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Judges and Judiciary, Immigration, Constitutional Law


While deportation orders are typically the responsibility of the immigration and circuit courts, district judges have increasi...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


If any off-brand Comic-Cons are holding firm to their name in the months since a jury found the term to be a trademark-enforce...


Law Practice, Corporate


International trade lawyer joining Crowell & Moring

Aug. 27, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

David R. Stepp worked for almost 14 years with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and he provides strategic counsel on global cu...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A Orange County deputy district attorney should be suspended for six months for failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to th...


California Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations


Jason P. Lee was appointed to the post by the state Supreme Court.



V. James DeSimone Law attorneys aren’t afraid of taking cases with steep odds.



Patient Engagement

Aug. 27, 2018
By Arin Mikailian

LA Commissioner Sheryl Beasley ensures litigants understand the collections court processes.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Sealed documents from the Refugio oil spill criminal negligence trial reveal the prosecution team declined to disclose exculp...


Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal


Supporters of a petition circulating around the Court of Appeal are trying to breathe new life into an initiative calling for ...


An executive at a company that recorded inmate-attorney phone calls in Orange County testified Thursday that he’s known for tw...


Immigration, Government


After a contentious debate delved into national immigration issues, the state Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill Thursda...


Government, Civil Rights


The defense’s strategy was clear: Show the judge that a Latino candidate in Santa Monica intentionally threw his city council ...


Labor/Employment, Government


The bill that would bar secret settlements in sexual harassment cases is opposed by business groups.


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the authority of county residents to challenge general land use plans through a dir...


Criminal


Family sues Lyft over passenger death

Aug. 24, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Justin Michael Lavelle, 23, was being transported by Lyft driver Tariq Rasheed on Jan. 31 shortly after midnight when Lavelle ...


Law Practice, Intellectual Property


Morgan Lewis adds 9 partners to Orange County office

Aug. 24, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

The team, arriving from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, have scientific or engineering backgrounds and many have worked closel...


Community News


A team of Katten attorneys, staff, family and friends from the firm’s Century City, downtown LA and Orange County offices comp...


In Recess


Master Storyteller

Aug. 24, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Legal thriller author and appellate lawyer Cynthia Tobisman says writing never gets easier.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A former Kern County Superior Court commissioner has agreed not to serve as a judicial officer again as part of a Commission o...


Government, Criminal


Orange County public defender says sheriff’s deputies are ‘leafing through’ attorneys’ client files before jailhouse meetings.


Government, Criminal


Future cloudy for bill to change state bail system

Aug. 23, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The state Senate voted this week for final passage of a bill that would eliminate cash bail in California. Gov. Jerry Brown is...


Labor/Employment, Government


The bill passed the state Senate on Wednesday, sending the latest legislative response to #MeToo to the governor’s desk, the s...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Ellen Miller-Sharp will help the group work closely with other bar associations


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Attorneys for a pornographic film producer hope the U.S. Supreme Court sees their infringement case as an opportunity to exami...


Government, Civil Rights


The judge in a trial challenging Santa Monica’s at-large election system ordered the city’s attorneys Wednesday to produce a w...


Law Practice


Two partners and one associate from Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto’s Costa Mesa office will migrate to Venable LLP la...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District this week, alleging Monsanto knowingly leached polychlorinated biphenyls into i...


Government, Criminal


Six counties will jointly prosecute suspected serial killer Joseph J. DeAngelo in Sacramento under an agreement announced Tues...


Criminal


3rd striker wins parole consideration

Aug. 22, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

The prisons department violated the California constitution in denying early parole for a non-violent, third-strike life terme...