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Corporate Counsel


Leezie Kim

Apr. 3, 2015
By Chris L. Gilfillan

Vice President and General Counsel Fox Restaurant Concepts Phoenix ...


Transactions


Does an activist have a conflict of interest?

Apr. 3, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Controversy is brewing about whether stockholder activists and their representatives on the board have a conflict of interest ...


Criminal


Ending prosecutorial unaccountability

Apr. 3, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

In state and federal courts today, there is prosecutorial wrongdoing aplenty, and next to nothing is ever done about it. "Stac...


Intellectual Property


The 9th Circuit was recently confronted with Lanham Act false endorsement claims brought by the late Bob Marley's children aga...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Renowned health care attorneys Noah D. Rosenberg, Lenard I. Pick and Lauren W. Wilson have joined Baker & Hostetler LLP in...


Judges and Judiciary


Energetic judge leaves the bench

Apr. 3, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Schnegg, a dynamo in the judiciary who volunteered for a variety of legal ...


Corporate


Despite GoDaddy's highly watched public debut Wednesday, the number of private companies jumping into the public realm has dro...


Corporate


What do you do when Mikhail Gorbachev has to cancel on you? Give Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu a call, of course. ...


A Los Angeles federal judge has tossed one of last year's largest patent trial awards and ordered a new trial on damages after...


Law Practice


The former chief of the criminal division in the Northern District U.S. attorney's office has departed Munger, Tolles & Ol...


Perspective


Pot laws versus the supremacy clause

Apr. 3, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Colorado's neighboring states, Nebraska and Oklahoma, have invoked the high court's original and exclusive jurisdiction to hea...


Hulu LLC's defeat of claims it shared information about what videos its users watch with Facebook Inc. knocked out the use of ...


Labor/Employment


Ellen Pao's defeat could set the bar higher for taking gender discrimination suits or taking those cases to a jury trial. ...


Transactions


Dealmakers

Apr. 2, 2015
By Jason Pafundin

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.


California Courts of Appeal


When insurers rescind, they must act fast

Apr. 2, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

A recent case teaches that insurers must promptly rescind the policy and return all premiums upon learning of material misrepr...


Data Privacy


Privacy class action against Hulu rejected

Apr. 2, 2015
By Laura Hautalan

Hulu LLC successfully knocked out all claims from a privacy class action late Tuesday. ...


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


A magistrate judge should have tried harder to get witnesses to testify in a trial concerning claims that prison guards used e...


Downey Brand LLP opened a new office in Cupertino with a group of 22 patent professionals from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & ...


Entertainment & Sports


Litigator E. Randol Schoenberg is brought to life by Ryan Reynolds in "Woman in Gold," following five Jewish heirs' journey t...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death penalty for an inmate whose history of sexual abuse as a minor was ...


Litigation


After an eight-week trial in Kern County Superior Court, the jury voted 10-2 to deny the plaintiff, Macpherson Oil Co., any re...


Labor/Employment


'No-poach' objector reverses course

Apr. 2, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh granted a withdrawal of an objection letter to $415 million agreement in Silicon Valley antitrust...


California Supreme Court


Frustrated lawyers needing an answer on no-class-action arbitration clauses in consumer contracts have gotten no help so far f...


Judicial Profile


Jan M. Adler

Apr. 2, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adler has many passions but maintains a cerebral tone in the courtroom.


Corporate


WideOrbit appoints first general counsel

Apr. 1, 2015
By Alison Frostn

Robert S. Tesler will oversee the legal needs of the San Francisco-based company, which develops advertising management softwa...


Judges and Judiciary


County bar directors adopted a resolution criticizing prosecutors for booting the judge from other cases as "punitive and ret...


Labor/Employment


Lynne C. Hermle, the Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP labor and employment partner, maintained her undefeated jury trial...


Securities


It's a familiar scenario: A company conducts an initial public offering; a quarter or two later, it stumbles. There might be a...


Government


Broadly construe laws requiring openness

Apr. 1, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

In a pending case, our state high court has the opportunity to prevent a Clinton-type email scandal from cropping up right her...


StubHub Inc. aims to keep a vast and valuable market from closing up to competition with its antitrust lawsuit against competi...