Could private equity be making a comeback?
The cases were overwhelming. Hundreds of evictions, thousands of citations and countless arrests. Stroock & Lavan's Debora...
The dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business is set to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in July.
California Supreme Court
Case Pulls at the Strings Attached to Some Jobs
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court is ready to settle once and for all whether businesses can put narrow restrictions on the career moves...
Appellate Practice
Court Derails Cause of Action In Glendale Metrolink Crash
By Noah Barronn
Plaintiffs suing Metrolink for wrongful death and personal injury over a multiple-fatality 2005 train crash in Glendale lost o...
As the public becomes duly alarmed over the projected disastrous worldwide impacts of unchecked global warming, regulatory pro...
A former manager for Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment told jurors Tuesday that the company had decided to market the ...
In a system that espouses the hope of reformation, it makes no sense to rely exclusively on the one thing that cannot change d...
Government
Proposed Prison Overcrowding Settlement Doesn't Call for Early Release
By Rebecca Beyer
A proposed settlement in the litigation over California's crowded prisons does not include the early release of prisoners, alt...
Convicted sleuth Anthony Pellicano had a private hearing before a federal judge Tuesday, and their discussion will remain betw...
Law Practice
In Bid to Avoid 'Perp Walk,' Billionaire Waits at Courthouse
By Gabe Friedmann
Henry T. Nicholas III, the 6-foot-6 billionaire engineer and former Broadcom CEO, spent several hours in the Santa Ana federal...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Bill Would Let Pharmacies Sell Patient Data to Drug Companies
By Evan George
For years, strict privacy laws in California have put a virtual padlock on patients' medicine cabinets. Now, state lawmakers a...
The State Bar's process for revising its code of professional conduct has flown under the radar of many attorneys. ...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. Judge Made Practicing Law a Family Affair
By Cortney Fieldingn
Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Einstein, 1924-2008, died Monday morning in Long Beach after a long ill...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
With One Union Already Done, SAG Auditions for an Actors Deal
By Sara Libbyn
Is a SAG deal imminent? Not likely. Instead, we may be sliding toward another Hollywood work stoppage, writes Jonathan Handel....
Judicial Profile
Silicon Valley Thrust Patent Law Upon Judge, and He Likes It
By Rebecca Beyer
In the 1970s, U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte moved to San Jose from Southern California in part to get out from under the...
Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler has nabbed a public finance partner from Nixon Peabody.
Melvyn I. Weiss, the class-action lawyer who represented Holocaust survivors, aggrieved investors and other victims with great...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Reject Lawsuit Tying Visa, MasterCard to Web Piracy
By David Houstonn
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by a Beverly Hills-based erotic-photo publisher that sought to hold Visa and Mast...
Intellectual Property
Three Stanford HIV Patents Don't Pass 'Obviousness' Test
By Craig Andersonn
Citing a landmark ruling last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, a San Francisco federal judge has invalidated three Stanford Uni...
Although its formal launch has been pushed back to the fall, Houston-based Baker Botts' new Palo Alto office is up and running...
The benefits of a policy that allows for a company to predict with certainty how it will be treated if it confesses will lead ...
Weakening Major League Baseball's grip on companies that offer fantasy baseball leagues to the public, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Law Practice
Lawyer Wins Free Speech Case Against John Lennon's Widow
By Craig Andersonn
Anthony T. Falzone, who directs the Fair Use Project at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, won a free spee...
Proposition 99's transparent purpose is to confuse the voters and divert their attention from the competing Proposition 98, wr...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
'Marriage' Decision a Satisfying Step in Long Journey to Equality
By Sara Libbyn
Since its first gay-related ruling in 1951, the state high court has been inching its way toward the strict scrutiny standard ...
"The prosecution will prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Dorothy Gale, is guilty of murder in the firs...
California Supreme Court
Prosecutors Can't Force Psychiatric Exams, High Court Rules
By John Roemer
Proposition 115 was touted as a hard-nosed measure that cracked down on criminal defendants. ...
In the largest-ever class-action settlement of a backdating case, Brocade Communications Systems announced Monday it had reach...
Firm Watch
Proposal to Settle Prison Litigation Does Not Include Early Releases
By Rebecca Beyer
Web Exclusive - A proposed settlement in the litigation over California's overcrowded prisons was released late Monday. ...