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Perspective


DA offices across the state need to be transparent as to how they handle wrongful conviction investigations. By Lucy Salcido C...


Litigation


Judge rules that venture misled its investors

Sep. 12, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday ruled that California Farm Investors LLC, led by prominent entertainment attorney Michael...


Litigation


Resignation of OC deputy DA welcomed by many

Sep. 12, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

The news of the resignation of an Orange County deputy district attorney accused of improperly using jailhouse informants and ...


Solo and Small Firms


Core Values

Sep. 12, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

Former Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP partners have adopted a non-heirarchical environment, life-work bal...


Entertainment & Sports


Judge sides with GoDaddy in cybersquatting suit

Sep. 12, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ruled Thursday that GoDaddy did not violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, ending fiv...


Arbitrator Profile


Bruce Friedman

Sep. 12, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

JAMS (Santa Monica) ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The government relied on flimsy evidence when it allowed widespread use of a a new pesticide despite lack of data on its effec...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The U.S. Department of Justice must produce secret recordings made during a federal investigation into the alleged price riggi...


International


Process of Iran nuclear deal needs scrutiny

Sep. 12, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

A progressive president seeks to end a long conflict through a multilateral agreement, but faces skeptical senators, especiall...


Judge Stephanie Bowick tentatively ruled the case should go to an arbitratior, but said she needed more time to study issue. ...


Ellen Pao's defiant admission of defeat Wednesday in her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...


Labor/Employment


Current and former managers with Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. say the chain chronically understaffs stores, leav...


California Courts of Appeal


A Pasadena police union failed to keep secret an independent report on the 2012 officer-involved fatal shooting of an unarmed ...


A San Diego company that distributed cucumbers believed to be responsible for a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has...


Intellectual Property


Artist sues Netflix in rare copyright claim

Sep. 11, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

In what attorneys said could be the first litigation of its kind in decades, a handwritten lawsuit from a pro per artist takes...


Trusts & Estates


Last month, new regulations took effect in the EU governing what law controls when dealing with an estate plan in which a clie...


Criminal


A few weeks ago, Regal Entertainment Group announced a "Backpacks/Packages" policy on its website, which has been implemented ...


Perspective


Goodell: judge, jury, commissioner

Sep. 11, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Questions about the NFL commissioner's alleged lack of impartiality in the so-called "Delflategate" scandal could be the most ...


Intellectual Property


Google Inc. successfully fought off a patent infringement lawsuit brought by plaintiff Blue Spike LLC after an Oakland federal...


California Courts of Appeal


Social media companies win discovery fight

Sep. 11, 2015
By L.J. Williamson

Criminal defendants awaiting trial have no right to the social media content of victims' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accou...


Federal agents Wednesday morning arrested a man posing as an immigration lawyer and his daughter for allegedly setting up Chin...


Government


Privacy bill heads to governor amid controversy

Sep. 11, 2015
By Joshua Seboldn

A new bill likely headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk would require law enforcement to attain a warrant before collecting on...


Litigation


Broadcom gender bias case will stay in court

Sep. 11, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

A federal judge has denied company's bid to bring gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit before an arbitrator. ...


Law Practice


Gibson Dunn snags Foley's LA managing partner

Sep. 11, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

Deepak Nanda, the previous managing partner of Foley & Lardner LLP's Los Angeles office, has joined the Orange County offi...


Transactions


Health care IPOs strong in market downturn

Sep. 11, 2015
By Banks Albachn

With the recent market downturn the number of companies filing initial public offerings could slow in the fourth quarter this ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 10, 2015
By Melanie Brisbonn

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Judges and Judiciary


A year after legislators clarified that state courts could make findings that unaccompanied undocumented children are eligible...



Joseph A. Calabrese

Sep. 10, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

Latham & Watkins LLP Century City ...


Perspective


I write to follow-up to the excellent article on the oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Center for Biologica...


Construction


A Court of Appeal recently published an opinion holding that the Right to Repair Act applies to all claims alleging constructi...