Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Nonlawyer investment in law firms could provide broad benefits, supporters say
By Lyle Moran
Allowing nonlawyers to invest in law firms and other legal services providers would provide California’s legal industry with a...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA’s reasons for dismissing billing lawsuit questioned
By Blaise Scemama
The city of Los Angeles’ decision to dismiss its lawsuit against Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC over a faulty utility billing sys...
Monsanto Co. is trying to improperly change its strategy midstream in the federal Roundup cases by trying to admit new experts...
Attorneys for Elon Musk are seeking to depose a BuzzFeed writer the Tesla CEO pressed to investigate a man now suing him for d...
Civil Litigation, Immigration
Immigration judges file labor grievance, escalating fight with DOJ
By Glenn Jeffers
The union representing the nation's 400-plus immigration judges filed a pair of complaints against the U.S. Department of Just...
Government, Criminal
California tries to push forward rape kit bill, but expiration of federal law may cut processing funds
By Jessica Mach
The expiration of a federal law on Monday is poised to impact processing times for rape kits in California, which are already ...
Immigration, California Supreme Court
State’s attorneys among those asking Supreme Court to toss president’s decision on DACA
By Malcolm Maclachlan
President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program must be thrown out, according...
SanDisk LLC resolved for $50 million Thursday a long-running legal battle over accusations it misled investors about the healt...
Securities, Civil Litigation
Facebook investor lawsuit dismissed, given new deadline to amend complaint
By Nicole Tyau
Investors in the social networking giant were unsuccessful for now in bringing a class action lawsuit to Facebook over their l...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Billionaire boss’ antics not intended to harm, executive testifies in sex case
By Steven Crighton
David Nussbaum, a former vice president and senior vice president of billionaire Alki David’s Hologram USA Inc., confirmed he ...
Law Practice, Government
Another ballot measure proposed to end medical negligence damages cap
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Consumer Watchdog filed a new ballot measure Thursday to make a frontal assault on the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act,...
Law Practice
Perkins Coie bolsters San Francisco office with 2 lateral hires
By Craig Anderson
The firm hired a pair of attorneys at its San Francisco office this week — the former chair of Vedder Price P.C.’s employment ...
Civil Rights
FBI, DOJ close civil rights investigation into Sacramento police shooting
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The FBI and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Thursday they have found insufficient evidence to prosecute two Sacramen...
Civil Litigation, Corporate
Partial dismissal granted for Oabalon Therapeutics investor suit
By Carter Stoddard
Colleen C. Smith of Latham & Watkins won partial dismissal on the grounds the plaintiffs failed to prove a product the com...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA drops water billing suit, seeks return of attorney fees
By Justin Kloczko
Taking steps to end a controversy that has plagued his office for months, Los Angeles City Attorney Michael N. Feuer on Thursd...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
Riverside and San Bernardino counties, short of judges, consider how to deal with no bail systems
By Jessica Mach
Riverside and San Bernardino counties have both faced an intensifying need for judges as their populations grew in recent year...
Civil Litigation
4th complaint filed in acrimonious suit between rival law firms
By Blaise Scemama
After a federal judge told Williams & Cochrane LLP it could not accuse a rival law firm and a former client of violating r...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Billionaire defendant yells witness is a liar in sex case
By Steven Crighton
A Comedy Central star testified Wednesday he'd seen billionaire Alki David tightly and violently wrap his hands around the nec...
Civil Litigation
Girardi Keese files suit for victims in Utah bus rollover
By Carter Stoddard
The suit alleges a driver working for a Monterey-based travel company lost control of a company bus manufactured by Daimler Tr...
Government
Planned ballot initiative would strengthen privacy regulations
By Malcolm Maclachlan
More than year after he agreed not to submit a ballot measure, wealthy real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart filed an init...
Labor/Employment
Kaiser avoids national strike with tentative settlement
By Glenn Jeffers
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative settlement with 85,000 union workers on a new four-year contract, n...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyer for LA was leery of fee in billing case, email shows
By Justin Kloczko
The city of Los Angeles, which has maintained it was not aware of any fraudulent activity regarding a $67 million Department o...
Government, Environmental & Energy
California, 16 other states sue over new endangered species rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday he was leading a 17-state complaint against what he called the Trump admin...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Seemingly consensus candidate for 9th Circuit seat faces little opposition
By Brian Cardile
In a perfunctory Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Danielle Hunsaker des...
Defendants Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive who were ordered by a jury to pay $12M on June 12 to a retired schoolte...
Civil Litigation
Judge says Title IX lawsuit can’t proceed until investigation ends
By Justin Kloczko
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against USC seeking to render its Title IX policy unenforceable, ru...
The Judicial Council of California agreed Tuesday to update its formula to determine judicial workloads around the state.
California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit asks Supreme Court if Dynamex is retroactive
By Glenn Jeffers
As it promised back in July, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals punted on whether the 2018 Dynamex decision, recently signe...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Hotline among steps taken to handle complaints against state’s justices
By Carter Stoddard
The state Supreme Court and courts of appeal started instituting new protocols for the reporting and handling of misbehavior c...
Groups interested in opening the door to competing proposals to reorganize the Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. accused the ut...