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Busy by the Beach: Orange County Has Become a Destination for Law Firms
The Mid Market Report Midsized firms in Orange County have managed to hold onto their piece of the market, in part by maintaining relationships with businesses within the community. William Meehan, managing partner of Rutan since 2016 told ALM’s Mid-Market Report that his firm has been able to keep business steady even as outside firms…
The Startup Drugmaker’s Post-Helsinn Survival Guide
Law360 The U.S. Supreme Court dashed the hopes of smaller pharmaceutical and biotech companies with its recent ruling that businesses can’t sell unpatented inventions to other companies without risking losing their future patent rights, possibly cutting off years of market exclusivity. While the court’s Jan. 22 ruling in Helsinn v. Teva will apply to all…
Rutan Promotes Five to Partnership
(Costa Mesa, CA) January 2, 2019 – Rutan, LLP announced today the promotion of Alan B. Fenstermacher, Andrew Lamming, Ravi Mohan, Proud Usahacharoenporn and Kenneth Zielinski to partnership effective January 1, 2019. Rutan Managing Partner William Meehan said, “Each attorney exemplifies the combination of skills and character that we look for in partners at our…
Attorneys: client companies becoming more proactive in addressing harassment
Daily Journal Labor and Employment Partner Edson McClellan was quoted in a December 13, 2018 feature article in the Daily Journal about companies becoming more proactive in addressing harassment claims at their organizations. “There’s certainly a feeling that we don’t want that to be us, we can’t afford that to be us. They conclude one…
Where we’re going, we won’t need windows: How autonomy will change cars
As artificial intelligent technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, it may have a profound effect on how everyday objects look and behave. It’s especially true of autonomous vehicles. While the first self-driving cars in development have been built upon human-controlled designs, AI will steer vehicles design past traditional shapes and features. With fewer…
Ohio’s Data Security Law To Test Incentive-Driven Strategy
With the enactment of Senate Bill 220, known as the Ohio Data Protection Act, the Buckeye State became the first to provide a liability shield for some claims in data breach litigation for companies that implement a written cybersecurity program that “reasonably conforms” to at least one of 11 industry-recognized cybersecurity frameworks. The voluntary approach…
FCC’s 5G Regs Deepen Old Divide For Some States, Cities
A slate of recent Federal Communications Commission policy changes intended to speed 5G adoption has reopened old wounds for some state and municipal governments that feel they’ve lost ground during the Trump administration on issues ranging from local infrastructure decisions to net neutrality protections. The result is likely to be consolidated lawsuits from states and…
Court Sanctions Nutrition CEO, Atty Over False Patent Claims
A California federal judge has ordered a nutritional supplement developer, its CEO and its attorney to pay a combined $7,500 in sanctions after the court determined that the CEO had lied by claiming that he was the assignee of a patent he had in fact assigned to another company decades ago. Click here to read…
5 Common Reasons California Employers Get Sued
Maria Stearns was quoted in an article by Toni Vranjes that ran on August 16, 2018, in SHRM Online discussing the five common reasons California employers get sued. Stearns, commenting on Calculating Overtime Bonuses, said “when employers provide extra payments such as bonuses to nonexempt workers, they often fail to properly calculate overtime pay. Nondiscretionary…
11 Rutan Attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019
Costa Mesa, CA – August 15, 2018 – Rutan is pleased to announce that 11 partners have been named in the 2019 edition of the Best Lawyers in America©, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. COSTA MESA Randall M. Babbush – Real Estate Law Thomas G. Brockington – Corporate Law…
