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...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Don't go crazy with the DMCA
In 1984, Prince released his hit song, "Let's Go Crazy." Now, the song has raised legal questions regarding the issuance of ta...
California Courts of Appeal
Shopping center tenants get what they sought, and it will cost them, appellate court rules
By John Roemer
A legal quirk will let San Bernardino County shopping center owners receive a $126,000 judgment against a tenant - if the owne...
An Irvine-based immigration attorney stood trial Tuesday, facing charges of obstructing justice in a case involving Chinese na...
In a dispute with a contractor over the validity of county audits, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge admonished the county fo...
US District Judge James Donato is tinkering with some unconventional proposals for handling civil trials.
Judges and Judiciary
State high court seeks feedback on political ethics advisory for judges
By John Roemer
Judges attending partisan political fundraisers better watch their step, a state Supreme Court ethics watchdog panel has warne...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Company Secretary of PayPal Inc. San Jose ...