Several local bar associations say the State Bar’s proposed fee increase will hurt their funding and membership.
Kathy Hibbs’ career has been in industries that are addressing people’s most basic problems.
Law Practice
Allen Matkins' new partners have range of real estate expertise
By Gina Kim
Paul W. Nash, Ariel C. Shaeps and Elizabeth J. Wilgenburg have been promoted from senior counsel to partnership at the Allen M...
Immigration, Government
Trump’s emergency wall declaration faces first legal test
By Winston Cho
The Trump administration's emergency declaration to build a border wall faced its first test Friday as attorneys for 20 states...
Labor/Employment, Intellectual Property
Criminal trade secrets laws can help employers
By Andy Serbe
As California and other states limit restrictive covenants employers use to protect essential information like trade secrets, ...
Civil Litigation, Criminal, Civil Rights
Suit says arrests of protesters against police shooting were illegal
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
A class of individuals who were arrested protesting the Sacramento district attorney's decision not to charge the two police o...
After a judge issued a tentative order that would compel the release of records by the state Department of Justice under the s...
Civil Litigation
Novel strategy doesn’t pay for Allergan in false advertising case
By Blaise Scemama
In what defense attorneys are calling a novel trial strategy, pharmaceutical giant Allergan USA Inc. won $48,500 instead of th...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Odd turns of malpractice trial include lawyer reading British tabloid
By Carter Stoddard
Minutes before a malpractice trial recessed Friday, a defense attorney for Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP began reading to the jur...
Government, Criminal
PG&E may face Camp Fire criminal charges, prosecutor says
By Gina Kim
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could face criminal charges of manslaughter and reckless arson over the role it is believed to ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Court scrambles to fix case management system
By Erin Lee
A new case management system at the State Bar Court has hit some snags, taking case calendars and dockets offline for months, ...
Civil Litigation
Amid quarreling defense counsel, judge sentences Mongols to fine, probation
By Meghann Cuniff
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected a revised bid from the U.S. attorney’s office to seize the club’s trademarked logos
Entertainment & Sports
Youth’s Epic Games suit hinges on arbitration agreement signed later
By Steven Crighton
If a minor wants to keep his fraud lawsuit against Epic Games Inc. out of arbitration, attorneys say he had better stop playin...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Stricter bar passage standard approved after years of debate
By Erin Lee
A controversial, stricter bar passage standard is now in effect after the American Bar Association’s legal education council a...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, California Supreme Court
State high court may consider if indigent prisoners are entitled to counsel for civil suits
By Brian Cardile
The state Supreme Court is mulling whether to hear an appeal that could appreciably expand court access to indigent prisoners ...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Republicans to move forward California 9th Circuit nominee over Democrats’ residency objections
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Senate Republicans are moving forward with a nominee to a California seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, despite th...
Bryan Schwartz and his fellow alumni doggedly pursue evasive defendant employers.
Judge Elizabeth Humphreys watches birds, but in court is careful to hear all parties.
Entertainment & Sports
Singer Tom Petty’s daughters sue widow over estate management
By Alexandra Applegate
Venable LLP filed a complaint on behalf of Petty Unlimited LLC, a company established in the late musician Tom Petty’s will, a...
Government
Bill would change attorney fee rules in records request lawsuits
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A bill designed to prevent public agencies from using attorney fees as a bargaining chip in California Public Records Act liti...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge questions purpose of witnesses’ day-long testimony
By Carter Stoddard
A superior court judge questioned the purpose of an entire day’s testimony Thursday in a case seeking to establish whether the...
Law Practice, Community News
Law students take home scholarships at ABTL event
By Erin Lee
Five third-year law students received $2,000 scholarships at L.A. Association of Business Trial Lawyers dinner.
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit confronts gender conformity surgery in prisons
By Ilan Isaacs
A three judge panel in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the issue Thursday of whether a prison can be forced to ...
Civil Litigation, Government
Miller Barondess accuses Latham & Watkins of trying to thwart new Clippers arena
By Justin Kloczko
Counsel for the city of Inglewood allege Latham & Watkins LLP marshalled a multi-pronged campaign to stop construction of ...
Attorneys for Facebook Inc. argued Thursday the company's faulty video metrics were only estimates to help advertisers, and it...
Civil Litigation
MGM Resorts indicates it could settle Vegas shooting suits for up to $800M
By Andy Serbe
MGM Resorts International indicated in financial disclosures that lawsuits brought by victims and family members of the 2017 M...
Criminal
State high court lifts stay on prosecution of anti-abortion activists
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Prosecutors can proceed with criminal conspiracy charges against two anti-abortion activists in connection with filming Planne...
Cal Fire released the cause of the 2018 devastating Camp Fire that sparked in Butte County in November 2018, which is the dead...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar to pilot bar exam proctoring with artificial intelligence
By Erin Lee
The California bar exam may soon be the country’s first bar exam proctored remotely with the help of artificial intelligence s...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government
$40 million approved to pay judges who won lawsuit while money for new judges postponed
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A key California Senate budget subcommittee has approved $40 million to pay a legal judgment to 3,400 active and retired state...