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High Performance

Feb. 6, 2023

Antitrust boutique MoginRubin LLP squares off regularly against big corporations.


Real Estate/Development, Land Use, Government


Newsom wants to change CEQA to fast-track housing

Feb. 6, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Newsom has signed some 20 laws changing aspects of CEQA during his time in office. Many of these exempt certain kinds of proje...


Judges and Judiciary


Superior Court Judge Gail Dekreon retired after 20 years on the bench.


Real Estate/Development, Government


Orange County Judges Nick A. Dourbetas and John C. Gastelum have recused themselves from further proceedings in a case allegin...


Intellectual Property


UC neurologist wins more than $5M from startup

Feb. 6, 2023
By Wisdom Howell

According to the trial counsel, Dr. Jim Brewer was not paid stock options he was promised by the Impact executives, for his co...


Securities


In the 2018 tweet, Musk said he had secured funding to take the automaker private.


Intellectual Property


Judge mulls ban on vulgarities in copyright trial

Feb. 6, 2023
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

U.S. District Judge David Selna gave MGA’s attorneys from Keller Anderle LLP two weeks to show the admissibility of the defend...



B.S. Detector

Feb. 3, 2023

Neutral Margo Hoy is sharp on the law and is not easily fooled, attorneys say.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Christopher Kramer, most recently with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, has worked on some of the largest public works p...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


PG&E to stand trial over Zogg Fire

Feb. 3, 2023
By Wisdom Howell

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be arraigned Feb. 15 on four counts of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of reckle...


Judges and Judiciary


The Senate Judiciary Committee backed Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Calabretta for a seat on the Eastern Di...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Civil lawsuits follow FTC actions in agriculture sector

Feb. 3, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Attorneys say a more active federal response on the issue has emboldened private companies to sue more aggressively. One of th...


Judges and Judiciary, Community News


The National Judicial College is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023 with special programs scheduled in Miami, New York ...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Latham & Watkins snags partner from Gunderson Dettmer

Feb. 3, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Brian Patterson will serve as global vice chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies Practice.


Government


The City and County of San Francisco were the first to challenge the August 2019 amendment that said immigration status could ...


Environmental & Energy


What the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation got from its water users this week was two vastly different proposals: The first was submi...


A key witness admitted under oath that he didn’t see the incident that preceded the death of the famed private investigator.


The ACLU and a putative class say the sheriff is violating individual’s privacy rights


No one is voiceless if someone listens, LA County commissioner says.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


An Nguyen Ruda joins Robert H. Bunzel as comanaging principal of San Francisco based Bartko, Zankel, Bunzel & Miller PC. K...


Securities


Penalties must exceed business cost, Gurbir Grewal tells conference.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Armstrong Teasdale opens first office in California

Feb. 2, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Labor and employment attorney Julie O’Dell joined the partnership and will sit in the new Orange County office.


"They really only started to contend that the offer was improper once they realized that they didn't beat it at trial, because...


Judges and Judiciary


"The decision recognizes both the importance of the Political Reform Act and that it is critical to encourage (rather than det...


Class Action


According to a motion for preliminary approval filed by plaintiffs’ lead counsel Julian Hammond of Hammond Law PC in Seattle, ...


Labor/Employment, Judges and Judiciary


"Without a change to our current trajectory, the future is clear: As early as next year, the court will not have enough court ...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


3 new partners join Seyfarth Shaw in San Francisco

Feb. 2, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

San Francisco office managing partner Christian Rowley said, "We continue to expand our offerings to service a growing group o...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Managing partner Thomas P. Fitzgerald said the firm decided to strengthen its San Francisco office to mirror the strength it c...


Criminal


The federal indictment in Los Angeles accuses Thomas V. Girardi and Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of t...



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...