California Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to say he’s “meeting the moment” when tackling the state’s problems. With a rocky Covid-19 vaccine rollout and potential recall election, the first-term Democrat will need to seize the moment before he delivers his next State of the State address.

Owners want their brand everywhere, but Peloton Interactive Inc.'s bid to cancel “spinning” trademarks reminds companies they must manage threats of a certain kind of pervasiveness—a mark that ends up defining a product, not its producer.

U.S. lawmakers are exploring potential visa programs that would pair skilled workers with communities in need of economic development in response to a growing gap between local markets and sustainable worker populations.

A U.S. Supreme Court case over Illumina Inc.’s fetal DNA test patents gives the justices a chance to solidify a road map for how biotech companies can protect their diagnostic inventions.

California’s latest privacy law will require companies to establish data retention schedules, renegotiate agreements with third-party vendors, and create new procedures for managing sensitive personal information.

Jamie Welton is one of four litigation partners who left Barnes & Thornburg to open Duane Morris’s Dallas office earlier this month. Bloomberg Law spoke with Welton about which sectors the new Dallas office will focus on; how locating one document among a trove of papers resulted in a $64 million litigation win; and how new lawyers should worry less about billable hours and more about providing invaluable work for their firm.