As sparks fly in the race for San Diego's top prosecutor, candidates have leveled stinging accusations that raise questions ab...
Securities
Stradling Yocca, Manatt advising on First Foundation's IPO
By Salvador Mares
Irvine-based financial services firm First Foundation Inc. tapped Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC to help guide its pla...
In a further effort to reduce the federal prison population and scale back severe mandatory minimum sentences, Attorney Genera...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit nixes alcohol test conviction
By Hamed Aleazizn
Under U.S. law, it is a crime to refuse a blood test but not under California law. ...
Environmental
Water battle in San Luis Obispo hints at looming legal war
By Fiona Smith
Resistance to the county's efforts to curb groundwater use raises the question of how much power local governments have over t...
Music expert Eric Harmon, once a rugby star, finds the transition easy as an LA County judge.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Although the total is still small, the number of full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar exam passage that are funded by law s...
General Counsel for Idealab Pasadena ...
How the state high court answers questions about California's "suitable-seating" requirement may have class action consequence...
After filing an insurance claim, it is not uncommon for an insured to receive unfair treatment from the claims adjuster assign...
Recent decisions show courts' reluctance to find TCPA liability where businesses send texts to customers who voluntarily provi...
After 10 months without a chief legal and regulatory officer, Mountain View-based personalized health company 23andMe Inc. hir...
David Huebner, who was the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, will handle international arbitration and security matters in ...
Litigation
City secures $4.7 million settlement in case against insurer
By Katie Lucia
In another chapter relating to one of the state's biggest government corruption cases, Upland reached a $4.7 million settlemen...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Fenwick helps Dropbox in latest pair of acquisitions
By Salvador Mares
San Francisco-based online file storage company Dropbox Inc. tapped longstanding counsel at Fenwick & West LLP to handle a...
On April 16, 2013, at 1 a.m., a stealth attack on a major substation serving Silicon Valley began by breaking into an undergro...
Government
Eastern District judge selected to join panel overseeing state prisons
By Hamed Aleazizn
The only female Article III judge on the Eastern District has been selected to sit on a panel overseeing a solution to Califor...
Intellectual Property
Samsung changes strategy, tactics in latest Apple patent trial
By Kevin Lee
The winner of the last two trials between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is sticking with its tried-and-true game...
Robert Draper, a former business litigation heavyweight, is getting acquainted with dependency court.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Supervisor of LA criminal court requires formalities but offers personal advice and sports talk
Santa Clara County Judge Deborah Ryan is known for her brisk yet compassionate approach.
Perspective
VIDEO: Fallout from Amazon security screening case may be far reaching
By Ben Armisteadn
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case which questions whether employees of companies like Amazon must be paid ...
Civil Code Section 1717 applies to any "action on a contract" if the contract provides for an award of attorney fees. By Gary ...
Legal Momentum, a women's legal defense and education fund, recently bestowed its 2014 Women of Achievement award to a group o...
Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP was founded in 1994 with 16 lawyers in Los Angeles. The firm now boasts five ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar Court again rejects disbarred ex-judge's bid for reinstatement
By Don Debenedictisn
A Detroit judge kicked off the bench for taking bribes lost his second attempt to regain the right to practice in California. ...
Loyola Law School's eighth annual Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice brought in Los Angeles legal heavyweights to discuss cr...
Martin R. Glick recently received the John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award from the American Bar Associa...