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Justices Turn Away Corporate Complaints in California Lead-Paint 'Nuisance' Case

Tony Mauro | October 15, 2018

Michael Carvin of Jones Day, counsel for Sherwin-Williams, said the cases highlighted runaway tort liability claims by states against companies.

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ACLU Lawsuit vs. Catholic Bishops Over Immigrants' Reproductive Rights Dismissed

Katheryn Tucker | October 13, 2018

A federal judge has dismissed the ACLU’s attempt to block the government from delegating the care of immigrant unaccompanied minors and sex-trafficking victims to a Catholic group that opposes birth control and abortion, and transfers those wishing to have an abortion to other shelters.

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Covington Celebrates 10th Anniversary With New Silicon Valley Digs

Xiumei Dong | October 12, 2018

The high-powered firm, known for its connection in the nation's capital, has a new home in East Palo Alto.

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Northern District Honors Judge Fogel and 'the Humanity of Judging'

Scott Graham | October 12, 2018

Friends, colleagues and clerks put the judge's 37-year career into perspective at a Stanford Law School symposium.

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Ropes Reels in M&A Pro to Grow 2 Offices

Xiumei Dong | October 12, 2018

Matthew Jacobson, a veteran transactional lawyer, is returning to California after more than a decade away.

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In Mapping Case, Circuit Court Grapples With the Limits of Immunity for Online Publishers

Ross Todd | October 12, 2018

Locksmiths suing Google, Bing and Yahoo claim that the companies overstepped immunities under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by assigning sham competitors actual physical addresses on their mapping applications.

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Google, Disney and LEGO Top List in Corporate Responsibility Survey

Sue Reisinger | October 12, 2018

The survey, Global CR RepTrak, calls itself the largest annual study of its kind and is based on more than 230,000 ratings by individuals in 15 countries. It was conducted by the Reputation Institute, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, consultant that works with companies on enhancing their brand image.

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New Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson Among Latest Batch of 15 Trump Nominees Approved by Senate

Ellis Kim | October 12, 2018

Three appeals court picks—David Porter, Ryan Nelson and Richard Sullivan—were among the 15 names the U.S. Senate confirmed to federal judgeships Thursday, after Senate Republicans and Democrats agreed to vote on a batch of judicial nominees as part of a compromise.

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Ex-Polsinelli Partners’ Cannabis Company Sells for Record High

Roy Strom | October 12, 2018

The bud business has been good to a few former Big Law partners.

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Trio of Big Law Partners, Clerk for Judge Davila Among 33 Tapped for State Trial Bench

Ross Todd | October 11, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown tapped 33 lawyers for the state’s Superior Courts on Thursday, including Charles Adams, the career clerk for U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, for a seat on the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

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Death of Stanford Law Student, Wachtell Associate Ruled an Accident

Meghan Tribe | October 11, 2018

Leon Cain, a 3L at Stanford Law School who had recently signed on to begin his career at Wachtell, died last month from what a medical examiner described Thursday as "multiple blunt force injuries."

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Lex Machina: Insurance Litigation Balloons in Insurer-Friendly Federal Courts

Greg Land | October 11, 2018

A new report from the legal analytics firm also found that California’s Central District has the fastest of four major insurance dockets, taking an average of 343 days to rule on summary judgment, and 493 days to get to trial.

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Experts to Law Grads: Don't Freak Out About Public Service Loan Forgiveness—Yet

Karen Sloan | October 11, 2018

The U.S. Department of Education approved a mere 1 percent of initial Public Service Loan Forgiveness applications, but experts say the approval rate should increase over time.

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SEC Files Suit Over False Endorsement of ICO

Dan Clark | October 11, 2018

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday unsealed a complaint against cryptocurrency company Blockvest alleging that the company and its founder falsely claimed its initial coin offering had SEC backing.

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Half Dozen Californians Among Trump's Latest Batch of 13 Nominees for the Federal Bench

Ellis Kim | October 10, 2018

The president on Wednesday evening announced three California-based nominees for empty seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and three nominees for trial court openings in the Central District of California.

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UCSB Student Accused of Sexual Assault Gets Suspension Tossed on Appeal

Ross Todd | October 10, 2018

"Noticeably absent was even a semblance of due process," wrote the court. "When the accused does not receive a fair hearing, neither does the accuser."

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Judge Tentatively Strikes $250M in Punitives From Roundup Verdict

Amanda Bronstad | October 10, 2018

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos issued the tentative ahead of a hearing on Wednesday afternoon.

