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Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Declining multiple defense motions to instruct the jury on how to interpret a lawyer’s testimony on law firms’ duty to their c...


Criminal


All felons in Los Angeles county who believe they were wrongly convicted can now apply to have the district attorney’s office ...


California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


For nearly two decades, the 82-year-old Sacramentan Jerome H. Sprague has fought regulatory agencies in court. Dozens of state...


Law Practice


Knobbe Martens partner opens boutique IP firm

May 23, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

A longtime partner at Knobbe Martens has started her own firm, hoping to seize on an intellectual property law landscape she s...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The jurisprudential tapestry left behind by late 9th Circuit liberal stalwart Judge Stephen Reinhardt continues to unravel, as...


Labor/Employment, Government


The state Assembly has approved a bill that would bar employers from requiring an arbitration agreement as a condition of empl...


Civil Litigation


A superior court jury heard opening statements Wednesday in a trial pitting the California Institute of Technology against a f...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government


Commission won’t oppose utility’s U.S. Supreme Court review over ratepayer case in San Diego wildfires


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Washington, D.C.-based Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Daniel A. Bress appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee We...


Civil Litigation


Bayer to pick 1st non-California Roundup case

May 23, 2019
By Winston Cho

Monsanto scored a critical victory Wednesday as the federal judge overseeing the consolidated Roundup litigation allowed the B...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Boxing feud enters Round 2: Managers sue for $27.4M

May 23, 2019
By Steven Crighton

Two boxing managers duking it out with an erstwhile star client have gone on the offensive, filing a $27.4 million countersuit...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A superior court judge told attorneys litigating a legal malpractice suit Tuesday he was worried that technical aspects of the...


Civil Litigation, Government


The city of Inglewood is moving to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it fraudulently mislead owners of the Forum into terminating a p...


Civil Litigation, Government


State sues US over high-speed rail defunding

May 22, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California High-Speed Rail Authority are seeking to block the U.S. government from rescinding nearly...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Five workers sued AT&T Mobility on Tuesday, alleging that upper management enabled a toxic environment of discrimination a...


Tesla moved to compel arbitration, arguing that since Vaughn acted as an employee and held a full-time job offer containing a ...


Civil Litigation


An employee of a Washington-based consulting firm contracted by Bayer AG posed as a journalist for increased access to a landm...


Civil Litigation


A civil jury finds that an Orange County-based attorney intentionally interfered with plaintiffs’ efforts to recover $24 milli...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


The lawyers Johnny Depp hired to sue his lawyers are now suing him.


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


For the second time in two weeks, U.S. Senate Republicans voted to confirm a California nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation, Government


The city of San Francisco wants to buy its local power grid from Pacific Gas & Electric in a bid to create an independent ...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee is to decide who will take over a major class action Avenatti tried to bring to verdict in 2017.


Sidley Austin LLP has added its third private equity partner in a month to its Century City offices. Eric Kauffman, the most r...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Aliso Canyon gas leak litigation on Monday hailed a report stating Southern California Gas Compan...


Judges and Judiciary


The Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished Los Angeles County Judge Jose I. Sandoval for continuing a rese...


Law Practice, Community News


Ricardo Echeverria of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP in Claremont received the Lifetime Legal Achievement honor Saturday at Co...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The attorney wife of a disbarred British solicitor said her husband was a “brilliant legal mind” during her testimony Monday i...


Civil Litigation


Federal judge denies energy drink company’s motion to dismiss competitor’s civil claims in long-running case over false advert...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The February pass rate was 31.4%, 4 points higher than last year but still the second-worst result in over three decades.


Law Practice, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Bill that would end many court fines escapes committee

May 21, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A sweeping Senate bill that would end most fines and fees paid by defendants narrowly survived a key legislative deadline, des...