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Government


The Senate Judiciary Committee passed bills to hold online marketplaces to the same product liability standards as physical st...


One by one, bills with high costs were sent to the committee’s suspense file on Wednesday, to be taken up at a make-or-break f...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


The UK Financial Conduct Authority — a non-governmental financial regulatory agency — asked the Court of Appeals of England an...


Law Practice


Park joined O'Melveny from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where she practiced for nearly 20 years.


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation


Three powerhouse plaintiff firms are teaming up to help the City of San Diego get out of what they call the "worst land deal e...


Securities, Civil Litigation


The complaint alleged E*Trade did not account for the possibility of negative oil futures on its platform and stuck investors ...


Civil Litigation


The negligence lawsuit, filed Wednesday by Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos LLP and McGee Lerer & Associates, said wh...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


In June, the legal sector added 7,500 jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. But most graduates won't be able to ent...


Obituaries


Donna M. Daly, 1956-2020

Aug. 20, 2020
By Tyler Pialet

Daly, who prosecuted some of Northern California's most dangerous criminals and was one of the first DAs in the state to intro...


Labor/Employment


Employment attorneys say the disparity prevents complainants from recognizing serial perpetrators while also blocking employer...


Law Practice


With the U.S. general election just 76 days away, law firms and companies throughout the nation are announcing voter friendly ...


Government


SB 1290, despite a potential $15 million price tag, passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Tuesday after days of legi...


Law Office Management


Southern California ADL names new leader

Aug. 19, 2020
By Kamila Knaudt

The Anti-Defamation League named Jeffrey I. Abrams as regional director of the Los Angeles office on Tuesday. He succeeds Aman...


On Tuesday, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan announced her office has set up a team to find and notify victims when ...


The countersuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Aug. 10, also alleged that the manager moved into Nichelle Nich...


California Courts of Appeal


Appellate Justice Laurie Zelon to retire this month

Aug. 19, 2020
By Arin Mikailian

She cited health issues as the reason for retiring and added she will work remotely through her last day on Aug. 31.


Civil Litigation


Parents fighting to send their children back to school given chance to argue their case with permanent injunction, merits benc...


Immigration, Government


After catching the lawyers in a series of allegedly inadvertent inaccuracies over COVID-19 testing procedures at Mesa Verde, a...


Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP on Tuesday trimmed by half its 12% salary reduction for associates, most staff att...


Siemens Medical Solutions scored a victory in a false advertising lawsuit relating to Graves' disease-detecting blood tests fi...


Real Estate/Development, Government


Assembly Bill 1436, authored by Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-0, less th...


Labor/Employment


Conversations about a third way to classify California workers that departs from the "employee" and "independent contractor" b...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


Prison officials were ordered on Friday by a 1st District Court of Appeal panel to transfer Ivan Von Staich from his shared ce...


Government, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory


On Friday, the agency sent warning letters to 20 companies, including one in San Diego. Each informs the company or clinic the...


Education Law, Civil Litigation


The Department of Justice sent a letter to Yale University on Thursday, saying that the school discriminated against Asian-Ame...


Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


An Arizona bankruptcy judge has stayed certain discovery proceedings of an attorney tied to a federal probe of the city of Los...


Health Care & Hospital Law, California Supreme Court


In a legal victory for nursing homes, the state Supreme Court on Monday slashed the damages award to the daughter of a man, no...


Immigration, Criminal


Fifty-six of 104 total people detained at Mesa Verde now have the virus, according to a lawyer representing a class of detaine...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


Most judges who have ruled have found in favor of insurers who say the term "physical loss or damage" means an actual alterati...


Government, Civil Litigation


Reversing a district judge, a 9th U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Friday ruled a state law requiring a surcharge on prepaid wir...