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Kirk D. Yake
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-10-31

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MCLE

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Moral rights and the Vaillancourt Fountain

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Today's News

Intellectual Property


Baron App Inc., which operates the celebrity video platform Cameo, sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court, alleging that OpenAI's Sora app infringes on i...


A federal judge has ruled that Acting U.S. Attorney Bilal A. Essayli of Los Angeles is not lawfully serving in his role, but he can continue running the nati...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick said the law firm violated a court order that barred LinkedIn research on potential jurors, warning that future violati...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


California and other states are seeking to challenge the Justice Department's approval of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Juniper merger, alleging political i...


Southern California Edison finalized its Eaton Fire settlement plan, doubling eligible properties to 18,000, expanding coverage beyond the fire perimeter, in...


Civil Litigation


LA County blocks suit by fired probation chief

Oct. 30, 2025
By Skyler Romero

Los Angeles County won summary judgment against former probation chief Adolfo Gonzales, with a judge ruling his wrongful termination suit was barred for fail...


Columns

When clients don't pay, lawyers have options -- but ethical rules strictly limit how far they can go, what they can disclose a...


Whether it's an unearned bonus or pay returned for other reasons, such as legal violations, you can often recoup the taxes -- ...


Many firms chase new clients while overlooking the work already sitting inside their own walls. This article shows California ...



Verdicts & Settlements

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Alexandra Zarini v. Patrici... $115,000,000
Excessive Force Nakia V. Porter, an individ... $17,000,000
Premises Liability Allison Balos, a minor by a... $15,045,000
Dangerous Condition of Public Property Michael Fox v. City of San ... $4,000,000
Auto v. Motorcycle John Doe v. Roe Vehicles, L... $3,500,000
Malpractice Minor Plaintiff v. Roe Hosp... $2,500,000
Malpractice Lovell Avery v. County of R... $2,250,000
Wage and Hour Robert Estrada, individuall... $2,200,000
Malpractice Doe Plaintiffs v. Roe Hospital $1,800,000
Auto v. Truck Vincent Carlos Hamlin v. 56... $1,183,163

On the Move

Procel Levine LLP

Oct. 31, 2025


Brian Procel forms Procel Levine LLP in Santa Monica.

Procel has been a trial lawyer for more than two decades, prevailing in complex commercial disputes involving investor and consumer fraud, class actions, breach of fiduciary duty, lender liability, intellectual property, entertainment and real estate. He has received awards from the State Bar of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association and Bet Tzedek Legal Foundation for his dedication to pro bono work. Procel graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law.


Jeremiah Levine forms Procel Levine LLP in Santa Monica.

Levine previously served as a federal prosecutor, where he prevailed in numerous jury and bench trials and indicted the largest white supremacist case in the history of the Justice Department. He also prosecuted complex RICO matters and white-collar crime, including bank fraud and COVID benefits fraud. Before his work as a federal prosecutor, Levine was an award-winning civil and white-collar litigator at a top 20 global law firm. There, he ran internal investigations that he completed on time and under budget, won dismissal of government investigations before charges, and won not guilty verdicts at trial for corporate defendants. In the civil arena, Levine won injunctions in favor of Fortune 500 companies suffering from expressive activity on their property; resolved complex disputes in the areas of securities litigation, financial services, and intellectual property, and prevailed in numerous class actions. He also achieved appellate victories at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and California state courts of appeal. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.




Details

Procel Levine LLP has 2 attorneys in Santa Monica. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are Commercial Litigation, Government Investigations Defense, Financial Services Disputes, Real Estate, White-Collar Criminal Defense. The firm’s website is www.procellevine.com

Address

401 Wilshire Blvd, Fl 12 , Santa Monica CA 90401 USA
T: (424) 788-4538

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Daily Appellate Report

Water Rights

State Water Resources Control Bd. v. Superior Court (Kings County Farm Bureau)

Pursuant to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, State Water Resources Board actions in designating a probationary basin and implementing related procedures were exempt from the Ad...


Water Rights

Kings County Farm Bureau v. State Water Resources Control Bd.

Remand was appropriate for trial court to reconsider its weighing of relative harm caused by preliminary injunction where its analysis of likelihood of success on the merits was flawed.


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Cervantes

Trial court had inherent authority to correct unauthorized sentence and erred in ruling it lacked jurisdiction to do so.


Civil Procedure

Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft

Same-sex couple traveling between California and Saudi Arabia had specific personal jurisdiction in California over defendant airline for its alleged disclosure of their marital status an...