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Firsthand Knowledge

Sanford Jossen
ADR Services, Inc.

2025-11-10

MCLE

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

The hidden danger in fine print liability releases

Oct. 31, 2025

Courts disfavor contracts that excuse future wrongdoing, ...

By Reza Torkzadeh, Allen P. Wilkinson


Today's News

Labor/Employment


Discovery in Traci Hinden's wrongful termination and fee suit against Jaurigue Law Group has stalled for months as both sides trade accusations over privileg...


Judges and Judiciary


Adolfo M. Corona's attorney argued that federal charges accusing him of sexually assaulting two court employees and lying to the FBI should be dismissed beca...


Constitutional Law


U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer on Monday blasted Los Angeles city leaders over alleged discovery abuses in a homeless encampment case. She was the second f...


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


The longtime municipal law litigator joins the nation's largest federal district court, which serves more than 19 million people across seven Southern Califo...


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...


Columns

Technology

AI hallucinations reveal the resilience and limits of our adversarial process. Institutional skepticism eventually catches fak...


Tax

Are fertility lawsuit settlements taxable?

Nov. 10, 2025
By Robert W. Wood

Some fertility plaintiffs may endure painful follow-up procedures--yet still face taxes on settlements, depending on how claim...


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

Professor David Kaye, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opin...



Daily Appellate Report

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.


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Tokhunts

Sustaining objection to peremptory challenge was not prejudicial error where defendant failed to demonstrate the juror was incompetent and could have been dismissed for cause based on the...


Trump v. Orr

Order