The plaintiffs claim Pfizer and other companies entered into an illicit agreement that delayed the generic version of choleste...
Perspective
The Alien Tort Statute: A powerful weapon against corporations engaged in war crimes
By Karen Natividadn
The 9th Circuit joins other circuits in holding corporations potentially accountable for war crimes. By Richard Kellner and Sc...
Video gamers packed stores Tuesday to get their hands on the third installment of Activision Publishing Inc.'s wildly popular ...
City charter provisions supersede state law on issues of employee pay, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Monday setting...
Two doctors filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Oakland seeking a declaration that California's medical disciplinary he...
An employment defense litigator with Bingham McCutchen LLP has joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP's Los Angeles office, the firm ann...
After 24 years in office, San Bernardino City Attorney James F. "Jim" Penman has found himself embroiled in one of the state's...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel rejects former McAfee GC's malicious prosecution suit
By Craig Andersonn
A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed Kent Robert's claim of malicious prosecution against his former employer for its r...
Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...
Judge Alan Jaroslovsky knows bankruptcy, and he expects lawyers before him to know it, too.
A roundup of M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
As California gears up to distribute funds to local authorities for realigning the prison system, some counties are raising ob...
Vice President and General Counsel of The Cooper Companies Inc. in Pleasanton ...
A former research attorney, Judge Jed Q. Beebe thinks long and hard from the bench.
A reader responds to "Supreme Court sends arbitration case back to state high court." ...
Before converting to a flexible purpose corporation or a benefit corporation, consider how this will affect key relationships....
Are confidentiality agreements really iron-clad? By Carol A. Gefis of Archer Norris PLC ...
Why predictive coding deserves to become the new default in discovery. By Daniel B. Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers ...
The legal industry added just 400 jobs in the month of October, in keeping with national employment numbers across public and ...
Intellectual Property
Knobbe Partner wins patent appeal for tech clients
By Craig Andersonn
A federal appeals court panel on Friday affirmed a decision that a host of defendants represented by an Irvine-based partner ...
Daniel Cooperman, former general counsel for Apple Inc., was recently elected to the board of advisers for SFL Data Inc., a Sa...
At long last, Chicago-based Groupon Inc. is a public company, debuting as the largest IPO of a U.S. Internet company since Goo...
The Supreme Court is expected to decide as early as today whether to review the case of a would-be TV producer who sued Pilgri...
Despite uncertain market conditions, third-quarter venture capital investment in the clean tech sector was strong, bringing i...
Government
State Bar hires MoFo to advise it in negotiations with CCMS
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar Board of Governors voted Friday to formally begin discussions that ultimately could lead to the bar and its disc...
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal approval of Medi-Cal cuts could upend Supreme Court case
By Robert Iafolla
Federal approval of California's plan to reduce health care spending on poor residents could spell the end of a U.S. Supreme C...
Fenwick & West LLP added Andrew P. Bridges as partner in San Francisco. He focuses on intellectual property litigation. Br...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Litigation
In serving lawsuits, tech-savvy California sticks to paper
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Although state and federal laws do allow in rare circumstances for serving defendants by electronic means, via email or social...
Several environmental groups sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its decision to grant air quality ...