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Law Office Management


Amy S. Ramsey joined a team of roughly a dozen members of the firm that make up the employment, labor and workforce management...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


While over 1,000 business interruption claims filed in the U.S. differ from policy to policy, the two most pertinent questions...


Legal Education


Loyola Law School celebrates 100 years

Sep. 9, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

Hundreds of alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the school attended one of the 20 breakout rooms over Zoom through...


Law Office Management


Based in Palo Alto, Peter H. Kang will co-chair Baker Botts' Korea IP practice.


Civil Litigation


The plaintiffs claimed they were segregated with other Black workers to perform menial cleaning tasks, targeted with racial sl...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Judge tells defendant to get another attorney

Sep. 9, 2020
By Craig Anderson

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Vincent J. O'Neill declared a second mistrial in the commercial eviction case and ordered ...


Labor/Employment


Employees gathering with friends, expressing their political views and posting about these things on social media have created...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The bar did not stop at the cease and desist letters. It started to notify attorneys in late July that it was investigating th...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


Time after time, the jurors filled out the forms, waited for them to be reviewed, and were then called back to fill them out a...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


Provenance, formerly known as Inspire Charter Schools, "caused various assets and personnel to be distributed among the school...


Obituaries, Criminal, Civil Litigation


Frank C. Carson’s attorney said he was preparing a motion seeking to turn his civil rights and wrongful imprisonment case into...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, Civil Litigation


Some judges don’t wear masks, igniting debate

Sep. 8, 2020
By Craig Anderson

In a letter to Monterey County Presiding Judge Julie R. Culver and California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Salinas de...


State Bar & Bar Associations


At issue were allegations that Fredericka McGee, a longtime legislative attorney, was offered the job in July, only to have th...


Law Practice


Arizona plunges into legal paraprofessional system but some California attorneys are hesitant to follow.


Civil Litigation


Convening an emergency hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh considered whether to issue a temporary restraining order ...


Labor/Employment


The new law expands the types of business contracting relationships that will be subject to the Borello standard for determini...


Michael Jonsson mediates domestic violence disputes, an area of practice few want to handle.



Serious Duty

Sep. 4, 2020

Retired military officer Judge John Lonergan is known for thoroughly reviewing pleadings.


Law Practice


Craig Varnen joined Gibson Dunn after 26 years at Irell & Manella LLP, where he chaired the securities litigation practice...


The guidelines, implemented in June by DA Diana Becton, add a layer of scrutiny in deciding whether to upcharge theft or burgl...


Judges and Judiciary


Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan and LA County Presiding Judge Kevin Brazile are the Judicial Council’s new voting members.


Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation


Defense wins 1st asbestos trial verdict by Zoom

Sep. 4, 2020
By Craig Anderson

The sweeping win came after a trial that featured a host of objections by defense counsel, who raised concerns about comments ...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


Special needs students can’t learn properly online, says proposed class action filed in Central District.


Claiming the agency's proposal is too vague to even describe, let alone improve upon, plaintiffs' lawyer Emilou MacLean argued...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


This new criteria is stricter than before, attorneys noted. Under Section 707 of Title VII, the EEOC can bring lawsuits agains...


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the ban under the Public Health Service Act to prevent the spread of dis...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A California provisionally licensed lawyer would be allowed to appear before a court, draft legal documents, contracts or tran...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judge Mark J. Bennett, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote the court should have reheard the decision en banc.


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County court suspends mandatory in-person informal discovery disputes.


For the most part, the press and public were relegated to listening to an audio version of the trial in a courtroom several fl...