Sara Kruzan's case has been championed by human trafficking activists as an example of the injustices facing victims of sexual...
General Counsel for Leg Avenue City of Industry ...
Stanford football has amassed an impressive 34-5 record since 2009. However, despite the team's consistent winning record, Sta...
Earn MCLE credit familiarizing yourself with the most important aspects of the 2012 amendment to the Three Strikes law. By J. ...
The recent effort to avert - at least for the moment - the so-called "fiscal cliff" provided a few lessons on how to effective...
Government
Presiding judges bemoan governor's stingy court budget proposal
By Saul Sugarman
Presiding judges in several Northern California superior courts are displeased by the proposed budget of Gov. Jerry Brown, who...
Mergers & Acquisitions
O'Melveny aids gaming company in cross-border purchase
By David Ruiz
O'Melveny & Myers LLP advised San Francisco-based Kabam Inc. in its purchase of Vancouver-based gaming developer Exploding...
The Brentwood Union School District agreed to pay $950,000 to settle allegations by a Contra Costa family that a Loma Vista E...
California Supreme Court
Manuel Medeiros, state solicitor general, retires
By Emily Green
Medeiros served as solicitor general of California since 2002. He oversaw all of the state's cases before the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Judge David S. Wesley told attendees on Wednesday that the court has no choice but to move forward with $85 million in budget ...
A class of current and former Kmart cashiers from the retailer's Tulare store appealed their suitable seating claims to the 9t...
Law Practice
Morgan Lewis boosts OC office with five new hires
By Alexandra Schwappach
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP will expand its business and finance practice to its Orange County office with the addition of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges fault CJP response to proposed ethics investigation changes
By Paul Jones
The president of the California Judges Association expressed disappointment Wednesday after reviewing the Commission on Judic...
Nearly 15 years after he was sworn in as a member of the Central District's judiciary, Senior District Court Judge A. Howard M...
Intellectual Property
Frustrated by court ruling, tech companies seek legislative fix to ITC holding company cases
By Rachel Swan
In the wake of a federal appellate defeat, Silicon Valley technology companies plan to push for legislative action to thwart t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit considers whether EPA must do more studies on nanotechnolgy product
By Fiona Smith
A federal appeals court panel considered Wednesday whether the Environmental Protection Agency must do more studies before all...
Judges and Judiciary
Failed case management system continues to impact judicial branch
By Jason Armstrongn
The state judicial branch's Court Case Management System project may be dead, but its affects on the branch continue to linger.
Best Best & Krieger LLP entered into an 11-year lease for the fourth floor of the Ontario Airport Towers.
Environmental
Environmentalists want court to order more studies of fracking growth in the state
By Craig Andersonn
The potentially explosive growth of fracking in California sparked a sharp debate during a hearing Tuesday pitting concerned e...
Most contractors know that work must be performed under a license. At the same time, however, they probably know that Native A...
The Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law in 2011, is the most significant reform of U.S. food safety laws in over 70...
Family
When does getting remarried terminate spousal support obligations?
By Ben Armisteadn
Does the marriage ceremony of a spousal support recipient constitute a “remarriage” terminating her right to continue to recei...
Fenwick & West LLP and Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP guided two California companies in...
Stanford Law School's new Religious Liberty Clinic aims to train students in conflicts between church and state. ...
Government
Trial Court Funding Workgroup struggles to gauge success of funding centralization
By Paul Jones
Despite meeting for a third time and facing an April deadline, the Judicial Council's Trial Court Funding Workgroup continued ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' lawyers awarded $23.5 million in LCD price-fixing case
By Saul Sugarman
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has awarded $23.5 million to plaintiffs' attorneys this week in an ongoing class action alle...
Shartsis Friese LLP doubled its female partner ranks this week with the addition of Winston & Strawn LLP partner Nicole Do...
Locking in interest rates that continue to linger near all-time lows, cable giant Comcast Corp. closed a $3 billion Securities...
Corporate
Asset firm names Irell & Manella partner new general counsel
By Ameera Buttn
Los Angeles-based international asset management firm The TCW Group named a former Irell & Manella LLP partner as the fina...
Judges and Judiciary
State Supreme Court justice recuses self from employment law case
By Emily Green
State Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter recused himself from deciding on an employment discrimination case Tuesday one week ...