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Special Reports

Top Boutiques 2025

Nov. 5, 2025

ADR Profile

Firsthand Knowledge

Sanford Jossen
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2025-11-07

From The Archive


MCLE

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

Moral rights and the Vaillancourt Fountain

Oct. 28, 2025

Fifty years after its completion, San Francisco's massive...

By Simon J. Frankel


Today's News

Obituaries


Sara K. Radin, 1923-2025

Nov. 7, 2025
By Laurinda Keys

Sara K. Radin, one of California's pioneering women judges and later a leading mediator, helped break barriers on the Los Angeles Superior Court and champion...


Criminal, Constitutional Law


A U.S. Attorney's Office memo says federal judges can compel unpaid lawyers to represent indigent defendants during Criminal Justice Act funding lapses, spar...


Criminal, Constitutional Law


A U.S. Attorney's Office memo says federal judges can compel unpaid lawyers to represent indigent defendants during Criminal Justice Act funding lapses, spar...


San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harry Dorfman questioned was told he can order private attorneys to represent indigent defendants amid an alleged shortage...


California Supreme Court


The justices reversed an appellate ruling that found the law violated the First Amendment. The court held that the restriction regulates discriminatory condu...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


An attorney representing three female college athletes and a Liberty University student told an Oakland federal judge the NCAA's $2.8 billion settlement over...


Columns

Technology

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


Intellectual Property, Evidence

A recent en banc decision by the Federal Circuit in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC (2025) -- left standing by the U.S. ...


Labor/Employment

Alleged HR mockery over off-site harassment complaint could spark employer liability

Nov. 6, 2025
By C. Randolph Sullivan, Michael A. Pearlson

The Kruitbosch decision underscores that employers may still face liability for off-site harassment -- depending not o...



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

Featured Content


Community News

Attorneys from both sides of the courtroom came together in downtown Los Angeles for the debut of The 30/30 Bar, an invitation-only event designed to promote civility, connection, and professional unity among plaintiff and defense lawyers.



Podcasts

In the second episode of In the Counsel's Chair, Daralyn Durie discusses the highs and lows of establishing a boutique law firm.



Daily Appellate Report

Civil Procedure

Chinese Theater, LLC v. Starline Tours USA, Inc.

Where plaintiff left summons with a bus washer lacking authority or connection to the defendant's business, substituted service was invalid and default judgment was vacated.


Contracts

Evleshin v. Meyer

Initial refusal to mediate did not forfeit the refusing party's right to recover attorneys' fees under contract requiring pre-filing mediation where refusal was retracted prior to commenc...


Native American Affairs, Civil Procedure

State of California v. Del Rosa

*Ex parte Young* relief is available under the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act.


Qualified Immunity, Civil Rights

Hawatmeh v. City of Henderson

Officers did not seize kidnapped child for Fourth Amendment purposes when they employed hostage rescue tactics that resulted in the death the kidnapper and, seconds later, the child.