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New Report Finds Female Path to Law Firm Partnership a Sluggish Crawl

Meghan Tribe | October 10, 2018

A survey found that given the legal industry's current growth rate, it would take nearly a century for women to make up half of the equity partnership tier.

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Boies Schiller Nabs Prominent Attorney Susan Estrich From Quinn Emanuel

Scott Flaherty | October 10, 2018

Estrich will be a Los Angeles-based partner in the appellate practice at Boies Schiller, which has made a string of recent hires in California.

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Federal Circuit Judge Wants to Rethink 'Natural Phenomena' Case Law

Scott Graham | October 10, 2018

Judge Kathleen O'Malley says the court has been too broadly applying the Supreme Court's Myriad decision for the last four years.

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In Arpaio Case, Deeply Divided Ninth Circuit Stands By Decision to Appoint Special Prosecutor

Ross Todd | October 10, 2018

In dissent, Judge Consuelo Callahan wrote, "The majority’s we-see-no-reason-why-not approach does not justify its admittedly unprecedented—and unauthorized—intrusion of executive power."

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Trouble Brewing: 'Kona' Beer-Maker Faces Certified Class of Consumers Over Mainland Brewing

Ross Todd | October 09, 2018

A federal judge in San Jose has certified separate classes of consumers who bought six- and 12-packs of the Hawaiian-themed Kona Brewing Co. line of beers, which predominantly come from breweries in Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire and Tennessee.

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In the Wake of Facebook Breach Suit, Familiar Plaintiffs Tandem Takes Aim at Google+

Ross Todd | October 09, 2018

For the second time in less than a month, lawyers at Morgan & Morgan and Arnold Law Firm have taken aim at an internet giant with breach claims.

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To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Google+ Breach Raises The Question

Caroline Spiezio | October 09, 2018

Google chose not to disclose the breach when it was discovered in March because it found no evidence of data misuse.

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Goodwin Procter Grabs 2 Gunderson Partners in San Francisco

Xiumei Dong | October 09, 2018

The firm hired Josh Cook, the former head of Gunderson Dettmer’s San Francisco office, and his colleague Jon Novotny.

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Sidley Lands Life Sciences Licensing Pro From King & Spalding

Xiumei Dong | October 08, 2018

Thomas Duley, a well-regarded life sciences lawyer in the Bay Area, has joined Sidley in San Francisco.

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Facebook, 3 Other Social Networks Hit With Patent Suits

Scott Graham | October 08, 2018

An IP Valuation Partners affiliate is asserting patents recently acquired from Intellectual Ventures against Facebook, Instagram, Snap and Foursquare Labs.

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Courts Upholds $335K Award Against Manatt in Recruiter Suit

Christine Simmons | October 08, 2018

The recent decision by the California Court of Appeal and a decision in a separate case in New York show that courts are continuing to enforce recruiter contracts with firms, even if they are oral or do not include a signature.

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Facebook Pushes to Move Philly Tattoo Artist's Suit Over Scam Ads Moved to Calif.

Max Mitchell | October 08, 2018

A Philadelphia tattoo artist who gained attention for losing more than 100 pounds wants Facebook to stop letting scammers use her image in ads that appear on the social media behemoth, but the company wants the suit to be moved to federal court in California.

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Plaintiff Asks Judge to Classify Uber Drivers as Employees Under 'Dynamex'

Ross Todd | October 06, 2018

Lawyers at Robins Kaplan and Keller Lenkner sued Uber last month on behalf of a SoCal livery service claiming that the ride-hailing app company saves millions in required benefits and payroll costs by misclassifying drivers, and targets their client with “below-cost and anticompetitive pricing.”

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LA Law Firm's Last IP Partner Jumps to Jeffer Mangels

Xiumei Dong | October 05, 2018

Glaser Weil appears to have wound down its intellectual property group following the retirement last month of its former practice leader and the recent departure of other partners to a pair of Am Law 200 firms.

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US Justice Dept. Loses Another Sanctuary City Ruling

Cheryl Miller | October 05, 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice "fails to explain adequately the reasons it imposed the challenged conditions," U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco wrote.

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'He Always Spoke His Truth': Bay Area LGBT Bar Association Honors the Late L. Julius Turman

Caroline Spiezio | October 05, 2018

Notable Bay Area attorneys gathered to remember Turman, a former Constagy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete partner, and a vocal diversity advocate. The conversation revolved around Turman's work and issues of intersectionality.

