Perspective
What DOMA, Prop. 8 rulings mean for businesses with employees in California
By Ben Armisteadn
For California employers with California employees, the answer is easy. But what if an employee moves to the Texas office? By ...
The integration of our private and work-related information on one device is a reality - a reality that poses challenges for e...
The state Supreme Court is currently considering under what circumstances a franchisor can be held vicariously liable for the ...
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP welcomed back a former colleague to its public and environmental law practice group after he ...
Environmental
Judge tentatively sides with food industry in baby food hazard case
By Fiona Smith
An Alameda County judge has tentatively sided with the food industry in a case in which the makers of products such as baby fo...
Law Practice
Allen Matkins lawyers split off and form San Diego boutique
By Alexandra Schwappach
A handful of attorneys left Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP to form their own commercial real estate boutiq...
The Howrey LLP estate resolved unsettled business claims with Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC a...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit says no private right to sue banks under foreclosure law
By John Roemer
The federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, a 2009 effort to ease the pain of the housing bust, does not give individua...
At a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright made no secret that he was fed up with attorney John Steele of Pren...
Law Practice
Sidley Austin expands Palo Alto office with clean tech partner
By David Ruiz
Sidley Austin LLP welcomed Marc E. Gottschalk to the firm's Palo Alto office from the legal department of Proterra, a company ...
Discipline
Berkeley defense lawyer faces 2-year suspension for document smuggling
By Don Debenedictisn
A State Bar Court judge has recommended a Berkeley criminal defense lawyer be suspended from practice for two years for smuggl...
Entertainment & Sports
Civil extortion case involving famed entertainment lawyer draws split outcome
By Ryne Hodkowski
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a lower court erred by denying entertainment attorney Marty Singer a dismi...
Superior Court Presiding Judge, Riverside County (Riverside) ...
Law Practice
Former adviser to LA mayor leaves Kaye Scholer for Morgan Lewis
By Chase Scheinbaum
Daniel Grunfeld, an attorney who has handled high-profile intellectual property disputes and worked as a policy adviser to for...
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Impact Fund Berkeley Specialty: employment class actions ...
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Proskauer Rose LLP Los Angeles Specialties: class/collective actions, labor/management relations
Shegerian & Associates Inc. Santa Monica Specialty: employment litigation
Rothner, Segall & Greenstone Pasadena Specialties: union labor law and entertainment
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Los Angeles Specialty: litigation
Morrison & Foerster LLP Los Angeles Specialty: Union organizing, collective bargaining, labor arbitration
Hadsell Stormer Richardson & Renick LLP Pasadena Specialties: civil rights, constitutional law
Cohelan Khoury & Singer San Diego Specialties: class actions, wage and hour issues
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Los Angeles, New York Specialty: immigration
Paul Hastings LLP Palo Alto Specialties: employee mobility, trade secrets
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Los Angeles Specialties: food/beverage, health care, international matters
Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco Specialty: class action litigation
The Kralowec Law Group San Francisco Specialties: class action litigation, appeals