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America at 250

Jun. 30, 2026

Firm Profile

How Sacks Glazier is shaping California trust and estate law

Sacks, Glazier, Franklin, Lodise, McMurtrey & Scheerer LLP

2026-07-08

MCLE

The United States Space Force: The 6th branch

Jul. 8, 2026

The Space Force is more than America's newest military br...

By Eileen C. Moore

Can implicit bias be countered?

Jul. 2, 2026

Although California's implicit bias jury instruction enco...

By Steven S. Kimball

What lawyers need to know before a CTAPP compliance review arrives

Jun. 25, 2026

With up to 800 attorneys a year expected to face mandator...

By Gary L. Krausz


Today's News

A Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled that fraud claims brought by carbon offset startup investors against Steve Ballmer, Baker Hostetler and others belong to th...


Chief U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that four state attorneys general may present evidence that Meta made false statements about its conte...


Former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson asks a Los Angeles judge to reduce a $198 million wrongful death judgment by $14 million, arguing plaintiffs already re...


Labor/Employment


A federal appeals court panel sharply questioned whether California's law barring employers from disciplining workers who skip mandatory meetings on pol...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills attorney now faces State Bar discipline proceedings in the same scandal where he once represented Los Angeles.


Environmental & Energy


Sable Offshore Corp. has asked the Trump administration to use eminent domain to acquire state-owned shoreline, parkland and private property needed for its ...


Columns

The K.G.M. case highlights a shift from content-based immunity under Section 230 toward negligent design theories, expe...


Sidney Roy Korshak was an Illinois-licensed lawyer who never practiced in California yet became one of Los Angeles's most infl...


Evidence

From a judge's observation that truth has a "ring" emerges a meditation on memory, credibility, and why authentic testimony co...



Verdicts & Settlements

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Donna Motsinger v. William ... $59,250,000
Consumer Protection The People of the State of ... $50,000,000
Consumers Legal Remedies Act Timothy Head, et al., v. Re... $49,995,000
Wage and Hour Alex Hernandez, individuall... $3,712,978
Wage and Hour Yuri Milon, individually, a... $3,500,000
Wage and Hour Kristina Schafer, an indivi... $2,500,000
False Advertising The People of the State of ... $2,500,000
Consumer Protection The People of the State of ... $2,000,000
Wage and Hour Mariah Macias, an individua... $1,600,000
Malpractice Spouse and Minor Child v. R... $1,500,000

On the Move

Arnold & Porter

Jul. 7, 2026


Sunita Bali joined Arnold & Porter as a partner in San Francisco. The move was July 7, 2026.

A seasoned commercial litigator, Sunita represents technology, retail, and other clients in complex privacy, consumer class-action, and other commercial litigation disputes. She advises clients on compliance with privacy and consumer protection laws, particularly those that regulate the collection and use of biometric and other sensitive data. Sunita regularly defends large, high-stakes privacy and consumer class-action cases brought under the federal Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and California's consumer protection laws. She also has well over a decade of experience litigating and advising clients on content moderation issues and has represented some of the world's largest companies in high-profile cases implicating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment. Her arrival builds on the firm's ongoing West Coast strategic growth and follows several other additions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle this year.


Details

Arnold & Porter has 1000 attorneys in 16 offices including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are regulatory, litigation, and transactional. The firm’s website is www.arnoldporter.com

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Community News

State Bar & Bar Associations, Community News


Legal Harmony

Jun. 30, 2026

The Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic marked its 17th anniversary with a patriotic Walt Disney Concert Hall performance celebra...




Daily Appellate Report

Employment Law

Adelanto Elementary School Dist. v. Krause

Employer could not waive statutory right to seek workplace violence restraining order on behalf of employees because the law was intended to serve a public purpose.


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Tyler

The "could be convicted" standard does not apply at a Penal Code section 1172.6(d) hearing, and use of that language can warrant reversal absent other clarifying information.


Environmental Law, Administrative Agencies

Amended Opinion: Alaska Community Action on Toxics v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Agency's decision not to regulate chemical additive present in recyclable articles that had been deemed hazardous by Congress was unsupported by substantial evidence in the rulemaking rec...


Bankruptcy, Corporations

In re: LeFever Mattson

California state law's ipso facto clauses regarding dissociation of general partner upon bankruptcy filing are preempted by the plain language of the federal bankruptcy code.