Litigation
Ellen Pao was not qualified to be a senior partner, Kleiner Perkins' attorney argues
By Philip Johnsonn
Ellen Pao was not in "the universe of qualifications" for a promotion to senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer...
Legal Director of Marin Clean Energy San Rafael ...
Often, planners don't give the governance issues high priority in these transactions - but they should. By Stephen Glover and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will again wade into the patent waters, this time to decide whether a good faith belief that a patent i...
Entertainment & Sports
'Napoleon Dynamite' producers appeal $10 million suit against Fox
By America Hernandez
After the studio was vindicated in a private trial in Superior Court, the independent filmmakers say a contract term's definit...
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP partner Martin R. Barash will be appointed as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for...
Intellectual Property
Split ruling in Intellectual Ventures case against Motorola Mobility LLC
By Kevin Lee
A federal jury in Delaware issued a divided decision Wednesday in a patent infringement case involving licensing entity Intell...
Corporate
Berkshire Hathaway taps Munger in historic food and beverage deal
By Banks Albachn
A team of Los Angeles attorneys at Munger, Tolles & Olson advised Berkshire Hathaway, a financial backer of H.J. Heinz Co....
Government
Attorney General Kamala Harris seeks to block initiative that calls for killing of gays
By Paul Jones
Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday sought relief from the state judiciary from her office's duty to issue title and s...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice to retire after more than 30 years on the bench
By Melanie Brisbon
After a legal career that spanned more than 50 years, Justice Norvell "Fred" Woods, of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Div...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justices should review SF gun law
The U.S. Supreme Court should review a case challenging an ordinance requiring guns kept in the home be "stored in a locked co...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court to review attorney fees in class actions
By Matthew Blaken
The case represents a culimination of the work for class action plaintiff attorney fee crusader Lawrence W. Schonbrun. ...
Solo and Small Firms
Veteran San Francisco antitrust plaintiffs' lawyer splits with Zelle Hofmann
By Laura Hautalan
Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
For Google Inc., the legal hits from a federal antitrust probe that ended five years ago just keep coming. This week, the tech...
Whether she knows it or not, Meili Cady's new book "Smoke" places her squarely in the evolving and maturing national conversat...
Plaintiffs who accused Apple Inc. and several app makers such as Twitter Inc., Yelp Corp. and Electronic Arts Inc. of invasion...
California Courts of Appeal
Dismissal of charges appropriate in child molestsation case, appeals court rules
By John Roemer
A Kern County prosecutor falsified a suspected child molester's police interview transcript, leading a judge to dismiss the ch...
Fish & Tsang opens in Redwood City, its second office ...
Litigation
San Diego firm files first wrongful death suit tied with Hepatitis A outbreak
By Kibkabe Arayan
Gomez Trial Attorneys and Ron Simon & Associates of Houston filed the lawsuit Monday in connection with a nationwide Hep...
It is a story of hope and faith, despair and redemption, but it's also a story of two immigrants who grew up in similar, gan...
California's anti-torts business lobby held an annual meeting with small business owners Tuesday. Unlike last year, the CJAC a...
Law Practice
Leading antitrust plaintiffs' lawyer leaves Zelle Hofmann
By Riley Guerin
Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...
Labor/Employment
Ellen Pao's lawyer calls Kleiner Perkins a boys' club, but defense fires back
By Craig Andersonn
Ellen Pao's attorneys told jurors that her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was a boys' club where women...
Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz sees the courtroom as an extension of the person on the bench.
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood optimistic about future China deals
By America Hernandez
Co-financing of American films will increase, but any studio acquisitions are five to 10 years away, lawyers said. ...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing's career has been defined by a series of firsts.
General Counsel Alliant Insurance Services Inc. San Diego ...
Earlier this year, China's foreign investment regulatory authority, the Ministry of Commerce, released a draft of the new Fore...
Nearly a year after Delaware opened door for fee-shifting bylaws, debate rages on. ...
