California Supreme Court, Criminal, Government
State high court unseals pardon documents
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
The governor’s office provided unsealed documents relating to the pardoning of a former state senator, offering the first glim...
Administrative/Regulatory, Environmental & Energy
US files appeal of drift net fishing limits judgment
By Blaise Scemama
An appeal filed Thursday by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and several government agencies looks to reverse a U.S. Dis...
Law Practice
Akin Gump supports schools client with pro bono service
By Steven Crighton
Solid long-term legal partnerships aren't easy to come by -- particularly when it comes to pro bono work.
Administrative/Regulatory, Civil Litigation
Trial kicks off in Qualcom cellphone chip monopoly suit
By Winston Cho
Two years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm Inc. over accusations its patent licensing business model constitut...
Law Practice
More attorneys specialize in bicycling injury cases as awareness of the danger increases.
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The lawyers, who are often cyclists themselves, push for bike-friendly laws. A few practitioners have made it a full-time spec...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Education Law
Fall enrollment boost was felt drastically differently by law schools
By Erin Lee
While overall entering class enrollment increased by 3 percent nationally this fall, much of that growth was concentrated in h...
Law Practice
Eric Sagerman joins BakerHostetler as managing partner in Los Angeles.
By David Houston
Sagerman’s hiring coincides with Paul M. Schmidt taking over as chairman of the firm.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
En banc 9th Circuit calls for new look at attorney fees in ‘No Fly’ list litigation
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A San Jose plaintiffs’ firm that successfully challenged a Stanford Ph.D. student’s designation on the Transportation Security...
Arent Fox LLP snagged transactional law firm Kay & Merkle's seven-lawyer team in San Francisco.
Judges and Judiciary
Gov. Brown appoints final 12 judges of his career
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The new names include nine women, putting an exclamation point on Brown’s pledge to leave a judiciary that is less dominated b...
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
‘Unicorn’ Dropbox topped banner year of California IPOs
By Melanie Brisbon
Fifty California companies went public in 2018, raising $8.5 billion collectively. The numbers were up from the previous year,...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Micrsoft counter-suing patent aggregator after settling last suit
By Blaise Scemama
Microsoft is counter-suing Uniloc for attorney fees, breach of contract, and for a permanent injunction against asserting infr...
Judge Gregory Pollack wants attorneys to keep their personal lives out of the courtroom.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law
9th Circuit to rehear Arizona voter law case en banc
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear en banc a challenge to two Arizona election laws Democratic challengers say ...
BakerHostetler announced Monday that Eric E. Sagerman will join the firm as managing partner for its Los Angeles office.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges and Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court
When does a federal judge stop being a judge?
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
That’s a question the U.S. Supreme Court may answer if it decides to review one of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ most...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge elections, appointments, retirements and deaths in 2018
By Arin Mikailian
Labor/Employment
Circuit court rules indirect control can determine joint employment
By Andy Serbe
An appellate panel has ruled that using indirect or reserved control to determine joint employment is lawful, upholding a 2015...
Criminal, Law Practice
Kevin Spacey’s defense attorney knows how prosecutors think
By Justin Kloczko
Alan Jackson, a partner at Werksman Jackson & Quinn LLP, is now beginning to defend what may be the first of many assault ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Education Law
July bar results disappoint for schools under ABA scrutiny
By Erin Lee
Amid an overall poor showing in July’s bar exam, two schools under American Bar Association scrutiny once again posted discour...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Nonprofit brings a global approach to solving problems
By Sean Kagan
While mediating a $14 billion transfer of funds to Muslims, Croats, and Serbs, former U.S. envoy to Bosnia Daniel Weinstein ca...
Entertainment & Sports
For netstreaming dealmakers, war is good for something
By Steven Crighton
With media goliaths Disney and Warner poised to join the fray later this year, the already fierce war for market supremacy in ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Weaker student credentials account for less than half of bar passage decline, study says
By Erin Lee
Bar applicants’ undergraduate GPAs and LSAT scores have declined in the last five years, but these changes only account for 33...
Criminal, Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Veteran white-collar defense attorney retiring after a career of big wins
By Meghann Cuniff
From two groundbreaking stock options backdating trials to a nearly 10-year insider trading saga, colleagues say Richard Marma...
California Supreme Court, Criminal
Few clues to state high court’s crackdown on governor’s clemency grants
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
What is clear is that justices are divided by the extent of the governor’s authority and its own role in curbing that power.
Immigration, Law Practice
Nonprofit helps law firms aid immigrants, make legal connections
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The organization works with law firms and in-house counsel at large companies to conduct workshops for people eligible for wha...
Immigration, Law Practice, Education Law
UC Irvine law students help caravan members
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Law students and professors have gone to Tijuana to advise asylum seekers on their options.
Government, Civil Litigation
Wells Fargo to pay $575M to settle fraud lawsuit by state attorneys general
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California will receive $148.7 million from Wells Fargo & Co. over fraudulent accounts claims, according to a settlement a...
A Rosen Bien attorney is remembered for her passion about prisoners’ rights.
Intellectual Property
Sweeping changes mark turbulent year in patent law
By Blaise Scemama
The new director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, made sweeping changes to an industry still adjusting t...