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Ellen Pao was not in "the universe of qualifications" for a promotion to senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer...


Corporate Counsel


Elizabeth M. Kelly

Mar. 27, 2015
By Fiona Smith

Legal Director of Marin Clean Energy San Rafael ...


Perspective


Spin-off transaction? Consider this

Mar. 27, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Often, planners don't give the governance issues high priority in these transactions - but they should. By Stephen Glover and ...


Perspective


High court to hear induced infringement argument

Mar. 27, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

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


After the studio was vindicated in a private trial in Superior Court, the independent filmmakers say a contract term's definit...


Bankruptcy


Klee Tuchin partner appointed to bankruptcy bench

Mar. 27, 2015
By Melanie Brisbon

Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP partner Martin R. Barash will be appointed as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for...


Intellectual Property


A federal jury in Delaware issued a divided decision Wednesday in a patent infringement case involving licensing entity Intell...


A team of Los Angeles attorneys at Munger, Tolles & Olson advised Berkshire Hathaway, a financial backer of H.J. Heinz Co....


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


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


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


The case represents a culimination of the work for class action plaintiff attorney fee crusader Lawrence W. Schonbrun. ...


Solo and Small Firms


Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...


Corporate


Dealmakers

Mar. 26, 2015
By Jason Pafundin

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.


Litigation


Google's no-poach legal woes continue

Mar. 26, 2015
By Matthew Blaken

For Google Inc., the legal hits from a federal antitrust probe that ended five years ago just keep coming. This week, the tech...


Books


Tale of a broken conviction system

Mar. 26, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Whether she knows it or not, Meili Cady's new book "Smoke" places her squarely in the evolving and maturing national conversat...


Litigation


Privacy case against Apple remains alive

Mar. 26, 2015
By Joshua Seboldn

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


A Kern County prosecutor falsified a suspected child molester's police interview transcript, leading a judge to dismiss the ch...


Community News


Fish & Tsang opens in Redwood City, its second office ...


Gomez Trial Attorneys and Ron Simon & Associates of Houston filed the lawsuit Monday in connection with a nationwide Hep...


Civil Rights


First juvenile released under re-sentencing law

Mar. 26, 2015
By Deirdre Newmann

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...


Government


California's anti-torts business lobby held an annual meeting with small business owners Tuesday. Unlike last year, the CJAC a...


Law Practice


Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...


Ellen Pao's attorneys told jurors that her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was a boys' club where women...


Judicial Profile


Bernard J. Schwartz

Mar. 26, 2015
By Laurinda Keys

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

Mar. 25, 2015
By America Hernandez

Co-financing of American films will increase, but any studio acquisitions are five to 10 years away, lawyers said. ...


Judicial Profile


Lillian Kwok Sing

Mar. 25, 2015
By John Roemer

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing's career has been defined by a series of firsts.


Corporate Counsel


Kenneth A. Zak

Mar. 25, 2015
By Laura Hautalan

General Counsel Alliant Insurance Services Inc. San Diego ...


Transactions


Earlier this year, China's foreign investment regulatory authority, the Ministry of Commerce, released a draft of the new Fore...


Corporate


Tempered solution sought for fee-shifting issue

Mar. 25, 2015
By Banks Albachn

Nearly a year after Delaware opened door for fee-shifting bylaws, debate rages on. ...