Hannah L. Blumenstiel, the newest member of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of California, was sworn in Jun...
Community News
Election law takes center stage at Public Policy Institute event
By Ben Adlin
The state's top campaign finance enforcer and a leader in the California business community sat down Tuesday to talk about imp...
Bingham McCutchen LLP litigation partner Peter Obstler plans to jump to Arnold & Porter LLP in San Francisco next week, hi...
Like many, the founders of KPPB LLP had no idea the economy would face the challenges it did around 2008, leaving most firms s...
On June 4, the Beverly Hills Bar Association held its annual Supreme Court Luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The justices o...
Bingham & McCutchen LLP last month announced the establishment of a two-year public interest law fellowship with the Legal...
Criminal
Los Angeles DA revises office's exculpatory evidence policies
By Hamed Aleazizn
The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office this week clarified a policy to require explicitly that prosecutors provide defense...
James L. Smith eschews a lot of formality as a neutral with JAMS and adds a healthy dose of humor to put parties at ease and f...
Community News
9th Circuit judge, students recognized at Mexican-American bar gala
By Ben Adlin
The Mexican American Bar Foundation held its annual Scholarship and Awards Gala on June 8 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in ...
At its eighth annual Justice for All: Celebrating Pro Bono event on May 22, the Alameda County Bar Association Volunteer Legal...
The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice held its annual awards gala on June 3 at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel. The celebratio...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court strikes down part of Port of Los Angeles truck pollution program
By Fiona Smith
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the Port of Los Angeles' landmark effort to clean up diesel truck pollution in a u...
Public Interest
Immigration push inspires legal assistance groups to gear up to help
By Laura Hautalan
With comprehensive immigration reform once again front and center, legal nonprofit California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. and ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham counsels Safeway on sale of Canadian operations
By Dominic Fracassan
Canadian food retailer Sobeys Inc. made a major play to expand its reach into Western Canada after acquiring the entirety of S...
Intellectual Property
Impact of Supreme Court's gene patent ruling uncertain for biotech companies
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday that human genes cannot be patented left legal observers divided over how the decisio...
Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. on Thursday averted what might have been a $920 million payout as i...
Judges and Judiciary
Amid looming layoffs and cuts, LA court employees wait for word
By Chase Scheinbaum
With layoffs set to gouge the nation's largest trial court Friday, it's still not clear which workers will be left standing or...
A roundup of recent mergers & acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Real Estate/Development
REITs reap benefits from single-family rentals, so far
By Dominic Fracassan
Real estate investment trusts acting as landlords for large clusters of single-family rental homes are planning initial public...
These folks are sophisticated. They want to know, in advance, how to structure their acquisition of U.S. real property. By Br...
A new graduate could be excused for thinking the State Bar is more concerned with legalizing the practice of law by nonlawyers...
Enforcing domestic lien rights against a judgment debtor's property in a foreign country just got a bit more difficult. By Jos...
Perspective
When $63 million is not enough: justice denied for Californians
By Ben Armisteadn
While $63 million is grossly inadequate to remedy the damage, it is a step in the right direction. It is certainly better than...
Los Angeles litigation firm Browne George Ross LLP will open an office in San Francisco July 1, featuring former U.S. Attorney...
Law Practice
Bingham McCutchen partner leaps to Arnold & Porter in SF
By Joshua Seboldn
Bingham McCutchen LLP litigation partner Peter Obstler plans to jump to Arnold & Porter LLP in San Francisco on June 18, h...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel for BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Novato ...
Labor/Employment
Kmart cashiers get new shot at suitable seating argument
By Laura Hautalan
Kmart cashiers have won another chance to prove that the retailer should have provided them seated workstations in an ongoing ...
Intellectual Property
At long last, Rambus and Hynix reach settlement in patent case
By John Roemer
Chip designer Rambus Inc.'s legal crusade against technology companies over patent infringement and antitrust claims ended in ...
Paul Hastings LLP is representing Dole Food Co. Inc. Chairman and CEO David H. Murdock in his $645 million unsolicited offer t...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Superior Court to cut 500 jobs, including 177 layoffs Friday
By Chase Scheinbaumn
The Los Angeles County Superior Court announced 177 layoffs and the elimination of hundreds of vacant positions to help close ...