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Girardi and others indicted on federal charges

Feb. 1, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Former plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyer Thomas V. Girardi was indicted Wednesday in separate federal cases in Los Angeles an...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Tracie L. Brown was nominated for presiding justice of the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division 4. Judge Tari Cody o...


Securities


Noting it had been 20 years since President George W. Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in the wake of a series of co...


Government, Environmental & Energy


SB 253, a bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, would require companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenues who d...


Civil Litigation


Superior Court Judge Ruth A. Kwan slashed the hourly rates sought by Shegerian & Associates by 25% to 64% across the board...


Labor/Employment


U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria A. Audero found Monday that the plaintiffs’ subpoena to CEO Chris Kemnczinski to produce documents...


Environmental & Energy


Amy C. Johnsgard of Coast Law Group LLP said in her opening statement that Long Beach’s annual 4th of July fireworks have stip...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Retired Court of Appeal justice joins ADR Services Inc.

Feb. 1, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Justice Thomas L. Willhite Jr. spent 30 years as a jurist and authored more than 2,000 opinions.


Technology, Securities


Investors who said they suffered billions of dollars in losses because of Elon Musk’s Aug. 7, 2018 tweet stating he was consid...


Legal Education, Communications Law


On Saturday, Southwestern Law School’s Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law and the Armenian Bar Association w...


Judges and Judiciary


Committee says CJP should have more power, larger budget

Jan. 31, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The committee’s report urged against wholesale structural changes to the state’s judicial disciplinary body.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Including taxes and fees, the Judicial Performance Defense Insurance program cost about $970,000 during the 2017-18 fiscal ye...


California Supreme Court


Chief Justice names supervising attorney for Supreme Court

Jan. 31, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Kyle Graham has been the court’s assistant chief supervising attorney since 2017. He succeeds Jake Dear, who retired in December.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Former federal prosecutor joins Willkie Farr in LA

Jan. 31, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Marina A. Torres worked in the Obama administration on the Department of Homeland Security’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arr...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Greenberg Traurig’s office will be staffed by more than 10 shareholders, of counsel, associates, and other legal experts from ...


Civil Litigation


A statement from Pine Creek Care Center stated: “The limitations put on the defendants’ ability to fully defend themselves, co...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Erika Frank, of Shaw Law Group PC, joined the association Monday at its Sacramento headquarters. She is the new associate exec...


Labor/Employment


Plaintiffs claimed Amazon’s quotas discriminated against older workers because the hourly quotas are so high they cause all so...


Securities


The Democratic member of the commission said the exception carved out for private companies – once intended for small business...


Fresno County Judge Samuel Dalesandro, formerly a successful DA, brought his courtroom presence to the bench


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


"Nobody is resting on 50 years of achievements. It's, 'What is coming up next? What are the new frontiers that we are headed t...


LA judge works to keep attorney disputes away from jurors.


Allen Flatt Ballidis & Leslie aims to offer personalized service.


Civil Litigation


Jennifer L. Keller used a racial slur in questioning a rapper about music lyrics.


Government


"It's chaos. The government agencies, in an effort to help, have created complete chaos. Nobody really knows what's going on o...


Civil Litigation


Knobbe Martens sues client for nonpayment

Jan. 30, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

The intellectual property law firm did some patent application and preparation work for the business in 2014, and represented ...


Technology, Securities


Tesla former executives testified about their confidence Elon Musk could secure funding to take company private.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Discipline


Bar seeks to discipline Trump adviser Eastman

Jan. 27, 2023
By Wisdom Howell

Eastman denied the allegations in a Substack post, saying the complaint the bar received was “full of falsehoods” and accusing...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Communications Law


Judges split over medical misinformation law

Jan. 27, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Two federal judges in California have diverging views on a state law that seeks to discipline physicians and other medical pro...


Government, Civil Litigation


“The CARE Act does not invest in housing or services,” said Nubyaan S. Scott, a staff attorney at Disability Rights California.