Toyota Motor Corp. announced Wednesday it had agreed to pay between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion to end class action litigati...
Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...
Corporate
Dickstein Shapiro helps largest desalination project close financing
By David Ruiz
Dickstein Shapiro LLP advised Poseidon Resources in closing the company's $922 million financing for its proposed Poseidon Car...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP helped international real estate company Kennedy Wilson Inc. purchase the Ritz Carlton Lake ...
As U.S. law firms increasingly become global businesses, current leaders face the challenge of ensuring that lawyers in differ...
If the sudden 2008 credit crunch can be likened to an earthquake, then the following flood of mechanics lien and stop payment ...
Warner Brothers, New Line, and its affiliates recently achieved a rare courtroom victory by obtaining an order restraining dis...
Family members of a slain Victorville woman broke into tears as a San Bernardino County jury returned a guilty verdict Friday ...
Four months into her new job as dean of Stanford Law School, Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Magill is gathering information from top uni...
Law Practice
Recent bar graduates increasingly hanging their own shingles
By Ryne Hodkowski
A saturated legal market and sagging economy are forcing many law school graduates to pursue what was once considered an impos...
Education
California group seeks to rid state of 'grossly ineffective' teachers
By Blake Edwardsn
Students Matter, a non-profit education reform group, is suing the state and several school districts over allegations that st...
Litigation
Class action against Instagram unlikely to get far, legal observers say
By Rachel Swan
After provoking an online outcry with changes to its terms of use, Instagram Inc. finds itself in the crosshairs of a class ac...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges seek expanded due process in misconduct inquiries
By Paul Jones
The California Judges Association is pushing four proposed changes to the procedures used to investigate alleged judicial misc...
Structural changes to the criminal justice system have not happened quickly, but the last 20 years have seen dramatic changes ...
Education
UC Irvine's first law school class beat most California law schools on July bar exam
By Don Debenedictisn
UC Irvine School of Law's inaugural class scored a 90 percent pass rate on the July bar exam, second only to Stanford's 94 per...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Off the bench, Judge Stephen S. Trott has channeled Lincoln, performed with Johnny Cash
The next decade will hold many changes for law firms - an increased demand for associates who have carved out a niche, a decre...
The holidays are upon us. Given that everything seems to be protected by intellectual property rights, maybe someone should pr...
Has our high court, in adopting Daubert-ese, pointed the way for greater rigor in the scrutiny of suspect expert testim...
Climate change cases make waves this year, a trend expected to continue in 2013
By Fiona Smith
The courts took on a slew of environmental disputes this past year and many of the cases hit on what is arguably the single-bi...
Criminal
San Jose grand jury indicts 3 men on $60 million fraud scheme
By Hadley Robinson
A San Jose federal grand jury indicted three men Friday for running a $60 million fraud scheme that deceived investors into th...
Labor/Employment
NLRB strengthens unions in contract negotiation, employee discipline
By Laura Hautalan
The rulings came in a raft of decisions, all finished before Republican-appointed board member Brian Hayes retired in mid-Dece...
Labor/Employment
Students take on new role in workplace retaliation cases
By Laura Hautalan
At the new Employment Rights Clinic, six students from the Loyola Law School took on an unusual role this semester while helpi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit revives securities fraud case
By John Roemer
In a class action over alleged securities fraud, a 9th Circuit panel on Friday reversed U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel...
The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon S. Tigar as the newest federal judge in th...
Government
As law school enrollment plummets, LL.M. programs boom, ABA finds
By Don Debenedictisn
Law schools have increased enrollment in their master's of law and other non-J.D. programs by 52 percent since 2000, according...
With the economy picking up and the industry enjoying smooth sailing in terms of its output of films and TV shows, studios are...
Intellectual Property
Preliminary ruling invalidating key Apple patent could reshape smartphone war
By Rachel Swan
Having lost its bid for a permanent injunction against South Korea-based rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in its smartphone ...
Intellectual Property
Quinn Emanuel lawyers win defense verdict for Symantec
By Rachel Swan
Attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP scored a defense verdict Thursday when a Delaware jury cleared their Mo...
