Silicon Valley lawyers continued Wednesday to digest the impacts of the SEC's decision to allow companies to disclose informat...
International
Lawyers to accompany Gov. Brown on China trade mission
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Seven California lawyers and three out-of-state attorneys will be accompanying Gov. Jerry Brown on his week-long trade and inv...
Chicago-based Vedder Price is making its first foray into California, opening an office in San Francisco, the firm confirmed o...
Government
SEC's San Francisco office leader headed to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
By Kevin Lee
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP will add the Securities and Exchange Commission's top leader in Northern California, Marc J. F...
Education
Former Albany dean to lead Thomas Jefferson School of Law
By Don Debenedictisn
Thomas F. Guernsey, a professor at Albany Law School and the school's dean in 2002-11, will become dean of San Diego's Thomas ...
A California man who in 2002 was wrongfully convicted of rape and kidnapping signed a contract on Wednesday with the Atlanta F...
Litigation
Court tosses suit against utilities over wood preservatives leak
By Fiona Smith
A federal appellate court Wednesday tossed a suit in which environmentalists claimed Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Pacifi...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' attorneys agree to work together on major price-fixing case
By Craig Andersonn
It came down to the last hour, but Steve Berman, of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP changed his position Thursday afternoon an...
On the heels of several new application launches, Palo Alto-based online payment and invoicing startup WePay Inc. unveiled its...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In reversal, 9th Circuit denies immunity to officer who killed woman who stole car
By John Roemer
In a rare reversal in a wrongful death case, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday denied immunity to a Calif...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court poised to reverse arbitration ruling
By Emily Green
The state Supreme Court appeared ready during oral argument Wednesday to scrap a ruling from just two years ago on the controv...
Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Hankey Investment Co. LP Los Angeles ...
Polsinelli Shughart PC entered into a 10-year lease for 26,000 square feet of office space on the 23rd floor of 2049 Century P...
Litigation
Copyright suits alleging illegal pornography downloads could be in jeopardy
By Henry Meier
They've accused scores of defendants of illegally downloading pornographic videos. But a federal judge, skeptical of the lawye...
There are two types of employers: those that know they have been hacked, and those that do not. By Paul Cowie and Dorna Moini ...
A recent case out of the 3rd District Court of Appeal shows how a stubborn refusal to follow the rules on appealability can do...
The latest hazard for class-action plaintiffs arrived in the U.S. high court's decision in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, wh...
Administrative/Regulatory
Private enforcement under Proposition 65 drives progress
By Ben Armisteadn
Though some courts and commentators argue that Prop. 65 spawns "absurdly easy" lawsuits, that view discounts the significant i...
The International Academy of Trial Lawyers will honor Thomas V. Girardi at the organization's 2013 annual meeting Saturday at ...
The fate of a decades-long lawsuit regarding California prison conditions hinges on a rigid federal law that some legal observ...
Appellate Practice
Piece-rate pay ruling may help workers in Wal-Mart suit
By Laura Hautalan
An auto repair business that avoided paying workers for hours worked when they didn't have cars to service didn't meet minimum...
DLA Piper picked up a former assistant U.S. attorney and international arbitration practice co-chair from Morrison & Foers...
Intellectual Property
Cooley gearing up to defend Facebook at trial after losing motion to kill trademark lawsuit
By Saul Sugarman
Bay Area-based defense lawyers at Cooley LLP are gearing up for trial after losing their bid to get a trademark infringement c...
Following a successful IPO in March of last year, Berkeley-based natural and organic food company Annie's Inc. on Monday anno...
Immigration lawyers have seen an uptick in work for companies applying for H-1B visas in what is expected to be the busiest in...
Intellectual Property
Patent office invalidates key Apple claim in Samsung case
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated Apple Inc.'s claims on a critical mobile device patent, a development tha...
U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller followed a love of public policy to a career in the law.
Government
Judge finds law allowing some environmental disputes to avoid superior courts unconstitutional
By Fiona Smith
A 2011 law that lets litigants leapfrog state trial courts to take certain environmental disputes straight to appellate court ...
So, here are my predictions on the outcomes of the court's DOMA and Prop. 8 decisions. By Philip A. Rafferty ...
It's not just that there are lots of bad interpreters out there; language interpretation is not a precise science, and even th...