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Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Despite objections from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge allowed states - includ...


San Francisco settled for $5 million with Pilot Thomas Logistics, ending litigation over a diesel spill. The company dropped i...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge signaled he may hold Los Angeles in contempt for failing to meet settlement reporting obligations on homelessn...


Advocates say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is more than two years overdue in acting on a 2023 proposal to list the owl a...


Jurors found Equinox discriminated against a trainer with a hip condition, awarding him $32.2 million in one of this year's la...


Los Angeles County DA Nathan Hochman said Downtown LA Law is among firms under aggressive investigation for allegedly facilita...


The 4th District Court of Appeal ordered sanctions against attorney Gerard Fox, his client, or both, after he cited unpublishe...


Claiming fresh data shows significantly longer Three Strikes sentences for people of color, Stanford lawyers filed habeas peti...


Civil Litigation


Ford argued for the right to use discovery from its federal RICO suit in related state lemon law cases, but a magistrate judge...


Finding extensive California contacts and rejecting reliance on the fiduciary shield doctrine, Judge David A. Hoffer held that...


A federal judge signaled she may sanction plaintiff Neelam Sandhu for late witness disclosure and incomplete texts in her $10 ...


Meta, YouTube, and TikTok filed new federal lawsuits challenging California's SB 967 after the 9th Circuit ruled NetChoice lac...


Judge Samantha P. Jessner signaled she may allow narrow firefighter depositions to preserve fading memories in litigation over...


Civil Litigation


Defense firms and medical providers hit back at Uber's federal racketeering, filing motions to dismiss based on anti-SLAPP, li...


The Commission on Judicial Appointments on Monday unanimously confirmed three new justices to California's Courts of Appeal, i...


Litigation & Arbitration


Joseph McNally's move to a contingency-fee practice is unusual for a senior leader from one of the nation's major U.S. attorne...



Perkins Coie, Ashurst to merge

Nov. 17, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The combined firm will anchor major hubs in Seattle, London, Sydney and New York. The merger is subject to partner approval.


Intellectual Property


A San Jose federal judge said she is likely to issue a temporary restraining order barring OpenAI from using the word "Cameo" ...


A federal judge in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction requiring immigration officials to give detainees reliable, pri...


With thousands of policyholders alleging delays and inadequate payments after major January fires, L.A. County Counsel has dem...


Federal CJA attorneys will finally receive delayed payments, but defenders warn staffing won't rebound quickly. A memo dispute...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria found Womble Bond Dickinson and ALC Medical Holdings willfully continued a meritless case o...


With thousands of plaintiffs alleging Edison's power lines sparked the January Eaton Fire, Judge Laura Seigle has mandated yea...


With jury selection complete, attorneys for Prologis, its tenant businesses, and 24 plaintiffs laid out sharply differing acco...


With billboards, targeted digital outreach and high-visibility video ads, the CAOC's new "Every Eight Minutes" campaign seeks ...


Torts/Personal Injury


At their annual San Francisco meeting, California consumer attorney advocates announced plans to reintroduce SB 29 next year, ...


With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, jurors must decide if Apple misused Masimo's pulse-oximetry technology in the A...


At their annual meeting in San Francisco, consumer attorneys urged colleagues to push back against misleading or gaudy legal a...


Labor/Employment


The panel held that Township's multistate operations brought its contracts within the FAA's scope, directing the lower court t...


Litigation & Arbitration


Opening statements began in Los Angeles County's first talc ovarian cancer bellwether trial, with plaintiffs alleging Johnson ...