Some small legal shops claim they're wrongly excluded from accelerators and incubators, which give coveted sponsorship opportu...
Latham & Watkins LLP looks poised to strengthen its intellectual property litigation practice after weathering some partne...
California Supreme Court
Will the composition of the state high court affect California arbitration law?
By Ben Armisteadn
In the past two years, two members of the Gentry, Discover Bank and Sonic-Calabasas majority have retired...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court grants reprieve to defendant, reverses appellate court
By Emily Green
A man who received a 25-years-to-life sentence after a stove he stole fell from the back of his truck more than an hour after ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit reverses Oakland judge who granted habeas relief
By John Roemer
A man who has been on San Quentin's death row since 1980 will stay there after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquistions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
Business increasingly turning to lawyers to sort out implications of 'Obamacare'
By Alexandra Schwappach
With just under a year until the federal Affordable Care Act takes full effect, businesses are weighing their options when it...
Perspective
Confusion over limitations period for suits over promissory notes
By Ben Armisteadn
Many practitioners believe that the limitations period for bringing suit on a promissory note is four years. But there is more...
Perspective
Time to expand the food industry's menu of defense strategies
By Ben Armisteadn
The food industry is the new target of choice for class action plaintiffs. But the torrent of class actions in 2012 was merely...
Perspective
Securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove materiality at class certification stage
By Ben Armisteadn
Although the court's decision in Amgen is interesting, its significance remains to be seen. By Eric S. Waxman and Virgi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar committee backs dues surcharge, but not without dissent
By Craig Andersonn
A State Bar committee vote on Wednesday moved the agency one step closer to levying more dues annually on all licensed Califor...
After leaving Adobe Systems Inc. and taking some time off to travel, Karen Cottle has landed as senior counsel at the Palo Alt...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, visiting the state capital Wednesday ahead of the unveiling of a library in his na...
Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday that the latest version of its Series Seed documents have been hosted on the widely...
Law Practice
Litigator captures highest honor from American Friends of the Hebrew University
By Alexandra Schwappach
Litigator Patricia Glaser of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP was given the National Scopus Award on ...
Lawyers from game publishers, developers and outside firms will be among the roughly 50 panelists in an inaugural gaming law c...
Richard D. Henick of Appel & Henick LLP helped Alder Law PC ink a two-year sublease for the 15th floor of The Plaza in Cen...
Law Practice
Arent Fox LLP officially nails down lease in San Francisco
By Joshua Seboldn
Arent Fox LLP made its move into San Francisco official Wednesday when it announced it has nailed down office real estate.
California Courts of Appeal
No go for additional $3 million in attorneys' fees, court rules
By Emily Green
A prominent plaintiff's attorney and Los Angeles law firm lost their bid for an additional $3 million in attorneys' fees just ...
Entertainment & Sports
Talent Agencies Act withstands another constitutionality test
By Ryne Hodkowski
A federal judge's dismissing the latest case challenging the constitutionality of the California Talent Agencies Act didn't co...
Cooley LLP continued its raid on the corporate law department of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP with the hiring o...
To begin with, there are no Tesla dealerships. Rather, Tesla is reinventing the purchase experience by replicating a sales exp...
One by one, the state is losing small satellite courthouses to budget cuts. While the closures result in job losses and inconv...
Confusion between bankruptcy and receivership is quite common, even with creditors and attorneys, especially those who do not ...
Today, despite the guarantees of the Equal Pay Act, gender based wage disparity persists. Women still earn on average 77 perce...
The law has withstood U.S. Supreme Court review and endured public scrutiny in a hotly contested 2012 presidential election, b...
In return for upholding American values, many immigrants seek to improve the quality of life by paying taxes to support commun...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit: Debtor can avoid lien on Mercedes used for work
By Emily Green
A debtor can avoid a lien on a motor vehicle -- even a Mercedes -- if it is a "tool of the debtor's trade," the 9th U.S. Circu...
Stanford Law School announced Tuesday that electoral law professor Nathaniel Persily will join its faculty this summer from Co...
El Segundo-based Mattel Inc. sold $500 million in bonds with help from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.