The prodigious Bay Area internet company announced Wednesday that it plans to buy e-commerce company Demandware Inc. ...
Song tracks remastered after 1972 are governed by federal law, not state law, according to a district judge who dismissed a la...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Law Practice
California firms feel pressure to offer more generous parental leave
By Amanda Schallert
More California law firms are looking to parental leave policies that give men and women longer and equal paid time off to rec...
Superior Court Commissioner San Bernardino County (Victorville) ...
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had overturned a woman's murder c...
The bill would have made public the investigation and discipline records of police officers with proven findings of misconduct...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Internet company loses bid to squelch lawsuit
By Saul Sugarman
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has again revived a Central District lawsuit accusing a model scouting website of failin...
In Silicon Valley, truth and innovation trump lies and dying technology, an attorney representing Oracle Corp. said Tuesday in...
Law Practice
Women in Law Hackathon aims to find new ways to advance female attorneys
By Amanda Schallert
More than 50 law firm partners — a third of them in California — have been crafting strategies to advance women in the legal p...
Medical device company NeuroSigma settled with an estranged co-founder after he moved to hold board members personally liable ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Assembly votes against State Bar dues bill by 44-8 margin
By Lyle Moran
The state Assembly resoundingly rejected the State Bar's annual dues bill Tuesday, with members of both parties saying they wa...
Defendants in the nationwide class action over the Experian data breach moved Tuesday to redact from discovery documents any i...
Law Practice
OC district attorney denounces supervisor for wording of election robocalls
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The feud between Orange County District Attorney Tony J. Rackauckas and his former heir apparent, county Supervisor and attorn...
Intellectual Property
CalTech sues Apple and Broadcom for Wi-Fi patents
By America Hernandez
Apple Inc. and Broadcom Ltd. infringed wireless communication patents owned by the California Institute of Technology, accordi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit reject habeas relief over handling of dismissed juror
By Saul Sugarman
A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has denied habeas relief for a convicted murderer whose trial years ago stir...
Entertainment & Sports
Beats will produce documents in compromise with Monster over lawsuit
By Steven Crighton
Beats Electronics LLC agreed to turn over documents to Monster LLC ahead of a motion Friday in their ongoing lawsuit, a move p...
Last year saw the highest turnover on Fortune 500 corporate boards since 2009, according to a recent report from Heidrich &...
Entertainment & Sports
Suit against Disney board for anti-poaching lawsuit dismissed
By Steven Crighton
A district judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a The Walt Disney Co. stockholder, who accused the company of breaching its ...
General Counsel and VP of Regulatory Affairs First Capitol Consulting Inc. (Los Angeles) ...
Labor/Employment
2nd District Court of Appeal upholds $16 million age bias verdict against Staples
By Matthew Blake
A Los Angeles jury did not err in their $16.2 million award to a former Staples Contractor & Commercial Inc. employee who ...
Morrison & Foerster LLP announced the addition of four partners to the firm's Bay Area offices Tuesday, bolstering its pri...
California Supreme Court
State high court dubious of bid to change class action lawyers' pay
By Kevin Lee
A Berkeley lawyer's crusade to regulate court-ordered compensation for class action lawyers encountered a skeptical state Supr...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Split remains option as lawmakers mull State Bar reform
By Lyle Moran
Recent amendments to the annual dues bill did not include a provision for splitting the agency's regulatory and trade associat...
Litigation
Artificial reality company files suit under federal trade secrets law
By Tim O'connor
In what is likely the first federal lawsuit filed in California under a new intellectual property law, a secretive but closely...
Fresno County Judge Gary D. Hoff has twice served as the county's presiding judge.
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
LA County Commissioner Terrance Lewis has charted his own course, on the bench and in life.
PayPal co-founder Peter A. Thiel confirmed this week his deep pockets were behind the $140 million win against Gawker Media LL...
JAMS Los Angeles ...