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State Bar & Bar Associations


Former law professor John Eastman will stand trial later this month on charges he helped to foment an effort to overturn the p...


After she filed a habeas corpus petition, a nearly yearlong preliminary hearing and extensive pretrial litigation followed. On...


Law Practice


The new leadership plans to proceed more quietly and focus on growing client relationships, a firm spokesperson said.


Law Practice


Retired Orange County judge joins ADR Services

Jun. 7, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

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


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


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


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


Attorneys for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights accused the Los Angeles Community Action Network of having a hand in shaping ...


Litigation & Arbitration


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

Jun. 7, 2023
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...



SEC says Coinbase is unregistered exchange

Jun. 7, 2023
By Craig Anderson

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


The allegations were made in a new declaration filed by Yintao Yu, in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday and come less th...



Cops hurt on the job sue battering ram maker

Jun. 7, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

"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


"It would severely undermine the statutory purpose of mediation confidentiality, which is to encourage the resolution of dispu...


Obituaries


Nancy Brenda Kaufman, 1938 -- 2023

Jun. 7, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged


Obituaries


Attorney revered for commitment to disadvantaged



Attorneys apology for offensive emails

Jun. 6, 2023
By David Houston

"We know that words have power and whether spoken in private or public, they matter. We are ashamed of the words we wrote, an...


Real Estate/Development


Real estate copyright battle revived in LA

Jun. 6, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

“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


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


Larry A. Organ, plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel, said in a news release. “How many more Black workers have to be called the N-word...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Antitrust trial resumes against Gilead

Jun. 6, 2023
By Jonathan Lo

Dr. Craig Gibbs testified that Gilead would offer a “social bargain” to the competing companies: in exchange for a settlement,...


Class Action


“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

Jun. 6, 2023
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...


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


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


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


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 wants to limit the scope to drivers employed before the named plaintiff, Raef Lawson, ended his employment.