Government
CAL-ABOTA president makes push for jury service his passion
By Chase Scheinbaum
Steven C. Glickman, the 2014 president of the state chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, plans to launch a series...
Community News
Former chief justice talks shop at public forum in Los Angeles
By Ben Adlin
Former California Chief Justice Ronald M. George joined 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Richard M. Mosk for a conversatio...
Community News
Trial advocacy group holds Q&A with the state's chief justice
By Ben Adlin
The falloff in the number of civil jury trials in California has largely matched the drop in revenue to the state's courts, Ch...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil advises Lenovo acquisition of Google's Motorola handset business
By Salvador Mares
The tech giant's willingness to part with Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion late Wednesday plainly suggests the real value f...
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers hosted a presentation Tuesday on the negative public perception of attorneys. Stanf...
After nearly 18 years at the Silicon Valley legal powerfouse, James C. Otteson has established an intellectual property firm t...
Fearing that already unsustainable groundwater pumping in places like the Central Valley will now accelerate at an alarming ra...
Intellectual Property
Quinn Emanuel chastised over disclosure, but avoids major punishment
By Craig Andersonn
A magistrate judge has sanctioned Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its client Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for vi...
To get the best out of mediator Jonathan H. Cannon, lawyers say, you have to trust him. ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
Firms fretting over looming proposal to overhaul accounting methods
By Alexandra Schwappach
The Tax Reform Act of 2013 seeks to require all law firms and other personal service businesses with annual gross receipts of ...
Executive Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel of Panavision Inc. Woodland Hills ...
The conclusion reached by an appellate court in a recent case undermines the basis for the enactment of appraisal statutes and...
The state wants to overturn two rulings by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge prohibiting the rail authority from sellin...
Eight U.S. attorneys were appointed to an advisory committee designed to give U.S. attorneys a voice in the Justice Department...
Litigation
9th Circuit senior judge to take case in which chief judge is objector
By Saul Sugarman
A senior judge with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday to take a class action that turned into a hot potat...
Intellectual Property
Judge awards patent holding company big royalty from Google
By Kevin Lee
A federal judge in Virginia has awarded Vringo Inc. a 1.35 percent running royalty on Google Inc.'s AdWords program in a decis...
Corporate
General counsel act as strategic advisers and like it, survey says
By Caitlin Johnson
More than three-quarters of general counsel now spend the bulk of their time advising executives and helping steer strategy, a...
Litigation
Justice Department, in-house lawyers spar over enforcement priorities
By Henry Meier
Both sides disagreed about the scope and impact of the government's role in policing corporate activities during a discussion ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Weil Gotshal advises Lenovo in $2.9 billion acquisition of Google's Motorola Mobility
By Salvador Mares
Deal is the latest in a string of U.S. buys for the Chinese personal-computer manufacturer. ...
Labor/Employment
Labor commissioner reduces wage penalties for Chinese bus manufacturer
By Laura Hautalan
The write-down came after Paul Hastings LLP partner Leslie Abbot showed that "salaries, bonuses and cost-of-living adjustments...
Intellectual Property
Apple, Samsung duel over possible permanent injunction
By Kevin Lee
Apple Inc.'s sustained push for an injunction to hinder its largest smartphone rival will come before U.S. District Judge Lucy...
The recent verdict Courtney Love's Twitter defamation case isn't a free pass to tweet anything you please. By Caroline H. Mank...
Bankruptcy
Heller bankruptcy ruling puts 'meat on the bones' of emerging theory
By Joshua Seboldn
The judge's order offers a clearer interpretation of how to calculate the profits that a bankrupt firm's estate can recoup fro...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Conservatives set up possible Supreme Court challenge to gay conversion law
By John Roemer
California's first-of-its-kind law banning gay conversion therapy for minors could be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court if con...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
In serving an area roughly the size of Massachusetts, prosecutors and defense attorneys in Victorville have a special problem:...
A Court of Appeal recently decided that William Roberts -- aka rapper "Rick Ross" -- did not violate former drug lord Ricky Ro...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit joins other circuits with arbitration appealability ruling
By Ben Armisteadn
Parties sometimes agree to altogether eliminate judicial review of arbitration awards. Until recently, such agreements were bi...