MedeAnalytics Inc., an Emeryville-based health care performance consultant and data analytics company, announced the appointme...
Intellectual Property
Human gene patents, biotech industry face Supreme Court scrutiny
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether scientifically altered human genes are patentable in what several legal obse...
His name, Marc Toberoff, first came up on a Web search. It was 2001. Mark Warren Peary, the nephew of Joe Shuster, the comic w...
Global transparency is coming if it isn't already upon us. And with the intersection of technology, Twitter, WikiLeaks and the...
Litigation
Prenda Law fires back over possible sanctions relating to porn copyright litigation
By Henry Meier
Facing sanctions that could include jail time, attorneys who filed controversial suits against users who allegedly downloaded ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
San Francisco-based Farella Braun & Martel continues on its independent course
By Joshua Seboldn
San Francisco-based Farella Braun & Martel LLP has stayed independent even as many other small and mid-size firms have mer...
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LegalZoom.com Inc. Glendale ...
Ensuring consistency in expert opinion by simply deferring to whichever opinion was offered first fails to realize that scienc...
Concerns that a single woman who chooses to have a child using donor sperm will lose all protection from parentage claims unde...
Perspective
High court's first-sale ruling unlikely to impact patent exhaustion theories
By Ben Armisteadn
Many were surprised that after Kirtsaeng, the Supreme Court denied a petition to review the Federal Circuit's ruling th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Police cannot hold someone in custody over infraction, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
Police in California cannot take you into custody following a routine arrest for an infraction, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Labor/Employment
House committee advances bill to halt NLRB operations
By Laura Hautalan
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill that would halt the National Labor Relations Board from conducting ...
Law Practice
Brown Rudnick capitalizes on boutique's local ties to break into Southern California
By Alexandra Schwappach
International firm Brown Rudnick LLP won't be starting from scratch with its first foray into the West Coast after its merger ...
Maybe it was the proximity to America's gambling mecca, but ever since John C. Hueston secured a pre-trial dismissal of mortga...
Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP are representing homebuilder William Lyon Homes and the u...
In a major coup for Bingham McCutchen LLP, noted intellectual property litigator Richard de Bodo and four colleagues from DLA ...
State Bar leaders on Thursday will begin exploring the idea of licensing nonlawyers to provide certain legal services to consu...
Jones Day represented a private tenant-in-common entity, sponsored by Thompson National Properties LLC, in purchasing a 102,00...
Government
IRS ruling could help fuel renewable energy projects on tribal land
By Alexandra Schwappach
The ruling, which only applies to the unidentified taxpayer who requested it response to an energy project, is limited to that...
Perspective
Federal Circuit ruling provides guidance for proving 'worldwide' damages
By Ben Armisteadn
The case is of particular interest in the damages context because the patent owner had sought and obtained a jury award based ...
Appellate Practice
Win arguments by writing briefs that earn the judge's attention
By Ben Armisteadn
At the top of your brief, the judge will give you the gift of shining the spotlight of undivided attention on your argument — ...
If Wesley Snipes is dispensing tax advice -- and I doubt that he is -- I imagine that today he might be more likely to give so...
Administrative/Regulatory
New 'persuader' rule looms over legal industry
By Ben Armisteadn
The rule would require employers to report all contracts with lawyers involved in labor relations — including how much they're...
Litigation
Judge tosses out attorney's suit because he signed arbitration clause
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge tossed a lawsuit brought by former Hausfeld LLP partner Jonathan T. King against his firm Tuesday afternoon. ...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali of the Northern District has rejected another attempt by an unsecured creditor in the How...
Veteran music lawyer John Mason has joined Fox Rothschild LLP in Los Angeles after decamping from Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, ...
Corporate
Shearman & Sterling helps guide massive solar project
By Alexandra Schwappach
Shearman & Sterling LLP is helping a company develop a 500-megawatt solar electric generating system in Riverside County a...
A new law clinic will open this summer at Santa Clara University School of Law to serve the needs of early stage companies in ...
A bill that would increase judicial discretion by making detailed reports available to bench officers in charge of setting or ...