Public Interest
California Bar Foundation awards diversity scholarships
By Kibkabe Arayan
The group of 33 recipients is the largest to receive the distinction in the program's short history. ...
Litigation
Alioto, lender's attorney clash during trial over $31 million debt
By Saul Sugarman
Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. took the stand Tuesday in his San Francisco County Superior Court lawsuit that seeks t...
An Olympic cyclist whose wife was killed last year while biking along the Pacific Coast Highway filed a wrongful death lawsuit...
A Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC information technology employee was arrested on Tuesday on charges of illegally trad...
Government
Court appoints new interim federal public defender for Central District
By Henry Meier
As the head of the largest entity of its kind in the nation, Hilary Potashner - the No. 2 defender in the office since 2012 - ...
Youth advocates are protesting the pending closure of Santa Barbara County Superior Court's Hollister Avenue juvenile courthou...
The DOJ is tightening its grip on enforcing anti-money laundering laws and spending enormous resources investigating complex m...
Government
New law takes aim at workplace bullying, raises legal questions
By Laura Hautalan
What counts as bullying in the workplace? While the concept may be relatively new, managers will have to undergo training on p...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit rejects $368 million verdict against Apple
By Kevin Lee
A federal appeals court has rejected a $368 million jury verdict won by a Nevada-based patent holding company against Apple In...
Lori Pegg has had to learn on the fly during a flurry of trials in her misdemeanor assignment.
Vice President and General Counsel of Trulia Inc. San Francisco ...
Government
Lawyer's habeas appeal in Santa Clara County 'snitch' case raises questions
By John Roemer
A jailhouse snitch gave allegedly perjured testimony to put a Santa Clara County man behind bars for life for first degree mur...
At a tech company, life is good - until the tax man shows up. What used to be a free incentive to employees that was deducted ...
My work as a divorce attorney allows me to steer my clients away from the pitfalls that may come from a common assumption that...
Recently signed AB 2365 enacts a first-in-the-nation statute to stop businesses from contractually gagging customers by includ...
Litigation
Judge ends discovery stay in state's suit against JPMorgan Chase
By Matt Hamilton
An L.A. judge ended a discovery stay Monday in California's lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co. of flooding the state's ...
Litigation
After long legal battle, Bank of America wins suit that once cost more than $1 billion
By Saul Sugarman
Bank of America Corp. has emerged victorious in a lawsuit that claimed the company should pay up after its employees made seve...
Government
Commission on future of the courts plans wide-ranging, practical approach
By Don Debenedictisn
Speaking to a group of judges in their first public meeting, leaders of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Co...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar considers selling SF building, moving from city
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar is exploring whether to sell its San Francisco headquarters building in the suddenly high-priced South of Market...
The Daily Journal held a reception Sept. 9 in Beverly Hills to honor California's leading 100 lawyers. The event drew a crowd ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn aids digital marketer in $2.3B sale
By Salvador Mares
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented Westlake Village-based digital marketing company Conversant Inc. in its $2.3 billi...
A federal appellate court on Monday appeared ready to uphold water pumping limits from the Sacramento San Joaquin River delta ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit allows EA founder to protect millions of dollars in bankruptcy
By Hadley Robinson
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts Inc. can absolve more than $20 million of his debts to the Intern...
Law Practice
Vice chair of California Republican Party forms new firm
By Joshua Seboldn
Dhillon & Smith LLP, a nine-attorney firm based in San Francisco which was founded by Harmeet K. Dhillon, vice chair of th...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar head seeks broad view of public protection
By Don Debenedictisn
Craig Holden, the new State Bar president, said the agency should go beyond regulation. ...
In a sign that renewable energy is gaining an ever-stronger foothold on the economy, more and more solar and wind developers a...
Criminal
California helped fuel modest uptick in nation's prison population last year: report
By Kylie Reynolds
The country saw a jump of about 4,300 prisoners from 2012, bringing last year's total to 1,574,700 inmates in state and federa...
Litigation
Judge tosses out fired executive's lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon.com
By Laura Hautalan
A lawsuit claiming Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. blacklisted a former executive has fizzled out, as a Los Angeles County ju...
Michael Popkins wanted to be an actor, but now hears felonies as a San Diego County judge.
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