The jury has spoken, and what it recently concluded clearly has mammoth medical device and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson on edge and wary of future outcomes that don't bode well for the global enterprise. What is obviously of material concern to J&J...
Is Swedish furniture maker Ikea's response to a defective product concern adequate or abysmal? Some commentators think that the company has acted ethically and diligently in a safety matter involving many millions of chests and dressers sold to consumers across the...
Company mergers are central parts of the business landscape in California and across the country, with their combinations often spelling a win-win formula for two joined entities. Given their consolidation of resources and power, though, they are also often targets of...
One company is an established tech enterprise headquartered in Florida. The other is a just-coming-to-the-party California startup. The following is their connected story, which is borne of acrimony and marked by contractual complexity. The former company, Citrix,...
"So far, the alleged injury is vague, very indefinite for most people," says one legal analyst commenting in the wake of what has been described as one of the largest security hacks to have ever occurred in the United States. Equifax fervently hopes that things stay...
Imagine politicians in one state purposefully drafting legislation to fail in its first assessment by a court. That is precisely what has happened in South Dakota, with the national publication Bloomberg noting that a statute enacted by legislators there "was...
An industry commentator notes in an intellectual property-themed article relevant to business startups that many entrepreneurs materially neglect paying timely attention to a critically important matter when they begin their enterprises. And here is an additional...
We note on a relevant page of our website at , in Pasadena, that "commercial real property issues … can open up significant legal exposure and costs." We further stress on that page that the sources of those issues are wide-ranging,...
For obvious reasons, the largest car manufacturing company in the United States is doing everything it reasonably can to stay ahead of a potential tidal wave of litigation that is imminently heading its way and the attendant liability of massive proportions it could...
The Private Attorney General Act, or PAGA, allows an aggrieved employee to act as if they are the state in an attempt to make claims for recovery of civil penalties for Labor Code violations. Claims under this Act essentially substitute the plaintiff for a state labor...
