Senior Vice President , General Counsel and Secretary for Intuit Inc. ...
Intellectual Property
Is Use of a Competitor’s Trademark for Advertising Infringement?
By Genevieve Knollen
The legality of Google's sale of search terms is questioned. By Nick Solish of Bryan Cave ...
Discerning the difference between an "order" that is not appealable and a judgment that is appealable is not always an easy ta...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Doctors Should Determine Medical Necessity, Not Insurance Companies
By Karen Natividadn
Health insurers have too long ignored California's longstanding medical necessity standard. By William M. Shernoff and Samuel ...
Perspective
The America Invents Act: It’s Finally Time to Modernize Our Patent System
By Karen Natividadn
The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in over 50 years is on the horizon. By Andrei Iancu and Maclain Wells of Ir...
Highly-charged battle over the car company's name speeds off the racetrack and into the courtroom. By Jonathan Michaels of Mic...
Intellectual Property
Battle for Mobile Phone Supremacy On Display in Nortel Auction
By Craig Andersonn
The successful $4.5 billion bid by a consortium led by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for a portfolio of 6,000 patents and ap...
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP advised education software company Blackboard Inc. in its $1.64 billion all-cash acquisition by Rhode ...
Judge Martha E. Bellinger, supervising judge of Los Angeles County's East District juvenile courts, retired Friday after 20 ye...
The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Friday a Michigan ban on affirmative action in college admissions, putting i...
Judges and Judiciary
Northern District Judge Leaving to Head Judicial Research Center
By Craig Andersonn
U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel, a respected mainstay of the South Bay judiciary for three decades, is leaving San Jose th...
In American Apparel Inc.'s first response to an unusual securities lawsuit against it, the company's lawyers argue shareholder...
There were no surprises in San Francisco-based Zynga Inc.'s long awaited initial public offering filed Friday. ...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Samuel Conti once sent draft dodgers to jail. Now, he's presiding over a landmark veterans' case.
Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas Holman rules on cases with caution and precision.
A new law that seeks to force online-based businesses like Amazon.com and Overstock.com to collect sales tax in California cou...
A Northern District judge approved $22 million in settlements Wednesday in a consolidated lawsuit against Citibank NA, Foley &...
Wendy York started out on her own as a young attorney. Now, she is a leading plaintiffs' attorney in elder abuse cases. ...
The same-sex married couple who won the right to file bankruptcy jointly have asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to t...
How the Endangered Species Act is discouraging conservation on private land. By Jonathan H. Adler of Case Western Reserve Univ...
The Federal Trade Commission may face tough challenges in trying to curb Google Inc.'s search business even if the agency conc...
In an era of economic stagnation and reduced financial resources, Gibbs of JAMS Inc. tries to resolve construction disputes be...
Today's jury selection has become a tense process for all. By Brian Kabatek of Kabateck Brown Kellner ...
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood's Dealmakers Are Playing New Roles
By Erica E. Phillips
What scholars call media convergence has compelled celebrities to develop and market their other talents and interests, from a...
As many as 12,400 federal inmates held for crack cocaine offenses could get out of prison sooner following the U.S. Sentencing...
California Supreme Court
California Overtime Laws Apply to Out-of-State Workers, Court Rules
By Laura Ernden
Out-of-state workers are covered by California's more generous overtime laws when they come here even temporarily on business,...
Despite Major League Baseball's proposed lower interest rate, lawyer Bruce Bennett said Wednesday that the Dodgers will contin...