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Insurance, Civil Litigation


The five-judge panel in Washington, D.C. held back on combining what would have been the largest coordinated multidistrict lit...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


The verdict is big win for Irell & Manella LLP and McKool Smith PC, which tried the case for the plaintiff, a holding comp...


San Diego County Superior Court Judge Earl H. Maas III


Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Keep Groceries Affordable Act in 2018, which banned all new local taxes on beverages with added su...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Government, Criminal


El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, who is president of the California District Attorneys Association, opposed th...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


Witnesses began testifying Tuesday in the second day of trial before Chief Judge Larry A. Burns of the Southern District of Ca...


Real Estate/Development, Government


Voting was ordered to take place by Thursday, after the chief justice cautioned the judiciary should not legislate and Democra...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Qualcomm’s dominant market position is the result of superior products and practic...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Monday’s ruling explicitly rejected an argument the companies have long made: They do not employ drivers, but are rather techn...


If nominated at the Democratic party convention Harris will the first Black woman on a major presidential ticket.


Mark Rosenbaum has been utilizing the judiciary to further causes he believes in since he began his career helping to defend D...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


A Los Angeles judge denied remaining plaintiff's motions seeking to invalidate a new state regulation stating coffee doesn't p...


Government


The translation problems affected several initiatives on the November ballot, said a writ filed by the attorney general agains...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Alan F. Broidy stole $512,526 from his client and used the money to pay off personal debt, according to U.S. Attorney Nicola T...


California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court reversed a Court of Appeal decision that had reduced a jury’s $8 million noneconomic damages award bec...


Labor/Employment, Government


Groups like the California Chamber of Commerce have long pushed to strike private right of action clauses from proposed bills,...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Federal prosecutors from the Central District of California argued for the complete stay of two proceedings involving Paul O. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, California Supreme Court


With the court’s decision on July 16 to permanently lower the cut score from 1,440 to 1,390, some deans, students and others w...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


The decision is a win for state legislators who have sought to enforce AB 5 against Uber and Lyft, and a withering judicial cr...


Environmental & Energy


U.S. District Judge William Alsup's Friday ruling replaced a more demanding set of conditions that could have forced PG&E ...


Civil Litigation


The first jury trial commenced Monday in the Southern District of California post COVID-19 shutdown orders. It is a civil case...


Law Office Management


Srinivasan's appointment marks many first for the law firm. She is also the first managing partner based outside of the firm's...


Prosecutors are becoming concerned that the way in which prison officials are releasing inmates violates a constitutional righ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education, Law Practice


According to a new report from the American Bar Association, 37% of 1,100 new lawyers who were interviewed said that instead o...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed rulings by a San Francisco district judge against two of the plaintiffs’ th...



Parsing Partnerships

Aug. 10, 2020

Brown & Charbonneau's niche practice is focused on litigating business and family breakups.


Officers wouldn’t need to be arrested or charged with the commission of a crime or a public offense in order for a person to q...


Law Practice, Intellectual Property


The new firm will specialize in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Office of Enrollment and Discipline ethics investigatio...


Kings County District Attorney Keith L. Fagundes said he never had the chance to brief the Department of Justice on how the la...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The majority opinion concluded the board wrongly interpreted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to reject the asylum cla...