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Proposals would mandate disbarment for illegal client solicitation and restrict investor control over legal decisions


Jurors in the first social media addiction bellwether trial requested key defense testimony and audio evidence, signaling clos...



Veteran trial attorney Case Barnett joins ACTS Law

Mar. 18, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Case Barnett has joined ACTS Law, bringing a background in personal injury work and prior experience as a public defender.


DivX began a jury trial accusing Netflix of infringing streaming technology patents and seeking more than $400 million, while ...


A putative federal class action claims Elon Musk's xAI failed to implement standard AI safeguards, allowing its Grok model to ...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco judge allowed most claims in Inflect's lawsuit against Solana to proceed, dismissing only a quantum meruit cla...


Lawyers sparred over jury instructions in the securities trial over Elon Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition tweets, focusing on h...


Agency tells court leaders that courthouse maintenance problems stem from limited congressional funding, not management.


Twenty-seven judges say the opinion's language "makes us sound like juveniles, not judges" in dispute over transgender access ...


Eaton Fire plaintiffs want to depose Edison International executives, arguing they oversaw wildfire-risk governance and crisis...


Judicial Council report shows rising court workload in the first full year of the voter-approved law as legislators consider n...


Speaking during California International Arbitration Week in San Francisco, Cedric Chao said the world's two largest economies...


A federal judge said OpenAI's lawyers can question Elon Musk about his financial incentive to sue the company when the high-pr...


The State Bar alleges newly produced internal communications show the testing vendor privately doubted its ability to administ...


The Los Angeles litigation boutique, which has an enviable roster of bold-faced names as clients, added three longtime partner...


Conservation and hunting groups allege that the state unlawfully fast-tracked a permit allowing the eradication of mule deer o...


Creative Artists Agency agreed to pay $595,000 to resolve claims by TV writer John Musero that the agency misappropriated his ...


Attorneys delivered closing arguments in a landmark social media addiction trial, debating whether Instagram's and YouTube's d...


A former Morgan Stanley banker testified Elon Musk paused his Twitter acquisition after the company failed to provide requeste...


A unanimous appellate panel found several provisions of the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act too vague to enforce but declined ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A strike by Solano County public defenders refusing new cases may soon halt criminal hearings, as critics warn too few private...


The board voted 3-1 to keep a 25% salary increase despite a grand jury report criticizing the way the raise was embedded in th...


Judge Harry Dorfman ruled that San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju ignored a lawful order to accept new indigent client...


Slideshow, Community News


Beverly Hills Bar hosts civil court judges

Mar. 12, 2026
By Ricardo Pineda

Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Sergio C. Tapia II and Supervising Civil Judge Lawrence P. Riff addressed the gathe...


Jurors heard deposition testimony that the plaintiff's mental health struggles stemmed mainly from family conflict as closing ...


Two class actions filed in Northern California claim Meta's AI-enabled smart glasses secretly capture and transmit video for A...



Former SEC Los Angeles chief joins McGuireWoods

Mar. 12, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Gary Y. Leung, who recently led the SEC's Los Angeles Regional Office, has returned to McGuireWoods as a partner alongside aud...



2 more settlements approved in OCDA harassment scandal

Mar. 12, 2026
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The settlements follow a cascade of harassment claims tied to prior leadership in the district attorney's office. Six employee...


The judge said Ford had not plausibly alleged a conspiracy even if billings were questionable. The company said it will appeal.


Elon Musk's attorney Alex Spiro said that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Alan Klein -- representing Twitter's boar...