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State Bar & Bar Associations, Immigration


Nubia Esmeralda Burrier operated for 14 years in an office across from the U.S. Immigration Court in downtown Los Angeles, pro...


San Diego dependency Judge Marissa A. Bejarano tells parents, children that she is like them.



Tight-knit Trio

Feb. 13, 2023

The Founders of Kimura London & White were close friends long before they were partners.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


“CARE plans are limited to outpatient care; they cannot include involuntary commitment orders or other forms of compulsory cus...


Tax, Criminal


The Internal Revenue Service acknowledges that the money Avenatti used to get Eagan Avenatti LLP out of bankruptcy is directly...


Government


Santa Clara County names new chief county counsel

Feb. 13, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Anthony J. LoPresti joined the county counsel in 2018, and later became an assistant county counsel. County supervisors praise...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


President Biden fired Peter Robb, a Trump appointee, on his Inauguration Day in January 2021 and Aakash Inc., a California ski...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


In her complaint, Sallie Giblin describes a “boys’ club” in the firm’s upper echelons which promoted junior, male employees to...


Government


Assemblywoman Mia Bonta chairs Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5, an obscure but powerful committee oversees the budgets for ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


“It’s really unusual to get any kind of dismissal in State Bar Court. This is a big victory,” one of Dunn’s attorneys, profess...


Criminal


David R. Lira previously testified that he resigned from the firm in June 2020 and told Thomas Girardi he “has committed profe...


Ediscovery


The plaintiffs claim that the ticket reseller did not comply with discovery negotiations and should have to bear the burden of...


Judges and Judiciary


Like many people, Manella said the pandemic and its aftermath prompted her to think about how she wanted to spend her time whi...


Insurance, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Alexander Robertson IV of Robertson and Associates LLP. He said this week his firm has settled some 329 cases of about 2,000.


Medtronic CoreValve contends that the invention that is claimed in the ’ patent was not new or was obvious and is therefore in...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


State Bar legal ethics director Randall Difuntorum’s responsibility as a leader in the professional competence department was ...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, Contracts, Class Action


Almost all of the 350 or so players left out of the settlement had signed a Minor League Uniform Player Contract but were not ...


Entertainment & Sports, Communications Law, Class Action


Judge OKs class in $6B NFL TV package litigation

Feb. 10, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

A trial in the litigation that began in 2015 is set for February 2024. If the NFL is found at fault, it could dramatically cha...


Technology, Labor/Employment


Lyft’s legal team asserts that the plaintiffs’ claims that the background check process created negligence liability “is at od...


Government


"We've been contemplating doing this for quite a while and waiting for the right plaintiffs to come along," said Sacramento ba...


Environmental & Energy


With the class successful in both settlements, Amplify Energy and the shipping defendants are now set to face off against each...


Immigration


Ukrainian family says Baldwin dashed immigration hopes

Feb. 10, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Halyna Hutchins’ parents and sister. A lawyer for her husband and son condemned it.


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law


The community college district accused the defendants of fraudulently using the more than $1 billion of public bond money to r...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


“The major defense is that this was a family business that Mr. Naify owned, and it was a separate property inherited 20 years ...


Judges and Judiciary


A vote on the nomination of Ramsey & Ehrlich LLP white collar defense attorney Ismail J. “Izzy” Ramsey to be the next U.S....


Informal discovery conferences are LA judge’s key tactic


James Stoelker does his homework and doesn’t pound tables when working to resolve disputes.


Intellectual Property


Walmart have proffered an affirmative defense that its client is exempt from the claims against it because it is an online mar...


Judges and Judiciary, Discipline


After forming the nonprofit, Judge Richard A. Vlavianos served as its board chair and chief executive officer and “improperly ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


California’s agreement is the latest for the insurer, which has settled about a dozen similar accusations.