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The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared that trial courts are required to enjoin picket line violence and intimidation. By W...
Intellectual Property
Blog posts amount to misappropriation of trade secrets
By Michael Leen
In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman a...
Most business leaders and many lawyers give only passing thought to the boilerplate provisions in their companies' consumer co...
A man silenced at an Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting lacks standing to challenge a county rule restricting inflamma...
A bill that would limit to seven hours the length of time plaintiffs are subject to depositions in many cases passed the state...
The second time's the charm for formerly named Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, the New York-based firm that is once again seekin...
Sitting judges have been told they won't have to pay increased pension contributions in the state's pension overhaul bill, but...
Bay-area attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP assisted in Daikin Industries Ltd...
Judges and Judiciary
Doubts, support for the Alliance of California Judges lurked behind OC assistant PJ election
By Don Debenedictisn
The controversial Alliance of California Judges was an important, but not dominant, factor in the election of Orange County Su...
Litigation
9th Circuit reverses state death penalty verdict on racial bias grounds
By Emily Green
The decision reverses the federal district court as well as the state Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction 12 years ag...
MV TanVentures LLC inked a five-year lease with E-Holdings LP to open an iTan tanning salon at Eastlake Terraces in Chula Vista.
Two years after Citizens United, the ruling is stirring proposals to add more disclosure requirements in California campaigns ...
A new application of a law of nature might be patent-eligible, but it must also be more than the application of the law to a s...
Entertainment & Sports
Change of scenery: arbitration at the Olympics
By Ben Armisteadn
Serving as an arbitrator at the Olympic Games is a different kind of gig - and the eyes of the world are watching. By Maidie O...
In practice, the threat of a fee award brings otherwise reluctant employers to the settlement table even when they feel that t...
As a recent decision vividly demonstrates, if such offers are carelessly drafted, fees can also be awarded - post acceptance. ...
Patent attorneys may need to stiffen their resolve and make sure that they exercise extreme caution when claiming subject matt...
UC Berkeley School of Law is kicking off initiation of its California Constitution Center with a moot court for attorneys prep...
Intellectual Property
Google settles with Apple over patent in German lawsuit, court filing reveals
By Hadley Robinson
Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC reached a settlement with Apple Inc. over the Cupertino-based company's infringement o...
A San Diego lawyer accused of helping clients evade income taxes can no longer give tax advice or prepare others' returns, acc...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Online company must pay $3.7 million in civil sanctions, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
An online financial services company must pay $3.7 million in civil contempt sanctions for violating a court order to stop mis...
Stephen E. Claman, a noted real estate lawyer in the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machinger LLP...
Full service firms and boutiques have seen an increase in activity over the past year. ...
A state Senate bill that would increase how much victims and insurers get for medical damages passed an Assembly Judiciary Com...
Judge Leslie Brown fell into the law, but he takes it seriously, and litigants should, too.
Intellectual Property
Apple's patent win puts company on the offensive
By Hadley Robinson
Apple Inc.'s $1 billion verdict from a San Jose federal jury for patent and trade dress infringement Friday is only likely to ...
Courts and litigants are often confused about just who can enforce a mortgage that has been transferred in the secondary marke...
California Supreme Court
Santa Clara judge withheld evidence as a prosecutor
By Emily Green
A Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who is now a judge had a key role in willful prosecutorial misconduct, the state...
Personal Injury & Torts
Grave matters: morgue discovery leads to legal battle
By Brian Sumersn
A plaintiffs' claim of medical negligence in a case of a woman who may have been sent to the morgue alive cannot proceed after...
