An economical and potentially legally devastating method for introducing Internet writings into evidence is by requesting judi...
The act renders any court reversal of nonregulated status or a court injunction against growing plants that have been proven t...
Contracts
Court OKs shaving latent defect limitations period when parties are sophisticated
By Ben Armisteadn
Importantly, the case stands for the proposition that sophisticated contracting parties may allocate commercial risks, includi...
Community News
Two attorneys win State Bar's inaugural real property award
By Ben Adlin
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Dennis B. Arnold and Arthur Mazirow, a principal at Mazirow Real Estate Dispute Resolu...
Litigation
Oakland firm wins $27 million for plaintiffs in asbestos lawsuit
By Saul Sugarman
An Oakland-based plaintiffs' firm has won more than $27 million for clients who lodged an asbestos lawsuit against an Ohio-bas...
Government
PG&E, contractors to pay $50.5 million settlement for fire damage
By John Roemer
Destructive wildfires that scorched thousands of acres of national forest land in Northern California have led to $50.5 millio...
K&L Gates LLP grabbed an intellectual property partner from its neighbor Haynes & Boone LLP in Orange County, part of ...
The California Employment Lawyers Association hosted its second annual Diversity Leadership Summit on May 21 at Loyola Law Sch...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The former program coordinator for the 1st District Court of Appeal's mediation program embarked on his own, and lawyers prais...
Polly Carroll Horn, a class action defense lawyer who entered the legal profession in middle age and went on to become a found...
Community News
Judge Lee Smalley Edmon named LA County Bar's 2013 Outstanding Jurist
By Ben Adlin
On May 21, the Los Angeles County Bar Association presented Judge Lee Smalley Edmon with the group's Outstanding Jurist of 201...
Government
Riverside lawyer disbarred, ordered to pay restitution to former clients
By Katie Lucia
The state Supreme Court has ordered the disbarment of Charlotte Spadaro, a Riverside lawyer and former Beverly Hills mayor who...
Amanda Allen, an associate at Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg and Bagley LLP, took home the Lawyers Club of San Diego's first ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs win $925,000 settlement in medicial malpractice lawsuit
By Saul Sugarman
Plaintiffs have won a $925,000 settlement in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor at a Beverly Hills medical cen...
The Century City Chamber of Commerce recognized the pro bono work and philanthropy of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Cerisi LLP,...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Yahoo's plan relies on strategic dealmaking
By Dominic Fracassan
Since beginning her tenure as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive last year, Marissa Mayer has made it clear that a healthy appetite ...
Intellectual Property
President Obama, members of Congress go after patent holding companies
By Kevin Lee
President Barack Obama and members of Congress are pushing forward proposed regulations aimed at curbing the influence of pate...
Judges and Judiciary
DOJ says state falls short in aiding non-English speakers in court
By Paul Jones
A year-and-a-half long federal investigation into Los Angeles County Superior Court and the state judicial branch has found th...
Atlanta firm Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP grabbed a foothold on the West Coast when it officially welcomed the attorneys from...
Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy is entering a new frontier. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali will soon be faced with unique ques...
Perspective
US high court takes on state antitrust action removability case
By Ben Armisteadn
The court granted certiorari on the issue of whether a parens patriae action by the state itself in state court against a defe...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini, Gibson handle $2.5B Salesforce buy
By Dominic Fracassan
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC represented San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of...
Plaintiffs' lawyer Raymond Boucher is moving to a new firm, citing the drain on firm resources caused by his divorce. Boucher ...
San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Trius Therapeutics Inc. has named an industry veteran as its first general counsel a...
Law Practice
Howrey files adversary suits worth nearly $8 million together
By Joshua Sebold
The Howrey LLP estate has filed a flurry of adversary cases over the past week, seeking to recover over $7.7 million as it app...
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP represented an affiliate of Zelman Development Co. and Grayburn Properties Inc. in securing a 10-y...
Litigation
State appellate court rules arbitration pacts unenforceable in state case
By Laura Hautalan
Arbitration agreements are unenforceable when employees bring representative lawsuits against companies for certain infraction...
Corporate
Caltech launches joint startup incubator with Design Center
By Andrew Mcintyre
The world's best research university is about to dip a toe in the pool of a growing number of schools that have formed startup...
A State Bar panel intends to propose that all California lawyers over a certain age, possibly 50, be required to take a contin...
