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Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law


A conservative physicians’ group confirmed Tuesday that it plans to file a second amended complaint challenging caps to so-cal...


Criminal


Computer chips the government accused a former UCLA professor of illegally exporting to China were recovered by defense counse...


Oral arguments were made at the 2nd Dist. Court of Appeals involving a $417M talc verdict against Johnson and Johnson. Eva Ech...



Mary E. Alexander

Jun. 19, 2019
By Lisa Churchill

Mary E. Alexander, founder of her eponymous San Francisco based law firm, who’s headed the litigation as plaintiffs counsel in...


Civil Litigation


Oral arguments were made at the 2nd Dist. Court of Appeals involving a $417M talc verdict against Johnson and Johnson.


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th Circuit issues workplace relations report

Jun. 19, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

A committee established by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals charged with investigating workplace conditions released a re...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Fourteen of 20 American Bar Association-accredited schools improved their repeat pass rate on February’s bar exam, according t...


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


After the four-week legal malpractice trial Superior Court Judge Terry A. Green called “the strangest case I think I’ve ever s...


The state Senate announced the addition of two non-lawyers to its Judiciary Committee, which is soon expected to hear key bill...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


A jury deliberated for two hours Monday before finding for the California Institute of Technology in a wrongful termination su...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


A former female partner at Jones Day, who filed a lawsuit against the firm arguing it underpaid female attorneys and failed to...


Civil Litigation


Judge denies Monster Energy’s motion for preliminary injunction against defendant Vital Pharmaceuticals over false advertising...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


A federal jury found video service VidAngel Inc.'s stated ignorance of the law was no excuse for infringement, granting a $62....


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A special masters panel found Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge John T. Laettner committed willful misconduct in office...


Government


Budget includes funds for 25 more judges

Jun. 18, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Gavin Newsom may get to have an early impact on the judiciary, thanks to the state budget, which includes long delayed m...


Civil Litigation


Woolsey Fire trial to start in January

Jun. 18, 2019
By Gina Kim

Judge William F. Highberger indicates he will establish a leadership structure in Woolsey fire litigation, over individual pla...


Mazda North America GC Shawn Murphy thought he’d work in the financial services industry. But as in the automative industry, w...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the government violated an immigrant worker's rights in a mass roundup executed in...


A proposed structure that would allow attorneys for local governments to negotiate and accept settlements for roughly 25,000 c...


Judges and Judiciary, Entertainment & Sports


As it became apparent that a damages trial, originally estimated to take two days, was heading for a second week, U.S. Distric...


University of San Francisco School of Law has appointed its interim dean Susan Freiwald to the position full-time, effective J...


David H. Wright, who worked on restoring ratepayer trust regarding the utility’s water billing issues since assuming the lead ...


Jennifer Kelly is leaving Fenwick & West to join her husband Ryan Tyz’s law firm, Tyz Law Group, effective Monday, June 17...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


A federal judge has disqualified a colleague from overseeing a homeless civil rights lawsuit against cities in south Orange Co...


Military Law, Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


As the ACLU attempts to end a Pentagon policy requiring full background checks before green-card holders begin basic training,...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent Facebook Inc. an unwanted message Thursday, ruling that notwithstanding an impermis...


Environmental & Energy, Education Law


Former Gov. Jerry Brown will be a director of UC Berkeley’s California-China Climate Policy Institute, to be launched in July.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Jury given Edwards Wildman Palmer malpractice case

Jun. 14, 2019
By Carter Stoddard

Even if her client were “a pain in the neck” that doesn’t change the facts of his malpractice lawsuit against international fi...


Civil Litigation, Government, Environmental & Energy


The attorney representing whistleblowers against Navy contractors accused of widespread fraud in the cleanup of contaminated f...


Civil Litigation


The case over a client’s missing $4 million settlement alleges a ‘see-no-evil, hear-no-evil’ approach.