Intellectual Property
Keker & Van Nest wins defense verdict for Twitter
By Craig Andersonn
Attorneys with San Francisco-based Keker & Van Nest LLP won a defense verdict Monday afternoon against patent infringement...
California Supreme Court
Important insurance recovery case before state justices
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court is poised to answer the question of whether policyholders can "stack" insurance policies by collecting...
The shift toward electronic billing that's so popular with insurance clients has changed how civil defense lawyers collect the...
A new state law bars insurance companies from using their discretion to deny disability claims. ...
Leaders in the San Francisco legal community are pushing for legislation that would provide free lawyers to indigent litigants...
Litigation
Heller's malpractice suit could double payments to unsecured creditors
By Jill Redhage
If the Heller Ehrman LLP estate is successful in its latest lawsuit - a malpractice case against its former counsel at Greenbe...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court mulls inmates' rights in privately managed prisons
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it would deny inmates in privately managed federal prisons the same ability to enforce...
Judge Steff Padilla translates her civil rights-era childhood into helping people overcome problems.
The first guests to this party could reap the greatest rewards. By Mitchell A. Kamin and Jessie Kornberg of Bird, Marella, Box...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Applied Materials Inc. ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Lawyers advise health care providers on collaboration under reform law
By Mandy Jacksonn
Doctors, hospitals and other caretakers have at least two opportunities under last year's federal health care reform law to im...
Litigation
There's something about Mary: Using Mary Carter and the Tech-Bilt ballpark in settlements
By Sharon Liangn
Next time you need to settle, consider this creative option. By Lawrence P. Riff, Elizabeth M. Johnson, and Colleen O'Brien of...
What lawyers should keep in mind when deciding whether or not to object. By Michael Masuda of Noland, Hamerly, Etienne & H...
The fallout of the subprime mortgage crisis has racked up the amount of baseless lawsuits. By Janis H. Ozaki of Huron law grou...
Apple founder Steve Jobs' mantra of focus and simplicity is worth following. By Jeffrey R. Glassman of Ervin, Cohen & Jess...
Perspective
Basking in the Ferrari sun: The classic car market gains traction during hard times
By Sharon Liangn
With traditional markets closed to logical investors, alternative asset classes have suddenly become more attractive. By Jonat...
A pair of Inland Empire medical groups sued the prominent local surgeon who manages them, accusing him and his business partne...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar considers contributing to CCMS
By Don Debenedictisn
If the State Bar joins a billionaire philanthropist to aid the state courts' controversial case-management system, it could ta...
Intellectual Property
Keker & Van Nest beats back infringement claim against Twitter
By Craig Anderson
Keker & Van Nest LLP won a defense verdict for Twitter Inc. against a Virginia attorney whose holding company sued the mic...
Politicians who say their war chests were depleted by an indicted campaign treasurer should, in some cases, be permitted to ta...
The Heller Ehrman LLP estate has sued its former counsel at Greenberg Traurig LLP for malpractice. ...
A divided U.S. Supreme Court weighed Monday the right of criminal defendants to effective assistance of counsel during plea ba...
With the Obama administration turning a keen eye on illegal immigrants, Seyfarth Shaw LLP has launched an Immigration Complian...
California Supreme Court
State justices back use of gang expert testimony
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court on Monday gave prosecutors wide latitude to elicit testimony from criminal gang experts. ...
The U.S. Sentencing Commission issued a report Monday calling on Congress to reassess the current mandatory minimum penalties ...
Federal prosecutors abruptly agreed to return material they seized from a developer under investigation in an alleged San Bern...
The state Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for litigants to win attorney fees when they fight court battles in the publ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Litigator hopes to steer agenda for plaintiffs' bar
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Gary M. Paul of Waters, Krause & Paul LLP leads the American Association for Justice, the plaintiffs' bar's national lobby...
California's 4th District Court of Appeal ruled Monday that patent settlement agreements related to the antibiotic Cipro do no...
Defense lawyer calls cases a classic attempt by plaintiffs to go after what they perceive as 'a deep pocket' ...