Government, Corporate
One lawyer’s quest to teach America’s high schoolers about the democratic process
By Glenn Jeffers
When Laura W. Brill started The Civics Center, a nonprofit that works with schools to preregister 16- and 17-year-olds to vote...
Law Practice, International Law, Immigration
Law school wants to help US and Mexican lawyers understand each other
By Lyle Moran
University of Arizona's law school is teaming with a Mexican university to offer a certificate program focused on Mexican publ...
LOS ANGELES -- Killing time after a client meeting at Grand Central Station's Mid-City Comics, in downtown Los Angeles, entert...
Judges and Judiciary
4 judges named to superior courts in Central Valley
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom had an early Christmas present for the Fresno and San Joaquin county courts on Monday: four new superior cou...
Education Law, Government
Defrauded students ask judge to fine Department of Education $100k
By Winston Cho
A class of defrauded students asked a U.S. magistrate judge Monday to increase a $100,000 contempt fine against the U.S. Depar...
Securities, Corporate
Disappointment, litigation follow top IPOs in 2019
By Winston Cho
After multibillion-dollar valuations, Uber and Lyft were hit with a flurry of lawsuits alleging they misled investors after ma...
Civil Litigation, Government
Dreyer Babich team wins $27M from Sacramento County for traffic accident
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento County and its insurers agreed to the largest legal settlement of its type in the county's history: $27 million to ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
LA court’s family law maven joins Signature Resolution
By Henrik Nilsson
Thomas T. Lewis, the former supervising judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court's family law division, has joined Signa...
Obituaries
‘Tree planter’ built for the future at Morrison Foerster LLP
By Winston Cho
Marshall Small cared about the future, agreed those who worked with him. Not his future, they said, but the future of those wh...
Securities, Criminal
SEC says Sacramento radio financial adviser defrauded hundreds of elderly clients
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Sacramento radio host and Springer Investment Management Inc. ow...
Civil Litigation, Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sutter Health proposed settlement will feature monitor, changes in business practices
By Craig Anderson
Sutter Health has agreed to pay a $575 million settlement and change several of its business practices in a resolution announc...
Without saying outright whether or not a southern Lebanese man facing criminal charges has been monitored under the Foreign In...
Civil Litigation
Kern County jury awards $70.5 million in personal injury trial
By Meghann Cuniff
Attorneys say the verdict, which includes $5.5 million for post-traumatic stress disorder, is a record in the county.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Hellen Hong hopes her experience can bring meaningful changes to support California's needy
By Lyle Moran
Legal aid organizations across the state are struggling to attract and retain attorneys because the salaries they offer cannot...
Labor/Employment
EEOC says it’s now collected 85% of required pay data
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Management and Budget have again asked a federal judge to a...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge denies PwC discovery motion against LA over dismissed water billing dispute
By Blaise Scemama
Pricewaterhouse Coopers took a blow Thursday in its fight for sanctions against the City of Los Angeles after a judge denied i...
Judges and Judiciary
Bay Area judge publicly admonished for hitting attorney
By Winston Cho
The superior court judge hit a female deputy public defender’s hand when she placed it on the bench, “inadvertently us[ing] en...
Education Law, Government, California Supreme Court
High court affirms unreimbursed school mandates are constitutional
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an appellate court concluding it is constitutional for the Legislature ...
Judges and Judiciary
Auditor finds procurement, disclosure problems at Judicial Council
By Malcolm Maclachlan
State Auditor Elaine Howle has found problems with disclosure and procurement at the Judicial Council, though her most recent ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Court OKs CHP officer’s suit involving 2nd District justice
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A black female California Highway Patrol officer can move forward with her sexual and racial harassment claims against the sta...
Judge Anthony A. Trendacosta of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, who has spent his entire career working to protect and ...
As a commissioner, former star prosecutor quickly won over a concerned family law bar.
Southern California Edison Co. has fended off claims one of its substations emitted stray voltage, harming residents and prope...
Civil Litigation
Minor files sex abuse suit against Inland Empire Boy Scouts chapter
By Glenn Jeffers
The complaint alleges former troop leader Charles “Kip” Yotter met the minor in 2012 and began grooming him “for the purposes ...
Civil Litigation
PG&E hit with $2.5B putative class action over outages
By Winston Cho
PG&E’s planned energy shutoffs were only necessary because of its negligence maintaining its transmission lines, according...
Immigration, Constitutional Law
FISA case presents novel 4th Amendment questions
By Gina Kim
A southern Lebanese Muslim is fighting to keep the federal government from spying on him under the Foreign Intelligence Survei...
A candidate running for a Los Angeles County Superior Court seat who legally changed his first name to “Judge” can appear as s...
Criminal
Plaintiff’s attorney in Roundup cancer trial charged with extortion
By Winston Cho
Virginia attorney Timothy Litzenburg approached “Company 1” and threatened to find plaintiffs to sue for manufacturing a purpo...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Robins Kaplan to represent consumers in technology price-fixing class action
By Winston Cho
will represent consumers who, between May 2008 and April 2016, purchased hard disk drive suspension assemblies for use from J...
Entertainment & Sports, State Bar & Bar Associations
Avenatti’s involuntary license deactivation hearing begins
By Meghann Cuniff
LOS ANGELES -- A former client of Michael J. Avenatti described his slow realization that his attorney was defrauding him, tel...