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California Supreme Court, Criminal, Government


State high court unseals pardon documents

Jan. 4, 2019
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


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


Solid long-term legal partnerships aren't easy to come by -- particularly when it comes to pro bono work.


Administrative/Regulatory, Civil Litigation


Two years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm Inc. over accusations its patent licensing business model constitut...


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


While overall entering class enrollment increased by 3 percent nationally this fall, much of that growth was concentrated in h...


Sagerman’s hiring coincides with Paul M. Schmidt taking over as chairman of the firm.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A San Jose plaintiffs’ firm that successfully challenged a Stanford Ph.D. student’s designation on the Transportation Security...


Law Practice


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

Jan. 3, 2019
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


Fifty California companies went public in 2018, raising $8.5 billion collectively. The numbers were up from the previous year,...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Microsoft is counter-suing Uniloc for attorney fees, breach of contract, and for a permanent injunction against asserting infr...



Not About the Lawyers

Jan. 3, 2019
By Arin Mikailian

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

Jan. 3, 2019
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 ...


Law Practice


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?

Jan. 2, 2019
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



Labor/Employment


An appellate panel has ruled that using indirect or reserved control to determine joint employment is lawful, upholding a 2015...


Criminal, Law Practice


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


Amid an overall poor showing in July’s bar exam, two schools under American Bar Association scrutiny once again posted discour...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


While mediating a $14 billion transfer of funds to Muslims, Croats, and Serbs, former U.S. envoy to Bosnia Daniel Weinstein ca...


Entertainment & Sports


With media goliaths Disney and Warner poised to join the fray later this year, the already fierce war for market supremacy in ...


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


From two groundbreaking stock options backdating trials to a nearly 10-year insider trading saga, colleagues say Richard Marma...


California Supreme Court, Criminal


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


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

Dec. 31, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Law students and professors have gone to Tijuana to advise asylum seekers on their options.


Government, Civil Litigation


California will receive $148.7 million from Wells Fargo & Co. over fraudulent accounts claims, according to a settlement a...


Obituaries


Jane E. Kahn, 1954-2018

Dec. 31, 2018
By Andy Serbe

A Rosen Bien attorney is remembered for her passion about prisoners’ rights.


Intellectual Property


Sweeping changes mark turbulent year in patent law

Dec. 31, 2018
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...