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Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Attorney David Lira cited California Labor Code Section 2802, which requires an employer to “indemnify his or her employee for...


Law Office Management


Jenner & Block launches San Francisco office

Mar. 23, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

The firm announced that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, will become co-chair of the government controv...


Civil Litigation


Eric V. Traut, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, said Monday the complaint was prompted by findings from a four-month USA Gymnas...


Government


Anticipation heats up for name of new attorney general

Mar. 23, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Many predict it will be an Asian American, but there are several candidates that have been discussed over the past few weeks.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Board of Governors voted March 18 to strip Girardi of his Hall of Fame title...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law


The rule gives a limited number of organizers access to farm property during nonwork hours for three hours a day, for as many ...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman ordered the school board to rescind its resolution ordering 44 cit...


Government, Criminal


Orange County DA Todd Spitzer compared challenger Peter Hardin to Los Angeles County DA George Gascon, but Hardin said he disa...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services department found that allowing the rule to move forward could cause massive ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Ordering teachers to get vaccinated usurped the statute’s public policy object, wrote John W. Howard, founder of JW Attorneys,...


California Supreme Court


The suspected gunman, Robert Aaron Long, denied the Atlanta shootings were racially motivated. FBI Director Christopher Wray a...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Banking


The lawsuit says Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard APC violated an ethical wall when it shared information about the ba...


Civil Litigation


“I plan to have someone confirmed in the next couple of weeks,” poker-player plaintiff Michael Postle told Sacramento Superior...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Lucie Barron said she faced skepticism because she was not a lawyer and was a woman when she founded one of California’s now l...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Class counsel in Illumina securities case could see attorney fees increase from $2.125M to $3.46M


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Richard Doyle, the former head deputy of the DA’s Compton office, refused orders from Los Angeles County District Attorney Gas...


The district court stressed that, unlike its eastern and western divisions, the southern division comprises just one county wh...


Government, Data Privacy


Privacy Protection Agency board members named

Mar. 19, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

Four of the five board members responsible for implementing the California Privacy Rights Act are attorneys.


Government


Chief Deputy Attorney General Matthew Rodriquez has had a long career in California state government.


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


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, in a revolt against his colleagues of the Central District of California, has been dismi...


Technology, Civil Litigation


A number of objectors and Apple argued the attorney fee award was too high.


Technology, Law Practice, Civil Litigation


Keller Lenkner LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP filed a joint lawsuit in December based on the theory that Fa...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel, who represented the city in a lawsuit which sought to blame consulting firm Pricewaterhous...


Insurance, California Supreme Court


The dispute concerns fees charged by title insurance companies to consumers for ancillary services such as overnight document ...


Obituaries


Stanley Y. Oda, 1938-2021

Mar. 18, 2021
By Jessica Mach

Workers' compensation expert was always ready to give advice.


Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation


Handy Technologies Inc. said the lawsuit fundamentally mistates the rights of the company and the workers who perform cleaning...


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal


3rd District Court of Appeal executive officer Andrea K. Wallin-Rohmann said the court delivered opinions at the highest rate ...


Government, Criminal


Since taking office in December, Gascón has faced a flurry of opposition from within his office, on the bench and from law enf...


Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Palo Alto Research Center, owned by Xerox Corp., accused the three companies of infringing on some of its inventions that made...


Judges and Judiciary


Momentum grows for change in funding court construction

Mar. 18, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Legislative Analyst’s Office has suggested moving responsibility for court construction back into the General Fund, as exi...