Law Practice
Pittsburgh firm opens first California office in Pasadena
By Joshua Seboldn
Pittsburgh firm Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC opened its first California office by partnering with local intellectua...
Hermosa Beach-based Virtual Piggy Inc., the first tool to allow online retailers to accept payments from consumers aged 13 and...
Tokyo-based telecommunications company Softbank Corp. appears primed to take a majority stake in Sprint after Dish Network Cor...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center) ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Senate bill targets charter cities on wages after Supreme Court win
By Paul Jones
A state Assembly committee will hear a bill Wednesday that would deny state funding to charter cities that don't require contr...
Litigation
Woman could get probation for aiding in scheme to embezzle $2 million from NFL player
By Henry Meier
A woman who helped embezzle more than $2 million from NFL defensive end Dwight Freeney could walk away with a probation senten...
The panic defense tactics are relics from a time when the LGBT community faced widespread hatred and discrimination with few o...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
State Bar explores state, federal legislation to forestall immigration fraud
By Don Debenedictisn
If Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the State Bar intends to be ready with state laws to target l...
Vice President, Corporate Business Development and Legal Affairs, of Renewable Energy Group Inc. San Francisco ...
Letter to the Editor
Litigants entitled to full explanations of decisions
By Ben Armisteadn
Re: Profile of Justice Stephen J. Kane, June 13. By Joel Drum ...
Re: "Proposed rules encourage 'sky's the limit' fee gouging," June 17. By Stanley W. Lamport and Robert L. Kehr ...
Perspective
Trend: banning adoptions from countries that have legalized same-sex marriage
By Ben Armisteadn
A proposed Russian law, for example, would even ban single heterosexuals from adopting if from a nation where same-sex marriag...
A central problem posed by consumer privacy litigation is how to place a dollar value on privacy violations. By Brian S. Kabat...
A court's recent validation of the "quantification settlement agreement" will hopefully ensure the reliability of Southern Cal...
Real estate transactions attorney Allan E. Low jumped from Nixon Peabody LLP, where he was a partner, to Perkins Coie LLP as a...
Intellectual Property
Ultramercial wins 2nd patent decision in Federal Circuit
By Kevin Lee
A long-standing patent infringement lawsuit originally filed by Rancho Palos Verdes-based Ultramercial LLC may ultimately prov...
Mergers & Acquisitions
California firms handle 3-D printer company sale
By Dominic Fracassan
O'Melveny & Myers LLP is representing 3-D printer manufacturer MakerBot Industries LLC in the company's upcoming sale to S...
After weeks of speculation, the White House has confirmed that Twitter Inc. executive Nicole A. Wong will join the Obama admin...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego courts battered by cuts, societal costs "profound," report says
By Chase Scheinbaum
A new report details how cuts have impacted San Diego courts. Published at a time when lawyers are looking to lawmakers for mo...
The state Judicial Council will consider a proposal to require parties in civil cases file and serve documents electronically....
Environmental
Prop. 65 reform moves forward, but some view push with skepticism
By Paul Jones
State leaders' efforts to overhaul California's controversial hazardous chemical exposure warning law, Proposition 65, is chug...
Entertainment & Sports
2nd suit filed over royalties to "Happy Birthday" song
By Ryne Hodkowski
Two Los Angeles plaintiffs have come forward to challenge Warner/Chappell Music Inc.'s ownership of the song "Happy Birthday t...
Intellectual Property
Patent holding company, undaunted by push against it, sues Google subsidiary
By Kevin Lee
Even as government agencies and Congress scramble to take the lead in the fight against so-called patent holding companies, In...
Government
Attorneys frustrated by court cutbacks of settlement officers, mediation services
By Saul Sugarman
Many attorneys and litigants have experienced frustrations, including settling on unfavorable terms, as superior courts pare b...
In recent years, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has played an increasingly prominent role assessing ...
Commissioner Robert J. Totten is tough on kids in drug court, but he can also be a softie.
A federal jury Friday gave a former software developer the go-ahead to pursue claims that he deserves royalties from Electron...
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC hired JoAnna Brooks as a shareholder in the firm's San Francisco office from Ja...