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Bankruptcy


LA and Santa Monica: Looming bankruptcy?

Nov. 24, 2025
By John Roemer

Mounting wildfire liabilities, sexual-assault settlements, revenue losses and soaring legal payouts have intensified concerns ...


Government


The state projected 7,000 to 12,000 Californians would qualify for CARE Court, yet from October 2023 to September 2025 courts ...


A group of prominent law professors has asked the state high court to probe a Nevada County prosecutor's alleged use of AI-gen...


Obituaries


Donald B. King, 1931-2025

Nov. 24, 2025
By Laurinda Keys

Judge Donald B. King, a pioneering force in family law, transformed divorce and custody practice through mediation, scholarshi...


Juveniles at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall have been forced to urinate in bags due to low staffing, prompting a court inquiry ...


The San Francisco Superior Court says talks with union representing deputy court clerks have reached impasse after union membe...


Advocates claim the EPA's delays on state air quality plans have allowed dangerous ozone pollution to persist in the West Moja...


Slideshow, Community News


JAMS opened the doors to its new Los Angeles Resolution Center on Thursday evening, unveiling a redesigned space built for the...



A Helping Hand

Nov. 21, 2025

Mitchell Beckloff mediates with an effective balance of kindness and candor, lawyers say.


Civil Procedure


A judge denied sanctions against Lewis Brisbois, finding their lawyer client's intervention and reconsideration motions--stemm...


Technology


State privacy agency blasts federal proposals to block AI regulations as Washington considers sweeping limits on state tech en...


Labor/Employment


USC denied allegations by Gould School of Law professor Camille Rich, who claims the university mishandled her reports about a...


Litigation & Arbitration


The company's challenge to Wachtell Lipton's fee for enforcing Elon Musk's Twitter purchase ended abruptly Wednesday with a di...


Civil Litigation


Innovation Technologies Partners sued Hulu, alleging infringement of eight patents covering targeted advertising, data collect...



Veteran Lewis Brisbois partner Dana Fox to join BD&J

Nov. 21, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Fox's decision to move to BD&J ends a lengthy tenure at Lewis Brisbois, where he served in multiple leadership roles and t...


L.A. County won dismissal of Alex Villanueva's defamation claims after a judge ruled the action arose entirely from protected ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Despite objections from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge allowed states - includ...


San Francisco settled for $5 million with Pilot Thomas Logistics, ending litigation over a diesel spill. The company dropped i...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge signaled he may hold Los Angeles in contempt for failing to meet settlement reporting obligations on homelessn...


Advocates say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is more than two years overdue in acting on a 2023 proposal to list the owl a...


Jurors found Equinox discriminated against a trainer with a hip condition, awarding him $32.2 million in one of this year's la...


Los Angeles County DA Nathan Hochman said Downtown LA Law is among firms under aggressive investigation for allegedly facilita...


The 4th District Court of Appeal ordered sanctions against attorney Gerard Fox, his client, or both, after he cited unpublishe...


Claiming fresh data shows significantly longer Three Strikes sentences for people of color, Stanford lawyers filed habeas peti...


Civil Litigation


Ford argued for the right to use discovery from its federal RICO suit in related state lemon law cases, but a magistrate judge...


Finding extensive California contacts and rejecting reliance on the fiduciary shield doctrine, Judge David A. Hoffer held that...


A federal judge signaled she may sanction plaintiff Neelam Sandhu for late witness disclosure and incomplete texts in her $10 ...


Meta, YouTube, and TikTok filed new federal lawsuits challenging California's SB 967 after the 9th Circuit ruled NetChoice lac...


Judge Samantha P. Jessner signaled she may allow narrow firefighter depositions to preserve fading memories in litigation over...


Civil Litigation


Defense firms and medical providers hit back at Uber's federal racketeering, filing motions to dismiss based on anti-SLAPP, li...