A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Fresno County Judge Don Penner insists on authority and preparedness in felony home court.
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Metropolitan Courthouse) ...
Law Practice
Renne Sloan continues expansion, poaching 4 attorneys from Meyers Nave
By Joshua Seboldn
Labor/Employment
Bankruptcy puts stay on American Apparel litigation avalanche
By Matthew Blaken
The company's Chapter 11 filing is a serious bump in the road for Keith Fink and client Dov Charney who have serially sued the...
A review of Ari Berman's "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." By Robert Rubin ...
A law which recently took effect in California expressly excludes text messages from the definition of 'writing' when it comes...
U.S. Supreme Court
9th Circuit senior judge honored with distinguished service award
By Matthew Hamity
Senior Judge Edward Leavy of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will receive the 31st Annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished...
Judicate West Santa Ana ...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP filed a class action late Wednesday against Pomona Unified School District after developme...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Yoga moves do not deserve copyright protection, 9th Circuit rules
By Craig Andersonn
Yoga teachers nationwide breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a yoga seque...
Solo and Small Firms
A veteran appellate lawyer's small firm has had a large impact
By Joshua Seboldn
Veteran appellate specialist Charles Kagay and his firm, Spiegel Liao & Kagay PC, is highly regarded for their expertise i...
California Courts of Appeal
Court: No free speech aegis for mugshot aggregator
By L.J. Williamson
A California Court of Appeals denied a claim that posting mug shots of arrestees and charging a fee to remove the photo is a p...
The current DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. chief legal officer will head up the Palo Alto technology solutions giant in Nove...
As body-worn cameras are being deployed in police departments around California and the country, courts are having to grapple ...
The state Supreme Court issued fewer opinions during its last term than in at least five years, a trend that some experts attr...
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC founder and “bond king” William H. Gross sued the company Thursday for breach of co...
On Oct. 4, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 96, prohibiting most ivory sales in California. By Jean Su ...
Lawyers are often confronted with potential and actual conflicts of interest. Fortunately, drafting an effective conflict waiv...
Labor/Employment
Fraud claims analyzed in space tech company's employment spat
By Matthew Blake
A groundbreaking lawsuit about when workers must learn of a mass dismissal morphed on Wednesday into a fraudulent contract cla...
Twenty years ago, the consensus among economists was that patents are a necessary evil. We have watched the strangling of inno...
The U.S. Supreme Court surprised many on Monday by denying the government's petition for a writ of certiorari and declining to...
A disgruntled consumer asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to restore her lawsuit alleging that a Half Moon Bay grower del...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former federal judge moves to neutral role
By Banks Albachn
Retired judge Frank C. Damrell, formerly with the Eastern District of California, joined JAMS Wednesday as the firm's newest m...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday that will keep the basic yearly licensing fee at $315 for State Bar members. Thi...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Embattled judge pleads to remain on the bench despite involvement with clerk
By Saul Sugarman
Valeriano Saucedo, a Tulare County Superior Court judge trying to remain on the bench, told a panel with the Commission on Jud...
Amid a looming U.S. Supreme Court case on consumer privacy, Spokeo Inc., a Pasadena-based personal data search engine, has app...
Litigation
Quinn Emanuel to litigate Volkswagen shareholder suit in Germany
By Gautham Thomasn
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will represent an international group of Volkswagen AG shareholders in a German suit...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar executive director wants controversial chief trial counsel to stay on
By Craig Andersonn
New State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker is trying to convince Chief Trial Counsel Jayne Kim to seek a new ...
During oral argument Wednesday, the justices peppered an attorney arguing for a broad interpretation of CEQA with skeptical qu...