Intellectual Property
Apple-OpenAI dispute puts hiring practices under trade secrets microscope
By Daniel Schrager
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI is raising broader questions about where lawful recruiting ends and trade secret ...
Business Law
Hearing ordered on Playboy licensee's $1.5B damages claim
By Devon Belcher
A Los Angeles judge ordered an evidentiary hearing to determine whether a former Playboy licensee's expert may present a $1.5 ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
New State Bar judge sets rigorous schedule for sprawling DTLA discipline trial
By Laurinda Keys
New State Bar Court Judge Alison R. Worthington set a 35-day trial schedule and imposed strict case-management procedures Mond...
FPPC chair Adam Silver on the watchdog's Watergate-era origins, exploring AI to catch campaign money laundering, and why discl...
Technology, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that lawyers have a nondelegable duty to personally verify all legal authorities before...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar settles suit against Meazure Learning over exam snafu
By Devon Belcher
The State Bar reached a settlement with its former bar exam vendor, securing $5.25 million and cancellation of a $1.36 million...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
States face a 'steep climb' in blocking Paramount-Warner merger, legal experts say
By Craig Anderson
Antitrust experts cited the comparatively low percentage of the companies' dominance, resistance of state attorneys general la...
Class Action
Class action claims Google Nest cameras collect facial data without consent
By Daniel Schrager
A proposed class action filed in federal court alleges Google's Nest home cameras unlawfully collect and store facial-recognit...
Technology
Veteran appellate lawyer launches AI-free brief coaching service
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Veteran appellate lawyer Myron Moskovitz has launched a brief-coaching service emphasizing strategy and human judgment over ar...
Torts/Personal Injury
San Diego jury awards $15.5 million in Hyatt wrongful death case
By Alicia Alvarez
A San Diego County jury found Hyatt Hotels Corp. liable for wrongful death and negligence, awarding $15.5 million to the famil...
Environmental & Energy
Judge questions offshore oil company's challenge to permit transfer denial
By Skyler Romero
Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee expressed skepticism Friday that Sable Offshore Corp. has stated viable takings and fed...
The lawsuit also alleges OpenAI actively recruits Apple employees and asks them to disclose confidential information throughou...
Intellectual Property
Meta poised to defeat class certification in copyright suit
By Daniel Schrager
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin expressed skepticism that common legal issues predominate over the individualized ...
Civil Procedure
Judge keeps MacLaren Hall sex abuse cases on track for trial
By Devon Belcher
The judge overseeing the MacLaren Hall litigation declined to postpone upcoming trials for mediation and ordered the parties t...
Government
Grand jury backs LA sheriff oversight panel in records fight
By Skyler Romero
A Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury recommended giving the Civilian Oversight Commission independent legal counsel and limit...
Civil Procedure
Judge allows evidence of missing notebook in USF baseball abuse case
By Daniel Schrager
A federal judge found the University of San Francisco negligently failed to preserve a former athletic administrator's noteboo...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been named an official legal services provider for LA28 and Team USA, bringing its sports ...
Crowell & Moring's Joshua Robbins on why the best trial lawyers build their cases around documents instead of performances...
Government
Supreme Court upholds subpoena power of sheriff oversight agencies
By Alicia Alvarez
A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled that county-created sheriff oversight entities have the authority to subpoena recor...
Slideshow, Community News
Incoming ABA criminal justice leader vows to defend judicial independence
By Ricardo Pineda
White-collar defense attorney Nina Marino, the incoming chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, said...
Judges and Judiciary
2nd District Court of Appeal loses two longtime justices to retirement
By Laurinda Keys
Two longtime 2nd District Court of Appeal justices, Lee Smalley Edmon and Audrey B. Collins, retired at the end of June after ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Published ruling says anti-gay harassment is sexual harassment under FEHA
By Craig Anderson
A published 2nd District Court of Appeal opinion holds that harassment based on sexual orientation constitutes sexual harassme...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Audit faults State Bar for rushed February 2025 bar exam rollout
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Report says the agency used AI-generated questions without proper disclosure and saw costs rise despite hopes of savings
Class Action
Court allows class action testing utility billing under debt collection laws
By Skyler Romero
A Los Angeles judge denied Minol Inc.'s demurrer in a proposed statewide class action alleging the utility billing company un...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Former cancer care employee alleges pregnancy, disability discrimination
By Alicia Alvarez
Veracyte is being sued by a former employee over a myriad of alleged FEHA violations, retaliation and constructive discharge a...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Roberts sends misconduct probe of 9th Circuit judge to 4th Circuit
By Craig Anderson
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. transferred a misconduct complaint involving 9th U.S. Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson to the 4t...
Technology
Business owner sues OpenAI over ChatGPT's allegedly faulty legal guidance
By Daniel Schrager
A Northern District lawsuit alleges OpenAI misrepresented ChatGPT's ability to provide reliable business and legal advice, lea...
Driven by the rise of nuclear verdicts, Horvitz & Levy has become increasingly involved in cases long before a notice of a...
Torts/Personal Injury
LA Judge narrows evidence disputes before 2nd social media trial
By Devon Belcher
Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl resolved major pretrial disputes over punitive damages, executive testimony and expert evidence, largely...
Construction
Construction company sues former lawyers over handling of corruption case
By Alicia Alvarez
Robert A. Bothman Inc. alleges its former attorneys' deficient representation in a high-profile public corruption case left it...