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Finding a Connection

Jan. 13, 2023

Retired judge Clifford Klein establishes a rapport with mediating parties through personal stories.


Government, Environmental & Energy, Constitutional Law


Each filing claims that the city did not carry out environmental studies required by the California Environmental Quality Act,...


Land Use, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


The focus issue during the hearing was student noise, after a tentative ruling stated the university’s plan may violate CEQA b...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Labor/Employment


Bar program offers 'diversity' seal for legal employers

Jan. 13, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“Promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession is an important part of the State Bar’s mission,” said Executive Di...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


The majority of the settlement, $5.1 million, will be paid directly to delivery drivers with the rest going to the city for en...


Labor/Employment, Environmental & Energy, Contracts


“We are pleased with the judge’s recent decision as the company strongly believes that it has taken appropriate and necessary ...


Civil Litigation, Banking


Girardi trustee seeks to claw back $50M from Amex

Jan. 13, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

A complaint filed against American Express alleges that Girardi Keese systematically drained the firm of available cash by mak...


Real Estate/Development, Banking


“We disagree with the allegations, but nonetheless support the DOJ in its efforts to ensure equal access to credit for all con...



Looking for Hope

Jan. 12, 2023

San Diego family law Judge Patricia Garcia encourages divorced couples to do better next time


Criminal, Banking


Tuesday’s lawsuits are among several that Elissa D. Miller filed in an effort to recover millions of dollars allegedly used to...


Judges and Judiciary


State lawmakers act to fund more judicial security

Jan. 12, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The $1.4 million for appellate court security came in response to the Dec. 27 request from the Judicial Council. The move is a...


Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice


After a 47-year legal career, 13 on the bench, the retired judge will provide arbitration, mediation and private judging servi...


Consumer Law, Civil Litigation


The automobile manufacturer has denied that its DPS6 transmission compromises the safety or reliability of its cars.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Baum Hedlund becomes Wisner Baum reflecting new leader

Jan. 12, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Wisner was the co-lead attorney in a case that garnered national attention after a jury awarded his clients $2 billion over al...


California Courts of Appeal


Attorneys for the Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corporation won the fee award last August, when Justice Thomas M. Goethals, Presidi...


Technology, Class Action


The class claims the company throttled the performance of some iPhones to mask battery defects.


Civil Litigation, Banking


"This case is a unique creature of California law," said plaintiffs' counsel Matthew Borden of Braunhagey & Borden LLP in ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


In a report issued by the office of Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek, portions of a State Bar's proposal were deemed reasonab...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Vinson & Elkins grows San Francisco and Los Angeles offices

Jan. 11, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“With the increased regulatory and multi-stakeholder demands facing companies, this is an exciting time to join Vinson & E...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Lathrop GPM taps new leader for Los Angeles office

Jan. 11, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Laura Reathaford said the firm is looking to attract groups of attorneys to join its franchise law, environmental/tort litigat...


Litigation & Arbitration


The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by the parents of two infants who died while using Rock n’ Play Sleepers in North Carolina and N...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Moez Kaba helped to launch the firm eight years ago. Since then, he has handled complex litigation across the nation.


Government


Courts lose just a bit in Newsom’s 2023-24 budget

Jan. 11, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $297 billion state budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year includes about $5.1 billion for the judicial branch,...


Securities


Jennifer Pafiti, a partner at Pomerantz’s Los Angeles office, argued In the motion filed Monday in federal court in San Franci...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Kelly Duford Williams became enraged when the man she was dating went on a vacation in April 2021 to southern Utah with a coup...


Real Estate/Development, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Realty groups must face antitrust claims

Jan. 11, 2023
By Jonathan Lo

The petitioners and defendants — The National Association of Realtors, Right MLS Inc., Midwest Real Estate Data LLC and Califo...


U.S. Supreme Court


“We’ve had the attorney-client privilege for a long time, and until 2014, nobody ever suggested that the test that you’re prop...


Consumer Law


In the memorandum of understanding, which was signed and took effect on Sunday, Deere & Company agreed to make manufacture...


Criminal


“There is a pending federal criminal investigation related to issues pending before this court in this matter,” wrote Leigh P....


Technology, Law Practice


Musk recently criticized the firm because of a Justice Department investigation into former partner Michael A. Sussmann’s clai...