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LA judge described as deliberate, detailed and funny


In order to maximize client objectives and minimize income and transfer taxes, Giordano-Lascari assists clients in structuring...



Cosmetics makers latest to challenge Prop. 65 labels

May 31, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The complaint filed Friday uses similar arguments to ones used for a coffee byproduct — and uses the same attorney to make the...


A similar complaint was filed in New York last year against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.



$12M for Olympic hopeful injured at Camp Pendleton

May 31, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

“While at the training camp, Perry and other professional wrestlers were placed into a military weapons training exercise and ...


The case concerns a Nicaraguan citizen who became a legal permanent resident of the United States in 1990 and then was twice c...



Attorney withdraws from stabbing defense

May 31, 2023
By Skyler Romero

“How could I ethically represent somebody, ever, that I had a conflict of interest with in the beginning? Do you understand?” ...


At the heart of the matter is a report cited in the complaint from the San Francisco Department of Health in June 2019 that “a...



The plaintiff alleges she was wrongfully terminated following medical absences for three gender-affirming surgeries last year....


Most noncompete agreements are illegal, NLRB says

May 31, 2023
By Craig Anderson

Attorneys who handle such disputes say the latest move, following a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal in January to ban n...



Ghost gun maker can no longer do business in California

May 31, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The legal settlement stems from a lawsuit that the City of Los Angeles filed against Polymer80 in 2021 following an ambush on ...


Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw, Paul J. Watford and Eric D. Miller unanimously rejected the petitioner’s challenges to his ...



The CEQA early settlement meeting, with careful preparation and facilitation, can build trust with the other side and explore ...


If someone as iconic and famous and, in theory, powerful as Tina Turner struggled so much to separate herself from her abuser,...



Some Observations on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith.


In addition to incarceration, Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were ordered to pay jointly and severally over $450 million in...



Raising the debt ceiling is imperative for the American people. Congress needs to legislate on behalf of all Americans, not pa...


June 2023

May 31, 2023

Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations and public reprovals in California.



“Workers in San Bernardino County can’t possibly protect these children because of their high caseloads, no matter how hard th...



The federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had not proved by clear and convincing evidence that any of the infringed-...


Grand jury faults Sacramento’s response to homeless

May 30, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though “success” often ...



Keller/Anderle LLP founding partner Jennifer L. Keller and her team defended MGA Entertainment against claims that, when creat...


A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemm...



Attorneys for John Eastman argued that Janice Rogers Brown is qualified to argue that the State Bar’s pursuit of disciplinary ...


The lawsuit blames Bank of America for allowing criminals to steal Californians’ unemployment and disability benefits on prepa...



Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained the demurrers as to all these causes of action, with leave to amend in ...


The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Me...



Bonta’s argument echoes statements from attorneys by the city and county of Los Angeles, that they also have no control over t...


The practice of billionaires intervening has been going on for a while but hasn’t been thought of as litigation funding.