Stephen Horvath, executive partner of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP issued a memo to all U.S. Dewey personnel notifying them they mi...
Intellectual Property
Jury asks about deadlock in Oracle, Google trial
By Craig Andersonn
While jurors try to decide whether Google Inc. infringed Oracle Corp. 's Java copyrights, attorneys in the case turned their...
For the first time in California, a state appellate panel has recognized the tort known as intentional interference with an ex...
Intellectual Property
Marine Polymer: intervening rights only if patent claim amended
By Michael Leen
In a sharply split decision, the court held that intervening rights arise in a patent reexamination only when the claims have ...
A new poll punctuates the two-decade slide in the public's view of the U.S. Supreme Court, signaling that the court has been s...
Some smaller initial public offerings garnered bigger fees for law firms. ...
Energy Law
Solar Trust projects, up for bid in bankruptcy, come with baggage
By Paul Jones
Solar Trust is in bankruptcy - and the future of its solar projects is anything but clear ...
California Supreme Court
Attorney fights to continue appeal after death row client's death
By John Roemer
From beyond the grave, an inmate who died in his cell on San Quentin's death row asked the state Supreme Court this week - th...
Scott P. Barlow and John H. Ernster met on a 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to the Bay Area in 2003. What could have been a...
Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Administrative Officer for California Independent System Operator Folsom ...
Oracle Corp. got some promising news Wednesday in the form of jury notes in its lawsuit claiming Google Inc. infringed el...
Antonio "Tony" C. Piazza , who co-founded Gregorio, Haldeman, Piazza, Rotman, Frank & Feder , started a new practice at th...
Many people don't realize that California law is sufficient to protect basic assets brought into marriage. By Veronika Melamed...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Former Bush attorney has immunity in alleged torture of convicted terrorist
By John Roemer
Former Bush administration attorney John C. Yoo is off the hook in a civil suit seeking to hold him liable for the detention ...
Facing dual pressures of budget cuts along with state-mandated reforms, Los Angeles County's family courts are taking strong m...
The California Bar Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of the State Bar, has awarded 15 scholarships to third-year law students ...
Spokeo Inc., the developer of a people search engine and social network aggregator website, appointed its first general counse...
Law Practice
Law schools fight back against enrollment data lawsuits
By Don Debenedictisn
The five California law schools sued over their graduate employment data have turned to the same attorney to plead their case ...
Bond insurers facing accusations of scheming to degrade the credit ratings of public entities suffered a setback when a San ...
Litigation
California courts should revisit medical causation after Roberti
By Ben Armisteadn
Roberti has helped make California a perfect haven for scientifically questionable personal injury cases. By Catherine ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson Thacher advises Silver Lake in William Morris acquisition
By Robert Pierce
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped guide Menlo Park-based private equity fund Silver Lake in its agreement to acquire a...
The judicial system is evolving, perhaps not at the same pace as technology, but it is progressing with respect to discovery. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Generic drugs and the new norm in pharmaceutical litigation
By Michael Leen
The impact of PLIVA is to let many generic manufacturers off the hook. By Patricia L. Zlaket of Case Cherry Schenk Fran...
A changing of the guard is underway inside a key unit of the U.S. attorney's office - the major fraud section. ...