Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge concerned about law firm duty explanations to jury
By Carter Stoddard
Declining multiple defense motions to instruct the jury on how to interpret a lawyer’s testimony on law firms’ duty to their c...
Criminal
Los Angeles DA expanding conviction review to all felons
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
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
Octogenarian repetitive litigant appears pro per in appellate court
By Malcolm Maclachlan
For nearly two decades, the 82-year-old Sacramentan Jerome H. Sprague has fought regulatory agencies in court. Dozens of state...
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
3rd not-final Reinhardt opinion reversed after his death
By Brian Cardile
The jurisprudential tapestry left behind by late 9th Circuit liberal stalwart Judge Stephen Reinhardt continues to unravel, as...
Labor/Employment, Government
Assembly passes bill against required workplace arbitration
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would bar employers from requiring an arbitration agreement as a condition of empl...
Civil Litigation
Ex-Caltech researcher sues school, claims he was a whistleblower
By Glenn Jeffers
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
CPUC won’t weigh in on effort to pay fire costs to ratepayers
By Gina Kim
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
Senate Judiciary Committee debates meaning of ‘Californian’ while considering 9th Circuit pick
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Washington, D.C.-based Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Daniel A. Bress appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee We...
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
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
Judge worries jury doesn’t understand legal malpractice case
By Carter Stoddard
A superior court judge told attorneys litigating a legal malpractice suit Tuesday he was worried that technical aspects of the...
Civil Litigation, Government
Inglewood seeks to dismiss MSG Forum lawsuit over new arena
By Justin Kloczko
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
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
Suit alleges harassment, discrimination at 2 AT&T San Diego-area stores
By Andy Serbe
Five workers sued AT&T Mobility on Tuesday, alleging that upper management enabled a toxic environment of discrimination a...
Intellectual Property
Appellate court rejects Tesla’s attempt to enforce unsigned arbitration agreement
By Andy Serbe
Tesla moved to compel arbitration, arguing that since Vaughn acted as an employee and held a full-time job offer containing a ...
Civil Litigation
Contractor posed as journalist in Bayer weedkiller trial
By Winston Cho
An employee of a Washington-based consulting firm contracted by Bayer AG posed as a journalist for increased access to a landm...
Civil Litigation
Jury finds lawyer hindered effort to collect on $24M ruling
By Gina Kim
A civil jury finds that an Orange County-based attorney intentionally interfered with plaintiffs’ efforts to recover $24 milli...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Buckley sues actor it represented in suit against lawyer
By Steven Crighton
The lawyers Johnny Depp hired to sue his lawyers are now suing him.
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Trump’s sixth pick for the 9th Circuit confirmed along party lines
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
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
San Francisco wants PG&E’s grid but its options are few
By Glenn Jeffers
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
Avenatti class action dispute focuses on receiver’s role
By Meghann Cuniff
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.
Law Practice
Sidley Austin adds three new private equity partners in one month
By Nicole Tyau
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 and SoCalGas disagree on Porter Ranch report
By Justin Kloczko
Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Aliso Canyon gas leak litigation on Monday hailed a report stating Southern California Gas Compan...
The Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished Los Angeles County Judge Jose I. Sandoval for continuing a rese...
Law Practice, Community News
Shernoff Bidart Echeverria partner receives lifetime achievement award
By Laurinda Keys
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
Edwards Wildman counsel cross-examines plaintiff’s lawyer wife
By Blaise Scemama
The attorney wife of a disbarred British solicitor said her husband was a “brilliant legal mind” during her testimony Monday i...
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
February bar results continue trend of poor performance
By Erin Lee
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A sweeping Senate bill that would end most fines and fees paid by defendants narrowly survived a key legislative deadline, des...