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Perspective


An economical and potentially legally devastating method for introducing Internet writings into evidence is by requesting judi...


Perspective


The act renders any court reversal of nonregulated status or a court injunction against growing plants that have been proven t...


Importantly, the case stands for the proposition that sophisticated contracting parties may allocate commercial risks, includi...


Community News


Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Dennis B. Arnold and Arthur Mazirow, a principal at Mazirow Real Estate Dispute Resolu...


Litigation


An Oakland-based plaintiffs' firm has won more than $27 million for clients who lodged an asbestos lawsuit against an Ohio-bas...


Destructive wildfires that scorched thousands of acres of national forest land in Northern California have led to $50.5 millio...


Law Practice


IP litigator heads to K&L Gates in Irvine

Jun. 7, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

K&L Gates LLP grabbed an intellectual property partner from its neighbor Haynes & Boone LLP in Orange County, part of ...


Community News


Employment lawyers hold diversity summit

Jun. 7, 2013
By Ben Adlin

The California Employment Lawyers Association hosted its second annual Diversity Leadership Summit on May 21 at Loyola Law Sch...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Jun. 7, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Gary Weiner

Jun. 7, 2013
By Emily Green

The former program coordinator for the 1st District Court of Appeal's mediation program embarked on his own, and lawyers prais...


Obituaries


Polly Carroll Horn, a class action defense lawyer who entered the legal profession in middle age and went on to become a found...


On May 21, the Los Angeles County Bar Association presented Judge Lee Smalley Edmon with the group's Outstanding Jurist of 201...


The state Supreme Court has ordered the disbarment of Charlotte Spadaro, a Riverside lawyer and former Beverly Hills mayor who...


Community News


San Diego attorney wins leadership award

Jun. 7, 2013
By Ben Adlin

Amanda Allen, an associate at Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg and Bagley LLP, took home the Lawyers Club of San Diego's first ...


Plaintiffs have won a $925,000 settlement in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor at a Beverly Hills medical cen...


Community News


Century City chamber lauds Robins Kaplan

Jun. 7, 2013
By Ben Adlin

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

Jun. 7, 2013
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 Barack Obama and members of Congress are pushing forward proposed regulations aimed at curbing the influence of pate...


Judges and Judiciary


A year-and-a-half long federal investigation into Los Angeles County Superior Court and the state judicial branch has found th...


Law Practice


Atlanta firm Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP grabbed a foothold on the West Coast when it officially welcomed the attorneys from...


Law Practice


Heller Ehrman bankruptcy enters uncharted waters

Jun. 6, 2013
By Joshua Seboldn

Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy is entering a new frontier. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali will soon be faced with unique ques...


Perspective


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

Jun. 6, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC represented San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of...


Law Practice


Messy divorce sends lawyer packing

Jun. 6, 2013
By Chase Scheinbaum

Plaintiffs' lawyer Raymond Boucher is moving to a new firm, citing the drain on firm resources caused by his divorce. Boucher ...


Corporate


San Diego drugmaker appoints first GC

Jun. 6, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Trius Therapeutics Inc. has named an industry veteran as its first general counsel a...


Law Practice


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...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Jun. 6, 2013
By David Ruiz

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP represented an affiliate of Zelman Development Co. and Grayburn Properties Inc. in securing a 10-y...


Arbitration agreements are unenforceable when employees bring representative lawsuits against companies for certain infraction...


Corporate


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...


Government


State Bar homes in on older lawyers

Jun. 6, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

A State Bar panel intends to propose that all California lawyers over a certain age, possibly 50, be required to take a contin...