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Criminal


Attorney general won’t contest bail ruling

Feb. 21, 2018
By Joshua Sebold

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday that he won’t appeal a significant appellate ruling that could li...


Obituaries


Edmund L. Regalia, 1931 — 2018

Feb. 21, 2018
By Caroline Hart

The Miller Starr Regalia founder and trial lawyer has died at 86.


Roy L. Paul has retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court and joined Benchmark Resolution Group LLC.


Civil Litigation


A class action lawsuit has been filed against Wal-Mart, alleging that the company violated federal law by failing to properly ...


Judges and Judiciary


Two sides that typically consider themselves progressives find each other on opposite sides on the issue of judicial independe...


Government


The White House has nominated Nicola T. Hanna to be U.S. Attorney for the Central District.


Civil Litigation


A man has taken legal action against the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department for their refusal to remove his...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney strongly urged both sides to settle a dispute between two college conservative organizat...


Entertainment & Sports


The judge ruled that Zooey Deschanel’s desire for “a very interesting, small, character role” before a concert tour was too na...


Geopolitical shifts, regulatory changes and data breaches are among the top concerns for chief legal officers and general coun...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The former director of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Phyllis W. Cheng, joined ADR Services Inc.


Immigration


Government tightens rules on immigration applications

Feb. 20, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

In an abrupt policy reversal, the U.S. immigration service will no longer accept signatures on immigration applications made t...


The U.S. government will have to pay a steep price to acquire a patch of land in the Mojave Desert that sits above California’...


Real Estate/Development, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge denied a motion for summary judgment in a case brought by the Department of Fair Emp...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


The research doctor sued for gender discrimination and retaliation after she said a male colleague made her job unbearable.


State Bar & Bar Associations


The agency is permitting a research team to conduct a “productive mindset intervention” on the July bar exam


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice


For years, litigants trying to strike down frivolous lawsuits by invoking the anti-SLAPP statute in limited civil cases before...


Immigration, Appellate Practice, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Hearing a second round of arguments in the appeal, the three-judge panel repeatedly questioned the government’s lawyer, Elizab...


Civil Litigation


The car manufacturer is being sued for allegedly selling cars with faulty software in its MyFord Touch system between 2010 and...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills Bar honors longtime pro bono advocate

Feb. 16, 2018
By Steven Crighton

Grunfeld, vice dean for Pardee Rand Graduate School, was at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Kaye Scholer LLP.


Civil Litigation


A female founder of a health technology startup has sued a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist for allegedly sexually ...


Labor/Employment, Immigration, Government


Companies sues government over H-2B visa program changes

Feb. 16, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Several companies sued the U.S. Department of Labor this week alleging that processing changes to a temporary worker visa prog...


Civil Litigation, Insurance, Entertainment & Sports


The insurer used a unique system in which the artist never filled out and signed an application.


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


In an unusual nighttime hearing, two men testified from Pakistan on Wednesday as alibi witnesses for convicted terrorist Hamid...


Civil Litigation, Government


Class action filed against cities, law firm

Feb. 16, 2018
By L.J. Williamson

Turning up the heat on a desert law firm accused of prosecuting for profit, nonprofit law center Institute for Justice has fil...


In Recess


Bar and Driver

Feb. 16, 2018
By Shane Nelson

Snell & Wilmer LLP bankruptcy litigator Michael B. Reynolds has been racing Lotus sports cars since 2013.


Labor/Employment, Government


A prominent labor law attorney gave the state Legislature a harsh assessment of what it must do to curb sexual harassment duri...


Government


Attorney targets assemblywoman with anonymous accusers

Feb. 15, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A prominent employment attorney known for winning a sexual harassment case against former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner set his s...


Civil Litigation


Of Little Leagues and Small Claims

Feb. 15, 2018
By Steven Crighton

A 12-year-old’s errant home run made him the subject of a lawsuit.


Securities, Criminal, Corporate


An attorney defending an executive accused of insider trading assailed the credibility of a key witness during closing argument.