Community News
Panelists dish on life beyond law firms at trial lawyers event
By Ben Adlin
Fenwick & West LLP's San Francisco office hosted an Association of Business Trial Lawyers event Dec. 3 on life beyond the ...
Community News
Phillips Lerner hosts annual adoption benefit in Los Angeles
By Ben Adlin
Family law firm Phillips Lerner ALC held its annual Adopt-A-Center event for the Los Angeles Youth Network at Lucky Strike, a ...
With 16 full-time attorneys, the firm expects to break $10 million in revenue this year, a success it attributes to its "relen...
The Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig LLP took home the Corporate Diversity Award at the 2013 Compete Sports Diversity A...
Community News
Legal administrators, firm partners gather for holiday luncheon
By Ben Adlin
More than 40 legal administrators and partners from Orange County law firms gathered on Dec. 3 at the Center Club in Costa Mes...
Business litigation attorney John B. Hurlbut Jr. of Rutan & Tucker LLP received the Orange County Bar Foundation's "Sammy"...
Stephen Yu, also named executive vice president at the company, joins from Santa Clara-based Rovi Corp., where he served as ...
The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association held its annual Top Gun Awards Dinner and Charity Auction at the Montage Laguna Be...
The 865,783-square-foot Pacific Commons Shopping Center in Fremont is the largest retail property in the Bay Area to sell this...
The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California held a special reception for two of its members on Dec. 6, honoring the...
Friends, family and colleagues gathered Dec. 4 for Loyola Law School's swearing-in ceremony for alumni newly admitted to the S...
Both in-house counsel and company directors expect business savvy to become a top concern over the next five to 10 years, acco...
Environmental
California wind farm hoping to get first federal permit to protect birds
By Fiona Smith
Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first made these voluntary permits available in 2009, no company has tried to get one...
Litigation
Cycling's popularity spurs competition to represent injured riders
By Chase Scheinbaum
Personal injury attorneys are increasingly advertising their services to bicyclists. Even minor collisions can result in subst...
A recent case seems to complicate the duties of counsel representing an employer where an employee is a witness in the case. B...
The sustained decline is the first decrease to be measured since the National Association for Law Placement survey began in 19...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
Federal prosecutors tread lightly amid Bitcoin's virtual explosion
By Henry Meier
Prosecutors and law enforcement have been cautious in assessing Bitcoin's appropriation in illicit transactions and practicall...
General Counsel for Western Growers Assurance Trust Irvine ...
Attorneys say Judge David Chapman has brought collegiality and fairness to Indio and Palm Springs.
Questions regarding the applicability of anti-SLAPP statute in federal courts were finally resolved, for now, when the 9th Cir...
Litigation
Woman paralayzed in crash wins nearly $32 million in damages
By Saul Sugarman
A woman whose legs became paralyzed after a semi-truck crashed into the bus she was driving has won Sacramento County's larges...
The arrest is the first of its kind, the office said, and comes on the heels of a recently passed law barring sexually explici...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Huntington Beach can require voter approval for antennas, court rules
By John Roemer
Municipalities can require cell phone companies to win voter approval before erecting mobile telephone antennas on city-owned ...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stresses civics education
By John Roemer
She and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye told stories about their backgrounds but also emphasized the ...
Defendants won a food court victory Tuesday when a San Francisco federal judge dismissed claims that Whitewaves Food Co.'s yog...
The Beastie Boys has fired a legal salvo in the ongoing battle with girl-centric toymaker GoldieBlox Inc. over its allegedly u...
Intellectual Property
Silicon Valley patent office head to lead entire agency
By Kevin Lee
A little more than a year after joining the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and spearheading its push into Silicon Valley, Mi...
California Courts of Appeal
Student used as bait in a drug sting can keep $1 million verdict
By Emily Green
A state court of appeal has affirmed an award for a student who school administrators used as bait in a drug sting when he was...