Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP San Francisco
Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco
Very often, the noisy debate that goes on in this country about how to meet our increasing energy demands centers on whether t...
Attorneys who defend against Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecutions are concerned about the Securities and Exchange Commis...
Superior Court Judge Kimberly M. Briggs extended compassion to defendants as a prosecutor, a trait that's in full bloom in her...
A New York man accused of uploading an unfinished version of the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" to the Internet prior to the...
Countrywide Home Loans Inc. must produce documents related to 160,000 option adjustable-rate mortgages in litigation in which ...
Former Honda North America general counsel Timothy J. Conley has joined Hogan Lovells US LLP as of counsel, making him the sec...
Control of the judiciary belongs to the judges of the state's 58 trial courts. By Maryanne G. Gilliard of the Sacramento Count...
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced it will acquire chemical manufacturer The Lubrizol Corp. for $9.7 billion, m...
Foreign investors seeking to acquire domestic Chinese enterprises face challenges from a new security review system. By Tracy ...
A Santa Barbara attorney who was fined for allegedly running up the legal tab in her divorce got a break Monday from a state a...
Perspective
Slashing of Incentives Associated With Wage and Hour Litigation
By Karen Natividadn
Meal period litigation may see a decline now that attorney fees are not recoverable. By Ronald W. Novotny and Matthew S. D'Abu...
The Paiute-Shoshone's last battle over the Owens Valley water that slakes Los Angeles' thirst may have ended Monday with a dec...
Corporate
Selling a Family Business Without Selling Out the Family
By Alexander Phersonn
How to manage competing interests when selling a family owned business. By John B. Marshall, Kevin E. Rex and Robert A. Hull o...
Samsung Electronics Co. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have agreed to pay $33.25 million and $6.25 million, respectively, to ...
An administrative law tribunal rarely approves compensation claims from former prisoners who say they were wrongfully imprison...
Like state worker furloughs before them, calls to roll back public employees' pension benefits are poised to trigger an avalan...
Former prosecutor Delbert Oros is known as a meticulous judge who fully researches his opinions and will catch the tiniest err...
Cumulus Media Inc. announced on Friday it agreed to acquire Citadel Broadcasting Corp. in a deal that would purchase all outst...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar's Top Cop Cutting Discipline Backlog
By Don Debenedictisn
Beset by backlogs and critics, the State Bar's new top prosecutor has launched new programs and new approaches to get tough on...
General counsel, senior vice president of organizational development, and corporate secretary for ResMed Inc. San Diego...
With so much money in play, the video game industry is starting to see its share of litigation. By Mark P. Pifko of Baron &...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
State Will Get $5.2 Million in Settlement
By Mandy Jacksonn
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday that California will receive more than $5.2 million of a $68....
It can take just one day to lose your right to appeal. By Margaret M. Grignon and Brandon W. Corbridge of Reed Smith. ...
Former city attorney and 2010 state attorney general hopeful Rocky Delgadillo has left his stead as counsel at Goodwin Procter...
Opinion or defamation? The recurring question continues with a lawsuit by the principal owner of the Washington Redskins. By M...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers Allege Genocide Case Fraud
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Two California attorneys set up phony charities to defraud plaintiffs in a multimillion-dollar settlement for families of Arme...
Criminal defense lawyers must tell noncitizen clients about the deportation risk of a guilty plea, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Federal appellate judges have asked lawyers in a video game dispute with significant First Amendment issues to file briefs exp...