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Special Reports


ADR Profile

Firsthand Knowledge

Sanford Jossen
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-11-13

MCLE

From Normandy to the bench: Justice Buck Compton's life of service

Nov. 11, 2025

On Veterans Day, we honor Justice Buck Compton -- a Silve...

By Eileen C. Moore

Too sick to practice? Ethics rules still apply to attorneys

Nov. 10, 2025

As flu season sets in, even the most tireless lawyer must...

By Alanna G. Clair, Shari L. Klevens

NIL drives college sports into legal entropy

Nov. 7, 2025

Betting, branding and foreign financing were once unthink...

By Frank N. Darras


Today's News

A Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner urged a San Francisco federal judge to vacate a $32.5 million patent verdict in favor of Sonos, arguing n...


Government


A Los Angeles judge will allow a sewer-rate challenge to proceed but is reconsidering whether plaintiffs may amend class and jury claims after tentatively st...


Torts/Personal Injury


Kramer Trial Lawyers alleges a 22-ton construction truck was left unsecured on a steep street, leading to the death of 67-year-old Nga Nguyen.


Consumer Law


Incoming Consumer Attorneys of California President Douglas S. Saeltzer says an Uber-backed ballot measure poses an unprecedented threat to crash victims' ri...


Intellectual Property


OpenAI, Cameo face off over TRO in trademark fight

Nov. 12, 2025
By Craig Anderson

A federal judge in San Jose will hear Baron App Inc.'s bid for a temporary restraining order against OpenAI over the Sora app's use of the term "cameo," as b...


Political consultant Dana Williamson faces 23-count federal indictment alleging fraud, obstruction, and false tax returns in ongoing political corruption pro...


Columns

Ethics/Professional Responsibility

California lawyers and law firms should evaluate whether entering into agreements with the government that restrict their prac...


It's time to deep six the '6'

Nov. 13, 2025
By Lawrence P. Riff

California's Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6 -- originally intended to prevent judicial bias -- has devolved into a tool...


Trump calls up the National Guard in Illinois, citing "rebellion" and insufficient forces; courts and critics say there's no t...



Verdicts & Settlements

People of the State of Cali... Non-monetary relief
Assault Daniel B. Martin v. Masters... Dismissal
Consumer Protection Cassandra Marshall, et al. ... Dismissal
Dangerous Condition of Public Property Kathleen White, individuall... $19,000,000
Malpractice A.A. v. Roe Medical Center,... $13,500,000
Auto v. Auto Frank Valles v. Terrence An... $7,250,000
Discrimination Kristen Wheldon, Psy.D. v. ... $5,750,000
Bus Incident Izumi Streller v. City of S... $3,500,000
Encampment Closures Coalition on Homelessness; ... $2,828,000
Malpractice Bosco Tran v. The Regents o... $1,750,000

On the Move

Mayer Brown

Nov. 7, 2025


Teresa K. Goebel joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Goebel represents many of the world's leading hotel companies, focusing particularly on the acquisition, development, financing, management, and sale of hotels and mixed-use hospitality properties. She regularly negotiates, structures, and documents management agreements and equity and debt investments for hotels, resorts, and other mixed use hospitality projects throughout the world.


Benjamin T. Tschann joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Tschann represents clients in real estate transactions across asset classes with intense operating business that are dependent on the real estate, including hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living, sports facilities, and industrial projects. His work covers structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, debt financings, preferred equity and mezzanine financings, work-outs and restructurings, and short-sales. Ben also advises clients on key operating agreements such as hotel management agreements, franchise and strategic affiliations, operating agreements, asset management and project management agreements.


Dustin Calkins joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Calkins leverages his significant experience in representing leading public and private, and national and international real estate investors, developers, operators and sponsors on a broad array of commercial assets, including industrial, mixed-use, multifamily, office, hospitality, sports venues, and retail properties.


Details

Mayer Brown has 1769 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 www.mayerbrown.com

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Daily Appellate Report

Criminal Law and Procedure

Amended Opinion: U.S. v. Sullivan

Defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction requiring a nexus between his conduct and a Federal Trade Commission investigation for a Section 1505 obstruction conviction.


Employment Discrimination

Carroll v. City and County of San Francisco

San Francisco's methods for calculating employee disability retirement benefits did not discriminate based on age of entry into the City's retirement system.


Criminal Law and Procedure

Hernandez v. Superior Court (People)

Because officers' racially charged remarks and assumptions showed prima facie bias, the trial court erred in denying a Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing.


Civil Procedure, Attorneys

Baer v. Tedder

Code of Civil Procedure sections 2023.030(a) and 2031.320(b) (discovery abuse sanctions) authorize a trial court to award a successful respondent attorney's fees incurred on appeal.


Workers' Compensation

Illinois Midwest Insurance Agency, LLC v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board/Rodriguez

After 2013 legislative reforms, disputes regarding medically necessary procedures must be resolved through independent medical review rather than the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.