Employees who do not have paid sick days face an impossible choice when they or a family member gets sick: go to work sick or ...
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announced Monday the addition of three senior government contract lawyers.
The publication of gruesome videos, intimate stolen photographs, and emotionally harmful, targeted speech may bring about the ...
Constitutional Law
Secrecy trumped public debate in license plate ruling
By Ben Armisteadn
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant recently rejected a California Public Records Act lawsuit brought again...
Labor/Employment
Walt Disney, DreamWorks hit with no-poach class action
By Laura Hautalan
A digital animator filed a proposed antitrust class action against several animation studios, including The Walt Disney Co., D...
Law Practice
Attorneys help broadcast companies manage tax issues from mergers and acquisitions
By Dominic Fracassan
The $1.6 billion tieup between two TV station operators took a turn late last month that could signal renewed creativity in th...
Does coffee contain unsafe levels of acrylamide, which the World Health Organization classifies as a "probable human carcinoge...
Law Practice
Sports agents pursuing law degrees, but also confronting ethical challenges
By Brian Cardile
The NFLPA amended its certification process in 2011 to require player representatives to possess a post-graduate degree. The c...
Francis Biddle is an icon of American (and international) legal history. And Joanna McClelland Glass' play "Trying," now playi...
Government Code Section 1090, the powerful anti-conflict provision that prohibits state employees from having a financial inte...
We live in a society where "racism without racists" exists, oppressing people of color without the overt discrimination that m...
The shifting nature of the merchandise carried by outlet stores has led public officials to scrutinize their sales practices. ...
New job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the legal industry saw its most significant jump in employment i...
Litigation
Raiders cheerleaders settlement may inspire more suits against other teams
By Laura Hautalan
A $1.25 million settlement reached last week doesn't just put to rest claims that the Oakland Raiders should have paid wages a...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has seen explosive growth recently across all practice areas in its San Francisco offi...
Bankruptcy
Weiland Golden shepherds Woman's Club reorganization
By Alexandra Schwappach
The Woman's Club of Hollywood - a century-old entertainment hub once frequented by stars like Charlie Chaplin - is in the mid...
San Francisco-based cloud communications company Twilio Co. has hired the former vice president and deputy general counsel of ...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Litigation
In bid to protect settlement, HP and plaintiffs go after would-be intervenor
By Hadley Robinson
Hoping to persuade a federal judge not to allow a former accounting firm executive to intervene in a settlement with Hewlett-P...
Environmental
Judge protects permit for oil offloading facility in Richmond
By Fiona Smith
In a loss for those fighting the growth in trains carrying crude oil into California, a San Francisco judge on Friday rejected...
George Wu's great-grandfather was a justice minister, but lawyers credit his accomplishments to hard work.
Technology has changed the practice of law, allowing one lawyer to be in two places (and two coasts) at the same time. By Paul...
Coverage ratios are relevant for evaluating rate of return risk on investment, by calculating what is left after servicing deb...
What happens when a complaint is dismissed in lieu of opposition to an anti-SLAPP motion? By James J. Moneer ...
How is confidentiality impacted when an attorney is subject to acts that give rise to a potential employment claim, and seeks ...
Recently, four college students invented nail polish that allows its wearer to detect a rape drug mixed into a drink, raising ...
A lawsuit that alleging a dozen major banks including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America fixed prices and limited competition ...
Law Practice
Nonlawyer ownership of law firms debate pits global competition vs. professionalism
By Don Debenedictisn
Some legal futurists believe nonlawyer ownership of firms is inevitable and good for consumers. Many lawyers and the organized...
Alexander Macgillivray named new deputy U.S. chief technology officer. ...
Government
9th Circuit chief judge presses state attorney general on police harassment
By John Roemer
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski didn't let one of Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' deputies off easily when the question arose of ...
