Judicial Profile
Judge Heather Hocter returns to her first courtroom with a philosophy shaped by the backcountry
MCLE
Military bases' new names sound like the old Confederate ones
Military bases previously renamed to remove Confederate a...
By Eileen C. MooreFrom Sacramento to Shiraz: Practical steps for registering California divorce judgments abroad
A California divorce decree is binding throughout the U.S...
By Abbas HadjianListening as the first principle of civility
Civility, grounded not in mere politeness but in the ethi...
By Scott C. Clarkson
Today's News
Intellectual Property
X Corp. sues former engineer for allegedly stealing millions of lines of code
By Daniel Schrager
In a new lawsuit, X Corp. claims a fired employee used stolen code and confidential materials to create her own software company--and later boasted about it.
Intellectual Property
Umberg pooh-poohs Trump plan to limit state AI oversight
By Malcolm Maclachlan
At a Stanford hearing, Sen. Tom Umberg said Congress will not produce national AI rules -- speaking just hours after President Donald Trump unveiled an execu...
Data Privacy
Tenants sue Equity Residential, SmartRent over alleged 'surveillance' inside homes
By James Twomey
Filed in San Francisco Superior Court, the suit claims landlords outfitted rental units with smart-home devices that log when tenants come and go, track temp...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Justin Shegerian wins $103M in age bias case in first time as first chair
By Skyler Romero
A year after law school, first-chair trial lawyer Justin W. Shegerian won a $103 million verdict against Liberty Mutual for firing a longtime employee in ret...
Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
LA fails to undo court limits on LAPD's less-lethal launchers
By Skyler Romero
A federal judge refused to dissolve an injunction governing LAPD's crowd-control weapons, saying the city's challenge to plaintiffs' standing must wait while...
Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
LA fails to undo court limits on LAPD's less-lethal launchers
By Skyler Romero
A federal judge refused to dissolve an injunction governing LAPD's crowd-control weapons, saying the city's challenge to plaintiffs' standing must wait while...
Columns
Legacies: Reclaiming civility and upholding the rule of law
By Brian M. Hoffstadt
The evolution of the legal profession over recent decades -- marked by gains in diversity and technology but a troubling decli...
Four holidays, one nation: How America builds belonging
By Abbas Hadjian
From Halloween to New Year's, America's four major holidays form a deliberate cultural scaffold that lifts a diverse nation fr...
California's bike lane boom is outpacing safety oversight
By Yosi Yahoudai, Stephen Lockard
California's infrastructure boom is delivering new bike lanes and roadways at record speed -- but oversight hasn't kept pace. ...
Verdicts & Settlements
| Bad Faith | Cristin Morneau, individual... | $153,000,000 |
| Breach of Contract | P&P Industries LLC and JT3 ... | $29,306,734 |
| Breach of Contract | The Residences at Depot Str... | $5,000,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Andrea Sosa, on behalf of h... | $4,400,000 |
| Auto v. Pedestrian | Neeko Dedrick Alonzo Walker... | $3,250,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Cecilia Perez, individually... | $2,975,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Mary Magdalena Mejia, indiv... | $1,950,000 |
| Malpractice | Doe Plaintiffs v. Roe Medic... | $1,500,000 |
| Malpractice | Doe Plaintiffs v. Roe Medic... | $1,500,000 |
| Breach of Contract | John Demas and Robert Burzi... | $1,444,867 |
On the Move
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
Thomas Tuon joined Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. as an associate in Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney (San Francisco). The move was Dec. 2, 2025.
Details
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. has 69 attorneys in 4 offices including San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are Litigation, Professional Liability, White Collar Defense & Investigations, Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment . The firm’s website is www.mpbf.com
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Judicate West founder pledges $75k for Charles Houston Bar Association student scholarships
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The bar association dates to 1955, when Black attorneys in the Bay Area banded together to confront discrimination in the cour...
Podcasts
Davis Wright Tremaine's Vid Prabhakaran joins In the Counsel's Chair to break down three of the biggest challenges facing the ...
Daily Appellate Report
Utilities
Dreher v. City of Los Angeles
City's tiered water rate structure--allowing customers to control their ultimate rate through discretionary water use--did not violate California Constitution's proportional cost of servi...
Torts, Anti-SLAPP
Peterson v. Zhang
Denial of motion for sanctions in underlying case did not trigger the interim adverse judgment rule to defeat malicious prosecution claim because it revealed nothing about the merits.
Criminal Law and Procedure
People v. Grandberry
Petitioner was ineligible for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6 because he was a major participant in felonies underlying a murder and acted with reckless indifference to human...
Criminal Law and Procedure
People v. Cain
Because Penal Code section 1509 makes habeas corpus the exclusive vehicle for attacking death judgments, invoking section 1172.75 to reopen a final death sentence was an impermissible col...
Constitutional Law
Amended Order: State of Oregon v. Trump
Because President Trump's action to federalize the Oregon National Guard in response to Portland ICE facility unrest was within his statutory authority, State of Oregon's ultra vires clai...