Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Support.com Inc. Redwood Shores ...
A recently enacted regulation has effectively bottled up collection activity and given defendants another avenue to avoid coll...
I like to think that I'm a fair superior court judge. The question I ask myself is whether I would have been a fair Student Co...
Alvarado, founder of Orange County-based law firm AlvaradoSmith APC, community leader and strong proponent of the advancement ...
Real Estate/Development
Survey finds increased confidence among state real estate developers
By Alex Shively
A new report on California commercial real estate is bullish on office space development as well as multi-family and industria...
A San Bernardino County judge dealt a heavy blow to prosecutors Wednesday in one of the state's biggest public corruption case...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. The dispute is quite mundane, but the qu...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Attorneys weigh implications of precedent-setting CFIUS case
By Salvador Mares
Attorneys brokering cross-border transactions are cautiously optimistic that an unprecedented appellate ruling could shine a l...
California Supreme Court
Machinations behind Cuellar appointment cause intrigue
By Henry Meier
Gov. Jerry Brown's appointment of Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to the California Supreme Court was widely praised Wednesday, but...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Shareholder derivative litigation targeting boards has enjoyed increasing popularity and focus from the plaintiffs' securities...
The past few years have seen an explosion of new and recently modified anticorruption legislation in countries all around the ...
Since 2009, the number of settled FCPA enforcement actions involving conduct in Latin America has outpaced the number of actio...
To prevent unjust results in criminal insider trading cases the government should be required to prove that the defendant knew...
While defending parallel actions simultaneously is not for the faint of heart, it can bring significant procedural advantages....
Litigation
Health care providers concerned about new liability under Affordable Care Act
By Henry Meier
Lawyers who do defense work in the health care sector are concerned about how prosecutors will interpret certain parts of the ...
Litigation
Defense attorneys say government's videotaped interrogation policy falls short
By Hadley Robinson
Beginning this month, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole directed agents with the FBI and other agencies to turn on a camer...
Our state Supreme Court balances the competing demands of federal and state law, deferring to Congress when appropriate but vi...
Perspective
Activist shareholder threats justify two-tiered poison pills
By Ben Armisteadn
The Delaware Court of Chancery will allow for the use of a two-tier poison pill, provided that the circumstances surrounding i...
Constitutional Law
Supreme cruelty and the high court's foie gras petition
By Ben Armisteadn
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take up a challenge to California's ban on the sale of foie gras produced b...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Eugene Clark-Herrera spearheaded the firm's 15th Annual Surf Trip, which has be...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sullivan, O'Melveny lead M&A league tables in first half of the year
By Salvador Mares
With a hand in two of the largest acquisitions in California so far this year, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP garnered the top sp...
California Supreme Court
Governor's Supreme Court appointment helps infuse youth onto the bench
By Henry Meier
Brown's appointment of another young, progressive academic in Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to the state Supreme Court marks a t...
Government
Senate confirms U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte as district judge
By Melanie Brisbon
Central District U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate to become a federal judge. ...
Criminal
New state law knocks off one day from maximum sentence for misdemeanors
By Kylie Reynolds
Legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown resolves a discrepancy between California and federal criminal sentence...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Warner Bros. loses motion to disqualify Greenberg Glusker from case
By Kibkabe Araya
A federal judge denied a motion from media production companies to remove a Los Angeles firm as counsel for "Lord of the Rings...
Criminal
Former Qualcomm executive pleads guilty to insider trading, money laundering
By Katie Lucia
Jing Wang, 51, of Del Mar, was Qualcomm's executive vice president and also served as president of the tech giant's global bus...
Government
Law librarians protesting bill to end print publication of federal codes
By Paul Jones
A bill to end the print publication of federal codes and rules is drawing howls of protest by law librarians, who warn such a ...
California Courts of Appeal
Anti-SLAPP motion in actor's case rejected on appeal
By Craig Andersonn
In its published decision Tuesday, the 2nd District Court of Appeal struck down a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a man...
