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Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar rebuffed arguments from the International Business Machine-owned company that users consented...


Government, Criminal


An advisor to DA George Gascón said the three public defenders were lateral hires because they were appointed to the same posi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The bar is funding the initiatives from attorney “opt out fees,” which generate around $300,000 per year, but the need is far ...


Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


“The burden of cases that have piled up over the past six years has become overwhelming and unmanageable by that court alone,”...


Insurance, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Proskauer Rose is representing the Los Angeles Lakers in its fight to collect unpaid claims submitted to Federal Insurance Co....


Labor/Employment, Government


Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, considering Julie A.Su’s nomination for a post ...


Judges and Judiciary


Should Congress agree with the Judicial Conference proposal, the expanded courts would bring much-needed relief to judges who ...


Judges and Judiciary


The retirements in the past few months, with more coming this spring, leave a lot of vacancies on the Los Angeles County Super...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Avenatti’s lawyer was accused of ripping off Michael Flynn’s defense motion filed in 2019 but attorney H. Dean Steward called ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


The plaintiffs, representing California cities and counties, seek a court order declaring the companies have engaged in unlawf...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Trial is scheduled to begin in August on claims that MoFo engaged in pregnancy and maternity discrimination and violated equal...


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


Frustrated by the pause on jury trials in the Central District of California,U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who sits in...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


Famed trial lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients. A psychiatrist says he has Alzheimer’s.


In Recess


The Best Move

Mar. 15, 2021

Los Angeles attorney Philip Wang is an international chess master.


Law Practice


Former Senate judiciary chief launches consulting company

Mar. 15, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Hannah-Beth Jackson, an attorney, led the powerful committee for nearly seven years before she had to step down late last year...


Criminal, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


Senior U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California found credible the declarations of several ph...


Technology, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found users failed to allege the company profited from their personal information and said it’s i...


Criminal


Harry Sassounian was convicted in 1984 of first degree murder for the shooting death of Kemal Arikan, the Los Angeles consul g...


Technology, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye said, “We can and will innovate more to enhance services.”


Labor/Employment, Government


The California Business and Industrial Alliance, a trade organization that was launched in 2017 to challenge California's Priv...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


The lawsuit, filed in federal court, was joined by nearby hotels and retailers that lost business during the pandemic.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


State Bar objects to Tom Girardi's conservatorship

Mar. 12, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson, Jessica Mach

In a filing Friday, the bar's Chief Trial Counsel wrote that this conservatorship proceeding may interfere with the State Bar ...



Prepared and Persistent

Mar. 12, 2021
By David Houston

Suzanne Segal digs into disputes and won’t give up, lawyers say


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


A 2nd District Court of Appeal panel affirmed a decision to cap an attorney's fees because of his incivility, in a case that s...


Government


Multiple factors may now point at one potential nominee: Assemblyman Robert A. Bonta, D-Alameda, though there is still strong ...


Labor/Employment


Uber and Lyft to share sex assault information

Mar. 12, 2021
By Jessica Mach

Thursday’s move follows a series of lawsuits passengers filed against Uber and Lyft in recent years, in which the passengers a...


Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the Eastern District of California wrote 26 pages. U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez...


Intellectual Property


2020 was notable for patent litigation

Mar. 12, 2021
By Winston Cho

There were 4,060 new patent cases filed last year — the first increase in filings since 2015, according to a new study. Distri...


Litigation & Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Cedric Chao established his own boutique in the Bay Area following tenures at Morrison & Foerster and DLA Piper.


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


Rachel Lederman, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, said while the suit seeks unspecified compensatory damages and a court order d...