The question everyone is asking about Aaron Alexis now is whether he should have been able to carry a gun in the first place. ...
Intellectual Property
What the 9th Circuit thinks of commercial-skipping enablers
By Ben Armisteadn
Dish Network's customers -- not Dish -- are the ones that push the record button on its commercial skipping feature. By David ...
In a case that has implications for filmmakers, the 9th Circuit held that the unauthorized use of a street artist's work in a ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Kirkland handles private equity deal worth $644 million
By Salvador Mares
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented San Francisco-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in its all-cash acquisition...
The U.S. legal education system needs to change how schools are financed and accredited and how lawyers-to-be are trained, a s...
David M. Tamman was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for his role in a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of som...
The bankruptcy and corporate restructuring attorney, a founder of Los Angeles-based Stutman, Treister & Glatt PC, died of ...
Entertainment & Sports
Jones Day helps New Zealand team in America's Cup
By Joshua Seboldn
Emirates Team New Zealand's run at the America's Cup was backed by pro bono representation from Jones Day. ...
Intellectual Property
HTC blasts Cupertino holding company in patent trial
By Kevin Lee
A Cooley LLP lawyer for Tawianese smartphone maker HTC Corp. lambasted a Silicon Valley patent holder during the first day of ...
Litigation
Toyota brake override would've made no difference, jury told
By Omar Shamout
A braking expert told jurors that the override was unlikely to have stayed activated during Noriko Uno's high-speed half-mile ...
Goodwin Procter LLP brought in former Amazon.com Inc. senior corporate counsel Jared G. Jensen to serve as a private equity pa...
The law places some of the responsibility for compliance upon advertisers, dictating that they must not provide adult advertis...
One of the largest providers of laboratory and X-ray services to nursing homes on the West Coast agreed to pay $19.4 million t...
Seeking to hold PG&E senior management financially responsible for the 2010 San Bruno gas main explosion, a longtime PG&am...
Litigation
In antitrust trial, government argues merger is harming competition
By Hadley Robinson
In opening statements of a bench trial questioning the merger of two rivals in the online retail review business, government a...
Attorneys defending companies that manufactured lead paint said Monday in closing arguments that their product was safe, at le...
Delbert Gee's mentorship has helped many Asian judicial candidates secure appointments.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Assembly Bill 370 would do little more than to bewilder companies and consumers. By Alan L. Friel ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Government attorney installed as head of women lawyers group
By Kylie Reynolds
Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney Anne C. Tremblay was inducted this month as the 2013-14 president of the Women Lawyers Ass...
A number of bills heading to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk would ensure people who give CPR or try and save lives aren't smacked wit...
Government
Attorneys advise government contractors to diversify amid sequestration
By Alexandra Schwappach
Changes so far in 2013 have included the cancellation or reduction in awards, especially in base operating service and mainten...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appellate court puts Newport Beach group home ordinance on shaky ground
By Fiona Smith
The 9th Circuit holds a city law limiting group homes likely discriminates against recovering drug and alcohol addicts. ...
Bingham McCutchen LLP's environmental, land use and natural resources practice in California has shed a dramatic number of law...
Law firms are increasingly considering Jewel waivers in partner contracts, but established law firms can have it harder than t...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Firms rarely face up to risks, costs of computer data leaks, malpractice lawyers told
By Don Debenedictisn
Cyber attacks and simple data breaches are more common and more expensive than many law firms recognize, experts said during t...
California Supreme Court
State high court justice hails short-term clerk experiment
By Emily Green
Justice Goodwin Liu's annual clerks have finished up their term and moved on, concluding the first year of a notable experimen...
Chief Legal Officer of TriNet Group Inc. San Leandro ...
Re: "Brown Names Eight New Superior Court Judges," Aug. 30.
How is workplace or combat efficiency enhanced by telling every woman warrior that she must be as much on guard against attack...