The attorney who will ascend to the chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in 2017 is based on the East Coast, but is ad...
A federal court recognized for the first time that complex trauma can constitute a disability that public schools have an obli...
Associate General Counsel Everbridge Inc. Glendale ...
California Courts of Appeal
Enhanced reckless driving punishments for press upheld
By Ashley Cullinsn
California Vehicle Code section 40008, a 2010 law enhancing penalties for reckless driving while pursing First Amendment activ...
On Oct. 6, the most significant separation of powers case the state Supreme Court has faced in decades is scheduled for hearin...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge considers suit over failure to increase judicial salaries
By America Hernandez
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle heard arguments Wednesday on whether failure to increase judicial salar...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Landmark win for student-athletes against NCAA leaves the future uncertain
By Craig Andersonn
Legal experts were divided about the impact of a Wednesday ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that National Colle...
Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...
Government Contracts
City, not developer, controls defense of developer permits
By Ben Armisteadn
A Court of Appeal has held that the city, not the developer, controls the defense of litigation challenging a developer's perm...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Two generations of Pregerson judges are taking senior status
By John Roemer
Harry Pregerson will be 92 when he assumes senior status on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December after a storied ...
Administrative/Regulatory
In defense of requiring employees to arbitrate claims
By Ben Armisteadn
Even if the governor vetoes Assembly Bill 465, this will not be the last attack on arbitration. But arbitration is a fair, eff...
A recent decision provides guidance on whether a raw material supplier can be held liable for design defect claims in Californ...
There's a few takeways to be had from the recent copyright dispute over the world's most popular song, "Happy Birthday to You....
Palo Alto-based partners with Arnold & Porter LLP scored a defense win Tuesday in a federal jury trial that sought $1.1 mi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Immigration judge's factual findings were improperly reversed, 9th Circuit panel rules
By Craig Andersonn
An immigration judge's factual findings were improperly reversed by the Board of Immigration Appeals in a case involving a man...
Criminal
LA judge finds man innocent, eligible for state compensation
By L.J. Williamson
Reggie Cole, wrongfully convicted in 1994 in the shooting death of Felipe Angeles, was found factually innocent in Los Angeles...
If they can't afford bail, low-level offenders often are pressured into guilty pleas, because all they want to do is get out o...
Law Practice
Renne Sloan absorbs Sacramento public agency law boutique
By Joshua Seboldn
Two public agency law boutiques with a presence in Sacramento are combining forces. Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP, previously...
Litigation
Sex trafficking collaborative court draws White House eye
By America Hernandez
The Compton courthouse has garnered a significant amount of attention from the White House this past month for its Succeeding ...
Litigation
Ticket fixing ex-judge ineligible for more money from judicial retirement system
By John Roemer
Disgraced former judge William R. Danser won't get any more cash from the judicial retirement system, even though he won expun...
California Courts of Appeal
State appeals court rejects Prop. 47 resentencing
By Kevin Lee
A superior court judge cannot reconsider a criminal sentence when the defendant is pursuing a related appeal, a state appeals ...
Attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP have filed the first class action...
The state Supreme Court needs to answer the question regarding what is a plaintiff's burden of proof regarding restitution in ...
This month the state Legislature passed comprehensive legislation providing for the full regulation of the medical marijuana i...
A series of lawsuits recently filed in the Northern District of California seem to think so. By Bruce E. Boyden ...
Waste collector Recology Inc. won a defense verdict last week when a San Mateo County jury unanimously rejected a $10.6 millio...
Litigation
Lawyers asking for big cut of $577 million price fixing settlement
By Saul Sugarman
A $192 million attorney fee request in a large Northern District antitrust class action has lawyers asking for a third of the ...
Public investment giants, such as Fidelity and Vanguard, are steadily seeking more access to private companies and have funnel...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Financialforce.com Inc. San Francisco ...