The Internet has brought a wealth of new experiences within reach of nearly everyone in our country. Yet it has also created a...
Labor/Employment
To WARN or not to WARN, that is the issue the court faced
By Ben Armisteadn
Must a financially troubled employer, anticipating that a sale of its business will solve its financial problems, give federal...
How do you question a gang witness when "snitches get stitches?" By Richard La Fianza and Frank Loo ...
The office will get over $400,000 to fill 15 positions to handle newly classified misdemeanor cases under the new law. ...
Aliso Viejo-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals was counseled by Latham & Watkins LLP in its sale to Otsuka Pharmaceutical, a Jap...
Intellectual Property
Patent case filings on pace to reach three-year nadir
By Kevin Lee
Plaintiffs are currently on pace to file the fewest patent lawsuits in three years, following a sustained period of lackluster...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Courts of Appeal
State law requiring DNA sample collection unconstitutional, appeals court rules
By Emily Green
A state court of appeal here ruled on Wednesday that a California law requiring police to collect a DNA sample from anyone arr...
Litigation
Agency accused of unlawfully issuing permits for oil and gas drilling techniques
By Matt Hamilton
The Environmental Defense Center claims a federal agency failed to perform environmental reviews and notify the public of the ...
Precedent is the U.S. Supreme Court's business, yet there is little consensus about how the court should treat its own past de...
Entertainment & Sports
MGA tussles with financial advisors over toy sale
By Matthew Blaken
The Van Nuys company is trying to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from the botched acquisition of a French toy manufac...
California Supreme Court
State high court justices say Jessica's Law has backfired
By Emily Green
In two cases this week, the state Supreme Court left no doubt that the 2006 ballot measure Jessica's Law, forbidding registere...
Solano County Judge Peter Foor, an ex-Marine and public defender, has seen his share of fighting.
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Entertainment & Sports
NFL Players Association's use of single arbitrator spurs controversy
By Henry Meier
Roger Kaplan's familiarity and expertise in the niche field is unquestioned, but a recent lawsuit in federal court raised ques...
A Court of Appeal recently found that a litigant is not required to show a reasonable apprehension of future physical abuse to...
Reports of government using planes to collect location data from cellphones of suspects through fake communication towers on p...
SanDisk Corp. has filled its vacant chief legal officer spot with 14-year Broadcom Corp. veteran Mark Brazeal. ...
Litigation
Keker files response on behalf of Greenberg in sanctions spat
By Alex Shively
Greenberg Traurig's answer to the claims of a client's litigation opponent that it should pay sanctions to the tune of nearly ...
Law Practice
Former utility general counsel joins San Diego-based firm
By Melanie Brisbon
On the heels of an expansion into Los Angeles and Spokane, Wash., Andrews, Lagasse, Branch & Bell LLP announced Tuesday th...
Administrative/Regulatory
City attorney sues medical marijuana delivery app maker
By Kibkabe Arayan
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer says Nestdrop LLC's mobile app to deliver medical marijuana to residences is illegal. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Pandora not allowed to lock music publishers into next big licensing deal
By Matthew Blaken
A federal judge's ruling unsealed Monday leaves music publishers free to jump in or out of the next blanket licensing deal bet...
In the wake of the absorption of Bingham McCutchen by Morgan Lewis, Daniel Cooperman has moved from Bingham's Silicon Valley o...
Gov. Jerry Brown's recent nominees for the California Supreme Court have been showered with unusual advance criticism, primari...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Environmental groups ask 9th Circuit to block crude oil rail shipments
By John Roemer
Seeking to safeguard California from rail shipments of crude oil in allegedly unsafe tank cars, environmental groups on Tuesda...
Litigation
Plaintiffs seek $1 billion from Apple as antitrust trial opens
By Laura Hautalan
Plaintiffs' attorneys told a federal jury on Tuesday that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law, costing consumers and resellers m...
Litigation
Lawmakers take another stab at modifying Americans with Disabilities Act
By Paul Jones
Even after a 2012 law reformed the state's rules for filing disability access suits, a handful of attorneys have continued fil...
Judges and Judiciary
An elated adieu to NBC spoof of LA County judges
By Ben Armisteadn
NBC has announced they are cancelling their short-lived comedy, "Bad Judge." It's about time. By Anthony J. Mohr ...
Why would a business entrepreneur ever consider a sale to a money-chasing private equity fund rather than another strategic bu...
To be sure, 2014 will be remembered as a year the world changed - the year that honest disclosure gave way to raw deception; t...
The Michael Brown shooting case provides an opportunity to explore important issues concerning the role of the prosecutor. By ...