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Prefers spontaneity

Jun. 24, 2020

Justice Richard Aronson is quick with questions and savors skilled arguments.


Litigation & Arbitration, Government


The disclosure of the federal prosecutors' concerns appeared in a report filed Monday by Brian Kabateck of Kabateck LLP, who i...


Consumer Law


California cannot force Monsanto to put a cancer warning label on its Roundup weedkiller, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


In 2018, it became one of two California-accredited law schools approved to offer a hybrid online law degree.


Civil Litigation


Southern California Edison Co. and the state are fighting against deposition of utility employees and the full, unredacted cau...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken will oversee a newly-filed antitrust case accusing NCAA of illegally restricting student-at...


Immigration, Corporate


Foreign workers in the technology, medical, pharmaceutical, and financial industries will have privileged access to H-1B visas...


Labor/Employment


Labor board nixes bargaining over past disputes

Jun. 24, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Tuesday’s ruling reinstates the law as it had been for 80 years, the board said.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Even bar exam defenders say law schools should have more clinical hours and collaborate closely with law firms to better train...


Law Practice


Jonathan I. Kravis started Monday in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.


Criminal, Civil Rights


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


The San Francisco-based company has agreed to revise its wheelchair policies within 30 days and communicate them to new and cu...


Law Practice


Signature Resolution LLC reopened its offices in Los Angeles and Century City on Monday for in-person mediations.


Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal


Brick-and-mortar businesses must ensure their websites are reasonably accessible to people with disabilities, according to the...


U.S. Supreme Court, Securities


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

Jun. 23, 2020
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


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

Jun. 22, 2020
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...


Law Practice


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


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


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


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


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

Jun. 19, 2020
By Craig Anderson

State appellate justices who were removed from a case on a peremptory challenge as a trial court judge should disqualify thems...



Doing the Work

Jun. 19, 2020

Judge Anne Hwang researches and reads the briefs to come to correct rulings, lawyers say.


Law enforcement agencies were also urged Thursday to develop a system for tracking resigning officers who are under investigat...


California Supreme Court


US judge nixes challenge to wildfire fund

Jun. 19, 2020
By Gina Kim

PG&E ratepayers who sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the CPUC over the enactment of Assembly Bi...


Government


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

Jun. 19, 2020
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


As the two-year chapter arising out of the Camp Fire that wiped out Paradise came to a close Thursday, Butte County Superior C...