Special Reports
Judicial Profile
Presiding Judge Sergio Tapia relies on innovation and teamwork to run nation's largest trial court
MCLE
SEC at the door? Mind your ethics - and your client
When the SEC comes knocking, corporate counsel must call ...
By Alanna G. Clair, Shari L. KlevensMilitary 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
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Today's News
Land Use, LA Fires, Civil Litigation
Housing group sues Newsom over SB 9 suspension in fire zones
By Skyler Romero
The petition seeks to invalidate Newsom's SB 9 suspension and similar bans adopted by Los Angeles, Pasadena, Malibu, and Los Angeles County, arguing the orde...
Land Use, LA Fires, Civil Litigation
Housing group sues Newsom over SB 9 suspension in fire zones
By Skyler Romero
The petition seeks to invalidate Newsom's SB 9 suspension and similar bans adopted by Los Angeles, Pasadena, Malibu, and Los Angeles County, arguing the orde...
Intellectual Property
Patent suit over Amazon Web Services software transferred to Northern District
By Daniel Schrager
VirtaMove Corp. alleges AWS' migration and container services use processes covered by two of its patents, claims Amazon denies. The tech giant also asserts ...
Civil Litigation
Civil suit stay bid denied as convicted killer of CashApp founder pursues new trial
By James Twomey
A San Francisco judge denied Nima Momeni's request to stay a wrongful death suit during pending matters around his conviction for murder, finding no real sel...
Criminal
Prosecutors detail 131,000 pages of discovery in political consultant's criminal case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Dana Williamson and two other well-known political consultants have been charged with diverting $225,000 from a campaign account for former congressman and C...
Land Use, LA Fires, Civil Litigation
Housing group sues Newsom over SB 9 suspension in fire zones
By Skyler Romero
The petition seeks to invalidate Newsom's SB 9 suspension and similar bans adopted by Los Angeles, Pasadena, Malibu, and Los Angeles County, arguing the orde...
Columns
Treat your (human) colleagues as allies - and your LLMs as adversaries
By Caroline Radell, Michael M. Rosen
As large language models like ChatGPT and Claude proliferate, attorneys must balance their promise for efficiency and insight ...
Arbitration discovery: A new paradigm
By Victor E. Bianchini
California's SB 940 has transformed arbitration from a streamlined alternative to litigation into a process nearly as cumberso...
As AI-driven defamation suits emerge, courts must not only weigh who's accountable, but also whether anti-SLAPP laws -- and fr...
Verdicts & Settlements
| Wage and Hour | Angelica Velasquez, individ... | $850,000 |
| Auto v. Auto | Austin Richard Moreno v. Jo... | $675,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Deanna Rickets, an individu... | $600,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Steven Milligan, individual... | $480,000 |
| Unfair Competition | The People of the State of ... | $350,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Michelle Mireles, individua... | $250,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Lakeshia Cook-Farrar, as an... | $230,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Lee Solomon, individually a... | $225,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Santino Lopez, on behalf of... | $163,537 |
| Song-Beverly Act | John McCormack v. FCA US LL... | $89,518 |
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
Address
550 California Street, 14th Floor , San Francisco CA 94104 United States
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(415) 788-1900
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Daily Appellate Report
Criminal Law and Procedure
People v. Kinnear
Trial court erred by imposing upper term and second-strike sentence after accepting defendant's stipulation without advising him of his constitutional rights or eliciting a knowing and vo...
Prisoners' Rights
Human Rights Defense Center, Inc. v. Uttecht
Prison officials were required to show that policy restricting mail to prisoners--impinging their First Amendment rights--advanced penological interest of reducing inmate-on-inmate violence.
Antitrust
Epic Games Inc. v. Apple Inc.
District court did not abuse its discretion by finding Apple in contempt after it willfully violated an injunction prohibiting anticompetitive behavior that discouraged purchases from App...
Criminal Law and Procedure
People v. Harrison
Defendant's resentencing petition for mitigation due to military service-related conditions failed because his conviction was for a statutorily excluded super-strike offense rendering him...
Torts, Immunity
Modification: Gilliland v. City of Pleasanton
Trial court applied an incorrect legal standard in finding that vehicle collision occurred during a qualifying police "pursuit," which would immunize the city from liability.