U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Immigrant children who get too old for visa get 9th Circuit relief
By John Roemer
Children of lawful immigrants whose bids to accompany their parents to the United States were stalled by paperwork delays got ...
Large Firms
Ex-Luce Forward lawyers sacked as McKenna downsizes
By Alexandra Schwappach
Six months after merging with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has shed 15 lawyers nat...
The Stonecrest office building, located at 9640 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego, scored $4.2 million in first mortgage refina...
Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a Redwood City-based online games publisher, announced Tuesday the appointment of its first ...
Law Practice
Estate wants former Dewey partner to recoup fees for it from his Dodgers work
By Kevin Lee
The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is seeking to hire Jones Day partner Bruce Bennett to pursue a cut of the legal fees from t...
Intellectual Property
Craigslist accused of antitrust violations by Web company it sued for copyright infringment
By Hadley Robinson
Internet company 3taps Inc. responded this week to Craigslist Inc.'s claims of copyright infringement by calling the lawsuit a...
A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday struck down film financier David Bergstein's $100 million complaint against two law firm...
The California Center for Sustainable Energy has selected Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as its outside general counsel. ...
White & Case LLP has boosted its Silicon Valley corporate bench with the addition of two new partners who most recently se...
Thompson & Knight LLP will open its first West Coast location in Los Angeles Monday and plans to focus on commercial, corp...
Large Firms
Three lawyers rejoin Ballard Spahr after brief Alston & Bird stint
By Ameera Buttn
Ballard Spahr LLP welcomed back to its Los Angeles office Tuesday three lawyers who had departed the firm earlier this year fo...
Judges and Judiciary
Stewart chosen as San Francisco's next assistant presiding judge
By Saul Sugarman
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John K. Stewart has been selected as the next assistant presiding judge of the court...
Intellectual Property
ActiveVideo settles patent lawsuit with Verizon Communications
By Fiona Smith
San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks Inc. has settled its patent dispute with Verizon Communications Inc. over interactive tele...
Three former presiding judges and nine current supervising judges have endorsed Pomona's Dan T. Oki in the upcoming election f...
Government
Courts look to reduce pay increases to employees to save money
By Paul Jones
Due to budget cuts, court administrators at several of the state's larger courts have frozen cost of living adjustments, and a...
Senior Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcón has strong views about the state's death penalty system.
Nearly a year into California's realignment law, debate over the radical legislation shifting responsibility for tens of thous...
Internal investigators can no longer request that witnesses refrain from discussing the subject matter of the investigation wi...
Sellers and service providers regularly extend credit to their customers, and often end up with general unsecured claims in th...
Perspective
NLRB's social media guidelines apply to nonunion workforces
By Michael Leen
The board has made it clear that its guidelines on social media issues apply to all employers, not just those with unionized w...
It is the total equity invested in the enterprise relative to the need for short term working capital that matters, not how mu...
Letter to the Editor
Compelled mediation not the same as coerced settlement
By Ben Armisteadn
Parties contractually obligated to mediate are not required to settle. Made to talk, yes, but to agree, no. By Scott Markus of...
The State Bar should be commended for examining the campaign materials of every lawyer who ran for judge this year. By Ming W....
The California Corporations Commissioner recently adopted a new exemption from registration for certain investment advisers in...
Judges and Judiciary
San Francisco County Superior Judge Ellen Chaitin retiring
By Saul Sugarman
After two decades on the bench, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ellen L. Chaitin is retiring. ...
A former client of SNR Denton US LLP is alleging the law firm was slow to revise a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fil...
Government
State Bar task force considers training requirement for lawyering skills
By Hannah Mitchelln
Members of a special State Bar task force are not sure what sort of training in practical lawyering skills they may demand of ...
Judge Rebecca C. Hardie's work as a probation officer influenced her approach on the bench
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego County civil departments to lose court reporters
By Saul Sugarman
San Diego County Superior Court's civil departments will lose court reporters in November, a court spokeswoman announced Tuesd...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Unjustly imprisoned man to get another chance to seek damages from detectives
By Fiona Smith
A man who served 19 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit got a second chance to seek damages from Los Angeles...