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US Lawyers Spend Only 30 Percent of Workday on Billable Hours, Report Says

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 05, 2018

So what are they doing the rest of the day?

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Can New Leave Policies Help Big Law Escape the Parent Trap?

Meghan Tribe | October 05, 2018

Facing frustration—and sometimes litigation—over their approach to motherhood and parental leave, law firms are wrestling with how far to go to support new parents.

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Appeals Court Strikes $8.7M in Legal Fees Based on Coupons in Class Action Settlement

Amanda Bronstad | October 04, 2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the district judge had violated the Class Action Fairness Act and tackled the legal question of what constitutes a coupon.

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Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Over Misleading '0g Trans Fat' Label

Ross Todd | October 04, 2018

A Ninth Circuit Panel held that federal food labeling laws—which required The Kroger Co. to put "0g Trans Fat per serving" on the back nutrition panels of items when they contained less than .5g per serving—didn't preempt state law claims over misleadingly touting zero grams elsewhere on the packaging.

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Sedgwick Demise Highlights Challenges GCs Face When Outside Law Firms Dissolve

Phillip Bantz | October 04, 2018

“It’s in the best case somewhat disruptive and in the worst case extraordinarily disruptive to the lawyers and their clients,” said one consultant.

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12 Elite Law Firms Back an App Store for Legal Tech

Roy Strom | October 04, 2018

Legal tech companies, listen up. Big Law wants “containerization.”

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Quinn Emanuel Adds Irell & Manella Entertainment Litigator in LA

Xiumei Dong | October 03, 2018

The firm hired Bobby Schwartz, a prominent trial lawyer who previously spent more than 30 years at O'Melveny & Myers.

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Facebook's Big Breach Spawns Ireland Probe, Early Test of GDPR

Caroline Spiezio | October 03, 2018

The Irish Data Protection Commission announced its investigation into the Facebook breach via Twitter on Wednesday—the first such probe since the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect in May.

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Amer Moorhead Tapped as Tradeshift's First CLO, CCO

Caroline Spiezio | October 03, 2018

The Silicon Valley veteran has previously worked in-house at several companies, including Couchbase and SAP Ariba.

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Another Mistrial Declared in J&J Talcum Powder Case

Amanda Bronstad | October 03, 2018

Another jury in Los Angeles deadlocked on whether Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused mesothelioma.

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In Gender Discrimination Suit, Ogletree and Ex-Partner Clash Over Firm's Arbitration Agreement

Ross Todd | October 03, 2018

Lawyers for a former non-equity shareholder at the national employment law firm claim that she never agreed to arbitrate disputes with the firm. Ogletree's lawyers say that as a "seasoned employment attorney," the plaintiff can't credibly argue that she did not understand the agreement or how to opt out of it.

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Telecoms' Big Firms Urge Judge to Throttle California's Net Neutrality Law

Cheryl Miller | October 03, 2018

"This case presents a classic example of unconstitutional state regulation," the complaint, filed by telecom, cable and internet associations, said. Latham and other big firms represent the plaintiffs.

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High Profile UC and Stanford Profs Join 900+ Telling Senate Kavanaugh Lacks 'Judicial Temperament'

Karen Sloan | October 03, 2018

The nominee's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week demonstrates that he can't be impartial on the U.S. Supreme Court, 907 law professors assert.

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Ted Olson Is Fired Up Over ABA's Kavanaugh Letter, Drops Membership

Tony Mauro | Ellis Kim | October 03, 2018

ABA executive director Jack Rives said in response: “I’ve got the greatest respect for Ted Olson, who has been a longtime friend and supporter of the ABA." He added: “I would hope that people wouldn’t let one issue affect their membership.”

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Bankrupt Law Firm's Lawyers Find New Gigs as Clawback Specialists Get Call

Xiumei Dong | October 02, 2018

A pair of Am Law 200 firms have hired lawyers from defunct California shop Archer Norris, which has retained law firm bankruptcy expert Diamond McCarthy to help manage its liquidation.

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Once Storied Sedgwick Files for Bankruptcy as Wind-Down Fails

Roy Strom | October 02, 2018

The firm's insolvency comes after a broad expansion effort, practice groups that sparred with each other and an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stabilize an institution rocked by the financial uncertainty that comes with Big Law's free agent era.

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How Law Firms Are Capitalizing on the Private Equity Boom

Roy Strom | October 02, 2018

The biggest private equity shops are predicted to double in size over the next seven years. Catching a piece of their deals is a recipe for Big Law success.

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