Government
California's new online privacy law for minors creates compliance questions
By Joshua Seboldn
Observers say the most difficult aspect of compliance will be how to interpret the phrase in the law "directed to a minor." Si...
Just over one year ago, the AIA established a new post-grant review procedure available to entities sued for infringement of s...
Freeway expansion, subway development and the bullet train all guarantee one thing: more government takings of private propert...
Grover Merritt toyed with the idea of running for San Bernardino County's top prosecutor position before he was fired from the...
Arguments are set to continue Tuesday in a $20 million wrongful death case against Toyota Motor Corp. alleging the company's f...
The NCAA added a team of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP attorneys to its counsel in a suit brought by former student-athletes,...
Take a look inside the battle for one of the world's most dominant sports: Formula One. By Jonathan Michaels ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Kirkland, DLA Piper handle Vista Equity's latest billion-dollar buy
By Salvador Mares
Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Vista Equity Partners in its $1.05 billion acquisition of Active Network Inc., a San Diego-ba...
Bankruptcy
Stockton's bankruptcy plan likely to avoid precedent-setting fight
By Paul Jones
According to the city's plan, one of two Wall Street insurers has reached a preliminary agreement with the city over $45 milli...
Justice Vance Raye shows pride in his court's past and is studious about statutory interpretation.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Real Estate/Development
Speculative building returning amid real estate resurgence
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Office developers are beginning once again to build on spec, a move lawyers say is a result of loads of cash in the hands of d...
General Counsel for the Southern California Regional Rail Authority Los Angeles ...
The NFL's disability plan should be rewritten with the intent of ERISA's preamble in mind: to protect participants in employee...
Litigation
Judge permits Toyota jury to consider unlimited punitive damages
By Omar Shamout
After a contentious debate, a superior court judge will allow plaintiffs in a bellwether unintended acceleration lawsuit to se...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that will alter parts of the state's bedrock environmental law and speed up approval of ...
EBay Inc. tapped Sidley Austin LLP to help with its $800 million acquisition of Chicago-based mobile payments company Braintre...
California Supreme Court
Judicial Council gets new member from state Supreme Court
By Emily Green
State Supreme Court clerk Frank A. McGuire has been named to a three-year term on the Judicial Council, the policymaking body ...
Criminal
Former San Ramon attorney pleads guilty to tax evasion, eavesdropping
By Saul Sugarman
A former San Ramon family law attorney pleaded guilty Friday in the Northern District of California to several counts of tax e...
Law Practice
Two San Diego attorneys to open Idaho firm's West Coast outpost
By Kylie Reynolds
Business law firm Evans Keane LLP will open an office in Carlsbad - the firm's first expansion out of Idaho - next month with ...
Litigation
Electronic Arts to pay $40 million to college athletes in settlement
By Hadley Robinson
EA will pay $40 million to current and former student-athletes who claim the video game maker violated publicity right laws by...
Law Practice
Riverside's top lawyer gets League of California Cities post
By Katie Lucia
The League of California Cities has elected Riverside City Attorney Gregory P. Priamos president of its city attorney division...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit OKs class action for wage and hour violations
By Emily Green
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing workers at a private security company to move forward with a class action ag...
The victory shows the growing power of worker centers, or nonunion groups that battle for workers without using traditional co...
International regulation of U.S. business practices has become - and will continue to be - the norm, not the exception. By Bil...
Law Practice
Rise of internal investigations creating crowded marketplace
By Henry Meier
With the rise of full-service investigative outfits like Kroll , FTI Consulting Inc., Stroz Friedberg and others, some attorne...
Transportation
Omnibus case against California's high speed rail project moves forward
By Paul Jones
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation, Kings County want judge to halt issuance ...
SB 568 goes into effect Jan. 1, 2015, and how well it will be implemented is anyone's guess. By Roxanne Moin ...
Louis R. Hanoian fondly recalls arguing - and winning - a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.