Education
Students, new lawyers urge bar to keep exam applicant data private
By Don De Benedictis
Students and new lawyers called on State Bar leaders Friday to keep data about bar exam applicants out of the hands of a resea...
Litigation
Discovery battle in suit against ratings agency focusing on former federal officials
By Henry Meier
Former high level officials are finding themselves at the center of an increasingly ferocious discovery fight between the Depa...
Gail Feuer, known for her environmental work, says her long-term goal had always been to be a judge.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Newton Lam recently left his comfort zone by switching from a criminal to civil assignment.
Los Angeles County Judge Robert Broadbelt III emphasizes civility his family court assignment.
Intellectual Property
VIDEO: Out in the cold: individual inventors and patent reform
By Ben Armisteadn
One problem that most of the current plans to "reform" the patent system ignore is how changes will affect individual inventor...
Hogan Lovells LLP partnered with UC Hastings College of the Law and the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology to host an a...
Perspective
California is so welcoming, just not to these arbitrators
By Ben Armisteadn
Non-U.S. advocates may not serve as counsel in arbitration hearings in California, even when they are the primary counse to th...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Doctor peer review vs. whistleblower protection at 9th Circuit
By Ben Armisteadn
Recent cases suggest physicians who voluntarily undertake the task of policing medical peer review standards may be subject to...
Intellectual Property
Joint inventorship in patents can present problems
By Katharine Malonen
The inventorship rule is relatively clear when an invention was conceived by a solo inventor, but can become complex when more...
A recent case tests whether a hiring bonus based on a book of business built during marriage is divisible upon divorce. By Mit...
In the past year, Kiesel, Boucher & Larson LLP, the powerhouse firm Paul R. Kiesel co-founded 15 years ago, shrank from th...
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP welcomed partner Jeffrey L. Bleich back to the law firm Monday following his serving as U.S. am...
Hundreds of lawyers, judges, professionals and others convened in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to celebrate the 40th anniver...
When employment mediator Katherine J. Edwards considers a case, she makes sure all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place be...
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke to a group in Los Angeles on Monday about the importance of civics...
Judges and Judiciary
Court funding advocates enlist bar groups in legislative push
By Paul Jones
Legislative hearings on the judicial branch's budget won't start until April, but organizers are already making plans to press...
McManis Faulkner lawyers pitched in to help needy children Feb. 27 as part of The Pajama Program's "Open Your Heart" campaign....
Litigation
Court orders water officials to look at impacts of groundwater bank
By Fiona Smith
The state Department of Water Resources violated CEQA by failing to look at how the Kern Water Bank could harm the environment...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Lack of resources a defense in prisoner medical care suit, 9th Circuit rules
By Hamed Aleazizn
In a sharply divided decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prison officials can defend themselves from pr...
Environmental
Environmental groups file suit over Newhall Ranch development project
By Fiona Smith
The groups allege that federal permits for one of the largest residential developments in the state ran afoul of the law. ...
The Bishop's School took down 27 other private and public high schools in San Diego County in the region's annual mock trial c...
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was awarded Loyola Law School's 2014 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. award Wednesday. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
San Jose baseball antitrust battle heads to 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
As heavy hitter Joe Cotchett steps to the plate for San Jose's effort to end Major League Baseball's unique antitrust exemptio...
Two of the first law firms to test the waters in the region - Cooley LLP and Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP - are respondi...
In a blow to its effort to win a decisive courtroom victory in the smartphone wars, Apple Inc. has failed in its latest attemp...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Court ruling stirs doubts about U.S. antitrust reach in price-fixing cases
By Hadley Robinson
An Illinois judge concluded last month that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco erred in her interpretation of ...
President and General Counsel for Taser International Inc. Scottsdale, Ariz. ...