9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
En banc 9th Circuit calls for new look at attorney fees in ‘No Fly’ list litigation
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A San Jose plaintiffs’ firm that successfully challenged a Stanford Ph.D. student’s designation on the Transportation Security...
Arent Fox LLP snagged transactional law firm Kay & Merkle's seven-lawyer team in San Francisco.
Judges and Judiciary
Gov. Brown appoints final 12 judges of his career
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The new names include nine women, putting an exclamation point on Brown’s pledge to leave a judiciary that is less dominated b...
Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate
‘Unicorn’ Dropbox topped banner year of California IPOs
By Melanie Brisbon
Fifty California companies went public in 2018, raising $8.5 billion collectively. The numbers were up from the previous year,...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Micrsoft counter-suing patent aggregator after settling last suit
By Blaise Scemama
Microsoft is counter-suing Uniloc for attorney fees, breach of contract, and for a permanent injunction against asserting infr...
Judge Gregory Pollack wants attorneys to keep their personal lives out of the courtroom.
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit to rehear Arizona voter law case en banc
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear en banc a challenge to two Arizona election laws Democratic challengers say ...
BakerHostetler announced Monday that Eric E. Sagerman will join the firm as managing partner for its Los Angeles office.
U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
When does a federal judge stop being a judge?
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
That’s a question the U.S. Supreme Court may answer if it decides to review one of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ most...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge elections, appointments, retirements and deaths in 2018
By Arin Mikailian
Labor/Employment
Circuit court rules indirect control can determine joint employment
By Andy Serbe
An appellate panel has ruled that using indirect or reserved control to determine joint employment is lawful, upholding a 2015...
Law Practice, Criminal
Kevin Spacey’s defense attorney knows how prosecutors think
By Justin Kloczko
Alan Jackson, a partner at Werksman Jackson & Quinn LLP, is now beginning to defend what may be the first of many assault ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Education Law
July bar results disappoint for schools under ABA scrutiny
By Erin Lee
Amid an overall poor showing in July’s bar exam, two schools under American Bar Association scrutiny once again posted discour...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Nonprofit brings a global approach to solving problems
By Sean Kagan
While mediating a $14 billion transfer of funds to Muslims, Croats, and Serbs, former U.S. envoy to Bosnia Daniel Weinstein ca...
Entertainment & Sports
For netstreaming dealmakers, war is good for something
By Steven Crighton
With media goliaths Disney and Warner poised to join the fray later this year, the already fierce war for market supremacy in ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Weaker student credentials account for less than half of bar passage decline, study says
By Erin Lee
Bar applicants’ undergraduate GPAs and LSAT scores have declined in the last five years, but these changes only account for 33...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Criminal
Veteran white-collar defense attorney retiring after a career of big wins
By Meghann Cuniff
From two groundbreaking stock options backdating trials to a nearly 10-year insider trading saga, colleagues say Richard Marma...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Few clues to state high court’s crackdown on governor’s clemency grants
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
What is clear is that justices are divided by the extent of the governor’s authority and its own role in curbing that power.
Law Practice, Immigration
Nonprofit helps law firms aid immigrants, make legal connections
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The organization works with law firms and in-house counsel at large companies to conduct workshops for people eligible for wha...
Education Law, Law Practice, Immigration
UC Irvine law students help caravan members
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Law students and professors have gone to Tijuana to advise asylum seekers on their options.
Civil Litigation, Government
Wells Fargo to pay $575M to settle fraud lawsuit by state attorneys general
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California will receive $148.7 million from Wells Fargo & Co. over fraudulent accounts claims, according to a settlement a...
A Rosen Bien attorney is remembered for her passion about prisoners’ rights.
Intellectual Property
Sweeping changes mark turbulent year in patent law
By Blaise Scemama
The new director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, made sweeping changes to an industry still adjusting t...
Government, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit certifies interlocutory appeal in sweeping climate change lawsuit
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The U.S. Justice Department scored a victory for the Trump administration this week, fending off — for the time being — an unp...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
State high court: Butter knife not a deadly weapon
By Blaise Scemama
Justice Goodwin Liu cited the dictionary to knock down the prosecution’s argument that “possible” means “likely.”
Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy
State Farm, with $170M in claims payouts, files complaint against PG&E
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A complaint by State Farm, which says it has paid $170 million in insurance claims from last month’s Camp Fire, alleges Pacifi...
Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Trump partly blames 9th Circuit for government shutdown
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
President Donald J. Trump continued his ongoing attack on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, blaming in part the ...
While many legislative staff jobs come with low pay, it’s unlikely the bill would cause hardship, given that it’s policy to co...
Akin Gump partner C.N. Franklin Reddick’s sailing hobby took him to the Arctic Circle.
Government, Environmental & Energy, Corporate
Utilities commission considers changes for PG&E after deadly wildfires
By Winston Cho
State regulators are considering replacing Pacific Gas and Electric Co. leadership, splitting its operations into separate ent...