Litigation
Appellate opinion protects health care companies that lose data
By Omar Shamout
A recent appeals court opinion clarified a California law that awards statutory damages when medical records are unlawfully di...
Today, less than two years after the signing of the Jobs Act, corporate attorneys' optimism about the benefits of the law for ...
Linda C. Miller Savitt, a partner at Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP, makes her Grandma Johnson's chocolate roll at ...
California Supreme Court
Court reverses decision tossing bribery and conspiracy charges against developer, official
By Katie Lucia
The Supreme Court's move could give San Bernardino County prosecutors another crack at counts accusing a developer and several...
Automakers Hyundai Motor America and Kia Motors America announced a $400 million settlement Monday with plaintiffs in a class ...
Letter to the Editor
Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding for Busy Trial Lawyers
By John Michael
Hobart Linzer LLP partner Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, a dark chocolate lover, raved that this bread pudding takes little effort...
Government
Northern District judicial nominees will have to start again next year
By Hadley Robinson
After the adjournment of the Senate for the holidays, the three Northern District hopefuls on the cusp of confirmation will be...
Long delays at the attorney general's office in issuing advisory legal opinions to government agencies has led to a pile-up of...
Labor/Employment
Pension contributions can't be increased, San Jose judge rules
By Laura Hautalan
A judge tentatively ruled that a 2012 voter initiative to increase city workers' contributions to their retirement benefits vi...
As a judge, David Berry has a new perspective on the types of cases he prosecuted for 25 years.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Peer-to-peer services such as lodging marketplace Airbnb are based on collaboration, but its practices often run up against la...
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Guidewire Software Inc. Foster City ...
Pamela L. Andes, a partner in Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP's Irvine office, started making cobblers afte...
Levinson Arshonskey & Kurtz LLP associate Jason Jarvis's western adaptation of this classic Moroccan lamb dish. ...
A recent ruling is the latest in a series of setbacks to injured athletes seeking to benefit from the state's athlete-friendly...
Here we go again. The annual "Judicial Hellhole" report is out and California is number one on the list. Unfortunately, we hav...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Health care deal activity to stay strong in 2014
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Lawyers predict the flurry of health care activity largely driven by the Affordable Care Act will continue next year. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil's Silicon Valley office handles trio of deals
By Salvador Mares
Attorneys at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's Silicon Valley office led the firm's work on three separate acquisitions announc...
Judges and Judiciary
Judiciary releases new version of open meeting rules
By Paul Jones
After criticism that its first proposal allowed too many exemptions, the branch put out a revised rule Friday. The new version...
Fox Rothschild LLP will expand its headcount significantly in San Francisco when it adds six partners and an associate by acqu...
Labor/Employment
Verdict for Lawrence Livermore in age discrimination case
By Laura Hautalan
The panel decided lawyers for five laid off employees didn't prove the lab's policies harmed older workers. ...
Law Practice
Chief of Riverside U.S. attorney branch entering private practice
By Katie Lucia
In nearly three years as chief of the downtown Riverside office, Antoine "Tony" Raphael has overseen the prosecution of high...
As both the state and federal governments enact rules to cut greenhouse gases, the courts have given them a wide berth this ye...
Litigation
9th Circuit chief judge's objection to settlement leaves case in limbo
By Hadley Robinson
The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Alex Kozinski, has put the federal bench in a pickle by objecting to...
In anticipation of Gov. Jerry Brown's Jan. 10 budget proposal, the judicial branch hopes more optimistic state revenue forecas...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
San Diego Judge Gary Kreep takes criticism over his religious and political beliefs in stride.
Judge Brad Seligman has leapt from litigating civil rights cases to presiding over family feuds.
Intellectual Property
VIDEO: Patent board rising as a preferred dispute venue
By Ben Armisteadn
The PTAB is now the third busiest venue for challenging patents. By Ben M. Davidson ...
