This past year has seen a marked increase in government antitrust investigations in China. By Becky Koblitz and Michael W. Sca...
Corporate
Attorneys play crucial role in relationship between tech and government sectors
By Salvador Mares
Governments' need to cut costs and streamline operations is opening new doors for high-tech companies to deploy their services...
Palo Alto-based electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. has hired Todd A. Maron as deputy general counsel, a company spokeswoman ...
The SEC has requested comments on the proposed rules by Dec. 2 and is likely to adopt its final rules in 2014. By James D. C. ...
Recent decisions left uncertainty as to the extent of an insurer's duty to settle to avoid bad faith liability, until now. By ...
The NCAA filed papers Friday seeking to intervene in a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court about whether the First Amendment ba...
Intellectual Property
Tessera, Sony skirt trial by settling licensing spat
By Kevin Lee
San Jose-based Tessera and consumer electronics giant Sony narrowly avoided a federal jury trial scheduled to begin in San Jos...
Labor/Employment
Panel strikes arbitration agreement signed by Ralphs deli workers
By Laura Hautalan
The arbitration agreement tilts so far in Ralphs' favor that it violates California contract law and is unenforceable, the 9th...
Government
Defense lawyer to try to unseat San Bernardino DA Ramos - again
By Katie Lucia
Phelan-based attorney Bob Conaway says the county needs a new leader who will follow through on corruption cases and focus on ...
Special Coverage
In-house groups in Southern California, New York share honors
By David Houstonn
The Association of Corporate Counsel's three-day annual conference kicked off Sunday night with a dinner and awards reception....
Lawyers for the city of Victorville argue the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to allege specific facts and miscalcul...
After sinking three years and an estimated seven figure sum into his recent defeat in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial...
Government
State attorney general names appellate lawyer as solicitor general
By Paul Jones
The newly revamped office will have more wide-ranging authority, including responsibility for arguing all the state's cases be...
San Diego criminal court judge Charles G. Rogers urges the state to look at sentencing reform.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Criminal
Santa Clara County to fund housing assistance for Prop. 36 inmates
By Hamed Aleazizn
The pilot program will add to the county's already relatively robust suite of re-entry services available to newly released pr...
A historic injustice left a deep impression on LA Judge Bruce Iwasaki, a Japanese-American.
Proposed crowdfunding rules, released Oct. 23 by the SEC, are nearly 600 pages long and are subject to public comment for the ...
A study found that nearly 37 percent of workers who needed paid family leave said they did not apply for benefits due to fear ...
Marketing
Palo Alto real estate is pricey, but law firms still flock there
By David Ruiz
Commercial real estate in the Silicon Valley city is the most expensive in the nation and could stay that way for the next two...
Litigation
Toyota settles after losing Oklahoma 'unintended acceleration' trial
By Omar Shamout
The automaker reached an undisclosed settlement for punitive damages Friday after an Oklahoma state jury found the automaker r...
Labor/Employment
High-Tech employees win class certification against Silicon Valley heavyweights
By Laura Hautalan
Plaintiffs say executives at Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Intuit conspired with each other to keep employ...
Litigation
Suit accuses Kaiser hospitals of failing to adequately treat mental health issues
By Saul Sugarman
The proposed class action claims Kaiser hospitals in California are not treating patients with mental health conditions in a t...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge refuses to dismiss student-athletes' lawsuit against NCAA
By Hadley Robinson
Former and current college athletes can proceed with their claims the NCAA conspired with video game company Electronic Arts I...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council narrows powers of administrative office director
By Paul Jones
Over a year after a critical report urged leaders of the judicial branch to rein in its administrative office, the Judicial Co...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Ripening conflict over lawsuit mootness
By Ben Armisteadn
The 9th Circuit added its voice to a mounting debate over whether a defendant can render a lawsuit moot by offering to have ju...
Administrative/Regulatory
Brown appoints lawyer to court reporters regulator
By Paul Jones
John K. Liu joins the California Court Reporters Board. ...
Litigation
Judge hits tribe with $62 million judgment in flap over loan payments
By Henry Meier
Lawyers said the case illustrates courts' increasing reluctance to treat tribes differently than companies in business quarrel...
County disproportionately pursues death penalty despite heavy expense ...
Judge Kevin McKenney's experience in high-stress situations laid the groundwork for the bench.