Harris Education Consulting, Inc., won a $10.2 million arbitration award last Thursday after a JAMS panel concluded that Harri...
For many of Silicon Valley's newly wealthy, making charitable donations is as much about philanthropy as it is about avoiding ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit revives policyholders' claim against life insurance company
By John Roemer
A California life insurance company accused of gouging policyholders cannot duck behind the shield of federal securities law t...
Intellectual Property
Domestic patents surge as China seeks to spur innovation
By Ben Armisteadn
In 1990, Chinese residents filed fewer than 6,000 patent applications. In 2011, China filed more domestic patent applications ...
M West Holdings, a private real estate investment company, purchased a 26,273-square-foot apartment community in Hollywood. Th...
Intellectual Property
Lawyers, judges push for greater harmonization in patent laws around the world
By Rachel Swan
As the patent arms race heats up around the globe, with corporations opening new battlefronts in foreign countries while they ...
While judicial notice of court records is often requested, its scope and meaning is frequently misunderstood and it is rarely ...
Securities
Congress mulls bill to increase financial adviser oversight
By Ben Armisteadn
The average adviser registered with the SEC gets examined once every 11 years, and some advisers go more than 15 years between...
IP disputes typically involve entities with competing products and result in the entities licensing each other; claims by non-...
The 21-year-old Milken Institute, which advances innovative solutions to social and economic problems affecting the U.S. and b...
Government
Orange County Superior Court's second longest sitting judge to retire
By Alexandra Schwappach
Judge Barbara Tam Nomoto Schumann started at the Orange County Superior Court in 1997 after working as a municipal judge for 1...
A domino effect set in motion by a changed landscape for startup companies is making it harder for emerging companies to get r...
With the possibility of new cuts to courts in 2013, advocates for more court funding say the impact of budget reductions to th...
Litigation
Retirees can continue insurance benefit lawsuit against UC Regents
By Laura Hautalan
An appellate court ruling reversed part of the lower court's decision, which said the Lawrence Livermore Lab retirees improper...
In the latest skirmish in a long and high-profile legal battle between production company Crusader Entertainment, LLC and nove...
It's becoming something of a tradition for presiding judges of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to offer up doom and gloo...
Government
San Bernardino County public defender's office goes paperless
By Katie Lucia
According to the San Bernardino public defender's office, it recently became the only such agency in California to ditch ink a...
Government
SEC whistleblower program boosting legal work, not uncovering much wrongdoing
By Hadley Robinson
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program, launched as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, has not yet be...
California Supreme Court
Woman injured in bumper car cannot sue Great America, state Supreme Court rules
By John Roemer
Expanding the assumption of risk doctrine in favor of the amusement park industry, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled tha...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
GOP senators complain about 9th Circuit, but restore it to nearly full judicial strength
By John Roemer
Even as Republican senators took potshots at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a Maui judicial conference, they also ...
On Dec. 14, the National Labor Relations Board issued its second decision to examine firings involving Facebook postings. By E...
Mediators are human beings, and all human beings have biases. If left unconstrained, those biases can ripen into deception of ...
Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, depositions in California state cases will be limited to seven hours. The new time limit has the poten...
Litigation
Judge preliminarily approves $1.3 billion settlement in Toyota litigation
By Henry Meier
U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selma indicated he would approve the deal between Toyota Motor Corp.and a class of current ...
Environmental
Mojave Desert water extraction plan faces lawsuits trying to block it
By Fiona Smith
A Los Angeles-based company's plans to make money extracting water from underneath the Mojave Desert has won government approv...
Matthew D. Umhofer, counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates, is scheduled to join the Law Of...
Criminal
Pleasanton lawyer pleads guilty to fabricating client deeds
By Hadley Robinson
A Pleasanton lawyer pleaded guilty Thursday to allegations that he lied to the Internal Revenue Service about fabricating thre...
Obituaries
Paul R. Teilh, a long-serving Santa Clara County judge, dies
By Saul Sugarman
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Paul R. Teilh, who was the county's longest-serving jurist and known for his penchant ...
Government
Growning number of prospective lawyers referred to addiction program
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar Lawyer Assistance Program, which helps lawyers with substance-abuse or mental-health problems, is accepting an i...