Legal Education, Law Practice
UC Hastings College of the Law’s Academic Village named for Joe Cotchett
By Craig Anderson
The six-story, 57,000-square-foot Cotchett Law Center is the first of what law school officials say is a major construction pr...
After 4 decades as a prosecutor and judge in family court, nothing fazes Scott Gordon.
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Until it’s reviewed, high court says landmark bail decision must be treated as precedent
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court has made a key portion of a 1st District Court of Appeal decision that limits money bail binding on tr...
Civil Litigation
Drug makers not liable for city’s needle clean-up, lawyers argue
By Winston Cho
Denying fault for those that get addicted to street drugs after being prescribed prescription medication, McKesson lawyer Chri...
Contracts, Civil Litigation
UCLA accuses Under Armour of using pandemic as pretext to end sponsorship
By Gina Kim
The school’s intercollegiate athletics department seeks $200 million in damages for breach of contract, implied covenant of go...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Owners fear delays in decisions on business interruption lawsuit venues
By Blaise Scemama
With the number of federal suits reaching 600, an unusual number of plaintiffs’ attorneys are filing motions for remand to sta...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
1st LA criminal jury trial in 5 months to start Thursday
By Nick Kipley
Sam Ohta, supervising judge at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, will instead try the felony hit and run cas...
Criminal
Amended bill would require state AG to investigate fatal police shootings
By Tyler Pialet
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has been reluctant to intervene in local prosecutions of officers involved in these...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit affirms former Autonomy executive’s fraud convictions
By Craig Anderson
Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress, writing for the panel, rejected the argument that U.S. law couldn’t be applied to a British cit...
Google hasn't had a general counsel since 2018, when Walker was promoted to a broader position. Prado's appointment follows th...
The firm celebrated with an educational webinar featuring author Kimberly Hamlin and was moderated by Lori Feathers.
"The jury could only have found [Yevgeniy] Nikulin guilty of these crimes by use of conjecture and speculation, not facts," at...
Civil Litigation
City, state sued over three deaths from beach cliff collapse
By Gina Kim
Athea Trial Lawyers has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three women killed by an eroded coastal bluff in an Encinitas beach last ...
Civil Litigation
Utilities commission says director placed on leave for performance issues
By Gina Kim
The state utilities commission is fighting back outgoing executive director Alice Stebbins' threat to pursue litigation for wr...
Civil Litigation, Banking, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Oakland can sue Wells Fargo over lending practices
By Craig Anderson
In a Wednesday ruling, the panel upheld most of U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen's denial of a defense dismissal motion and ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Law deans praise lower bar passage score, say it will not affect school admissions standards
By Henrik Nilsson
In July, the court announced that it would lower the cut score from 1440 to 1390, starting from the October examination. Many ...
The preliminary injunction, which has since been stayed by a court of appeal, required the companies to start complying with A...
Civil Litigation
Decade-long coffee labeling case ends with summary judgment for defense
By Blaise Scemama
The lawsuit has gone to the Court of Appeal at least three times, and may end up there again, according to sources familiar wi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New bar board, examiners committee and bar court officers and members named
By Henrik Nilsson
Sean M. SeLegue, partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, was named by the California Supreme court to chair the State...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education, Government
Assembly Judiciary Committee considers police officer misconduct and bar exam
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A proposed resolution, HR 103, asks the state high court to make the lower bar exam score retroactive to 2015. The bill on pol...
Native Americans
Tribe invokes sovereign immunity, defense responds with mass discovery demands
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Tribes often cite sovereignty as a shield and defense attorneys have found filing extensive discovery motions has led to dismi...
Civil Rights
Judges create group to advocate for more just and united judicial system
By Kamila Knaudt
The judges from state trial and appellate courts throughout California agreed "to work together as one to advocate for a more ...
Civil Litigation
LA County loses another bid to get order shutting church
By Nick Kipley
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff denied the county's second request in part because California Cod...
Government
Newsom endorses challenger in LA DA race where both candidates are Democrats
By Tyler Pialet
Newsom, who as mayor of San Francisco tapped Gascon to lead the city’s police department and to succeed then-DA Kamala Harris,...
Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
Lease arbitration agreements not enforceable, panel says
By Gina Kim
The 2nd District Court of Appeal applied state versus federal law to the case involving a dispute over claims of bedbugs in an...
Technology, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Fortnite can remain off app store during Apple litigation
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that Epic Games cannot suffer irreparable harm if the status quo is maintaine...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court throws out Scott Peterson’s death sentence
By Tyler Pialet
A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled the trial was tainted by the exclusion of jurors who opposed the death penalty, but...
Government
A heated debate on state bill to decertify police officers
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The biggest drama of the day was probably over a procedural vote on one of the year's most timely and controversial bills. SB ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Civil Rights
LA county says only judicial order, not enforcement procedures, can get church to stop indoor services
By Nick Kipley
In its fourth attempt to get a restraining order against Grace Community Church the county said, notices, citations and fines ...
Los Angeles boutique Cohen Williams LLP announced Roya Ladan joined as counsel Monday. Ladan came from King & Spalding LLP...