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Law Practice


In response papers filed this week, J-M Manufacturing’s new attorneys, James R. Rosen and Elizabeth L. Bradley of Rosen Saba L...


Government, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Proposed arbitration bills would affect ADR firms

Jun. 7, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

When faced with bills that might violate the Federal Arbitration Act, Gov. Jerry Brown tended to reach for his veto pen rather...


Criminal, Civil Rights


Facial recognition technology out-pacing laws

Jun. 7, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Law enforcement sees a database of faces as the most logical next step after fingerprinting, while civil rights activists and ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


As the American Bar Association considers holding a 2021 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, members are protesting the move in light...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A superior court judge admonished the plaintiff for leveling “personal attacks” during a shouting match with the defense attor...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


Opioid maker settles with DOJ for $225M

Jun. 6, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to a $225 million global settlement with the government after admitting to payin...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A civil contempt finding against former Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley for violating a federal injunction blocking...


Corporate, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Application developers have again sued Apple Inc. over accusations its App Store practices constitute an “abusive monopoly.”


Intellectual Property, Government, Entertainment & Sports


DOJ reviewing musical performance consent decrees

Jun. 6, 2019
By Steven Crighton

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday it will review the consent decrees used to govern licensing rights for publ...


Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court


An information sharing practice the state Supreme Court once referred to as laudable is now squarely before the justices, this...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


ExxonMobil has agreed to pay civil penalties to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office after being sued for a 201...


A San Francisco federal judge refused to side with Monsanto Tuesday after the Bayer-AG owned company argued to avoid in-state ...


Government, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Wrestling with a sweeping environmental lawsuit claiming the U.S. government has been derelict in its duty to protect what pla...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


"I've given you a very generous amount of time," Judge Terry A. Green said outside the presence of the jury, adding he would b...


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights


The U.S. attorney’s office will consider appealing a judge’s ruling that the federal Anti-Riot Act is unconstitutionally overl...


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


The Trump administration has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay to block an injunction prohibit...


Now that the state of California has adopted a regulation stating chemicals in coffee don’t pose a cancer risk, parties will f...


Law Practice


Deep and Wide

Jun. 5, 2019
By Carter Stoddard

At 20 years, Michelman & Robinson has grown its practice areas as well as its size.


Civil Litigation


On the second day of cross examination, a former researcher at the California Institute of Technology testified Tuesday he was...


Law Practice


Boutique intellectual property firm Feinberg Day added two partners to its name and three more attorneys, doubling the firm’s ...


Civil Litigation


Program manager of the state utilities commission is suing Sempra Energy and SoCalGas after contracting hairy cell leukemia as...


While the jury found that the statute of limitations has lapsed in a case between two brothers in a $250M partnership dispute,...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted financial crimes will independently scrutinize a $67 million Los Angeles Depar...


Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Federal appeals court OKs extradition of U.S. citizen

Jun. 4, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down Monday a constitutional challenge to a federal statute allowing for the extrad...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case testing Los Angeles’ method for carving up council seats, a process w...


Law Practice, Criminal


Attorney cited for animal cruelty

Jun. 4, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

A senior counsel at a Cerritos law firm has been cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty after a police raid at his Orange County...


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy


Other investor-owned utilities facing liability in California wildfires have filed amici briefs in support of San Diego Gas &a...


Law Practice, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Following the disqualification of Quinn Emanuel from representing plaintiff SC Innovations, Inc. and defendant Uber Technologi...


Criminal, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court Monday reversed a “street terrorism” conviction after the alleged gang member’s underlying conviction ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar filed a petition Monday to place embattled attorney Michael J. Avenatti on involuntary inactive status.