Durie Tangri LLP San Francisco Patent
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Jones Day San Diego Pharmaceuticals
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Labor/Employment
Employees try new tack with misclassification class actions
By Laura Hautalan
An increasingly high bar for class certification and changing employer behavior have made the seemingly lucrative misclassific...
Law Practice
Sheppard Mullin loses another corporate lawyer in Palo Alto
By Joshua Seboldn
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP poached the chair of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's technology transactions gro...
The judiciary is pushing several new cost-saving measures, but critics are livid over a proposal to exempt branch from audits ...
Bankruptcy boutique Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP added two new partners to its Los Angeles office to fully round ou...
Sidley Austin LLP partner Eric Shumsky joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in its Supreme Court and appel...
Environmental
Oakland environmental group gets first settlement in nap mat toxic warning lawsuit
By Fiona Smith
An environmental group suing several companies over toxic flame retardants in children's products announced Monday that a majo...
Judges and Judiciary
LA County Superior Court judge wins Senate confirmation to federal bench
By Hadley Robinson
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell to a vacant spot on the f...
Labor/Employment
New, smaller class in Wal-Mart gender discrimination case
By Laura Hautalan
The saga of a 12-year gender discrimination lawsuit against America's largest private employer continued Monday with the filin...
Latham & Watkins LLP represented JPMorgan Chase & Co., financial adviser to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., in the comp...
Criminal
Ex-South Gate city treasurer wins honest-services fraud reversal
By Don Debenedictisn
The 9th Circuit reversed former South Gate official Albert T. Robles' convictions on 25 corruption counts, citing a U.S. Supre...
Judge James Stoelker pushes punctuality and pays close attention to parties' legal arguments.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
While foreigners are subject to a 35 percent FIRPTA tax upon the disposition of U.S. real estate, foreign investors are increa...
Hopefully 2013 will be a more prosperous year, as the top bracket has increased from 35 percent to 39.6 percent and there is n...