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Law Office Management, Community News


The new office is on the 33rd floor of City National Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, home to other major law firms including Jo...


Tax, Civil Litigation


Senior community seeks tax relief due to damage by COVID

Sep. 14, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Attorney Marty H. Dakessian of Los Angeles stated in a complaint Friday that Sacramento County improperly ignored state tax la...


Government, Civil Litigation


Lawyer says AG falsely blames virus for discovery delays

Sep. 14, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“The fact that most courts have conducted very few, if any, civil trials in the last year and a half and very few live hearing...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


The city should provide religious exemptions and a medical exemption for those with natural COVID antibodies gained after reco...


Legal Education, Civil Litigation


The China Initiative has “deviated significantly from its claimed mission,” and is fostering a hostile work environment for Ch...


Real Estate/Development, California Courts of Appeal


The appellate panel reversed San Mateo County Superior Court Judge George A. Miram, who rejected a writ petition and concluded...



Joint Legacy

Sep. 13, 2021

Bonjour, Thorman, Burns & Dahm combines criminal defense and personal injury.


Civil Litigation


Spencer R. Lucas and Nadine N. Khedry of Panish Shea & Boyle LLP sued EOS Fitness Center in Riverside, saying its attendan...


“Administering an injunction of this sort, on this scale, is patently incompatible with the procedural simplicity envisioned b...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Daniel H. Bromberg, who was a founding member of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's appellate practice, joined Pillsb...


Government, Criminal


DAs may push own law after zero bail bill is withdrawn

Sep. 13, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

“I think most DAs recognize bail is a regressive measure. But this bill was fatally flawed in our view. As we’ve noted, it had...


Immigration, Government


The Department of Homeland Security issued the regulation under President Donald Trump, and there should be weight placed on t...


Technology, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The decision is a major blow to one of Apple’s core businesses in a $100 billion market.


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


According to the lawsuit, the issue started in 1927 when SQMNA shipped fertilizer used for citrus orchards to Pomona. The fert...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Shortly after a meeting, Consumer Law Experts began to grow its practice dramatically as it hired at least eight former Legal ...


Government


Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican challenger Larry Elder gained the support of very different parts of the legal community with...


Labor/Employment, Government


Employer wage theft criminal bill heads to governor

Sep. 10, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

If signed, AB 1003 would make it a category of grand theft, a potential felony punishable by up to three years in prison. In o...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar wrote that Qualcomm owed no duty to the plaintiff in a decision that faults the instruction...


Technology, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland questioned whether Rumble has an antitrust case against Google because i...



Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal


Theranos chief's fraud trial delayed by juror COVID scare

Sep. 9, 2021
By Winston Cho, Craig Anderson

During an emergency hearing over whether to push back the second day of trial, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila informed pros...


Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb said the plaintiffs failed to establish that “irreparable harm … was likely,” if h...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Government


This year’s bill directs the state auditor to complete another report on the bar’s discipline program by next April 15, allowi...


Technology, Law Practice, Civil Litigation


The plaintiffs’ attorneys invested 20,576 hours and over $10 million in attorney fees in the litigation, according to the moti...


Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation


The lawsuit by Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, filed Tuesday, is the third against Los Angeles County District Attorney G...


Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan Feldman in Orange County used the defendant’s experience learning about the dangers of dri...


Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


“The case is important because it affirms the authority of local governments to thoughtfully regulate sober living homes for t...


Technology, Securities, Criminal, Corporate


The wide-ranging opening statement by Williams & Connolly LLP partner Lance A. Wade also blamed the co-defendant in the ca...


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Biden nominates 3 Californians to 9th Circuit

Sep. 9, 2021
By Craig Anderson

“If confirmed, this slate of nominees will bring historic personal and professional diversity to California’s federal bench. O...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California ruled that Section 230 only protects service provid...