Native Americans, Legal Education
UCLA Law given $15M for Native American law study
By Henrik Nilsson
The money will go to scholarships for Native American and other students interested in becoming tribal legal advocates.
Law Office Management
Jenner & Block elevates 5 women to leadership roles
By Kamila Knaudt
Carissa Coze, a Los Angeles partner, was appointed chair of the new sports and gaming practice, while Kate T. Spelman was name...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Cental District could soon begin calling jurors in Orange County
By Gina Kim
Gutierrez issued an order Aug. 6 suspending jury trials for criminal and civil cases following a unanimous vote of the court's...
Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation
Landlord group seeks federal court stay of LA’s eviction ban
By Blaise Scemama
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles says the city refuses to defer to a statewide eviction ban included in Assemb...
Technology, Civil Litigation
Moderators sued YouTube over graphic content
By Winston Cho
The lawsuit filed in San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday argued the Google-owned company failed to provide safe workplac...
Labor/Employment
Proposed rule on contractors appears aimed at California
By Jessica Mach
The federal agency's proposed rule would simplify the standard for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor o...
Criminal
San Francisco DA says restructuring office is what he promised in campaign
By Tyler Pialet
To see line prosecutors support an independent review of cases they may have prosecuted is a significant shift, said DA Chesa ...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
LA judge to lead county’s criminal justice initiative
By Kamila Knaudt
The initiative was launched with the creation of the Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group, which the county supervisors re...
Law Practice
Partner compensation grew but so did pay gaps, report finds
By Kamila Knaudt
Using data collected in the biennial surveys conducted from 2010 to 2018 with the help of MLA's research partners ADF Research...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Attorney sues bar over ‘due respect’ code provision
By Gina Kim
Benjamin L. Pavone, partner at Pavone & Fonner LLP, says in a case filed in federal court that enforcement of the rule inf...
Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation
$1M settlement for low income tenants
By Kamila Knaudt
The lawsuit was filed against several corporate landlords and a property manager, who allegedly failed to follow the Los Angel...
U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary
Ginsburg recalled by ex-clerks as a precise writer and ‘inspiring’ boss
By Craig Anderson
The justice -- who died Friday after a long battle with cancer -- wasn't really any different than the woman who became a hero...
Courts in California and around the nation were moving in this direction well before the pandemic, with the state's Judicial C...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Judge dismisses AB 5 constitutionality challenge by Uber and Lyft
By Jessica Mach
“This litigation was asking for a departure from precedent that’s been settled since the 1930s, and nobody expected it to prev...
Personal injury firm Binder Law Group PLC has been a family affair for nearly 50 years.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died late Friday of complications from metas...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar extends deadline for obligatory mock exams by 5 days
By Henrik Nilsson
Test-takers have reported problems with the software and getting customer support, while videos have been posted showing purpo...
As part of the leadership to manage operations, Col. Jesse Miller helped determine the only way to evacuate the campers was th...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit allows patent trial against Google to go ahead in Texas
By Craig Anderson
Seven months after defeating a plaintiff’s lawsuit on venue grounds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is allo...
In July, an iOS privacy feature revealed that Instagram activated iPhone cameras even when they were not being used, the lawsu...
Labor/Employment
NLRB general counsel highlights anti-employer cases after House subpoena
By Jessica Mach
The memo came after Democrats on the House Committee on Education and Labor issued a subpoena against the NLRB as part of an ...
Insurance
Plaintiffs’ strategies vary as most business interruption suits are tossed
By Blaise Scemama
Outlier plaintiffs in Missouri beat back dismissal of their business interruption insurance case by arguing the virus, not the...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
Justice Gorsuch’s support for legal paraprofessionals gets mixed reviews in California
By Henrik Nilsson
In August, several nonprofit firms wrote a letter to the State Bar, arguing that allowing unlicensed practitioners to represen...
Criminal
San Francisco DA to work with volunteer Innocence Commission to review past convictions
By Tyler Pialet
The commission will evaluate available evidence in cases where an incarcerated person asserts they were wrongfully convicted a...
Education Law, California Supreme Court
State high court to reconsider expelled male student’s appellate win against USC
By Craig Anderson
A former member of the Trojan football team was expelled and not allowed to cross-examine witnesses during a disciplinary hear...
Ginsburg, an icon of America's judicial system, was the second woman appointed to the Court. She served for more than 27 years.
LA private judge Jill Robbins has made family law her specialty for 49 years.
Biden has voiced for legislation to amend the National Labor Relations Act and severe penalties for employers who illegally op...
Government, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
Removal sought for order targeting Jewish Holy Days
By Gina Kim
Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 public health order states that “having dinner with extended family and friends to honor the Hig...
Labor/Employment, Government
Governor signs 3 bills to increase worker protections
By Jessica Mach
SB 1159 would also create a disputable presumption that employees with the COVID virus contracted it during the course of empl...
