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Special Reports


ADR Profile

Firsthand Knowledge

Sanford Jossen
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-11-11

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

California Supreme Court


The California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that a state law making it a crime to file knowingly false complaints against police officers violates the First Amend...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco woman's lawsuit claiming asbestos-contaminated cosmetic talc caused her mesothelioma is heading to trial after settlement talks failed, with ...


The settlement will compensate 7,718 Division I "volunteer" assistant coaches for unpaid work from 2019-2023, resolving wage-fixing claims and potentially re...


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...


San Francisco conflict panel director Julie Traun told Judge Harry Dorfman that record-low felony clearance rates--not higher filings--are driving the count...


Class Action


A new VA report found the West Los Angeles campus earns far below market value from third-party leases, supporting Judge David Carter's ruling that the agree...


Columns

Year-end settlements, driven by psychological, financial, and tax incentives, allow litigants and attorneys to avoid the holid...


Torts/Personal Injury

In Murphy v. Pina, the Court of Appeal held that a body shop was not liable for injuries and death caused by a teenage...


Letters, Appellate Practice

California's 60-day appeal deadline works fine when attorneys calendar filings for day 45 instead of day 60, making the propos...



Verdicts & Settlements

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
Malpractice Sade Mitchell v. The Regent... $1,000,000
42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Michelle Rizalla, et al. v.... $900,000
Malpractice John Doe v. Roe Physician, ... $875,000

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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Community News

Speaking before his former colleagues, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar said the skills of judging and diplomacy share an "unmistakable crossover" and criticized federal confirmation hearings as overly performative.



Podcasts

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Daily Appellate Report

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.


Criminal Law and Procedure

In re Mattison

Penal Code section 1465.9(d)'s 10-year limit on restitution fines does not trigger the full resentencing rule when vacating that portion of a judgment.


Torts

Jimenez v. Hayes Apartment Homes, LLC

Defendants' building code violation--failing to install fall-prevention devices when replacing upper-story windows--constituted negligence per se.