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Intellectual Property


U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin expressed skepticism that common legal issues predominate over the individualized ...


Civil Procedure


The judge overseeing the MacLaren Hall litigation declined to postpone upcoming trials for mediation and ordered the parties t...


Government


A Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury recommended giving the Civilian Oversight Commission independent legal counsel and limit...


Civil Procedure


A federal judge found the University of San Francisco negligently failed to preserve a former athletic administrator's noteboo...


LA28 Olympics Coverage


Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been named an official legal services provider for LA28 and Team USA, bringing its sports ...


Crowell & Moring's Joshua Robbins on why the best trial lawyers build their cases around documents instead of performances...


Government


A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled that county-created sheriff oversight entities have the authority to subpoena recor...


Slideshow, Community News


White-collar defense attorney Nina Marino, the incoming chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, said...


Judges and Judiciary


Two longtime 2nd District Court of Appeal justices, Lee Smalley Edmon and Audrey B. Collins, retired at the end of June after ...


Litigation & Arbitration


A published 2nd District Court of Appeal opinion holds that harassment based on sexual orientation constitutes sexual harassme...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Report says the agency used AI-generated questions without proper disclosure and saw costs rise despite hopes of savings


A Los Angeles judge denied Minol Inc.'s demurrer in a proposed statewide class action alleging the utility billing company un...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


Veracyte is being sued by a former employee over a myriad of alleged FEHA violations, retaliation and constructive discharge a...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. transferred a misconduct complaint involving 9th U.S. Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson to the 4t...


A Northern District lawsuit alleges OpenAI misrepresented ChatGPT's ability to provide reliable business and legal advice, lea...


Driven by the rise of nuclear verdicts, Horvitz & Levy has become increasingly involved in cases long before a notice of a...


Torts/Personal Injury


Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl resolved major pretrial disputes over punitive damages, executive testimony and expert evidence, largely...


Robert A. Bothman Inc. alleges its former attorneys' deficient representation in a high-profile public corruption case left it...


Former chief transformation officer Hakan Kardes claims he was forced out after raising concerns that millions in operating ex...


Environmental & Energy


Federal filing says Air Resources Board is trying to enforce emissions standards despite Clean Air Act preemption.


Former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson asks a Los Angeles judge to reduce a $198 million wrongful death judgment by $14 million...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills attorney now faces State Bar discipline proceedings in the same scandal where he once represented Los Angeles.


Labor/Employment


A federal appeals court panel sharply questioned whether California's law barring employers from disciplining workers who...


Chief U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that four state attorneys general may present evidence that Meta made f...


Environmental & Energy


Sable Offshore Corp. has asked the Trump administration to use eminent domain to acquire state-owned shoreline, parkland and p...


A Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled that fraud claims brought by carbon offset startup investors against Steve Ballmer, Baker Ho...


Civil Procedure


A federal magistrate judge denied a motion to sanction Rack Room Shoes and its attorneys in a privacy lawsuit, criticizing pla...


A judge ruled that Southern California Edison may pursue claims that Los Angeles County's vegetation management contributed to...


Several recent state and federal rulings have limited the application of portions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act to...


The San Francisco Public Defender's Office has asked an appellate court to dismiss misdemeanor charges against a defendant, ar...