Government
Judicial Branch beginning reforms to troubled construction program
By Paul Jones
After a critical audit was accepted by the Judicial Council, efforts to improve organization of the state's troubled court con...
But despite the recent purchases, lawyers predict major deal activity in the sector is a few years off. ...
A fraud lawsuit filed by former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP partner Henry C. Bunsow against the defunct firm's leaders will be shi...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Judges and Judiciary
Judges can ask lawyers to help their court, statewide ethics committee opines
By Emily Green
But the committee established some limits. Judges shouldn't ask attorneys to help alleviate a court's budget woes in "whatever...
California's Fair Political Practices Commission has posted state judges' finances online to increase transparency, but some j...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary ZELTIQ Aesthetics Inc. Pleasanton ...
Perspective
New 'streamlined' FBAR filing process not for faint of heart
By Ben Armisteadn
The new FBAR filing procedures became effective Sept. 1. Those who qualify under the procedures will only have to file tax ret...
Some employers continue to insist on strict English-only policies based on generalized notions of business necessity that are ...
If you run a small business - or a small law firm - you know that what belongs to you and what belongs to the company can seem...
California courts have expanded an agent's duties under certain circumstances, extending liability to insurers based on the st...
Government
Sonora City Council abused election process by approving Wal-Mart, court rules
By Fiona Smith
Sonora city officials abused the election process by approving a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter without doing environmental rev...
In the contentious battle for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the county's Association of Deputy District A...
Interest in potentially super-lucrative U.S.-China film co-productions remains at an all-time high, even if relatively few suc...
A Cupertino resident recently received a 15-month prison sentence for selling to China an amplifier used in communications equ...
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court considers merits of drug-sniffing dogs
By Henry Meier
Can investigators rely on canines' drug sniffing abilities to bring narcotics defendants to justice? That's the question the U...
Intellectual Property
Apple makes bold offer to gain advantage in patent lawsuit
By Rachel Swan
In a bold move that could give it a victory in the smartphone legal wars, Apple Inc. offered Wednesday to pay $1 - or less - p...
Litigation
Many price-fixing defendants face new claims as lawyers jockey for more work
By Hadley Robinson
Several of the companies implicated in price-fixing lawsuits involving liquid crystal display screens, disk drives and memory ...
Kilroy Realty Corp. paid $52 million for nearly half an acre of fully entitled property at 350 Mission Street in San Francisco...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partners have selected Mitchell S. Zuklie to succeed Ralph H. Baxter as firm chairman. ...
While there is some basis for this finger-pointing Citizens United, in fact, is not an obstacle to reining in the spend...
How can a professional ensure payment for services appropriately and professionally performed, even in the face of the client'...
Litigation
Easy doesn't do it: loss aversion in settlement negotiations
By Ben Armisteadn
Loss aversion is a powerful behavioral concept and defendants, in particular, ignore its invisible influence at their peril. B...
For 37 years, Microsoft has enjoyed a world that was software driven and software focused. Surface is the software giant's ver...
An untested program that fails at the outset would overwhelm the DTSC and impacted parties and would undoubtedly do extensive ...
Cyan Inc. announced Monday the appointment of its first chief legal officer. Kenneth M. Siegel will serve as vice president a...
The state Supreme Court has cancelled plans to hold its June 2013 oral arguments in Los Angeles in an effort to save money, th...
Intellectual Property
For sugar producers and adversaries, latest court battle is not so sweet
By Ben Adlin
Just in time for Halloween, the ongoing tussle between sugar producers and manufacturers of high-fructose corn syrup is turnin...
Intellectual Property
Samsung demands information from Apple about juror
By Rachel Swan
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. continued to press its argument Tuesday that jury foreman Velvin Hogan tainted its patent trial l...
Going on the attack against graduates suing over employment statistics, Thomas Jefferson School of Law asked a court to sanct...