On Nov. 2, Southwestern Law School recognized Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP partner Russell Frackman and two other atto...
Intellectual Property
Judge trims sanctions awards in Apple-Samsung case
By Hadley Robinson
A San Jose magistrate judge awarded sanctions against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for discovery squabbles befo...
Intellectual Property
Google faces showdown with Microsoft next week over "standard essential" patents
By Rachel Swan
Google Inc. is gearing up to defend itself next week against Microsoft Corp., just one in a slew of legal battles the company ...
Community News
Ventura attorney honored with State Bar president's Pro Bono Service Award
By Caitlin Johnson
On Oct. 12 Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP attorney Leslie McAdam was awarded the California State Bar President's Pro Bono Ser...
Martin Quinn, a former lawyer who works as a mediator at JAMS, says he has to work a little harder than the retired judges there.
Earlier this week, Netflix Inc. responded to famed activist investor Carl Icahn's takeover attempt by adopting a poison pill w...
Law Practice
Firm expands into Santa Monica to tap into 'Silicon Beach' phenomenon
By Ryne Hodkowski
Business law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP has opened an office in Santa Monica's busy Third Street Promenade in hop...
A group of judges and other state officials that must determine how to equitably fund courts has to figure out how to compare ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
California Supreme Court
More death penalty cases in store for state Supreme Court following initiative's failure
By Emily Green
With the failure Tuesday of a proposition to abolish the death penalty, the state Supreme Court is facing the specter of becom...
Labor/Employment
Class action waivers restricted further in NLRB case
By Laura Hautalan
Opponents of class action waivers won a victory this week when a San Francisco administrative law judge decided a fitness comp...
You don't have to be in the billions to capture tax savings before year-end. After all, the 15 percent capital gain rate ends ...
What goes on behind the scenes of the Electoral College begins with the U.S. Constitution, winds its way through the State Cap...
Intellectual Property
Apple hit with $368 million patent infringement verdict
By Rachel Swan
Scotts Valley-based VirnetX Holding Corp. kept up its patent litigation winning streak against technology giants, persuading a...
California Supreme Court
Internet retailers, privacy rights activists confront each other at state Supreme Court
By Emily Green
Apple Inc. appeared to come out ahead in a high stakes case heard at the state Supreme Court Wednesday pitting Internet retail...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Another 9th Circuit judge assigned to climate change case
By Fiona Smith
Judge Ronald M. Gould was assigned Wednesday to sit on the panel of a closely-watched climate change case pending at the 9th U...
The number of civil filings in the trial courts continued to decline slightly in fiscal 2010-11, in line with a multi-year tre...
Government
Jackie Lacey makes history as LA County's new district attorney
By Henry Meier
Lacey's election marks the first time in the office's 162 year history that someone other than a Caucasian male will lead the ...
California currently has more prisoners on death row than any other state in the nation. And following Tuesday's vote to prese...
Mission West Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, has agreed to sell certain real estate assets to a joint venture...
Intellectual Property
Board game company hit for $8.6 million in trademark verdict
By Hadley Robinson
The phrase "Would You Rather...?" is a valid trademark that a board game company has been willfully infringing for nearly a de...
Intellectual Property
Judge trims sanctions awards in Apple-Samsung case
By Hadley Robinson
A San Jose magistrate judge awarded sanctions against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for discovery squabbles befo...
Judges and Judiciary
Newhall Ranch judge defends herself against developer's disqualification effort
By Craig Anderson
A Los Angeles County judge filed papers defending herself against an effort by a developer to disqualify her from the case.
Entertainment & Sports
Indie filmmakers navigate wild west of foreign film distribution
By Jean Yung
More independent filmmakers are striking deals with eager foreign buyers. But entertainment lawyers caution the market for for...
Riverside County Public Defender Gary Windom abruptly ended his employment with the county Wednesday, as did a high ranking de...
Proposition's success means no new cuts, and likely Democratic supermajorities could aid courts' funding.
It's the issue that most impassioned the dissenting justice that makes a recent appeal of a granted anti-SLAPP motion intrigui...
Perspective
Evaluating the "Most Favored Nations" Provision in M&A Contracts
By Rei Estrada
Richard Climan and Keith Flaum use a mock negotiation to discuss the pros and cons of the "Most Favored Nations" provision in ...
The federal government's recently-filed suit against Bank of America reveals some disturbing practices employed by the iconic ...
Dean R. Gits, who earned a reputation for humility and deep dedication to clients during his decades-long career as a criminal...