San Francisco-based rainmaker K.T. "Sunny" Cherian and four other intellectual property partners left over the weekend for Hog...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Biotech Still in the Dark on Prosecutions
By Mandy Jacksonn
The FDA released criteria for the agency's use of the Park Doctrine to prosecute pharmaceutical and medical device executives,...
A prosecutor's barroom joke about bribing a juror in a death penalty case became no laughing matter when the incident caught t...
Lawmakers have introduced bills aimed at forcing the AOC to become more transparent. The proposed legislation signifies a grow...
Superior Court Judge Bob S. Bowers Jr. tries to bring civility to his complex criminal courtroom.Superior Court Judge Bob S. B...
Visa Inc. bought PlaySpan Inc. for $190 million in a deal announced last Wednesday. Santa Clara-based PlaySpan offers services...
The Expedited Jury Trial Act has resulted in three one-day trials in California since taking effect last month. Most lawyers a...
General Counsel for Hot Topic Inc. City of Industry ...
Lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC are counseling Pandora Media Inc. and ...
Challenging Internal Service Revenue regulations is even harder thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. ...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the city of Los Angeles' emergency preparedness program violates the Americans with Disabi...
Crocs Inc. has moved one step closer to getting an order banning the import of footwear similar to the company's signature foa...
Often overlooked is the fact that there are insurance policies designed to provide protections against class actions. By Kirk ...
Securities regulators have accused three former executives with the now defunct IndyMac Bancorp of securities fraud for allege...
A hypothetical case paints a picture of what the civil process may look like 10 years from now. By Paul R. Kiesel of Kiesel Bo...
Medical device manufacturers and their lawyers hope the first pilot project in the FDA's Innovation Pathway program will blaze...
In a case both sides have described as unprecedented, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about whether a hi...
Perspective
The Employee Free Choice Act Is Alive and Well At the NLRB
By Genevieve Knollen
A change in leadership at the National Labor Relations Board leaves employers facing enhanced penalties for unfair labor pract...
A $235 million settlement between the Charles Schwab Corp. and YieldPlus Fund investors can go forward, a federal judge ruled,...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP will add former Howrey LLP intellectual property partner Duane H. Mathiowetz to its San Fr...
A judge's decision last week to transfer a contentious pension-related case from San Diego to Los Angeles County has the city ...
Casting doubt on a major union win, the 9th Circuit voted Friday to review its decision that grocery chains broke antitrust l...
In a shroud of secrecy, Mark J. Kelson, head of the capital markets practice group at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, left ...
Holland & Knight LLP hired Assistant U.S. Attorney Vince Farhat, who spent the past eight years in the Central District's ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Raised by show business parents, Judge Michael O'Gara pivoted from ice skating to dreams of directing films to a law career an...
The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that asking for a ZIP code during a credit card transaction violates the So...
After a long career as a federal prosecutor, rising to hold several supervisory roles, Sally Meloch made the switch to state-c...
After a career as a big-firm associate, sole practitioner and corporate executive, Michael Leb decided his breadth of experien...
Starting this summer, the L.A. Lawyers Philharmonic will have some vocal accompaniment. Conductor and trial attorney Gary S. ...