The 99 Cents Only Stores on Tuesday agreed to be taken private by affiliates of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Ares Man...
Several federal agencies announced the filing of criminal and civil charges Tuesday against former United Commercial Bank exec...
Hate crime cases gave Judge Scott A. Steiner a valuable, unpleasant education in litigation.
Several major federal incentives for renewable energy development are coming to an end, which insiders said could hurt growth ...
As he dispatched the last round of bills from his desk by midnight Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown deferred to the state's courts on ...
Fresh off a plane from New York, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund President and General Counsel Thomas Saenz ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
The 'Potemkin Village’ called Medicare set-asides: real enforcement of secondary payer rules
By Sharon Liangn
Why the Medicare set-aside program is not what it seems to be. By William L. Winslow of Farmer & Ridley LLP ...
Orange County-based partners for Latham & Watkins LLP led the deal team for Texas-based Complete Production Services Inc. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Behind-the-scenes influence: The power to assign opinions
By Karen Natividadn
In this new term, it will be interesting to see how this power is used to influence the other justices. By Hirbod Rashidi of U...
Intellectual Property
Google fights Apple's efforts to bar Android-powered phones
By Craig Andersonn
Google Inc. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission not to bar the import of HTC Corp. smart phones powered by the M...
California Supreme Court
Indigent litigant asks state justices for guidance on fee waivers
By Laura Ernden
An attorney is representing the litigant pro bono to help clear up ongoing confusion in the trial courts in dealing with fee w...
An experienced Orange County Superior Court judge may not have realized that fixing traffic tickets for friends and family wa...
The deadly crash of a Toyota Camry on a rural Utah highway may once again become the bellwether trial in federal litigation ov...
Real Estate/Development
Helping your client fight the uphill retail project battle
By Genevieve Knollen
Especially now, real estate development involves managing several risks - be prepared. By Sblend Sblendorio of Hoge Fenton Jon...
On the eve of trial and after more than six years of litigation, Credit Lyonnais SA has agreed to pony up $150 million to sett...
Corridor cities affected by the 710 freeway project can once again govern their futures. By Antonio Rossmann of Rossmann and M...
Labor/Employment
Should substance-abuse problems be considered a disability?
By Karen Natividadn
The EEOC targets a company for reassigning an employee who said he suffers from alcoholism. By Raymond D. McElfish and Jeffrey...
A five-year state tax credit program designed to prevent so-called "runaway production" in the film and television industries ...
An Alameda County Superior Court judge is stepping down from the bench to return to Reed Smith LLP as a partner in the firm'...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
High court could decide what to do with 9th Circuit habeas cases
By Robert Iafolla
The Supreme Court could announce Tuesday what it will do with four extraordinary habeas cases out of the 9th Circuit U.S. Cour...
A former federal judge who now represents a developer at the center of a massive San Bernardino County government corruption s...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Autism bill may impact litigation over coverage
By Mandy Jacksonn
Parents of children with autism scored a victory when Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that requires insurers and health pl...
Judge Ronald M. Gould teleconferences into arguments because of his multiple sclerosis. ...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Investors prepare for trial against bank over tech company's failure
By Amy Yarbroughn
In the mid-2000s, Pay By Touch was a high-tech darling with investors pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the startup...
Sean A. Johnston, general counsel for Genentech Inc. in South San Francisco ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Maternity care bills erase long-standing disparity in regulations
By Mandy Jacksonn
Legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday erases a long-standing maternity care disparity for individual and small g...
Workers' Comp.
A proposal for reform: Assessing real blame for workers’ compensation claim abuses
By Karen Natividadn
Employees with disabling injuries are being prematurely "retired" through the workers' compensation system. By William M. Cro...
Rejecting civil Gideon because it costs too much is wrong. By James Brosnahan of Morrison & Foerster LLP and James Donato ...
Dispensary owners were releived in 2009 when President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that federal ag...