California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court says sex discrimination claims against VC fund deserves a trial
By Saul Sugarman
Ellen Pao, a former employee of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, cannot be pushed int...
U.S. Supreme Court
State's gay marriage fight is not over yet, attorneys predict after Supreme Court ruling
By John Roemer
Don't order the wedding cake just yet, lawyers warned following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Wednesday to decide the Propo...
Judge
Here are the Biglaw tools that you can expect to be applied with increasing frequency - and force - to reallocate money and go...
Genworth Financial Wealth Management Inc. is moving its corporate headquarters from Pleasant Hill to a 50,000-square-foot spa...
Law Practice
Buttoned-up or zany, corporate cultures extend to in-house legal teams
By Caitlin Johnson
As general counsel play a greater role within businesses, some companies have found it important to align the practices of its...
Commercial Law
Watch out for 'standard' terms when negotiating secured loans
By Ben Armisteadn
Do not be misled. Even in a "borrower's market," a borrower is at a significant disadvantage vis-a-vis its secured lender. By ...
While the term of the NDA is often heavily negotiated and is important, focusing attention on the term of the NDA may divert a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Critical differences in federal and state mediation privilege
By Ben Armisteadn
Naturally, these two very different approaches to the mediation privilege lead to widely differing results. By Noah B. Steinsa...
Although now a broader test, proving obviousness still requires providing meaningful reasons for modifying or combining the p...
McDermott Will & Emery hired former U.S. Department of Justice deputy associate attorney general A. Marisa Chun to join th...
Labor/Employment
High court's backing of arbitration hints at fate of employment class-action waivers
By Laura Hautalan
The U.S. Supreme Court's pro-arbitration ruling in favor of American Express last week hinted at the fate of class-action waiv...
Law Practice
Ventura County firm to close after string of retirements, departures
By Alexandra Schwappach
Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP , one of Ventura County's oldest law firms, plans to shut its doors later this summer a...
Government
Valley Fever yet another obstacle for state prison system
By Hamed Aleazizn
A federal judge's order requiring the state to move thousands of prisoners due to high risks of Valley Fever could create an a...
Law Practice
Pepper Hamilton grabs new chair for health care practice
By Joshua Seboldn
Mark Anthony Kadzielski, partner-in-charge of the health law practice for Norton Rose Fulbright LLP's Los Angeles office, is j...
Beverly Hills-based subsidiaries of Australian media company Village Roadshow Ltd. announced the promotion of Kevin P. Berg to...
In the first case of its kind in the state, a Riverside County couple is suing the manufacturer of a brand of electronic cigar...
Litigation
Health care consortium and owner hit with civil RICO suit over billing practices
By Henry Meier
The largest provider of worker's compensation insurance in California is suing the operator of a Long Beach-based health care ...
Litigation
Cotchett Pitre files new complaint against financial institutions for fixing interest rates
By Saul Sugarman
Two more lawsuits have been filed against more than 20 financial institutions, which are accused of conspiring to fix benchmar...
A group of former prosecutors seeking success outside the federal government is taking off where a predecessor group left off,...
A reasonable application of the human intervention standard would have resulted in a more balanced result. By Michael H. Ander...
The judicial branch does not have flexibility and resources like other government agencies. As such, it cannot avoid implement...
U.S. Supreme Court
US Supreme Court continues its pro-arbitration jurisprudence
By Ben Armisteadn
Last week's opinion Italian Colors came as no surprise to those of us who have closely followed the court's jurispruden...
Administrative/Regulatory
State official tapped for Federal Election Commission
By Paul Jones
President Obama has nominated Ann Ravel, chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, to serve as a commission...
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is enacting layoffs and pay cuts, the firm announced Monday in a firmwide email. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Generic drugmakers score victory in U.S. Supreme Court
By Saul Sugarman
Defense attorneys on Monday cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which held that someone who takes a generic drug cannot sue t...
Litigation
Bond insurer hires Weil Gotshal & Manges in San Bernardino, Stockton bankruptcies
By Katie Lucia
A major creditor in the San Bernardino and Stockton bankruptcies retained new counsel to represent it in the cases after a jud...
Government
Brown signs law to inject more information into bail process
By Hamed Aleazizn
The governor signed a bill allowing bench officers to consider a detailed risk assessment report when setting or denying bail ...
Online search company Google Inc. has confirmed it is working with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust inv...
Goodwin Procter LLP hired Grant P. Fondo as a partner in the firm's Menlo Park office for its securities litigation and white-...
