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Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Avenatti lurched from topic to topic ranging from what he supposedly did with a private plane he bought to what checks came in...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Juror counseling in graphic trials is hit or miss

Jul. 28, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

An estimated 70% of all jurors report some stress from jury service, according to the National Center for State Courts.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


“This is one of the most important parts of our program, if not the most important part. This will discuss and describe how ev...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Arguing before a three-judge circuit l Monday, Chicago plaintiffs’ attorney James Dasso of Foley & Lardner LLP, said the b...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law


Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower issued $447,836 in citations against Bodega Latina Corp., which owns 52 El Super grocer...


Data Privacy, Administrative/Regulatory


FTC might seize tech companies’ algorithms

Jul. 28, 2021
By Winston Cho

FTC chief technologist Erie Meyer said Tuesday that the commission will also consider corporate restructuring, bans and other ...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


San Francisco school historic murals saved for now

Jul. 28, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled the school board “ignored CEQA in pursuit of a predetermined result” and or...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Over the objections of the disgraced lawyer, his former employee guided jurors through a financial ledger that showed client m...


Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Litigation


San Mateo County Superior Court Judge V. Raymond Swope approved the deal brokered by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm that will prov...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Students sue universities over COVID rules

Jul. 27, 2021
By Gina Kim

On Monday, two students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles sued to block the university’s requirement that all stud...


Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice, Law Office Management


Bradley Finkelstein, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for 20 years, joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner in S...


Criminal, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected a bid by Pangang Group Co. Ltd. and its affiliates to dismiss a criminal ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Rights


By reducing ambiguity over whether long COVID qualifies as a disability, Monday's federal guidance could help strengthen affli...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse in San Francisco found that Mauro Botta, a former senior manager, was lawfully terminated de...


Government, Criminal


Before the Cerritos’ council passed the resolution 4-1, Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, who is among a group of deputi...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


In her June 20 motion, New York-based attorney Aide Poulson argued the court should let Penny Newman intervene because the sta...


Government, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of ret...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


“ … Just because it is no longer criminal for a temporary judge to receive compensation from private parties doesn’t mean it’s...


Technology, Securities, Civil Litigation


An investor claimed in a lawsuit that the company failed to disclose that it “required a sizable cash injection” and was “susc...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


In the complaint filed by Wendy Musell, a sole practitioner and of counsel to Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, Senior Deputy Dis...


Education Law, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Daniel P. Collins, rejected the state’s argument that the case by private school paren...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


According to the bar petition, James L. Miller had messaged his clients that he was seriously ill and closing his practice, bu...


Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law


A Novartis spokesman acknowledged that the company infringed on Plexxikon’s patents for skin cancer drugs and that it might ha...


Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


Personal injury attorneys Philip Sheldon and Robert Finn worked closely with Girardi to litigate and settle cases under fee sh...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


On the day federal authorities charged the disgraced lawyer with stealing client money, he showed up at a former client’s hous...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco rejected Wisk Aero LLC’s bid for a preliminary injunction, writing the ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A total of 36 people were either reconfirmed, changed positions or were added as members.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


“If we don’t get the critical mass of the states, we’re done; this deal fails,” said Joseph F. Rice of Motley Rice LLP.


Labor/Employment, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Former US attorney named to investigate EDD fraud

Jul. 22, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

McGregor W. Scott of King & Spalding LLP will head the state’s investigation of last year’s massive unemployment fraud.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The support among judges for eliminating the recommendation clashes with the views of some attorneys, who say there should be ...