Under the dealers' theory, the U.S. orchestrated Chrysler's termination of their franchises when it provided the automaker wit...
This is the provocative question posed by petitioners that the U.S. Supreme Court has elected to answer in Myriad Genetics<...
Perspective
Let's review the NLRB's incursion into nonunion territory
By Ben Armisteadn
Recently, the agency has greatly expanded its enforcement efforts against nonunion employers, issuing a flurry of decisions th...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge left intact a $1.5 million arbitration award levied in June against a former city of...
While law firm combinations remained flat in 2012, the majority of merger activitity in 2012 focused on small, strategic acqui...
Lawyers will argue for and against Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban, before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Covington & Burling, Wilson Sonsini start health care conference with a purchase
By David Ruiz
Covington & Burling LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC advised in a life sciences purchase that kicked off th...
Nuclear waste isn't something that would typically appear on an everyday list of hottest commodities. ...
Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully announced Monday that she won't seek reelection when her current term expires at the e...
Corporate finance and securities boutique firm Lucosky Brookman has hired Blank Rome LLP's Scott Kline to run its new office i...
New SanDisk Corp. Chief Legal Officer Eric S. Whitaker says he wants to create a comprehensive technology licensing program an...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Administrative/Regulatory
Eligibility rules revised for SBA innovation programs
By Ben Armisteadn
The Small Business Administration recently revised regulations governing eligibility for the Small Business Innovation Researc...
With the weight of history on his shoulders, Judge Rolf Treu treats his courtroom as a temple.
General Counsel of East Bay Municipal Utility District Oakland ...
It was a record year for Japanese outbound mergers and acquisitions. But it wasn't only big companies buying. California also ...
Without question, the city is in need of a "Los Angeles Giving Pledge" from local private foundations and other big donors to ...
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates topped the charts for 2012 mergers and acquisitions by deal valu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Judge Raymond Fisher to take senior status
By John Roemer
9th Circuit Judge Raymond C. Fisher will take senior status April 1, the federal appeals court announced Friday. ...
California Supreme Court
State high court to hear cases on sex offender residential requirements, juvenile life sentences
By Emily Green
Any decision the court issues on sex offender residential requirements could have sweeping ramifications across the state. ...
The past several years have been a mixed bag in terms of growth for Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC. But the firm is gr...
Brentwood Associates, a consumer-focused private equity investment firm based in Los Angeles, sold Pacific Island Restaurants ...
Criminal
Legislators vow to change law that let man who tricked woman into sex avoid rape charge
By Paul Jones
Several legislators vowed Friday to change state law defining rape after the 2nd District Court of Appeal overturned a rape co...
Transfer pricing is probably the single most significant source of tax risk that general counsel for multinational enterprises...
Jobs in the legal sector jumped by roughly 1,000 last month, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released last week by th...
The move comes one year after Falk's firm, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, merged with Arnold & Porter LL...
A source says the governor's office is looking for an alternative to a proposed $200 million sweep of courts' cash reserves th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Christian groups firing legal salvos to block law banning gay conversion therapy
By John Roemer
The opening salvo in the next big battle over gay rights was fired last week when Christian groups and others sought to shoot ...
Duane Morris LLP announced the opening of an office in Palo Alto, the firm's 24th office worldwide. The managing partner will ...
Over morning coffee with colleagues, Judge Roger T. Ito helps hone his craft.