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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


University of Arizona's law school is teaming with a Mexican university to offer a certificate program focused on Mexican publ...


Entertainment & Sports


A Chunk’s life

Dec. 24, 2019
By Steven Crighton

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

Dec. 24, 2019
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


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


After multibillion-dollar valuations, Uber and Lyft were hit with a flurry of lawsuits alleging they misled investors after ma...


Civil Litigation, Government


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


Thomas T. Lewis, the former supervising judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court's family law division, has joined Signa...


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


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 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


Attorneys say the verdict, which includes $5.5 million for post-traumatic stress disorder, is a record in the county.


Legal aid organizations across the state are struggling to attract and retain attorneys because the salaries they offer cannot...


Labor/Employment


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


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


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


The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an appellate court concluding it is constitutional for the Legislature ...


Judges and Judiciary


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


A black female California Highway Patrol officer can move forward with her sexual and racial harassment claims against the sta...


Judges and Judiciary


LA juvenile judge, and judge trainer, honored

Dec. 20, 2019
By Laurinda Keys

Judge Anthony A. Trendacosta of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, who has spent his entire career working to protect and ...



Gentleman Next Door

Dec. 20, 2019

As a commissioner, former star prosecutor quickly won over a concerned family law bar.


Civil Litigation


Southern California Edison Co. has fended off claims one of its substations emitted stray voltage, harming residents and prope...


Civil Litigation


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’s planned energy shutoffs were only necessary because of its negligence maintaining its transmission lines, according...


Immigration, Constitutional Law


A southern Lebanese Muslim is fighting to keep the federal government from spying on him under the Foreign Intelligence Survei...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge rules Judge can't be 'judge' on ballot

Dec. 19, 2019
By Justin Kloczko

A candidate running for a Los Angeles County Superior Court seat who legally changed his first name to “Judge” can appear as s...


Virginia attorney Timothy Litzenburg approached “Company 1” and threatened to find plaintiffs to sue for manufacturing a purpo...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


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


LOS ANGELES -- A former client of Michael J. Avenatti described his slow realization that his attorney was defrauding him, tel...