Class Action
State to overhaul Medi-Cal communications with the blind after lawsuit
By James Twomey
California will reform Medi-Cal communications for blind recipients under a court-approved settlement resolving a lawsuit over...
Rosemarie T. Ring, who has specialized in complex litigation involving privacy, intellectual property, and emerging technologi...
Avy Mallik, former general counsel for the state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, brings deep experience in ...
Kathleen O'Leary will handle appellate, business and commercial, civil rights, government, employment, insurance, personal inj...
Civil Litigation
Jury awards nearly $1B to family of woman who died from asbestos-linked talc
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A Los Angeles jury found Johnson & Johnson acted with malice in the death of 88-year-old Mae Moore, awarding her family ne...
LA supervisor wants investigation into county's sexual abuse settlement
By Skyler Romero
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that the law that opened a statute of limitations window for old sexu...
A San Francisco judge tentatively awarded LegalMatch co-founder Anna Ostrovsky $8.34 million, finding she was wrongfully termi...
An attorney for LA Alliance warned receivership could return if Los Angeles continues delaying approval of independent homeles...
Criminal, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
California Supreme Court to settle 'ability to pay' fight over fines, fees
By Craig Anderson
Nearly six years after granting review, the California Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday to decide whether judges mu...
Law School
New law lets California law students be paid for for-credit externships
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed AB 1155, a McGeorge clinic-originated bill requiring California law schools to allow studen...
Civil Procedure
Judge grants law firm protective order in Blumberg Capital lawsuit
By James Twomey
A San Francisco judge granted Mintz Levin a protective order blocking a subpoena that sought testimony from attorney Cheryl Re...
U.S. Supreme Court, Litigation & Arbitration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
High court declines Live Nation bid to compel mass claims to New Era ADR
By Craig Anderson
The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari, leaving intact a 9th Circuit ruling that found Live Nation's Ticketmaster arbitratio...
Civil Litigation
No toxins, but Calabasas suit over landfill fire debris moves forward
By Skyler Romero
A Los Angeles judge allowed Calabasas' lawsuit over fire debris disposal at Calabasas Landfill to proceed, despite early testi...
From 50 paper bags to housing lifeline: Operation Helping Hands turns 15 with record gift
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
At the nonprofit's first gala, Judicate West co-founder Var Fox pledged three-year scholarships for two students--its largest ...
Slideshow, Community News
Filipino American lawyers honor trailblazers, mark 60 years since 1965 immigration reforms
By Ricardo Pineda
At the Filipino American Lawyers of Orange County's eighth annual gala in Irvine, the theme of kapwa--"shared self"--framed aw...
Judges and Judiciary
Preference denied in judges' salary suit; actuarial data insufficient
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
A Los Angeles judge denied Sacramento County Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard's motion for trial preference in her judicial compensa...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar reiterates ban on paying for clients amid allegations involving DTLA Law Group
By Skyler Romero
Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said the State Bar cannot confirm or deny any investigation but reminded attorneys that Cal...
A new class action accuses Disney of illegally collecting children's data on YouTube by mislabeling videos, following a recent...
U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary, Government, Civil Litigation
Judge rejects DOJ bid to stay union layoffs case due to shutdown
By Craig Anderson
A San Francisco district judge refused to pause union litigation during the government shutdown, while the Supreme Court conti...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
Judge denies motion to toss fraud claims in law firm feud with mogul
By James Twomey
Judge Christine Van Aken denied motions to dismiss fraud claims in a heated legal dispute involving Berding & Weil LLP, re...
Civil Litigation
CAOC demands probe into DTLA Law over fraud allegations
By Skyler Romero, Malcolm Maclachlan
CAOC is urging an urgent State Bar probe into DTLA Law Group over allegations of paying people to file false sex abuse claims,...
Civil Litigation
Fertility test kit firm accused of secretly sharing customer data with Google
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A federal lawsuit alleges fertility test company Proov shared sensitive health data with Google despite assurances it would no...
Judge blasts Tyson & Mendes over fake citations, AI-reliant briefs
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
A San Diego judge denied sanctions but condemned Tyson & Mendes for miscited and non-existent authority, factual misstatem...
A coalition of tribes urged a Sacramento County judge to preserve their lawsuit against card rooms, arguing a new state law al...
A federal judge ruled that an advance conflict waiver signed by investors' counsel bars the disqualification of Quinn Emanuel...
Former LA city attorney James Clark denied knowledge of a reverse auction scheme in the 2013 water billing scandal, claiming s...
Judge rejects earlier trial date in high-stakes Eaton Fire litigation
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Plaintiffs in the Eaton Fire case pushed to advance the trial date, accusing Edison of delaying tactics while quietly developi...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Divided 9th Circuit reaffirms interest-on-escrow law
By Craig Anderson
The panel ruling, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, leaves California's rule intact over a dissent arguing the statute is...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Plaintiff's counsel blame judge for evidence allowed in Uber assault trial
By James Twomey
Plaintiff's attorneys plan to appeal after losing the first Uber sexual assault bellwether trial, criticizing the judge for ad...
Shelby Lynn Elston, knocked unconscious during a Rüfüs Du Sol concert, claims Rose Bowl security ignored a prolonged assault,...