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...
Off the bench, Philip Pennypacker tours the state lecturing on topics important to the judiciary.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Presiding Justice Robert Mallano took his rise through the state's legal ranks one step at a time.
Kathleen O'Leary enjoys being a highly respected fixture in the Orange County legal community.
New York-based Morrison & Foerster LLP pro bono counsel Jennifer K. Brown was promoted to senior pro bono counsel, filling...
Mergers & Acquisitions
VIDEO: Negotiating the testing of representations and warranties
By Rei Estrada
In a excerpt from a recent M&A Forum, Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP debate whether or not ...
A mediator proposed by opposing counsel comes to the process with an important plus - credibility in the eyes of the opposing ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Selecting a mediator: some expert advice
By Ben Armisteadn
So who is the best mediator for your case? A retired judge, an ADR legal expert, an industry expert? There's no single right a...
The Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles hosted a panel discussion on the legal quandaries surrounding the hundreds of thous...
Education
Judge deals tentative setback to ex-students suing law school
By Saul Sugarman
A judge has tentatively denied class certification for a group of law school graduates who accuse Thomas Jefferson School of L...
When David Hunter sits down for mediations or arbitrations, he not only has 34 years worth of cases he presided over to draw u...
San Francisco-based Durie Tangri LLP welcomed family and friends to the firm's recently renovated office space on Sept. 12 in ...
Santa Clara University School of Law held its annual Sports Law Symposium on campus Sept. 12. A series of ESPN reporters, form...
