Investments
Goodwin Procter helps Hortonworks with $100M funding round
By Salvador Mares
Goodwin Procter LLP represented data analytics software developer Hortonworks Inc. in a $100 million funding round led by Blac...
Litigation
Class counsel seek mediation to resolve Kozinski's objection
By Hadley Robinson
In the latest complication caused by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's objection to a settleme...
Litigation
Narrow ruling brings cases against Bryan Cave back to life
By Kylie Reynolds
Two legal malpractice lawsuits seeking more than $100 million from the firm may be revived following a 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
Judicial officers at all levels routinely push for settlements. However, some judges have been pushing in opposite direction w...
St. Luke's Health System was recently ordered to unwind a merger with the Saltzer Medical Group - on a horizontal theory. By T...
A look at how courts have been sorting through class certification in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark 2013 decision. ...
The issuance of tax-exempt state and local governmental debt obligations historically has been an important tool for providing...
Let's hope that the strength in municipal bond performance will sustain and lead to an increase in municipal bond issuances, b...
Loyola Law School suffered a self-inflicted data breach earlier this month when the school's financial aid office inadvertentl...
Litigation
Health care consolidation getting tested on antitrust grounds
By Hadley Robinson
While government-sponsored health care reform sends a message to hospitals, physician groups and other providers to consolidat...
Consumer attorneys as of late Monday appeared almost certain to push forward with a voter initiative to raise the state cap on...
Red-hot online storage company Box Inc. tapped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to ready its highly anticipated initial...
Administrative/Regulatory
Venture capital attorneys back bill to tweak finance regulations
By Salvador Mares
A new bill currently winding its way through the state Legislature is poised to have a small but significant impact on Califor...
Administrative/Regulatory
State oversight of zip lines is 'underground regulation,' attorney says
By Chase Scheinbaum
Attorneys and business owners say the state lacks jurisdiction over the cable-rides, but regulators say zip lines have flown "...
Perspective
Religious liberty should trump Affordable Care Act's mandate
By Katharine Malonen
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialt...
Labor/Employment
Judge points to weakness in worker-friendly employment claim
By Laura Hautalan
Employers won a victory against one of the state's most formidable employment statutes last week, with a federal judge finding...
Law Practice
In new post, former FBI director to visit California 'regularly'
By Kylie Reynolds
Robert S. Mueller joined WilmerHale on Monday as a Washington, D.C.-based partner. But with a teaching appointment at Stanford...
James Humes, Gov. Jerry Brown's longtime trusted adviser, is making his mark on the appellate court.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
General Counsel for American Technologies Inc. Orange ...
Environmental
Proposed toxic warning law rules stir concern among industry attorneys
By Fiona Smith
California regulators are proposing a major overhaul of how companies warn the public about toxic chemicals under the state's ...
Letters, Constitutional Law
Re: Six Problems With 'Six Californias' Initiative," March 11. ...
Environmental
California setting the pace for toxic chemical protections
By Ben Armisteadn
This month, the DTSC took a major step by proposing the first three chemicals and products to be targeted by the Green Chemist...
U.S. Supreme Court
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 ...
In the last 200 years, appellate argument has transitioned from oral presentation to the written word. By Nathaniel Garrett ...
Labor/Employment
Worker security questioned in pot legalization debate
By Laura Hautalan
Can I be fired for smoking marijuana recreationally, even if it's legal? That's one of the looming questions in the debate ove...
The measure would bring penalties for selling the drug in line with those for selling similar amounts of powder cocaine, conti...
Litigation
Injured Occupy protester reaches $4.5 million settlement with Oakland
By Saul Sugarman
An Iraq War veteran whose skull was fractured during an Occupy Oakland protest when he was hit by a beanbag round fired by pol...
A San Francisco judge disqualified law firm BraunHagey & Borden LLP from a federal lawsuit last week for reviewing emails ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
TV conglomerate taps Weil for $1.6 billion sale
By Salvador Mares
Television station conglomerate LIN Media LLC relied on counsel from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP to help oversee its $1.6 b...