Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and rival networking company A10 Networks Inc. settled a hard-fought patent and copyright ...
Economic pressures, coupled with rapid technological advances, changed the trajectory of lawyers' career paths in even the mos...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Go Eastward! Law school graduates find a success in overseas jobs, especially in Asia
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Jeremiah Y. Chung had a choice to make when he graduated from USC's Gould School of Law in 2010. He could look for work in th...
Federal prosecutors late Monday attempted to deflect defense attorneys' pointed critique of the government's $5 billion civil ...
Intellectual Property
San Jose company cannot sue without offering license first, judge rules
By Kevin Lee
A federal judge ruled Monday that San Jose-based LSI Corp. acted wrongly when it sued a Taiwanese company in the International...
TV-on-the-Internet startup Aereo Inc. and FilmOn.com Inc. announced late Monday that they have settled their contentious lawsu...
Judges and Judiciary
Spotlight on OC judge after former student files agency claim
By Alexandra Schwappach
A former law school student has filed a million-dollar claim alleging an Orange County Superior Court judge pressured her into...
Law Practice
Valley intellectual property litigator switches Boston-based firms
By Kevin Lee
Rising intellectual property star Sasha G. Rao, who has represented Google Inc. in patent litigation, has joined Bingham McCut...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley counsels Websense in going-private sale
By Salvador Mares
In a deal valued at around $1 billion, cyber security giant Websense agreed to a buyout offered up by Austin, Texas-based Vist...
In "The Lawyer Bubble," Steven J. Harper discusses how short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation's finest minds. The ...
The California Public Employees Retirement System hopes to ban a law firm from representing parties in Stockton's and San Bern...
California law graduates carry especially high levels of debt: The state hosts one-third of the 24 law schools with the...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Corporate
St. John's bidding war shines spotlight on consolidations
By Andrew Mc Intyre
The bidding war that erupted last week for the storied St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica is shining the spotlight on th...
As "May Revise" season progresses, I hope the governor and the Legislature will take special note of the adult disabled, their...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit fails to solve debate on software patentability
By Ben Armisteadn
In the end, the Federal Circuit judges seem reconciled to the likelihood that the Supreme Court will step in to provide much-n...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Incentive fees in class-action settlements under fire
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent 9th Circuit decision continues the close judicial scrutiny of class settlements and requires counsel to reconsider th...
Yahoo Inc. avoided a potential blow to its cash reserves after a Mexico appellate court overturned nearly all of a $2.7 billio...
Government
Attorney general's office, FTC sign off on Tesoro purchase of BP refinery, gas stations
By Hadley Robinson
The California attorney general's office approved, subject to various conditions, Tesoro Corp.'s $2.5 billion acquisition of m...
Litigation
Disbarred UK lawyers lose suit accusing British regulators of racketeering
By Don Debenedictisn
A pair of disbarred British solicitors who spent years fighting English regulators in efforts first to keep and then regain th...