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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A panel of federal appeals judges on Wednesday appeared ready to allow a shareholder to challenge California’s corporate board...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


AB1577 would create the “Committee to Review the Operations and Structure of the Commission on Judicial Performance.” This bod...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


But ethics experts say the State Bar's decision -- which came a day before a psychiatrist stated in court filings that Girardi...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


The Sunset Rule adds automatic expiration dates to more than 18,000 policies issued by the Department of Health and Human Serv...


Law Office Management


Debevoise & Plimpton to open San Francisco office

Mar. 11, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

The San Francisco office, the firm’s third in the U.S. and 10th globally, will be led by comanaging partners Michael Diz and D...


The Bay Area case drew national attention because of the brazen attack and because it took center stage in a contentious publi...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Judge preliminarily OKs Sutter Health $575M settlement

Mar. 11, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine T. Massullo last year rejected an earlier version of the agreement after the...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


Bay Area groups sue Clearview biometric database

Mar. 11, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Plaintiffs contend in a complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday that the New York firm's data collection p...


Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez's ruling from the bench followed a pattern seen in some other recent cases. Mendez agreed w...


Native Americans, Civil Litigation


The tribe sued last year, seeking to overturn an intergovernmental services agreement with the county.


Technology, Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Along with the appointment of Tim Wu as an economic adviser on technology and competition policy, the reported nomination of L...


Government, Criminal


SB 16 aims to prohibit law enforcement agencies from claiming attorney-client privilege to keep these records under wraps, or ...


Over the objection of a probation officer and comments from the prosecutor that the woman has a poor record of rehabilitation,...


State Bar & Bar Associations


It was Michael P. Rubin’s third disciplinary charge by the State Bar. The first came in 1993 after he brought a loaded gun int...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Technology litigator Jonathan A. Patchen joined the San Francisco office, which launched in 2019, from Baker Botts LLP on Mond...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


In March 2018, the center’s laboratory director discovered that the tank, which contained 1,500 eggs and 2,500 embryos, had lo...


Civil Litigation


The group said in a notice of joinder in opposition filed in federal court in San Francisco that the settlement harms proposed...


Technology, Civil Litigation


AT&T data throttling suit ends in $12M deal

Mar. 9, 2021
By Winston Cho

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen wrote that the deal “provides adequate relief for the class considering the protracted nature ...


Tax, Law Practice


Tax Board seeks $5.3M from Girardi

Mar. 9, 2021
By Jessica Mach

The total amount attorney Thomas V. Girardi owes to the board includes $3,860,968 in taxes, $622,653 in penalties, and $889,42...


Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


Fresno restaurants try again to overturn Newsom’s ban

Mar. 9, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The complaint signed by Nathan S. Miller with Miller & Ayala LLP in Fresno calls Newsom's restrictions on in-person dining...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Some of the committee members are on board already, and they are getting started reviewing prospective judges even before ever...


Law Practice


Sander Zagzebski, who joined from Greenspoon Marder LLP, has a varied corporate practice that focuses on mergers and acquisiti...


On Jan. 31, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter requested briefs from counsel on both sides outlining the lengths to which he ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


In total, 8,723 people took the general bar exam in October and 60.7% passed, according to recent statistics from the State Ba...


Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


The case is one of several fronts in an ongoing war between state and local governments and tobacco companies. Reynolds, Phili...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


“In many ways, the team is representative of where the firm is today, and where it’s heading,” O’Melveny counsel Patrick McNal...


Labor/Employment, Government


The Department of Labor is widely expected to either substantially revise or repeal the rule, which was finalized by President...


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law


The ACLU of Northern California and four other organizations argue Riverside County, San Mateo County and San Bernardino Count...



Uncovering Solutions

Mar. 8, 2021

Oppenheimer Investigations Group aims to prevent workplace disputes.


Law Practice, Law Office Management


The firm brought on 18 new attorneys in Los Angeles.