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Litigation


Toyota ends acceleration litigation

Dec. 28, 2012
By Henry Meier

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Wednesday it had agreed to pay between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion to end class action litigati...


Judicial Profile


Rene Auguste Chouteau

Dec. 28, 2012
By Emily Green

Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...


Dickstein Shapiro LLP advised Poseidon Resources in closing the company's $922 million financing for its proposed Poseidon Car...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Real Estate Deals

Dec. 28, 2012
By Connie Lopez

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP helped international real estate company Kennedy Wilson Inc. purchase the Ritz Carlton Lake ...


Law Practice


U.S. firms make way for global leadership

Dec. 27, 2012
By Kevin Leen

As U.S. law firms increasingly become global businesses, current leaders face the challenge of ensuring that lawyers in differ...


Perspective


If the sudden 2008 credit crunch can be likened to an earthquake, then the following flood of mechanics lien and stop payment ...


Perspective


Hobbit titles: An unexpected journey in confusion

Dec. 27, 2012
By Seena Nikravann

Warner Brothers, New Line, and its affiliates recently achieved a rare courtroom victory by obtaining an order restraining dis...


Criminal


Family members of a slain Victorville woman broke into tears as a San Bernardino County jury returned a guilty verdict Friday ...


Education


Four months into her new job as dean of Stanford Law School, Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Magill is gathering information from top uni...


Law Practice


A saturated legal market and sagging economy are forcing many law school graduates to pursue what was once considered an impos...


Students Matter, a non-profit education reform group, is suing the state and several school districts over allegations that st...


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


The California Judges Association is pushing four proposed changes to the procedures used to investigate alleged judicial misc...


Government


Structural changes to the criminal justice system have not happened quickly, but the last 20 years have seen dramatic changes ...


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...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Dec. 26, 2012
By David Ruiz

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Judicial Profile


Stephen S. Trott

Dec. 26, 2012
By John Roemer

Off the bench, Judge Stephen S. Trott has channeled Lincoln, performed with Johnny Cash


Law Practice


Law firms facing big changes in next decade

Dec. 25, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

The next decade will hold many changes for law firms - an increased demand for associates who have carved out a niche, a decre...


Perspective


You Can't Patent Christmas!

Dec. 25, 2012
By Seena Nikravann

The holidays are upon us. Given that everything seems to be protected by intellectual property rights, maybe someone should pr...


Perspective


Has our high court, in adopting Daubert-ese, pointed the way for greater rigor in the scrutiny of suspect expert testim...


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


A San Jose federal grand jury indicted three men Friday for running a $60 million fraud scheme that deceived investors into th...


Labor/Employment


The rulings came in a raft of decisions, all finished before Republican-appointed board member Brian Hayes retired in mid-Dece...


Labor/Employment


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

Dec. 25, 2012
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...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. Senate confirms Tigar as federal judge

Dec. 25, 2012
By Craig Anderson

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon S. Tigar as the newest federal judge in th...


Government


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


Having lost its bid for a permanent injunction against South Korea-based rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in its smartphone ...


Intellectual Property


Attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP scored a defense verdict Thursday when a Delaware jury cleared their Mo...