A recent decision continues a trend of opinions focusing on the trial court's role as gatekeeper in deciding what valuation ev...
Perspective
New Year's lesson for professionals: Every good deed will be punished
By Ben Armisteadn
With a new year upon us, now is a good time for all professionals to develop good practices to ensure that existing and prospe...
Employers do not have any certainty that they will be shielded from liability if they comply in good faith with the Department...
A Clovis man will pay a $50,000 penalty for allegedly lying to investors about his company's progress in extracting more than ...
Government
State Bar's backlog of discipline cases remains near zero
By Don Debenedictisn
A year after the State Bar largely eliminated its backlog of attorney discipline cases, the number of aging cases is still nea...
Judges and Judiciary
California judicial nominations die in the old Senate, and the president re-nominates them
By Hadley Robinson
When the gavel slammed down on the 112th Senate Thursday, 33 judicial nominees - including two in needy California districts -...
A Legislative Analyst's Office report issued late Wednesday shows a modest dip in the judicial branch's overall annual budget ...
California Courts of Appeal
Pet owners gaining ground in battle over damages
By Emily Green
Even the most rational people will say it's hard to put a price tag on your furry best friend. Increasingly, California state ...
Duane Morris LLP will open a new office in Palo Alto on Monday, headed by former K&L Gates LLP partner Karineh Khachatouri...
Litigation
Transocean agrees to pay $1.4 billion settlement over oil spill
By Blake Edwardsn
Transocean announced an agreement with the federal government to pay $1.4 billion in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham, Orrick assist in $130 million Gap buy
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP advised Gap Inc. and Intermix Holdco Inc. in Gap's purchas...
Litigation
Luxury automaker sues insurer over cars lost to hurricane
By Don De Benedictis
Fisker Automotive Inc. sued its insurance company for denying a $33 million claim for 338 luxury hybrid sports sedans submerge...
U.S. Supreme Court
Administration asks Supreme Court to block federal judges' pay hikes
By John Roemer
Federal judges who sued to win annual cost-of-living pay increases suffered a setback Thursday as Obama administration lawyers...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court rules in favor of client notification over bar disciplinary charges
By Emily Green
An attorney who failed to notify his firm's clients that his partner had resigned from the California State Bar with disciplin...
Despite a still-weak economy, insurance defense firm Hardy, Erich, Brown & Wilson hasn't seen a drop in business. But the ...
Litigation
Auto manufacturers increasingly hit with suits over fuel economy claims
By Katie Lucia
A handful of auto manufacturers are under the gun for what opponents call deceptive advertising practices regarding inaccurate...
Litigation
Google emerges unscathed from now-closed FTC inquiry, experts say
By Rachel Swan
The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it has closed its 19-month antitrust probe into Google Inc., with favorab...
Early in his career, Scott S. Markus was the best full-time attorney-mediator in San Diego.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Plaintiffs' lawyers launch fresh fight against medical malpractice damages cap
By Don Debenedictisn
Despite decades of losses, attorneys for medical malpractice plaintiffs are mounting a new batch of attacks on a 1975 law that...
General Counsel of SunPower Corp. San Jose ...
Environmental
State sues energy companies for failing to maintain gas tanks
By Saul Sugarman
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Wednesday she filed a lawsuit against energy companies Phillips 66 and ConocoPhill...
The nation's plunge off the "fiscal cliff" may have been averted, but lawmakers did little to address potential funding cuts t...
Intellectual Property
ITC judge proposes Samsung pay large bond for patents
By Rachel Swan
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has proposed an import and sales ban, along with an 88 percent bond rate, on vario...
MidAmerican Solar on Wednesday acquired two co-located solar power projects currently under construction in Los Angeles and Ke...
Intellectual Property
Judge rejects Apple's "app store" false advertising claim in Amazon.com case
By Hadley Robinson
Delivering another blow to Apple Inc.'s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. over use of the term "app store," a federal judge gran...
Intellectual Property
Rambus patents unenforceable against Micron, Delaware judge rules
By Rachel Swan
William C. Price, a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, claimed victory Wednesday for his client, Micron T...
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reminds us that whether we like it or not, we are all constitutional actors. The following is an excer...
Chiding attorneys on both sides of Apple Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for their pro...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit to consider, again, whether computer-implemented inventions are patentable
By Rachel Swan
Silicon Valley technology giants have ramped up the pressure on a Washingtion, D.C.-based federal appeals court as it consider...