Government
Homeowner's rights: fears of frivolous litigation unwarranted
By Ben Armisteadn
The notion that wily homeowners will bring lawsuits to bully the banks into modifying their loans is without any basis in the ...
A group calling itself the Play Fair for Farmers Field Coalition and four citizens have filed a complaint challenging the cons...
A controversial bill that would have increased medical damages payouts in personal injury lawsuits died in the final legislati...
Personal Injury & Torts
$2.4 million arbitration award to injured high school football player
By Brian Sumersn
An arbitrator has awarded $2.4 million to a former high school football player who broke his neck four years ago during a tryo...
Morrison & Foerster LLP represented Gruppo Campari SpA, an Italian drink maker, in its $414.8 million acquisition of Lasce...
A Newport Beach lawyer is being held in the Orange County Jail on charges he embezzled more than $720,000 from two elderly sis...
Environmental
Internal combustion engine technology to dominate next decade
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent study found that "vehicles fueled with compressed natural gas - not electric batteries - will emerge as the biggest c...
Attorneys for Apple Inc. on Tuesday persuaded a federal appeals court panel to uphold a decision by a Texas federal judge who ...
Entertainment lawyer and branding expert Jordan Yospe has moved to Beverly Hills-based Eisner, Kahan & Gorry from Manatt, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Christianson resigns as San Bernardino presiding judge
By Brian Sumersn
San Bernardino County Superior Court has a new presiding judge after Ronald M. Christianson stepped down over the weekend foll...
A new tax practice group targeting Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has launched at the Palo Alto offices of Skadden, Arps, Sla...
Judge Kenneth Freeman aims to give cases individual attention and appreciates lawyers who give their all to theirs.
Government
Judicial branch approves plan to reform administrative office
By Hannah Mitchelln
The state Judicial Council voted Friday to accept a plan to implement reforms recommended in a critical report. ...
Los Angeles routinely appears on ATRA's list of the top 10 "judicial hell holes" in the nation, so we knew selecting the jury ...
Environmental
California Air Resource Board polishes its cap-and-trade auction process
By Michael Leen
The practice auction provided a dress rehearsal to test the auction platform in preparation for the first real auction, which ...
Perspective
Homeowner's Bill of Rights will stop fraudulent foreclosure practices
By Michael Leen
HBOR's arsenal of weapons could stop fraudulent home foreclosures in their tracks. Mark Didak ...
A lawyer challenging the Central District's jury selection process has sharpened his attack, filing a motion last week in Los ...
Law Practice
Equal Rights Advocates to launch law clinic for immigrant women
By Jean Yung
Nonprofit law firm Equal Rights Advocates will launch a free immigrant women-focused legal clinic, "Clinica La Voz," on Wednes...
A former National Football League player is suing for nearly $6 million in damages from a San Diego-based investment company, ...
Charles D. Siegal, who never let his disability get in the way, has died at the age of 66. ...
Intellectual Property
Facebook loses bid to defend patent case on home turf
By Saul Sugarman
A New York federal judge has rejected a motion by Facebook Inc.'s attorneys to remove a patent infringement case against the s...
Intellectual Property
Patent owners win tougher infringement standard
By Hadley Robinson
Companies can be liable for inducing patent infringement even when several different parties perform the steps involved, a fed...
Former clerk to Chief Justice Warren, on state appeals court, follows the law even as he criticizes it.
Sidley Austin LLP added Glenn G. Nash as partner in Palo Alto. Nash, who will also serve as global co-head of the firm's tech...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Judge
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael R. Wilner is gregarious, not aloof, and asks a lot of questions. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyer on a mission to dignify, not disbar, older attorneys
By Don Debenedictisn
Murray Greenberg, new president of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, is studying ways to put elderly or ill lawyers on...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Bill targets 'medi-spas’ illegally practicing medicine in California
By Michael Leen
Every year an increasing number of inadequately staffed medical spas have employed unsupervised non-physician practitioners in...
Intellectual Property
Copyright hypothetical: Do graffiti artists own tags?
By Ben Armisteadn
A New York graffiti artist boycotts the fashion industry with a can of spray paint; Marc Jacobs characteristically struck back...