Sergio Garcia, a partner with Reed Smith LLP in San Francisco, was named the first general counsel of Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. ...
Intellectual Property
The burden of online misdeeds: Who should be responsible?
By Michael Leen
Online material may be hosted anywhere in the world, making it difficult to determine who is responsible for what. By Michael ...
As details of the wind-down process for the state's roughly 400 redevelopment agencies begin to take shape, experts say one th...
The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced last week it had reached a $10 million settlement with a Northern Califo...
A state court judge's decision to give lawyers nearly half a year to try the first lawsuit in the Toyota sudden unintended acc...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday on whether a federal law used to convict a Pomona politician for ...
A reader responds to "Entering the legal twilight zone: a lesson in trust law." ...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP added Bennett Young and Jon Welner as partners in San Francisco.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Judge Salvatore T. Sirna applies the same spirit of service to the robe as he did his army green.
Judge Andrea Flint wants to engage the community she serves, not rule in a vacuum.
Last year, hotel sales amounted to $14 billion in 2011 nationwide. And California was a shining star in that recovery, with ho...
Even if you think you've mastered the art of legal writing, there's still a way to improve your work. By Thomas W. Temple ...
Labor/Employment
State justices to rule on Labor Code fee-shifting provisions
By Karen Natividadn
With oral arguments next month, a preview of the issues before the state Supreme Court. By Gerald Knapton and Kim Karelis of R...
Environmental
Report criticizes spending plans for carbon credit revenue
By Fiona Smith
The Legislative Analyst's Office released a report Thursday criticizing Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal on how to spend the hundre...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court says music companies don't have to prove 'substantial similarity'
By John Roemer
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel published its opinion Thursday affirming a $200,000 damages and attorney's fee summa...
Former O'Neill Lysaght & Sun partners reunite with other longtime colleagues to build successor litigation boutique Murphy...
Cisco Systems appealed the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype months after the deal closed and...
Books
Sex matters: Legal strategies and alliance building in the intersex community
By Michael Leen
The role that legal institutions can play in protecting the rights of people with an intersex condition. By Julie Greenberg of...
When Patrick A. Long isn't crafting settlements, he spends much of his time chipping away at what he likes to call the great A...
The uncomfortable resurgence of the responsible corporate officer doctrine. By Mike Emmick of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Ha...
The American Wind Energy Association announced Thursday that it was not able to get a much sought-after tax credit extension t...
After reports that mobile applications, including Twitter, were accessing information from users' address books, frustrated pr...
Litigation
Former women wrestlers settle with UC Davis for $1.35 million
By Saul Sugarman
Three former UC Davis women wrestlers announced a $1.35 million settlement Thursday in what may be the first suit to ever go t...
San Francisco-based Yelp Inc. disclosed it will pay Cooley LLP $1.2 million in legal fees and expenses in connection with its ...
Court battles over a wide-ranging San Bernardino County government corruption scandal are stacking up, with lawyers filing a p...
Merger talks between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, appear to have slowed down accordin...