Judges and Judiciary
Former LA County judge counsels homeless veterans as part of felony probation
By Meghann M. Cuniff
James A. Bascue is administering Alcoholic Anonymous classes to military veterans through the Salvation Army to fulfill 500 ho...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit overturns dismissal of car dealership workers' overtime suit
By Joshua Seboldn
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Monday that service advisers at an Encino car dealership are not e...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar housed employee in lobbyist's office for years
By Lyle Moran
The lobbyist listed the full-time bar staffer on the team page of her website for years, and her firm provided the employee wi...
IPayment Inc., a payment and processing solutions provider for small and medium-sized businesses, announced Monday the appoint...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
Twenty-one California-based companies went public in the U.S. in 2016, raising a collective $1.78 billion. That's down from 37...
The nationwide legal industry added 2,000 jobs in December, bringing the industry total to approximately 1.13 million, accordi...
Aviation Capital Group Corp. announced Friday the appointment of James A. Zembrzuski as general counsel. He began his new job ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Cedars-Sinai hospital sues medical group over claims of $6 million in unpaid bills
By Justin Kloczko
HealthCare Partners LLC, which enters into agreements to pay for health services rendered by hospitals, is accused of skipping...
Corporate
After yearlong consideration, Menlo Therapeutics names GC
By Paula Lehman Ewing
Menlo Therapeutics Inc., a Menlo Park-based clinical stage pharmaceutical company, named Anie K. Roche vice president of intel...
Government
OC DA re-establishes chief assistant position, recommended by investigative panel
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Jim Tanizaki, a senior district attorney, was promoted to the new job last week. The move was recommended a year ago by a pane...
Cash flow in dealmaking slowed slightly nationwide and in California last year compared to the record activity in 2015, but de...
Litigation
Jehovah's Witness prison guard sues for retaliation over alleged harassment
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A 22-year veteran prison guard has sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for retaliation he alleged...
Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.
Stanislaus County Presiding Judge Ricardo Cordova keeps things moving in criminal court.
A judicial aftershock following the Donald J. Trump political earthquake could jolt rightward the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Mediator Ross Hart works to corral large and often disparate groups. ...
Family ties are a point of pride at Appel Law Firm LLP, a plaintiffs law firm specializing in personal injury. ...
Alana Robinson, second-in-command at the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of California, has been named acting...
A proposed securities class action against Volkswagen AG will go forward after most of the company's motion for summary judgme...
San Diego-based biotechnology company Retrophin Inc. announced on Wednesday the appointment of Elizabeth E. Reed to general co...
James A. Bascue did not participate in disciplinary proceedings in State Bar Court related to his assault with a firearm convi...
California Supreme Court
California high court rules for State Bar in anti-SLAPP case
By Phil Johnson
The state Supreme Court bolstered litigants' protection from meritless lawsuits in a Thursday ruling involving the State Bar a...
Obituaries
San Bernardino judge remembered as mentor, distinguished prosecutor
By Renee Flannery
Brian D. Saunders, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge of nearly 20 years and a former county prosecutor, died Tuesda...
Labor/Employment
Judge rules for McDonald's in Bay Area joint employer case
By Matthew Blake
McDonald's Corp. does not have to go up against a certified class of about 1,200 San Francisco Bay Area workers because the ex...
Immigration
Immigrant defense funds may extend to private bar. Nonprofits can't do it alone, donors say.
By America Hernandez
Requests for proposals will be issued in several months to augment the corps of attorneys doing deportation defense. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Plaintiffs' firm owes more than $1 million in tax case, court rules
By Joshua Seboldn
Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack will have to pay more than $1 million in taxes and $250,000 in penalties after attempts to claim...
General Counsel Grimmway Enterprises Inc. ...
Law Practice
Legislature's hiring of Obama's attorney general raises questions
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Democrat-controlled state Legislature's decision to hire former Obama administration Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. r...
California Supreme Court
State high court mulls coastal development case
By Justin Kloczko
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case contesting a planned mixed-use development in Newport Beach along ...