California Courts of Appeal
Court rejects investor suit against law firm
By Banks Albachn
Baker & McKenzie LLP has fended off a $15 million class action suit in a case brought by investors who alleged the firm in...
Trial continued Thursday in federal court with the presentation of covertly recorded video in the case of a disgraced attorney...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
New JAMS mediator Stock enjoys her job, stresses transparency
By Matthew Blaken
Nancy Wieben Stock likes the interplay between attorneys, but does not enjoy lawyers not sharing information with each other. ...
Recent cases have raised questions about the validity of a common settlement agreement procedure and created uncertainty about...
Intellectual Property
Oracle's legal tactics draws fire from judge in Java case
By Kevin Lee
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Thursday he plans to bifurcate liability and damages issues in the landmark copyright i...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit rules that Apple is entitled to an injunction in smartphone case
By John Roemer
Only a sales ban will do, because a federal jury's $119 million damages award wasn't enough to punish Samsung Electronics Co. ...
Litigation
Sparks fl y in closing statements of OC trade secrets trial
By Deirdre Newmann
Sparks fly in closing arguments of a trial pitting a pension benefits company against several of its former brokers and suppor...
For Mark D. Baute, the managing partner of Baute Crochetiere Gilford LLP, there are few things more interesting than the insig...
Among attorneys recently disciplined by the Supreme Court or the State Bar Court four were disbarred due to default. Two were ...
While the two practice areas have always been linked, stricter laws, harsher enforcement, and the narrowing of types of crimes...
Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel VSP Global Rancho Cordova ...
In a case that could further define legal access to public agencies, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of H...
Environmental
Deal between Obama administration and water district could settle long legal fight
By Fiona Smith
The proposed settlement moves responsibility from the U.S. to a Fresno-based water district to manage contaminated irrigation ...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. LaPorte of the Northern District has sent a putative class action against Lyft Inc. to arbi...
California Supreme Court
SD County Bar backs L.A. in case before California Supreme Court
By Lyle Moran
The San Diego County Bar Association filed a brief with the California Supreme Court supporting the city of Los Angeles in a c...
Fifteen people were indicted Tuesday in a $150 million medical insurance fraud scheme in what Los Angeles County District Atto...
Attorney Richard Medina Jr. plead guilty in federal court to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that illegall...
Former analyst alleges the company's ranking system, where only a set number of employees can be in the top tiers, leads to un...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS hires longtime judges from Alameda, San Francisco
By Joshua Seboldn
JAMS Inc. added two prominent retired judges, Steven A. Brick of Alameda County and Richard Kramer of San Francisco County, to...
With 18 words, a proposed amendment to the National Labor Relations Act could clear up some of the murk and confusion of labor...
Intellectual Property
As Apple-Samsung case drags along, legal observers question the point
By Kevin Lee
As the patent litigation between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. returns to San Jose for a possible fourth jury tr...
Litigation
Judge rejects government bid to seize motorcycle club's trademark logo
By John Roemer
The storied Mongols Motorcycle Club rode free from a federal indictment on Wednesday as a Central District judge dismissed an ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Once a hot new area of state employment litigation, lawsuits over suitable seats are at a major impasse. ...
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently demonstrated the importance of running a real process with the goal of protecting mino...
Last Thursday, a surprising majority of the California Assembly rejected reforming the controversial practice of civil forfeit...
Litigation
Citing precedent, judge rejects baseball minor leaguers' class action
By Philip Johnsonn
Citing baseball's antitrust exemption, a federal judge has dismissed a putative class action that seeks to change minor league...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' privacy firm goes after Twitter for direct messages
By Joshua Seboldn
Twitter Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action led by a well-known plaintiffs privacy firm, alleging that the company ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Industry group is taking affordable housing mandate ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
By John Roemer
Pushing back against a June ruling by the state's highest court favoring affordable housing mandates, builders and a conservat...
A former lawyer and Marin County resident has been indicted for allegedly defrauding several clients, according to federal pro...