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Government


The notion that wily homeowners will bring lawsuits to bully the banks into modifying their loans is without any basis in the ...


Environmental


A group calling itself the Play Fair for Farmers Field Coalition and four citizens have filed a complaint challenging the cons...


Government


Controversial health care bill dies

Sep. 6, 2012
By Paul Jones

A controversial bill that would have increased medical damages payouts in personal injury lawsuits died in the final legislati...


Personal Injury & Torts


An arbitrator has awarded $2.4 million to a former high school football player who broke his neck four years ago during a tryo...


Mergers & Acquisitions


MoFo makes rum maker purchase go down smooth

Sep. 6, 2012
By Ameera Buttn

Morrison & Foerster LLP represented Gruppo Campari SpA, an Italian drink maker, in its $414.8 million acquisition of Lasce...


Criminal


Lawyer held on embezzlement charges

Sep. 6, 2012
By Riley Guerin

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


A recent study found that "vehicles fueled with compressed natural gas - not electric batteries - will emerge as the biggest c...


Intellectual Property


Attorneys for Apple Inc. on Tuesday persuaded a federal appeals court panel to uphold a decision by a Texas federal judge who ...


Law Practice


Entertainment lawyer leaves Manatt

Sep. 6, 2012
By Jean Yung

Entertainment lawyer and branding expert Jordan Yospe has moved to Beverly Hills-based Eisner, Kahan & Gorry from Manatt, ...


Judges and Judiciary


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...


Judicial Profile


Kenneth R. Freeman

Sep. 6, 2012
By Brian Sumersn

Judge Kenneth Freeman aims to give cases individual attention and appreciates lawyers who give their all to theirs.


Government


The state Judicial Council voted Friday to accept a plan to implement reforms recommended in a critical report. ...


Law Practice


Stereotypes about Los Angeles juries abound

Sep. 5, 2012
By Michael Leen

Los Angeles routinely appears on ATRA's list of the top 10 "judicial hell holes" in the nation, so we knew selecting the jury ...


The practice auction provided a dress rehearsal to test the auction platform in preparation for the first real auction, which ...


HBOR's arsenal of weapons could stop fraudulent home foreclosures in their tracks. Mark Didak ...


Litigation


A lawyer challenging the Central District's jury selection process has sharpened his attack, filing a motion last week in Los ...


Nonprofit law firm Equal Rights Advocates will launch a free immigrant women-focused legal clinic, "Clinica La Voz," on Wednes...


Litigation


Former NFL player sues his investment company

Sep. 5, 2012
By Saul Sugarman

A former National Football League player is suing for nearly $6 million in damages from a San Diego-based investment company, ...


Litigation


Charles D. Siegal, who never let his disability get in the way, has died at the age of 66. ...


Intellectual Property


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

Sep. 5, 2012
By Hadley Robinson

Companies can be liable for inducing patent infringement even when several different parties perform the steps involved, a fed...


Judicial Profile


Stuart R. Pollak

Sep. 5, 2012
By Emily Green

Former clerk to Chief Justice Warren, on state appeals court, follows the law even as he criticizes it.


Firm Watch


On the Move

Sep. 4, 2012
By Ryne Hodkowski

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...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 4, 2012
By Andrew Mcintyre

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Judicial Profile


James Bianco

Sep. 4, 2012
By Pat Alston

Judge


Judicial Profile


Michael R. Wilner

Sep. 4, 2012
By Ben Adlin

U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael R. Wilner is gregarious, not aloof, and asks a lot of questions. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


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


Every year an increasing number of inadequately staffed medical spas have employed unsupervised non-physician practitioners in...


Intellectual Property


A New York graffiti artist boycotts the fashion industry with a can of spray paint; Marc Jacobs characteristically struck back...