LA judge described as deliberate, detailed and funny
Prominent Tax Attorney joins Greenberg Glusker as partner in Los Angeles
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
In order to maximize client objectives and minimize income and transfer taxes, Giordano-Lascari assists clients in structuring...
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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“While at the training camp, Perry and other professional wrestlers were placed into a military weapons training exercise and ...
US courts can’t decide if immigrant is dangerous, circuit rules
By Craig Anderson
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
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...
Wine Spectator violated tasting, scoring policy, bias suit alleges
By Devon Belcher
The plaintiff alleges she was wrongfully terminated following medical absences for three gender-affirming surgeries last year....
Most noncompete agreements are illegal, NLRB says
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
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 ...
Divided circuit panel overturns state death sentence
By Jonathan Lo
Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw, Paul J. Watford and Eric D. Miller unanimously rejected the petitioner’s challenges to his ...
Tips to streamline settlement of CEQA lawsuits
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,...
A transformative decision on fair use?
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
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...
Sonos awarded $32.2M for Google’s patent infringing
By Skyler Romero
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The report pointed to other areas of the state with successful cooperation between local governments — though “success” often ...
Toymaker fighting $300M infringement suit calls it a ‘shakedown’
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Keller/Anderle LLP founding partner Jennifer L. Keller and her team defended MGA Entertainment against claims that, when creat...
State Bar Court will not reinstate discipline charges against former director
By Devon Belcher
A State Bar Court review panel on Friday affirmed a February ruling that dismissed with prejudice most discipline counts stemm...
Retired justice can’t testify at law professor’s discipline trial
By Craig Anderson
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...
Judge sustains demurrer in suit against LA over odor
By Skyler Romero
Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III sustained the demurrers as to all these causes of action, with leave to amend in ...
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after ‘Varsity Blues’
By Wisdom Howell
The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Me...
AG wants out of LA cash bail dispute, says courts set schedule
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Bonta’s argument echoes statements from attorneys by the city and county of Los Angeles, that they also have no control over t...
Are wealthy funding lawsuits for profit and power?
By Jonathan Lo
The practice of billionaires intervening has been going on for a while but hasn’t been thought of as litigation funding.