The presumption of reliance theory is under attack, and without it securities fraud class actions will go the way of the Dodo ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Conflicting health records policy goals create landmines
By Ben Armisteadn
The extension of the electronic health records exception and safe harbor comes at a time when prosecution of health care fraud...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Conflicts arise when in house plays dual roles
By Katharine Malonen
In-house counsel are especially vulnerable to conflicts of interest, particularly when the attorney represents both the corpor...
Law Practice
Survey: Firm revenue growth exceeded expense growth in 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach
Law firm revenue growth exceeded expense growth last year, due in part to higher billing rates, according to the results of Ci...
The retired Alameda County Superior Court judge wields his raconteur's skills to smooth the path to solutions as a mediator an...
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP added seasoned trial attorney Timothy P. Crudo to head the firm's white collar defense and...
Reed Smith LLP had a big night at the United Way of the Bay Area's annual "Koko Challenge" charity awards Jan. 30, taking home...
In a rousing speech, consumer advocate and insurance reformer Harvey Rosenfield urged members of the Orange County Trial Lawye...
Based in a former auto repair garage, Alhambra-based Ideal Legal Group Inc. caters to nearby 'mom-and-pop' shops. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Interactive Entertainment guides video game developer's sale to Amazon
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Firm, founded in November by former Reed Smith LLP attorney Patrick Sweeney, represented Double Helix Games in its sale. ...
The Orange County Diversity Task Force hosted a Jan. 28 networking event at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, drawing more than ...
The Los Angeles office of Hogan Lovells US LLP hosted the second annual mock interview workshop at the UCLA Faculty Center on ...
While non-law firm providers have made in-roads in U.S. markets and at larger companies according to recent surveys, GCs aroun...
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Ventures patent suit against Google ends in mistrial
By Fiona Smith
A Delaware federal judge has declared a mistrial in a case pitting Motorola Mobility LLC against patent holding company Intell...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph B. Widman, deputy chief of the Riverside division of the Central District U.S. attorney's offic...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP has snagged a profit participation specialist in Los Angeles to help lead its entertainment ...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the keynote address at University of San Francisco School of Law's 2014 Law Rev...
Intellectual Property
Wireless patent licensing dispute is first of its kind in California
By Kevin Lee
A spat between computer chip producers is set to become the first trial in the state in which jurors decide the licensing term...
In a decision announced last month, the U.S. high court affirmed immunity for an air carrier under federal law against a defam...
In order for Bitcoin to become a viable tool for mainstream use, companies that receive bitcoins as payment need to be able t...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Richman will be given back his old post presiding over a felony trial court down...
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.
Litigation
Federal defender's funding litigation puts court in murky conundrum
By Henry Meier
In a recent writs with the 9th Circuit seeking funds to purchase transcripts of trial court cases, Sean Kennedy, the federal p...
This has been suggested as a way to combat gun violence -- but it fails to take into account the ramifications of federalizing...
General Counsel of Realty Mogul Co. Beverly Hills ...
Firm helps the Los Angeles-based ad tech company with its initial regulatory filing. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley helps Crescendo Bioscience sell to Myriad
By Salvador Mares
In a deal nearly three years in the making, South San Francisco-based molecular diagnostic test maker Crescendo Bioscience Inc...
Labor/Employment
NLRB to hasten union elections with proposed rule changes
By Laura Hautalan
The proposed amendments would bring "a number of changes to the Board's representation case procedures aimed at modernizing pr...
Under a rule being floated by the state judicial branch, judges may soon be barred from membership in the Boy Scouts of Americ...