The headline for the June 11 article about unionizing at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center misrepresents the subject...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
You gotta show why fees are reasonable
By Ben Armisteadn
Too often, law firms seeking to recover attorney fees as damages simply assume the fees are justified, yet they're unable to e...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Retired judge James Kleinberg keeps opposing sides away from each other as neutral
By Banks Albachn
Former Santa Clara County complex court judge James Kleinberg calls it as he sees it. ...
An ex-Sullivan & Cromwell partner accuses her estranged husband, a former Irell & Manella partner, of concealing $20 m...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit knocks out patent claim on business methods
By Saul Sugarman
Computer methods that determine prices for products given their demand cannot be patented, the United States Court of Appeals ...
Environmental
After tentative ruling, judge requests supplemental briefs in case over safety standards for lead content
By Fiona Smith
An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ordered supplemental briefing after issuing a tentative decision earlier this week ...
Founders of Sklar Kirsh LLP say the synergy between their two main practices - real estate and corporate transactions - is the...
California farm workers should enjoy safer work environments due to a host of bolstered workplace protections announced Thursd...
Government
Senate confirms Eileen Decker as prosecutor-in-chief for Central District
By Deirdre Newmann
Eileen Decker is one step closer to becoming the new U.S. attorney in the Central District. She was confirmed by the U.S. Sena...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired LA County judge released on bail after firing at police
By Laurinda Keys
James Bascue, a former Los Angeles County presiding judge, was arrested Thursday and booked on a charge of firing at police of...
The House Judiciary Committee advanced its version of patent reform litigation to the House of Representatives on Thursday as ...
Corporate
Bill to ban corporate fee shifting bylaws and narrow forum selection passes Delaware House
By Banks Albachn
Delaware's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Thursday crafted by the state bar's council on corporate law tha...
Environmental
Environmental group uses Prop. 65 to go after fracking wastewater wells in Central Valley
By Fiona Smith
The Center for Environmental Health is preparing a novel lawsuit against a company for allegedly violating the state's consume...
Litigation
Judge to give final approval to Hyundai, Kia mileage inflation settlement
By America Hernandez
U.S. District Judge George H. Wu on Thursday blessed Hyundai and Kia's move to pump up the claims rate by considering drivers ...
Of seven lawyers disbarred recently, all had been disciplined before, and five were disbarred for disobeying probation terms i...
Increasingly, legal nonprofits representing workers are facing a new challenge: responding to the employment rights of their s...
Intellectual Property
Music licensing regime is out of tune with technology
By Ben Armisteadn
New technology and shifting consumer habits require we rethink how performance rights are licensed. By Michael R. Morris ...
Employers can no longer skirt California's generous employee rights laws with forum selection clauses that force employees to ...
Associate General Manager and Chief Legal Executive Salt River Project Phoenix ...
Litigation
Squire Patton Boggs scores defense win in invention ownership case
By Kevin Lee
A Northern California federal jury determined Tuesday that Singapore-based Venture Corporation Ltd. did not breach contracts, ...
Litigation
Judge appears poised to toss suit over state safety standards for lead in tentative ruling
By Fiona Smith
An Alameda County Superior Court Judge appears poised to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to abolish a state safety standard for...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Chip consolidation continues as activists set sights
By Banks Albachn
Amid an ongoing wave of consolidation in the semiconductor industry,, Milpitas-based Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc. announc...
State Bar & Bar Associations
California attorneys to head new National Cannabis Bar Association
By Joshua Seboldn
A group of attorneys with experience handling matters related to marijuana businesses launched the National Cannabis Bar Assoc...
Criminal
Immigration lawyer indicted for witness tampering in 'birthing house' raids
By Don Debenedictisn
Irvine immigration lawyer Ken Zhiyi Liang was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for allegedly trying to help smuggle ...
Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $100 million to end a shareholder class action concerning the company's bungled 2011 pur...
Steven Vartazarian urged the jury to find Wright Medical Technology Inc. liable for negligence in its manufacture and design o...
Litigation
Former Dodgers player files suit against insurance company
By Deirdre Newmann
Major league baseball player Kevin J. Correia sued Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, alleging the insurance behemot...
It is time to revise the mandatory court form used to issue subpoenas in state courts. As written, it is placing an unintended...
Litigation
ADA suit over fee for gluten-free restaurant food could be sign of future litigation
By Kibkabe Arayan
Lawyers are closely awaiting the outcome of a tentatively dismissed case in San Jose federal court that could signal whether r...
Litigation
Federal agency ignores risk of increased oil development in state, suit contends
By Fiona Smith
Environmental groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wednesday claiming it did an inadequate environmental review of i...