When Morrison & Foerster LLP selected its first managing partner for Europe last month, it made a particular kind of manag...
Litigation
Ruling in English instruction case is latest against state education officials
By Vik Jolly
Lawyers and academic experts hailed a judge's ruling that California needs to ensure adequate English instruction for non-nati...
A roundup of recent real estate deals activity and the lawyers involved. ...
Real Estate/Development
Developers look to brownfields for new projects
By Riley Guerin
Lawyers say improvements in risk assessment associated with the sensitive areas and a willingness on the part of cities to neg...
Real Estate/Development
Solar companies push for legislation to streamline permitting process
By Fiona Smith
Many local agencies are resisting the push to standardize permitting, arguing that such an edict will unfairly favor solar ove...
Real Estate/Development
As development fires back up, cities overhaul zoning codes
By Alexandra Schwappach
With a massive development surge, cities such as San Francisco are tweaking their zoning codes, and some, such as Los Angeles,...
Generally, no evidence of anything said and no writing prepared in the course of a mediation is admissible in any civil or fam...
The Internal Revenue Service published proposed regulations that clarify the definition of "real property" for purposes of the...
Real Estate/Development
Proposed definitions will increase costs and delays
By Katharine Malonen
Just as the economy is starting to look up, the consideration of new rules regarding "critical habitat" and "jurisdictional wa...
The entitlement process as practiced in the halls of local government since the real estate development industry's nascent re...
Real Estate/Development
Will reverse-CEQA cases be resolved for good?
By Katharine Malonen
A long-standing debate may finally be resolved: Does CEQA require analysis of not only a project's impacts on the environment,...
Well-considered signage can enhance the value and presence of a development project in an urban center or high-traffic locatio...
Zoning, Planning and Use
The changes ahead for commercial real estate
By Katharine Malonen
Commercial real estate attorneys in California must be prepared to address emerging issues in response to the changing commerc...
Administrative/Regulatory
ABA adopts many changes to law school accreditation rules
By Don Debenedictisn
The ABA House of Delegates formally endorsed a broad rewrite of the standards for accrediting law schools but asked for new co...
Law Practice
Most people need more legal help than they know, new survey finds
By Don Debenedictisn
A new study from the American Bar Foundation found that many people do not understand problems they experienced to involve law...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Prison officials can't read inmates' letters to their attorneys, court rules
By Kylie Reynolds
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that Arizona prisoners' outgoing legal mail is constitutionally protect...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has opened its second office in China, snagging five attorneys from Paul Hastings LLP's Be...
California Courts of Appeal
Court: Employers must reimburse workers for work-related cellphone calls
By Emily Green
When employees use their personal cellphones for work-related calls, employers must reimburse them regardless of whether the w...
Litigation
Instruction for non-English speakers inadequate, judge rules
By Saul Sugarman
California students who are not fluent in English prevailed Tuesday in their lawsuit that accuses state education officials of...
A unanimous 9th Circuit panel rules that the EPA wrongly applied outdated air quality standards to a proposed Central Valley f...
Government
Consecutive drop in lawsuit filings could indicate court access difficulties
By Paul Jones
The number of small lawsuits filed in California dropped for the third straight year in 2013, according to the state judicial...
Cooley LLP on Tuesday filed suit against the Department of Justice on behalf of immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor, challeng...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Lawyer gets brushback pitch from 9th Circuit panel in baseball antitrust case
By John Roemer
Like rival aces flinging heat, Joe Cotchett and John Keker threw their best pitches as they dueled over baseball's antitrust e...
Labor/Employment
Brinker class action settlement only guarantees 40 percent of the money
By Craig Andersonn
A recent settlement of a class action between restaurant workers and the Brinker Restaurant Corp. allots $32.3 million to clas...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP San Francisco Specialties: public finance, industrial development, pollution control ...
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP Los Angeles Specialties: land use and natural resources, environmental, litigation ...
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP San Franciso Specialty: complex land use entitlements ...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Del Mar Specialties: real estate, corporate, energy ...
Paul Hastings LLP San Francisco Specialties: real estate restructuring, equity investments, development ...