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Legal Education, Law Practice


The six-story, 57,000-square-foot Cotchett Law Center is the first of what law school officials say is a major construction pr...



Rock Steady

Aug. 28, 2020

After 4 decades as a prosecutor and judge in family court, nothing fazes Scott Gordon.


Criminal, California Supreme Court


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


Denying fault for those that get addicted to street drugs after being prescribed prescription medication, McKesson lawyer Chri...


Contracts, Civil Litigation


The school’s intercollegiate athletics department seeks $200 million in damages for breach of contract, implied covenant of go...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


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


Sam Ohta, supervising judge at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, will instead try the felony hit and run cas...


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


Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress, writing for the panel, rejected the argument that U.S. law couldn’t be applied to a British cit...


Technology, Corporate


Google names new general counsel

Aug. 27, 2020
By Kamila Knaudt

Google hasn't had a general counsel since 2018, when Walker was promoted to a broader position. Prado's appointment follows th...


Civil Rights


The firm celebrated with an educational webinar featuring author Kimberly Hamlin and was moderated by Lori Feathers.


Criminal


"The jury could only have found [Yevgeniy] Nikulin guilty of these crimes by use of conjecture and speculation, not facts," at...


Civil Litigation


Athea Trial Lawyers has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three women killed by an eroded coastal bluff in an Encinitas beach last ...


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

Aug. 27, 2020
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


In July, the court announced that it would lower the cut score from 1440 to 1390, starting from the October examination. Many ...


Labor/Employment


The preliminary injunction, which has since been stayed by a court of appeal, required the companies to start complying with A...


Civil Litigation


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


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


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


Tribes often cite sovereignty as a shield and defense attorneys have found filing extensive discovery motions has led to dismi...


The judges from state trial and appellate courts throughout California agreed "to work together as one to advocate for a more ...


Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff denied the county's second request in part because California Cod...


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


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.


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


A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled the trial was tainted by the exclusion of jurors who opposed the death penalty, but...


Government


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


In its fourth attempt to get a restraining order against Grace Community Church the county said, notices, citations and fines ...


Law Practice


Los Angeles boutique Cohen Williams LLP announced Roya Ladan joined as counsel Monday. Ladan came from King & Spalding LLP...