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“I have always thought highly of Stradling’s culture and commitment to its clients and since I have maintained relationships w...


Dovel & Luner represent a potential class of consumers who purchased Jeeter products with allegedly inaccurate labels that...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“No matter how well meaning, modest, or long-standing the intrusion into personal effects, the Fourth Amendment commands that ...


In his response to the government’s opposition to his sentencing memorandum, in which he wrote that three years in prison and ...


Civil Litigation


In May, the helmet manufacturers won a motion to remove punitive damages from the first amended complaint, as well as language...


Fred Bennett, an expert in arbitration who headed the alternative dispute resolution practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & ...


Juvenile court Judge Robert Totten worries about the ‘pull of the streets’


Judges and Judiciary, Government


In a lawsuit, the committee to recall District Attorney George Gascón challenged the conclusion by Dean C. Logan, the registra...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Christa Anderson moved from Keker, Van Nest & Peters, where she had practiced since the mid-1990s.


Civil Litigation


McKinsey had stated in a 2021 motion to dismiss that the lawsuits by municipalities such as Contra Costa County were barred by...


State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court


Attorneys or their law firm will be required to report whether they are responsible for managing a client trust account, and a...


Intellectual Property


Vizio encourages streamers to violate patents, suit claims

Oct. 26, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

DivX LLC is a San Diego video technology company behind three codecs for compressing video for local playback and streaming. T...


Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal


The 6th District Court of Appeal agreed with the plaintiff’s argument that federal regulations, such as those allowing roundin...


Environmental & Energy


Oil companies say the case belongs in federal court as the issues are global.


“The Closing the Justice Gap Working Group … and the California Paraprofessional Program Working Group are no longer operation...


"This is where my mind is, where my heart is," Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Gabriela H. Shapiro said of Indi...


Real Estate/Development, Land Use, Government


A version of the idea goes back at least to the Housing Accountability Act. It states that if cities don’t comply with the sta...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Despite taking extra days to hammer out which evidence would be admissible, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Davi...


Technology, Labor/Employment


That decision will mark the end of a three-year mediation process that began in March 2019 and consisted of “months of negotia...


Judges and Judiciary, Administrative/Regulatory


Ashley Silva-Guzman, who practices at Abramson Labor Group, will begin her first four-year term on the bar examiners committee...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice


Paul M. Jonna, along with Charles S. LiMandri and Jeffrey M. Trissell, represented Catharine Miller of Bakersfield before Kern...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Attorneys for David R. Lira and Keith D. Griffin say the case should be transferred because it includes other defendants who h...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Kaiser must pay $17M to patient in coma, arbitrator rules

Oct. 25, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

After nine days of arbitration and hearing the testimony of 25 witnesses, arbitrator Thomas D. Weaver sided with the plaintiff...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Scott A. Edelman of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP said, “Two years ago, we filed our lawsuit demanding that ATF take action o...


Tax, Securities


Mattel to pay $3.5M SEC fine over tax misstatements

Oct. 25, 2022
By Federico Lo Giudice

The SEC said that Mattel “violated numerous professional standards” and overstated its tax expenses, misreporting quarterly lo...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


“Mr. Brophy is a stand-up human being. If this chapter can close it will be best for the Brophy family’s ability to put this b...



The Perfect Fit

Oct. 24, 2022

Co-founders of boutique Tectonic couldn’t imagine hanging a shingle with anyone else.



No Stone Unturned

Oct. 24, 2022

Judge Manuel Almada asks questions not addressed by either party before making decisions


Entertainment & Sports


While the NCAA believes that Matthew Gee’s death certificate speaks for itself, his widow, Alana Gee, disagrees. She sent tiss...


Real Estate/Development


Evictions may be on the rise but numbers are hard to find

Oct. 24, 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Lawmakers may soon find themselves in the same position they did in mid-2020: under pressure to protect renters, but without t...