Law Practice
Ventura County firm to close after string of retirements, departures
By Alexandra Schwappach
Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP , one of Ventura County's oldest law firms, plans to shut its doors later this summer a...
Government
Valley Fever yet another obstacle for state prison system
By Hamed Aleazizn
A federal judge's order requiring the state to move thousands of prisoners due to high risks of Valley Fever could create an a...
Law Practice
Pepper Hamilton grabs new chair for health care practice
By Joshua Seboldn
Mark Anthony Kadzielski, partner-in-charge of the health law practice for Norton Rose Fulbright LLP's Los Angeles office, is j...
Beverly Hills-based subsidiaries of Australian media company Village Roadshow Ltd. announced the promotion of Kevin P. Berg to...
In the first case of its kind in the state, a Riverside County couple is suing the manufacturer of a brand of electronic cigar...
Litigation
Health care consortium and owner hit with civil RICO suit over billing practices
By Henry Meier
The largest provider of worker's compensation insurance in California is suing the operator of a Long Beach-based health care ...
Litigation
Cotchett Pitre files new complaint against financial institutions for fixing interest rates
By Saul Sugarman
Two more lawsuits have been filed against more than 20 financial institutions, which are accused of conspiring to fix benchmar...
A group of former prosecutors seeking success outside the federal government is taking off where a predecessor group left off,...
A reasonable application of the human intervention standard would have resulted in a more balanced result. By Michael H. Ander...
The judicial branch does not have flexibility and resources like other government agencies. As such, it cannot avoid implement...
U.S. Supreme Court
US Supreme Court continues its pro-arbitration jurisprudence
By Ben Armisteadn
Last week's opinion Italian Colors came as no surprise to those of us who have closely followed the court's jurispruden...
Administrative/Regulatory
State official tapped for Federal Election Commission
By Paul Jones
President Obama has nominated Ann Ravel, chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, to serve as a commission...
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is enacting layoffs and pay cuts, the firm announced Monday in a firmwide email. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Generic drugmakers score victory in U.S. Supreme Court
By Saul Sugarman
Defense attorneys on Monday cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which held that someone who takes a generic drug cannot sue t...
Litigation
Bond insurer hires Weil Gotshal & Manges in San Bernardino, Stockton bankruptcies
By Katie Lucia
A major creditor in the San Bernardino and Stockton bankruptcies retained new counsel to represent it in the cases after a jud...
Government
Brown signs law to inject more information into bail process
By Hamed Aleazizn
The governor signed a bill allowing bench officers to consider a detailed risk assessment report when setting or denying bail ...
Online search company Google Inc. has confirmed it is working with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust inv...
Goodwin Procter LLP hired Grant P. Fondo as a partner in the firm's Menlo Park office for its securities litigation and white-...
Law Practice
Pittsburgh firm opens first California office in Pasadena
By Joshua Seboldn
Pittsburgh firm Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC opened its first California office by partnering with local intellectua...
Hermosa Beach-based Virtual Piggy Inc., the first tool to allow online retailers to accept payments from consumers aged 13 and...
Tokyo-based telecommunications company Softbank Corp. appears primed to take a majority stake in Sprint after Dish Network Cor...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center) ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Senate bill targets charter cities on wages after Supreme Court win
By Paul Jones
A state Assembly committee will hear a bill Wednesday that would deny state funding to charter cities that don't require contr...
Litigation
Woman could get probation for aiding in scheme to embezzle $2 million from NFL player
By Henry Meier
A woman who helped embezzle more than $2 million from NFL defensive end Dwight Freeney could walk away with a probation senten...
The panic defense tactics are relics from a time when the LGBT community faced widespread hatred and discrimination with few o...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
State Bar explores state, federal legislation to forestall immigration fraud
By Don Debenedictisn
If Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the State Bar intends to be ready with state laws to target l...
Vice President, Corporate Business Development and Legal Affairs, of Renewable Energy Group Inc. San Francisco ...
Letter to the Editor
Litigants entitled to full explanations of decisions
By Ben Armisteadn
Re: Profile of Justice Stephen J. Kane, June 13. By Joel Drum ...