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Labor/Employment


The big box retailer and a class of women lay out an unusually tailor-made system for awarding damages to individual class mem...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Korean media concern waived right by delaying arbitration request, appeals court says. ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Acquisition of IMG by William Morris Endeavor and its backer Silver Lake is estimated to be valued at $2.4 billion ...


The public needs to hold their politicians directly accountable for the runaway sentences, not the prosecutors who must play o...


Litigation


Panish, Shea & Boyle calls O'Melveny's bill for fighting Michael Jackson's wrongful death suit 'excessive' and 'unreasonab...


Intellectual Property


Senators are drawing partisan lines in the sand over legislation to curb frivolous patent infringement lawsuits, two weeks aft...


Corporate Counsel


Cheree L. McAlpine

Dec. 20, 2013
By David Ruiz

General Counsel and Vice President of the Americas for Avnet Inc. Milpitas ...


Litigation


Plaintiffs in privacy lawsuits against technology companies have often been stopped cold by the significant hurdle of establis...


Litigation


Orange County judge tosses 884-count fraud indictment

Dec. 19, 2013
By Don J. Debenedictis

Court rules prosecutors failed to present exculpatory evidence to a grand jury in a $17 million fraud case against two doctors...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Dec. 19, 2013
By Andrew Mcintyre

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.


Law Practice


Privacy at the fore in 2013

Dec. 19, 2013
By Joshua Seboldn

Privacy took center stage in 2013 as a topic of public discourse. Companies' online privacy policies became a subject of great...


Law Practice


Lockyer prepares political exit, joins law firm

Dec. 19, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

California Treasurer Bill Lockyer plans to wrap up his last year in public office working part-time with Brown Rudnick LLP. Th...


Education


Law school enrollment continues to drop

Dec. 19, 2013
By Don J. De Benedictis

The number of people beginning law school in the U.S. has fallen 24 percent since 2010, according to figures released Tuesday ...


Litigation


Orange County district attorney officials committed no wrongdoing when they informed a Costa Mesa City Council member that a G...


Labor/Employment


When it comes to employment lawsuits, the plaintiffs' bar styles itself as a vindicator of civil rights. But when it comes to ...


Public Interest


Munger Tolles litigator wins Learned Hand honor

Dec. 19, 2013
By Kylie Reynolds

Brad D. Brian last week received the 33rd annual American Jewish Committee Los Angeles' Learned Hand Award last week for his d...


California Courts of Appeal


In a rare defamation trial, a Hogan Lovells US LLP pro bono team secured a victory this week for a blogger who had been sued b...


Judges and Judiciary


Paul D. Seeman was formally censured and barred from seeking further judicial assignments, the Commission on Judicial Performa...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Non-appealability clauses in arbitration agreements are unenforceable when they seek to insulate an arbitrator's fee allocatio...


At issue is the impact of a round of layoffs in 2008 on five workers, each of whom worked at the lab for more than 20 years. ...


Bankruptcy


2013 saw fewer Chapter 11 filings nationwide, but lawyers say a spike in interest rates could spell trouble for middle market ...


Judicial Profile


John S. Adams

Dec. 19, 2013
By Pat Broderick

John Adams, whose legal career initially focused on air quality issues, now hears criminal cases.


As the one-year mark of President Barack Obama's second term approaches, the comprehensive immigration reform that many litiga...


Intellectual Property


Tread lightly reining in patent litigation abuse

Dec. 18, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The Innovation Act, which aims to curb abusive patent litigation behavior by entities whose sole business is to license patent...


Intellectual Property


Microsoft fights to ban Google phones

Dec. 18, 2013
By Kevin Lee

In a win for Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a U.S. International Trade Commission d...


The former president of a San Francisco immigration law firm has agreed to pay more than $400,000 to resolve charges accusing ...


Litigation


An undisclosed settlement has been reached between Bratz doll-maker MGA Entertainment Inc. and its multiple insurance provider...


Law Practice


With the hire of litigator Joseph M. Barrett for its Los Angeles office, the firm now boasts two leaders in the state's plaint...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham & Watkins LLP is providing counsel to longtime client Avago Technologies Ltd. in the chip manufacturer's planned $6...


Government


San Francisco Law Library finds new home

Dec. 18, 2013
By Saul Sugarman

After more than 18 years of occupying temporary quarters, the San Francisco Law Library has found a permanent home down the st...