State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar discipline trial is shaping up to be rehash of 2020 presidential election
By Craig Anderson
Former law professor John Eastman will stand trial later this month on charges he helped to foment an effort to overturn the p...
Civil Litigation
San Diego deputy district attorneys and others sued for wrongful 20-year imprisonment
By Devon Belcher
After she filed a habeas corpus petition, a nearly yearlong preliminary hearing and extensive pretrial litigation followed. On...
The new leadership plans to proceed more quietly and focus on growing client relationships, a firm spokesperson said.
Nancy E. Zeltzer had been a civil litigator for nearly 30 years when she was appointed to the bench by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Former 9th Circuit Judge Paul Watford joins Wilson Sonsini
By Craig Anderson
The 55-year-old judge, one of the leading Black jurists in the nation, was once mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court jud...
Litigation & Arbitration
Semiconductor firm says rival is using patent litigation to drive it from market
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Rudy Y. Kim, an attorney for Realtek Semiconductor, cited the results of one study that showed that lawsuits brought by "paten...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar leader floats expanding agency's discipline authority to law firms
By Devon Belcher
Under state law, the bar is only authorized to discipline individual attorneys. "We do not have discipline authority over law ...
Real Estate/Development, Community News
Advocacy groups bicker over who caused minority homelessness in Los Angeles
By Skyler Romero
Attorneys for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights accused the Los Angeles Community Action Network of having a hand in shaping ...
Litigation & Arbitration
Former Gilead GC explains patent suit settlements with competitors
By Jonathan Lo
Gilead is accused of forging a deal with Teva, which had challenged many of Gilead's vulnerable patents, to delay Teva's marke...
Real Estate/Development
Lawmaker is unwavering in push for more rent control
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"I think it's important when we're talking about housing, we're not just talking about development, we're talking about afford...
Coinbase argues that the SEC reviewed its business and allowed the company to go public in 2021, and its CEO Brian Armstrong c...
Data Privacy
CCP had access to US user data, former TikTok officer alleges
By Wisdom Howell
The allegations were made in a new declaration filed by Yintao Yu, in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday and come less th...
"Upon breaching a door with the 5.11-brand medium battering ram for the purpose and in the manner for which it was designed, p...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
Proposed law would gut mediation confidentiality, many groups say
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"It would severely undermine the statutory purpose of mediation confidentiality, which is to encourage the resolution of dispu...
Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged
Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged
"We know that words have power and whether spoken in private or public, they matter. We are ashamed of the words we wrote, an...
“CoStar’s allegation that a small circular logo, which it often applies to photos it doesn’t own, constitutes copyright notice...
U.S. Supreme Court, Entertainment & Sports
US Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to state’s anti-fracking law
By Craig Anderson
The decision affirmed a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year for environmental groups and California on their Na...
Civil Rights, California Supreme Court
Black Tesla workers want bias suit certified as class
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Larry A. Organ, plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel, said in a news release. “How many more Black workers have to be called the N-word...
Dr. Craig Gibbs testified that Gilead would offer a “social bargain” to the competing companies: in exchange for a settlement,...
Class Action
1st class action against pharma company certified under civil RICO
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
“The result should come as no surprise. It is rooted in well-established 9th Circuit precedent and, frankly, common sense,” Ma...
Real Estate/Development, Government
State settles COVID relief suit with tenants
By Wisdom Howell
The state agreed to send explanation letters to applicants who were denied access to some of the $6 billion worth of relief Ca...
Attorneys ousted from law firm they created last month after old emails surface
By Devon Belcher
John Barber and Jeffrey Ranen, who recently left Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith with at least 120 attorneys to form a new...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar exam future group members frustrated with board's alternative licensure pursuit
By Devon Belcher
Over the course of two years, after 19 meetings and hundreds of hours of analysis, the Blue Ribbon commission on the Future of...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
False advertising claim against Malwarebytes revived
By Craig Anderson
Senior 9th Circuit Judge Richard R. Clifton wrote for the majority that Enigma’s allegations are sufficient to state a claim.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Gap shareholder suit belongs in Delaware, 9th Circuit says
By Craig Anderson
The question is whether a Delaware corporation’s forum selection clause forecloses derivative complaints in federal court file...
The Reuben brothers tried to complete their foreclosure on the Century Plaza redevelopment by March 30 in order to avoid payin...
According to the Automatic Renewal Law, a consumer can recover a full refund of service charges that were automatically renewe...
Labor/Employment
Grubhub, drivers fight over size of misclassified class
By Jonathan Lo
Grubhub wants to limit the scope to drivers employed before the named plaintiff, Raef Lawson, ended his employment.