Duane Morris LLP will open a new office in Palo Alto on Monday, headed by former K&L Gates LLP partner Karineh Khachatouri...
Litigation
Transocean agrees to pay $1.4 billion settlement over oil spill
By Blake Edwardsn
Transocean announced an agreement with the federal government to pay $1.4 billion in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham, Orrick assist in $130 million Gap buy
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP advised Gap Inc. and Intermix Holdco Inc. in Gap's purchas...
Litigation
Luxury automaker sues insurer over cars lost to hurricane
By Don De Benedictis
Fisker Automotive Inc. sued its insurance company for denying a $33 million claim for 338 luxury hybrid sports sedans submerge...
U.S. Supreme Court
Administration asks Supreme Court to block federal judges' pay hikes
By John Roemer
Federal judges who sued to win annual cost-of-living pay increases suffered a setback Thursday as Obama administration lawyers...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court rules in favor of client notification over bar disciplinary charges
By Emily Green
An attorney who failed to notify his firm's clients that his partner had resigned from the California State Bar with disciplin...
Despite a still-weak economy, insurance defense firm Hardy, Erich, Brown & Wilson hasn't seen a drop in business. But the ...
Litigation
Auto manufacturers increasingly hit with suits over fuel economy claims
By Katie Lucia
A handful of auto manufacturers are under the gun for what opponents call deceptive advertising practices regarding inaccurate...
Litigation
Google emerges unscathed from now-closed FTC inquiry, experts say
By Rachel Swan
The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it has closed its 19-month antitrust probe into Google Inc., with favorab...
Early in his career, Scott S. Markus was the best full-time attorney-mediator in San Diego.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Plaintiffs' lawyers launch fresh fight against medical malpractice damages cap
By Don Debenedictisn
Despite decades of losses, attorneys for medical malpractice plaintiffs are mounting a new batch of attacks on a 1975 law that...
General Counsel of SunPower Corp. San Jose ...
Environmental
State sues energy companies for failing to maintain gas tanks
By Saul Sugarman
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Wednesday she filed a lawsuit against energy companies Phillips 66 and ConocoPhill...
The nation's plunge off the "fiscal cliff" may have been averted, but lawmakers did little to address potential funding cuts t...
Intellectual Property
ITC judge proposes Samsung pay large bond for patents
By Rachel Swan
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has proposed an import and sales ban, along with an 88 percent bond rate, on vario...
MidAmerican Solar on Wednesday acquired two co-located solar power projects currently under construction in Los Angeles and Ke...
Intellectual Property
Judge rejects Apple's "app store" false advertising claim in Amazon.com case
By Hadley Robinson
Delivering another blow to Apple Inc.'s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. over use of the term "app store," a federal judge gran...
Intellectual Property
Rambus patents unenforceable against Micron, Delaware judge rules
By Rachel Swan
William C. Price, a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, claimed victory Wednesday for his client, Micron T...
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reminds us that whether we like it or not, we are all constitutional actors. The following is an excer...
Chiding attorneys on both sides of Apple Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for their pro...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit to consider, again, whether computer-implemented inventions are patentable
By Rachel Swan
Silicon Valley technology giants have ramped up the pressure on a Washingtion, D.C.-based federal appeals court as it consider...
Harris Education Consulting, Inc., won a $10.2 million arbitration award last Thursday after a JAMS panel concluded that Harri...
For many of Silicon Valley's newly wealthy, making charitable donations is as much about philanthropy as it is about avoiding ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit revives policyholders' claim against life insurance company
By John Roemer
A California life insurance company accused of gouging policyholders cannot duck behind the shield of federal securities law t...
Intellectual Property
Domestic patents surge as China seeks to spur innovation
By Ben Armisteadn
In 1990, Chinese residents filed fewer than 6,000 patent applications. In 2011, China filed more domestic patent applications ...
M West Holdings, a private real estate investment company, purchased a 26,273-square-foot apartment community in Hollywood. Th...
Intellectual Property
Lawyers, judges push for greater harmonization in patent laws around the world
By Rachel Swan
As the patent arms race heats up around the globe, with corporations opening new battlefronts in foreign countries while they ...
While judicial notice of court records is often requested, its scope and meaning is frequently misunderstood and it is rarely ...
Securities
Congress mulls bill to increase financial adviser oversight
By Ben Armisteadn
The average adviser registered with the SEC gets examined once every 11 years, and some advisers go more than 15 years between...