The deRubertis Law Firm APC Studio City Specialty: plaintiff-side employment jury trials, complex employment appeals
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Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison LLP South Pasadena Specialties: employment, civil rights, wage and h...
Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld APC Alameda Specialty: union-side labor law
Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe LLP San Francisco Specialties: international employment, complex litigation, executive sever...
Altshuler Berzon LLP San Francisco Specialties: class actions, appeals
Akin Gump Strauss Haur & Feld LLP Los Angeles Specialty: class actions
Bet Tzedek Los Angeles Specialty: employee rights
Corporate
'Crowdfunding' carries opportunity, risk for small ventures
By Ryne Hodkowski
Copyright infringement, breach of contract, intellectual property disputes, labor code violations, inadvertent tax evasion and...
A state appellate court in Fresno ruled Monday that the state did a flawed environmental review of a rule that cuts the carbon...
Environmental
EPA and logging industry make for odd bedfellows before US high court
By Ben Armisteadn
The Supreme Court's recent decision regarding stormwater discharges from a logging operation involved a rare alliance between ...
California Supreme Court
State high court won't stay resumption of same-sex marriage
By Emily Green
The state Supreme Court denied a request Monday by proponents of Proposition 8 to immediately halt the resumption of same-sex ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Federal arbitration policy withstands challenge from Internet users
By John Roemer
The federal courts' strong pro-arbitration policy withstood another challenge invoking state laws, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sullivan represents AT&T in bid to buy San Diego wireless carrier
By Salvador Mares
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is representing AT&T Inc. in its prospective acquisition of San Diego-based prepaid wireless p...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP added a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney as a capital markets partner...
A little more than two months after officially joining the Menlo Park office of Latham & Watkins LLP, Douglas E. Lumish sc...
Government
After avoiding cuts, Orange County begins to feel hit to its court system
By Alexandra Schwappach
While court budgets have been hammered up and down the state for some time, triggering closures, layoffs and other belt-tighte...
Nearly a year after filing for bankrtupcy, San Bernardino city leaders want to know once and for all whether the city is eligi...
Government
Former governors rally to halt court-ordered prisoner release
By Hamed Aleazizn
Four former California governors have allied themselves with Gov. Jerry Brown in his quest to stay a recent federal court orde...
Litigation
Attorneys for lead paint makers say Bay Area counties using 'hindsight' to seek damages
By Saul Sugarman
A trial against lead paint makers kicked off Monday with defense attorneys arguing that their clients did not know 40 years ag...
Government
Court worker unions take on court's use of service contractors with bill
By Paul Jones
Court workers' biggest battle this legislative session could be AB 566, a bill that would severely curtail courts' ability to ...
Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County (Long Beach) ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Corporate
Institutional investors pave the way for solar panel leases
By Salvador Mares
Spurred on by lucrative federal tax credits, institutional investors are pouring billions of dollars into solar energy compani...
General Counsel of Side.cr LLC San Francisco ...
Re: "Concerted effort to quell DUI-related crimes sees success, but criticism remains," July 2. By Lee E. Cooper ...
Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded the Legislature to eliminate the state's geographically targeted economic development areas and rep...
Attorneys defending malpractice actions must meet the higher bar of demonstrating that the claim against them "arises from" th...
Sometimes interns come to learn, sometimes to teach. By Lynn Duryee and Joshua A. Gonzalez ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
What's to become of mediation in Southern California?
By Ben Armisteadn
Will the courts' dockets become so crowded with unresolved matters that trial dates extend past the 5-year mandatory date as t...