OK'ing automatic sex offender registration for people convict...
Litigation
Defense attorneys feeling effects of 9th Circuit ruling in wage and hour cases
By Henry Meier
After years of district court judges remanding wage and hour class action litigation to plaintiff-friendly state courts, some ...
The ethical implications of the Mayer Brown surveillance revelations are not something to dismiss lightly. By Edwin B. Reeser ...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Judge Trina Thompson likes to use visuals to communicate with litigants in her courtroom.
Attorneys appreciate Judge Franklin Bondonno's direct, compassionate approach in drug court.
The conclusion reached by an appellate court in a recent case undermines the basis for the enactment of appraisal statutes and...
For those accustomed to thinking about the leaders of the women's suffrage movement as prim society ladies, Myra MacPherson's ...
Will the state Legislature attempt to adopt a state-wide version of San Francisco's Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance this l...
Sedgwick LLP's Asian Pacific Islander Lawyers Forum and the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California hosted their fourt...
Kwixuan Maloof, a managing attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, was honored Feb. 7 by the Santa Clara Count...
Hundreds of Inland Empire lawyers and judges gathered Wednesday evening to hear guest speaker Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sak...
The four-partner firm Heffernan Seubert & French LLP are all alumni of DLA Piper's East Palo Alto office, where they first...
Law Practice
MoFo grabs Orrick technology specialist in Silicon Valley
By Joshua Seboldn
Morrison & Foerster LLP has snagged the co-chair of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology transactions and s...
Restored funding will also return CJA panel rates to pre-sequestration levels. ...
Community News
LA attorney lauded for promoting diversity in the legal profession
By Ben Adlin
The American Bar Association honored retired corporate attorney and business executive Wendy C. Shiba of Los Angeles with the ...
Three members of Loyola Law School's seven-member board of directors visited the school's downtown Los Angeles campus Feb. 5 t...
A group of attorneys seeking to change the rules for admission to practice law in California were denied relief after a federa...
Winston & Strawn LLP has grabbed structured finance specialist Daniel Passage from Bingham McCutchen LLP, Winston confirme...
Labor/Employment
Appellate panel sides with county in suit over retiree health care
By Paul Jones
Retired Orange County employees lacked the evidence to show that a longtime health care benefit qualified as an implied contra...
Charlotte Walter Woolard, a longtime San Francisco County Superior Court judge, said Thursday she is retiring at the end of he...
