Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Pay-for-delay agreement decline in 2011
By Mandy Jacksonn
Patent litigation settlement agreements between pharmaceutical companies and generic drugmakers dropped from 31 in fiscal year...
Law Practice
Law school applicants face online scrutiny in admissions process
By Kevin Lee
Admission officers are turning to Google, Facebook and other websites to screen applicants online and the new practice is like...
The State Bar will eliminate much of its discipline backlog by the end of the year, but data in a new report raises questions ...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene on behalf of a former UBS AG client under investigation for overseas tax evasion ...
Intellectual Property
Apple's Jobs vowed to destroy Google's Android, biography reveals
By Craig Andersonn
Apple Inc.'s legal crusade against Google Inc.'s Android operating system came from the top, according to a biography of Steve...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Genocide and war crimes claims against Rio Tinto can proceed
By John Roemer
The Alien Tort Statute covers corporations accused of genocide and war crimes abroad, a splintered 9th Circuit en banc panel ...
To relieve the stress of court, Commissioner Rob Nagby slips off to a local shelter to walk a pooch.
Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp.'s acquisition machine roared back to life on Monday with a $1.43 billion purchase of Montana...
Vice president, legal affairs for Cox Communications Inc. Atlanta, GA ...
Judges and Judiciary
SF court layoffs mean increased need for temporary judges
By Amy Yarbroughn
Down eight commissioners due to layoffs caused by budget cuts, San Francisco County Superior Court is seeking volunteers to se...
Environmental
Two new laws may impact solar projects installed on publicly owned sites
By Karen Natividadn
The state Legislature addresses key issues involving public agencies' growing role in renewable energy projects. By Devon B. L...
California Courts of Appeal
Sight and smell should not be treated the same in searches, court says
By John Roemer
To smell marijuana is not the same as to see it, a state appellate panel held Monday in suppressing evidence of a 15-ounce pot...
A case involving two arms manufacturers gets thrown awry when a juror brings an outside prop into the jury room. By Bradley P....
A group of sugar producers suing to ban an advertising campaign that markets high-fructose corn syrup as "natural" and "corn s...
An Orange County jury cleared two Catholic priests of sex abuse claims, but the priests' religious order still will pay the pl...
A federal judge signaled that she will certify a class of mentally disabled immigrant detainees in California, Arizona and Was...
California's prevailing wage law cannot be avoided by artfully drafted contracts. By Kevin Collins of Alston & Bird LLP ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Prop. 8 panel extends stay on trial video's release
By John Roemer
Further delaying release of the Proposition 8 trial video, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday ordered the rec...
A judge doused a spat between the producer and the distributor of the 2005 Ryan Reynolds film "Just Friends" Monday when he or...
Public Counsel Law Center is one of six nonprofit legal service organizations and four bar associations operating a network of...
An effort by seven U.S. solar panel companies to impose duties on Chinese solar panel imports has a long way to go - and even ...
As budget cuts continue to ripple throughout the judiciary, court leaders are looking for new savings in courthouse constructi...
Mattel Inc. has agreed to pay $680 million in cash to acquire HIT Entertainment from a group led by Apax Partners, ...
Judge Blaine Bowman shows compassion to kids.
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
Appellate justice triumvirate in residence at Fresno firm
By Laura Ernden
It's easy to round up a moot court at Dowling, Aaron & Keeler in Fresno. Just yell down the hall for Jim, Nick and Steve, ...
General counsel for the University of San Diego San Diego ...
The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered a San Francisco plaintiffs' lawyer to pay his former co-counsel $92,000 in ...
Perspective
Assignment agreements in structured settlements: a proposal for change
By Genevieve Knollen
Litigation rollover accounts may be the answer to your client's objections. By David M. Higgins of Higgins Settlement Law ...
Avoid crippling liability by prospectively reclassifying your independent contractors as employees. ...