San Diego brewery and distillery Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits Inc. filed for a $172.5 million public offering Monday wi...
Personalized Beauty Discovery Inc. San Mateo ...
Nick J. Yocca, a legal powerhouse in OC, died Thursday. ...
Intellectual Property
Apple on the hook for $234M for infringing university's patent
By Saul Sugarman
Tech giant must pay up after jury finds it infringed on a patent related to microprocessor architecture ...
The Boeing Company agreed to pay $18 million to settle a False Claims Act whistleblower suit alleging the company over-billed ...
State Bar Trustee Dennis Mangers, who recently threatened to step down from the board because of the new president's committee...
In a decision that may have important implications for lawful permanent residents of the U.S. facing possible removal, a 9th U...
Judge David F. De Alba will be the new assistant presiding judge in Sacramento County Superior Court. Elected by his peers, th...
Product Liability
Date set for failure-to-warn trial over antipsychotic drugs
By America Hernandez
The first of more than 3,200 coordinated failure to warn cases against Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals over ...
Environmental
Judge tosses suit seeking tougher drilling, fracking controls
By Fiona Smith
Claims brought by environmentalists that the state failed to properly look at the harms posed by Bakersfield-based Aera Energy...
Settlement amounts revealed to be paid by the largest Wall Street banks in antitrust class action. ...
The union representing employees in the State Bar's attorney discipline unit has scheduled a rare vote so employees can weigh ...
In a decision that may have important implications for lawful permanent residents of the U.S. facing possible removal, a 9th U...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Postings for uncompensated assistant U.S. attorneys have become widespread nationwide. ...
Young attorneys who have been practicing for five years or less will have an opportunity to chat with state and federal judges...
Intellectual Property
Appeals court OKs Google book scanning as fair use
By Saul Sugarman
Attorneys representing Google Inc. emerged victorious Friday with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a lowe...
Judge Barry G. Silverman will step down as an active 9th Circuit judge in October 2016. ...
A state appellate court ruling that Proposition 47 applies equally to juveniles and adults has become California precedent aft...
A popular song shares minimal and fragmentary notes with a sample, says a music expert called as a defense witness. ...
While some insist that when Proposition 47 shrank felonies to misdemeanors, it gutted the drug courts' carrot-and-stick toolki...
Superior Court Judge Fresno County (B.F. Sisk Courthouse, Fresno) ...
Despite representing a multi-billion-dollar annual market in the U.S., electronic cigarette devices have never been subject to...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Charles Wilson applies a holistic perspective to his work on the bench.
Bankruptcy court judge M. Elaine Hammond likes for attorneys to keep things in perspective. ...
A prisoner cites the medical community’s about-face on Shaken Baby Syndrome in seeking habeas relief. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
On the bench and as a neutral, William Cahill cultivates a reputation as a people-person
By <B>Kevin Lee</B>
During a decade-long stint as a judge at San Francisco County Superior Court, William J. Cahill passed along a challenge to co...
When Doniger / Burroughs says it tries more copyright cases than anyone else in the country, it isn't a sales pitch. ...
Guidance Software Inc., a Pasadena-based data security software company, named Alfredo Gomez as its general counsel Thursday. ...