The city of Victorville reached a $54 million settlement with a company that oversaw a failed power plant project the municipa...
A Los Angeles federal judge dismissed claims last week against two Wikimedia Foundation Inc. users who were accused of violati...
Criminal
Retrial of AU Optronics executive accused of participating in price-fixing conspiracy starts
By Hadley Robinson
The executive who ran the computer monitor division of AU Optronics Corp. was back in a federal courtroom Monday, being retrie...
Labor/Employment
Arbitration trumps state public policy again in high court decision
By Laura Hautalan
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the Oklahoma Supreme Court should not have decided the legality of a n...
Intellectual Property
Patent office director's upcoming departure will leave major void, lawyers say
By Craig Andersonn
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David J. Kappos, who won praise during his three-year tenure for implementing reform...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted the Federal Communications Commission an en banc rehearing of its deci...
In an effort to smooth the process of sorting through large quantities of potential evidence in a civil trial, a committee tod...
The fight over Dish Network's "Autohop" feature on its "Primetime Anytime" DVR service, both introduced this spring, continues...
California Supreme Court
Judges must exclude faulty expert testimony, state Supreme Court rules
By Fiona Smith
The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that trial court judges must act as "gatekeepers" and exclude expert testimon...
Government
Government's new FCPA guidelines leave prosecutors plenty of flexibility, defense lawyers say
By Hadley Robinson
Defense attorneys did not get the specifics they were hoping for when the government issued extensive guidelines on the Foreig...
Nine months after Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP opened in Silicon Valley, the firm has laterally hired an intel...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer of Silver Lake Menlo Park ...
A year after adopting its Cap-and-Trade Regulation, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held its first auction of greenh...
Perspective
US high court to hear arguments in case that could reshape scope of supervisor liability
By Ben Armisteadn
The court will hold oral argument Monday in a case that may reshape the scope of supervisor liability under Faragher an...
Books
Mediating tragedy: deciding who gets what when disaster strikes
By Ben Armisteadn
A review of one of the nation's top mediation expert's -- with experience ranging from asbestos, to 9/11, to Aurora, Colorado ...
Law Practice
State Bar panel begins look at how to assist, regulate aging lawyers
By Don Debenedictisn
With the number of older lawyers increasing, a new State Bar panel has begun exploring what the bar could do both to help thos...
Earn MCLE credit while brushing up on your Family Law litigation skills. By Michael Gassner and Gary Nadler ...
Plaintiffs pursuing a wrongful death case against a Beverly Hills medical center have moved a step closer to the difficult goa...
Several local defense attorneys have expressed interest in the job previously held by Gary Windom, who abruptly stepped down e...
Intellectual Property
Samsung lawyers hope to use Apple-HTC licensing deal details to oppose injunction
By Rachel Swan
Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. hope to use information in legal adversary Apple Inc.'s licensing deal with HTC Cor...
Litigation
Technology companies embrace class action bans, arbitration provisions
By Emily Green
As more and more companies move to limit class action lawsuits by consumers and employers, technology companies are jumping on...
Environmental
Transporation plan does not adequately account for climate change, judge rules
By Fiona Smith
A trial court has tentatively ruled that San Diego officials failed to properly look at the impacts of a long-term regional tr...
Nearly six months after Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP entered into bankruptcy, lawyers for the firm's estate have submitted a compre...
Aram Peter Kezirian Jr., senior vice president of corporate strategy and strategic development for the Cooperative of American...
An Aliso Viejo lawyer pleaded guilty last week to defrauding Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, admitting he paid kickb...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit upholds benefits for same-sex spouse of court employee
By Hadley Robinson
An appeals court upheld a federal judge's order that a court employee should receive benefits for his same-sex spouse, and mus...
The estate of Heller Ehrman LLP dodged a late $100 million malpractice claim that a Santa Clara-based medical research company...
With the $350 million cut from the state Judicial Branch's 2011-12 budget and the $540 million taken this year, many of the fu...
Judge Glenn Yabuno's past helps him take each case as unique and worthy of close attention.