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Special Reports


Judicial Profile

Judge Edward Moreton, a swimmer, finds rhythm, fairness lap after lap

Edward B. Moreton Jr.
Los Angeles County Superior Court

ADR Profile

Breaking bread breaks the ice

Harris E. Weinberg
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-09-17

MCLE

Accentuate the objective: Rethinking bias in California's courtrooms

Sep. 12, 2025

California's CCP §231.7 and the Racial Justice Act adopt ...

By Brian M. Hoffstadt

Uber's assault on civil justice: a play out of the corporate intimidation playbook

Sep. 10, 2025

Uber is weaponizing federal RICO lawsuits against persona...

By P. Christopher Ardalan

Differences between collaborative courts and diversion for veterans

Sep. 9, 2025

In California, veterans facing criminal charges may recei...

By Eileen C. Moore


Today's News

A Bay Area attorney filed a class complaint in the Western District of Missouri accusing Husch Blackwell LLP and its executive board of diverting employees' ...


Government, Constitutional Law


The lawsuit claims the Trump administration is unlawfully coercing the UC system to police speech and reshape its curriculum by threatening to withhold $17 b...


Government


A former clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has already argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Harbourt will begin his new job Oct. 1.


More than 200 documented instances of U.S. legal decisions have involved legal hallucinations to date, according to a database maintained by a Stanford Law S...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Investors seek to disqualify Quinn Emanuel over alleged conflict involving attorney Michael Swartz, claiming he previously advised them and misused confident...


Torts/Personal Injury


Volunteer sues Orange County after dog attack at shelter

Sep. 17, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Emily Moncur alleges gross negligence by the County of Orange and OC Animal Care after a shelter dog attacked her, leaving at least 18 bite wounds and forcin...


Columns

Torts/Personal Injury

Short memories and bad optics: The coming tort reform challenge

Sep. 17, 2025
By Brian S. Kabateck, Shant A. Karnikian

Corporate campaigns targeting a few flashy or unscrupulous plaintiff lawyers are being used to discredit the civil justice sys...


Health Care & Hospital Law

Without renewed federal action, nearly 90% of Covered California enrollees could see average premium hikes of 66% -- threateni...


Technology, California Supreme Court

Can AI forecast California Supreme Court rulings?

Sep. 16, 2025
By Kirk C. Jenkins

Early this summer, I ran an experiment in which I gave ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-5 only the oral argument transcripts from the cou...



Verdicts & Settlements

Unfair Competition Djeneba Sidibe, Jerry Janko... $228,500,000
Malpractice Leon Rojas through his guar... $8,500,000
Consumers Legal Remedies Act Amanda Davis v. Natera Inc. $8,250,000
Prisoners' Rights Gariel Brownlee, an individ... $7,000,000
Premises Liability Henrietta Castrellon v. Hom... $6,626,603
Wage and Hour Tammy Tenny v. Dignity Heal... $5,750,000
Wage and Hour Priscilla Aguilar, Julian H... $3,700,000
Wage and Hour Suleyda Farias v. Shasta Be... $2,884,887
Unfair Business Practices Elizabeth Anderson, et al. ... $2,875,000
Premises Liability Chip Brown v. ICO Developme... $2,336,000

On the Move

Mayer Brown

Sep. 12, 2025


Mayer Brown welcomes Davina Pujari as a partner in San Francisco.

Pujari's practice focuses on environmental and white-collar defense, class and mass actions, False Claims Act litigation, and crisis management. She has acted as lead counsel in high-profile matters under the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, the Superfund law, and other federal and state environmental statutes. Her representative work includes defending a global remediation contractor in parallel False Claims Act and mass tort actions, representing a Class I railroad in derailment-related litigation, and resolving numerous criminal environmental investigations with no charges filed.


Mayer Brown Chris Rheinheimer as a partner in San Francisco.

Rheinheimer represents clients in complex environmental, energy and real-estate litigation, class and mass actions, False Claims Act matters and state and federal enforcement defense. He regularly advises clients on land-use and NEPA/CEQA disputes. His recent matters include defending an environmental remediation contractor in multiple governmental enforcement actions and class actions arising from a Superfund site, representing a railroad in a class action and civil enforcement proceedings following a derailment, securing dismissal of charges for an individual in an Endangered Species Act/Lacey Act prosecution, and successfully challenging voter initiatives that sought to restrict large-scale energy and development projects.




Details

Mayer Brown has 1766 attorneys in 22 offices including Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are litigation, capital markets, real estate, fund formation, finance. The firm’s website is https://www.mayerbrown.com/en

Featured Content


Community News

At its annual Installation and Awards Gala in Pasadena, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles installed Farah Tabibkhoei as president, welcomed new foundation leadership, and honored attorneys and judges whose advocacy, service, and trailblazing work continue to open doors of opportunity in the legal profession.



Daily Appellate Report

REPLACEMENT COPY OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Criminal Law and Procedure

Angulo v. Superior Court (People)

Under Penal Code section 1001.80, military diversion eligibility extends to any current or former service member with a qualifying service-related condition, imposing no minimum service r...


Civil Procedure

Rajabian v. Mercedes-Benz USA

District court did not err in declining to lift a stay issued pursuant to the *Colorado River* doctrine, where parallel litigation would be inefficient and potentially contradictory.


Civil Procedure

Stockton v. Brown

Claims challenging ongoing state medical disciplinary hearings on First Amendment grounds in federal court were subject to *Younger* abstention.


Criminal Law and Procedure

Mendoza v. Superior Court (People)

An arraignment or plea on an amended complaint does not restart the statutory 60-day period for holding a preliminary hearing under Penal Code section 859b.


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Garcia

Because mental health diversion is disallowed in DUI cases, trial court did not err in denying mental health diversion for defendant when her case involved both DUI and non-DUI charges.