Firm did more California M&A volume and deals than any other firm, according to a recent report. ...
Arbitration advocates have successfully gutted controversial enforcement provisions from a bill requiring them to publicize in...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Early legal assessment' program gives cases innovative push toward resolution
By Don De Benedictis
The idea is that early in the litigation process, attorneys present short briefs and arguments to a retired judge about "a piv...
Actress Maria Conchita Alonso stepped into a firestorm of controversy earlier this month after endorsing Tea Party darling Ass...
Education
It's time for California to catch up on financial literacy
By Ben Armisteadn
Despite being one of the states hardest hit by foreclosures, California does not require personal financial education in its s...
Gov. Jerry Brown and the California High Speed Rail Authority have filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court in an effort t...
Litigation
Wrongful deathsuit filed against ride-sharing company in girl's death
By Hadley Robinson
A wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday by the family of a six-year-old girl killed on New Year's Eve while crossing the street ...
Litigation
Trial begins in suit seeking to overhaul state's education system
By Chase Scheinbaum
In opening arguments Monday, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state laid out how, in their view, poor and minority students...
An Oakland-based nonprofit has sued Pepsi Beverages Co., alleging it is failing to warn consumers that some of its sodas conta...
If enrollment in the nation's law schools doesn't start moving back up soon, schools could be forced to make "moderate to seve...
Litigation
Furniture makers agree to remove flame retardants in settlement
By Fiona Smith
Several makers of furniture and baby products are moving closer to eliminating all toxic flame retardants from their products ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson Thacher advises on $2.4B private equity deal
By Salvador Mares
Firm helped Hellman & Friedman and Stone Point Capital sell a majority stake in portfolio company Sedgwick Claims Manageme...
Mary Jo White made her comments at the Securities Regulation Institute that Northwestern University School of Law hosts every ...
Alex Rodriguez recently filed a lawsuit against the MLBPA seeking to overturn a recent arbitration decision which suspended hi...
California Supreme Court
Disgraced journalist Stephen Glass denied bar admission
By Emily Green
The ex-journalist failed to engage in the exemplary behavior required of him to become a member of the California Bar, the sta...
San Diego Judge David J. Danielsen urges other judges to get involved in court policy discussions.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Labor/Employment
Unions push initiatives in hospital association battle
By Laura Hautalan
The push to collect signatures for the initiatives came on the heels of an attempt to bring the trade group's member hospital ...
Perspective
Bill to reduce peremptory challenges is common sense reform
By Ben Armisteadn
The reality is that only three states - California, New York and New Jersey - have 10 peremptory challenges per side in misdem...
The presumption of reliance theory is under attack, and without it securities fraud class actions will go the way of the Dodo ...
Litigation
Another judge bows out of case in which 9th Circuit judge objects
By Hadley Robinson
A third federal judge Friday recused himself from a case Chief 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski involved ...
The judicial branch is backing legislation to streamline how courts handle civil judgments rendered by Native American courts....
Law Practice
Less than a year after launch, litigation boutique splits apart
By Alexandra Schwappach
The six-attorney firm - created by Orange County power litigators Jennifer L. Keller, Kay Rackauckas, Thomas J. Umberg and Dea...
Love's former attorney, Rhonda J. Holmes of San Diego litigation boutique Gordon & Holmes, sued the musician over a 2010 t...
Mergers & Acquisitions
What cross-border mega deals say for Japan M&A
By Ben Armisteadn
One might wonder whether the fact three mega deals have been announced in the last 18 months is merely a coincidence, or wheth...
The Coronado-based conference, which runs Monday through Wednesday, is headlined by White, who is in her first year at the hel...
Litigation
Settlement: SF immigrant detainees will not be shackled in court
By Saul Sugarman
Immigrant detainees who appear in San Francisco will no longer be routinely restrained when appearing in court thanks to a set...
Personal Injury & Torts
Girardi, Brockovich go in on water contamination case
By Omar Shamout
Top toxic tort attorney Thomas V. Girardi filed suit this week on behalf of 36 plaintiffs in Wedron who claim multiple compani...