The CEO of the Miami-based firm traveled to Dewey's West Coast offices Wednesday. Sources said key partners were offered indem...
Automattic Inc., the San Francisco-based tech startup behind the popular blogging and web-publishing platform, said it was res...
Litigation
$74.5 million jury award is one of the largest of its kind
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
The San Luis Obispo jury award to a couple whose daughter's birth was mishandled, resulting in her developing cerebral palsy, ...
He will be replaced on an interim basis by Barry Currier of Los Angeles. ...
The court funding crisis will turn the clock back, and all of the old inefficiencies of litigation, and the associated costs, ...
Labor/Employment
EEOC tells companies to reconsider not hiring certain workers
By Brian Sumersn
In a sign it may be increasingly vigilant in policing anti-discrimination laws, the federal agency urged employers Wednesday t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A new approach to pre-mediation discovery
By Michael Leen
Games played by parties and counsel are often the cause of prolonged discovery, and, ultimately, sanctions. By Malcolm Sher ...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco to serve on the U.S. Sent...
In response to SEC inquiries into a handful of Hollywood studios' dealings in China, lawyers advise an internal review of FCPA...
Intellectual Property
Oracle attorney spars with Google witness over blog post
By Craig Andersonn
In Oracle Corp.'s trial against Google Inc. for infringing copyrights to the Java programming language, defense attorneys hav...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime public defender nominated for LA district court
By Gabe Friedmann
The Obama administration has nominated its first Latino candidate for a spot on the Central District's federal bench following...
Niels B. Schaumann, law professor and vice dean for faculty at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., will take o...
Jurupa Valley is joining the ranks of a growing batch of cities across California battling to harness big box developments ami...
The U.S. Supreme Court denied the Internal Revenue Service's bid for more time to go after money that's held in a certain type...
The decision by Mammoth Lakes' judgment-creditor to reject a facilitated negotiation reveals a weakness in the AB 506 scheme. ...
No stranger to crisis intervention, Commissioner Diana Summerhayes hustles through bench trials.
Film financier David Bergstein has dismissed claims against Filmyard Holdings LLC, the entity he assisted in facilitating its ...
Sedgwick LLP is strongly disputing allegations in a $200 million malpractice suit that it breached its duties in representing ...
Perspective
VIDEO: Extinguishing freedom of speech at the Olympics
By Karen Natividadn
The upcoming Olympic Games in London spark new restrictions on commercial speech in favor of official sponsors. By Brian Pelan...
Owners of the ship that crashed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge nearly five years ago have filed suit against Bay Ar...
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that state Controller John Chiang overstepped his authority when he u...
Government
Governor orders green-building requirements
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Gov. Jerry Brown issued an order Wednesday requiring new and renovated California-owned buildings to take steps to cut greenho...
Insurance giant American International Group Inc. filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging the ex-chief executive officer of its ...
Contracts
Judicial hostility to arbitration provisions in employment agreements
By Michael Leen
Under California law, a failure to include the express carve out leaves the arbitration provision subject to uncertainty about...
