State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
New ways for evaluating law school graduates meet resistance
By Henrik Nilsson
Even bar exam defenders say law schools should have more clinical hours and collaborate closely with law firms to better train...
Law Practice
Munger Tolles hires former DOJ prosecutor who resigned in protest
By Craig Anderson
Jonathan I. Kravis started Monday in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Criminal, Civil Rights
Bill takes aim at false, race-based police reports
By David Houston
Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Santa Cruz) on Monday announced an amendment to Assembly Bill 1472 that would make false police r...
Consumer Law, Civil Rights
Lyft settles DOJ complaint over some drivers’ treatment of disabled customers
By Jessica Mach
The San Francisco-based company has agreed to revise its wheelchair policies within 30 days and communicate them to new and cu...
Signature Resolution LLC reopened its offices in Los Angeles and Century City on Monday for in-person mediations.
Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
Websites must be accessible, buildings aren’t substitute
By Gina Kim
Brick-and-mortar businesses must ensure their websites are reasonably accessible to people with disabilities, according to the...
U.S. Supreme Court, Securities
Supreme Court upholds SEC’s disgorgement authority, but raises other issues
By Craig Anderson
The good news for the SEC is that the court, by an 8-1 margin, rejected a bid to block the agency from requiring disgorgement ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
$150M cut in state courts without federal aid
By Blaise Scemama
While an agreement has been reached, the Assembly and Senate leaders and the governor are still “ironing out” the budget detai...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation
LA County civil cases resume, without attorneys present
By Justin Kloczko
Judges, clerks and marshals officially returned to the Spring Street Courthouse on the first day of the LA County courts’ ramp...
Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Actors lose bid to keep ages off casting website
By Craig Anderson
The panel affirmed a district judge’s opinion that the 2016 law, which forbids websites from sharing the ages of actors and ot...
Jeffrey M. Reisner, a prominent bankruptcy practitioner, has joined Steptoe & Johnson LLP as a partner and the leader of i...
Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit considers possible race bias in jury selection
By Tyler Pialet
Court filings show the prosecution said it was striking the three jurors because they expressed extreme anti-prosecution and a...
U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment
Bostock may not fully recognize gender identity, lawyers say
By Jessica Mach
To extend discrimination protections to LGBTQ employees, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark opinion on Title VII relied on a li...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Uber Eats is latest target of worker classification suit
By Winston Cho
Rideshare industry foe Shannon Liss-Riordan is continuing her crusade for a court order forcing certain companies that lawmake...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Pacific Coast University School of Law loses state accreditation
By Henrik Nilsson
Accredited law schools must maintain a minimum bar passage rate of 40% or more for five years. The Long Beach school has been ...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethics rule issued for appellate justices
By Craig Anderson
State appellate justices who were removed from a case on a peremptory challenge as a trial court judge should disqualify thems...
Judge Anne Hwang researches and reads the briefs to come to correct rulings, lawyers say.
Government, Criminal
California police chiefs want to decertify officers with histories of misconduct
By Tyler Pialet
Law enforcement agencies were also urged Thursday to develop a system for tracking resigning officers who are under investigat...
PG&E ratepayers who sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the CPUC over the enactment of Assembly Bi...
Government
Capitol protests can resume with masks, state says, weddings, too
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The attorneys for the plaintiffs — San Francisco-based D. Gill Sperlein and Harmeet K. Dhillon of Dhillon Law Group Inc. — the...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Government
Access advocates pressure court to end closed proceedings
By Malcolm Maclachlan
While attorneys and litigants can dial in, or in some cases physically attend, there is often no way for people not directly i...
Environmental & Energy, Criminal
PG&E gets maximum $3.5M fine on 84 manslaughter counts
By Gina Kim
As the two-year chapter arising out of the Camp Fire that wiped out Paradise came to a close Thursday, Butte County Superior C...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Incoming Cal Western dean wants to join law and technology
By Henrik Nilsson
Sean M. Scott hopes to distinguish the law school by having a targeted master of laws and master's program and expand the scho...
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration
Wells Fargo changes loan policies after ruling on DACA
By Winston Cho
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to block the Trump administration's attempt to end the Deferred Action for Child...
Real Estate/Development, Government
Bill aims to give tenants 10 years to repay rent after virus
By Blaise Scemama
Unlike other bills designed to provide aid to renters, landlord advocates somewhat support SB 14109.
Tax, Real Estate/Development, Government
LA aims to tax unoccupied rental units
By Blaise Scemama
Vancouver, Oakland, and Washington D.C. have already levied a vacancy tax, claiming it will motivate owners to return units to...
Consumer Law, California Courts of Appeal
Appellate panel raises questions on experts in talc case
By Justin Kloczko
The case is believed to be the first superior court mesothelioma case to be heard on appeal in the country, but differs from t...
Criminal
Some counties vow to continue zero bail, after state lifts emergency order
By Tyler Pialet
The no cash bail experiment will continue in some parts of the state.
Government, California Courts of Appeal
Newsom’s order on fall election can proceed, for now, appeals court says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
An appeals court stayed a temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order for the fall election.
Judges and Judiciary
Trio of Southern California litigators appear before Senate Judiciary Committee
By Gina Kim
Central, Southern District of California nominees probed before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in wake of police...