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Government


Talk show host wins place on recall ballot, tax returns unneeded

Jul. 22, 2021
By Winston Cho, Malcolm Maclachlan

During a brief hearing in Sacramento County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon, Judge Laurie M. Earl said the election rule...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Keenly aware that he was giving the most important — and perhaps final — performance of his legal career, Michael J. Avenatti ...


Litigation & Arbitration, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


“It settled essentially on the eve of trial,” said Justin T. Berger, a partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP in Bur...


Legal Education, Law Practice, Community News, Civil Litigation


Founders Richard L. Hasen and David Kaye said the unfettered growth of digital media and the spread of misinformation made the...


Military Law, Legal Education, Community News


McGeorge has about 30 students who are veterans and has had a Military Law Society chapter for the past 20 years, created to h...


Government, Civil Litigation


One recognizable Republican is challenging his disqualification from the race, another is looking to use his preferred title a...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Civil Litigation


The Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee nearing a $26 million global deal with opioid distributors said litigation such as the thr...


Government, Criminal


The $18 million, three-year program will provide money and other assistance to further prosecutor initiated resentencing effor...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


David R. Lira and Keith D. Griffin, who worked for Los Angeles based Girardi Keese and plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi,...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


Fox joins the firm in August. He left the U.S. attorney’s office in May. During his last two years he oversaw 180 federal pro...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Michael J. Avenatti’s attorney, H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, was given an advisory role in the defense.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court


“This is an extraordinary situation in which this court’s intervention is needed to restore public confidence in California’s ...


Government, Civil Litigation


“This lawsuit is baseless and without merit,” Bill Ainsworth, public information officer for the state treasurer, said in a st...


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation


City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced the filing of a complaint to void the city’s lease-to-own agreements for the 101 Ash S...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


After Girardi lost her first try at disqualifying Richards, her new attorney -- Evan C. Borges of Greenberg Gross LLP -- filed...


Government, Criminal


“As required under AB 1506, the California Department of Justice immediately took action to initiate our investigation that wi...


“If the Secretary of State’s decision is not reversed, we will see them in court,” he said Monday in a statement.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal


A longtime appellate attorney has accused the court of unreasonable delays in criminal cases.


Tax, Education Law


School boards sue state controller over tax guidance

Jul. 20, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The California School Boards Association claimed in a complaint Friday that Controller Betty Yee violated state tax laws and P...


Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee dismissed the Uber’s and Postmates’ constitutional challenge, concluding that Assembly Bill 5...


Judges and Judiciary, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


Some county courts reinstate mask mandates

Jul. 20, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Many courts in metropolitan areas — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Sacramento counties — had kept their...


Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice


Law firms expand, betting on continued M&A surge

Jul. 19, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

In the first half of 2021, businesses spent $1.74 trillion on M & As involving U.S. companies, compared to $511.79 billion...


Government, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland found that issuing a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


“We are seeing a trend of large companies like Sony far too often pay lip service to diversity and inclusion while failing to ...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


Ronald Richards, who is tasked with finding firm assets, said in the filing that Erika Girardi collected payments stemming fro...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Civil Litigation


In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...


Judges and Judiciary, Immigration


Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...


Data Privacy, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Pointing to the dismissals of other lawsuits similarly claiming that Facebook holds a monopoly on social networking, U.S. Dist...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Hundreds of jurors said they know nothing of Michael J. Avenatti or his criminal charges, except for a vague recollection of h...