Corporate
Skadden aids SurveyMonkey in large debt financing, recapitalization
By David Ruiz
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates advised Palo Alto-based Internet survey company SurveyMonkey in ...
Greenberg Traurig LLP, the defendant in a legal malpractice suit brought by the estate of bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman LLP,...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved. ...
Thanks to the efforts of lawyers in Los Angeles, a federal judge has ruled that Russia will be fined $50,000 a day for not com...
Solo and Small Firms
Firm uses 'simple, direct, effective' approach in trials
By Ryne Hodkowski
Jay M. Spillane, founder of five-attorney Los Angeles firm Spillane Trial Group PLC, uses the philosophies of Krav Maga - a sy...
An SF-based SEIU chapter sued the city of Redding Thursday, asking the the Shasta County Superior Court to block the city from...
Court funding and a pilot project that would hold traffic court via videoconferencing were among the topics discussed Thursday...
In recent years, at least 70 class actions have been filed in California courts seeking to apply the state's privacy laws to c...
Sara Kruzan's case has been championed by human trafficking activists as an example of the injustices facing victims of sexual...
General Counsel for Leg Avenue City of Industry ...
Stanford football has amassed an impressive 34-5 record since 2009. However, despite the team's consistent winning record, Sta...
Earn MCLE credit familiarizing yourself with the most important aspects of the 2012 amendment to the Three Strikes law. By J. ...
The recent effort to avert - at least for the moment - the so-called "fiscal cliff" provided a few lessons on how to effective...
Government
Presiding judges bemoan governor's stingy court budget proposal
By Saul Sugarman
Presiding judges in several Northern California superior courts are displeased by the proposed budget of Gov. Jerry Brown, who...
Mergers & Acquisitions
O'Melveny aids gaming company in cross-border purchase
By David Ruiz
O'Melveny & Myers LLP advised San Francisco-based Kabam Inc. in its purchase of Vancouver-based gaming developer Exploding...
The Brentwood Union School District agreed to pay $950,000 to settle allegations by a Contra Costa family that a Loma Vista E...
California Supreme Court
Manuel Medeiros, state solicitor general, retires
By Emily Green
Medeiros served as solicitor general of California since 2002. He oversaw all of the state's cases before the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Judge David S. Wesley told attendees on Wednesday that the court has no choice but to move forward with $85 million in budget ...
A class of current and former Kmart cashiers from the retailer's Tulare store appealed their suitable seating claims to the 9t...
Law Practice
Morgan Lewis boosts OC office with five new hires
By Alexandra Schwappach
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP will expand its business and finance practice to its Orange County office with the addition of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges fault CJP response to proposed ethics investigation changes
By Paul Jones
The president of the California Judges Association expressed disappointment Wednesday after reviewing the Commission on Judic...
Nearly 15 years after he was sworn in as a member of the Central District's judiciary, Senior District Court Judge A. Howard M...
Intellectual Property
Frustrated by court ruling, tech companies seek legislative fix to ITC holding company cases
By Rachel Swan
In the wake of a federal appellate defeat, Silicon Valley technology companies plan to push for legislative action to thwart t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit considers whether EPA must do more studies on nanotechnolgy product
By Fiona Smith
A federal appeals court panel considered Wednesday whether the Environmental Protection Agency must do more studies before all...
Judges and Judiciary
Failed case management system continues to impact judicial branch
By Jason Armstrongn
The state judicial branch's Court Case Management System project may be dead, but its affects on the branch continue to linger.
Best Best & Krieger LLP entered into an 11-year lease for the fourth floor of the Ontario Airport Towers.
Environmental
Environmentalists want court to order more studies of fracking growth in the state
By Craig Andersonn
The potentially explosive growth of fracking in California sparked a sharp debate during a hearing Tuesday pitting concerned e...
Most contractors know that work must be performed under a license. At the same time, however, they probably know that Native A...
The Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law in 2011, is the most significant reform of U.S. food safety laws in over 70...
Family
When does getting remarried terminate spousal support obligations?
By Ben Armisteadn
Does the marriage ceremony of a spousal support recipient constitute a “remarriage” terminating her right to continue to recei...