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At a status conference Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter directed attorneys to work out a l...


Insurance


The utility originally intended to use interest accrued in its $13.5 billion settlement with wildfire victims to pay the penal...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


An Oakland federal judge has kept alive an antitrust class action accusing California’s bail bond industry of a long-running c...


Labor/Employment


The governor’s plan to require businesses to reshape their workspaces to give workers and customers more physical space betwee...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Bar group recommends changes in exam topics

Apr. 15, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

Administrative law and procedure might be a future topic, while professional responsibility, trusts, wills, community property...


Civil Rights


“Supreme Court precedent and California precedent both hold you can’t quarantine people who aren’t sick or aren’t proven to be...


Civil Litigation


A jury trial that was on its seventh week in Santa Barbara County received permission from the chief justice to proceed as the...


Law Practice


Snell & Wilmer opens La Jolla location

Apr. 15, 2020
By Kamila Knaudt

Jeffrey D. Morton specializes in intellectual property in the life sciences space, and Steffi Gascón Hafen is a tax specialist.


Labor/Employment


The couriers’ attorneys “could have filed arbitration demands promptly upon being retained, rather than strategically waiting ...


Labor/Employment


Ongoing uncertainty around how the coronavirus spreads has made it necessary for employers to take extra precautions for emplo...


Environmental & Energy


The cases concern the Legislature’s passage of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, which created the Delta St...


A remnant from a time when smallpox still ravaged the country, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) has been successf...


Intellectual Property


Facebook and LinkedIn are targeted as co-defendants in a new privacy class action filed against Zoom Media Communications in t...


The lawsuit alleged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos damaged plaintiffs’ potential earnings and credit by illegally pausing the...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Compliance expert joins Vinson & Elkins

Apr. 14, 2020
By Morgan Keith

Michael Ward will be a part of the firm’s white-collar and government investigations practice.


The packet of complaints argue specific payment mechanisms in their insurance coverage plans were triggered when the Los Angel...


Civil Litigation


LA courts won’t start ramping up until after June 22, attorneys were told in a telephonic briefing Friday and they should not ...


The panel noted California law recognizes a legal interest in unjustly earned profits, and therefore, “Plaintiffs have adequat...


A team of three attorneys will escort Avenatti from New York to California, according to an ex parte motion filed in the Centr...


The statewide zero bail order for misdemeanors and some felonies could provide important data for the effects, good and bad, o...


Criminal defense attorneys say they’re frustrated with the amount of administrative work and court proceedings they are requi...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Gov. Newsom’s March 30 executive order could allow state nurse practitioners to temporarily practice without formal physician ...


Judges and Judiciary


Eight nominees are awaiting confirmation for Central District judgeships everyone says are urgently needed.


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court


Both orders build on several prior moves as the courts try to prevent cases from getting upended by deadlines that can’t be me...


Consumer Law, Civil Rights


U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California ruled Friday that Volkswagen offered plaintiffs an “...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Their recommendations will go to the State Bar Board of Trustees for discussion in closed session on Tuesday. After that, the ...


Bankruptcy


Consumers and ratepayers are blasting Pacific Gas & Electricity and utility regulators for a punishment they claim is too ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


For the first time in a dozen years the equitable doctrines that neutral relied upon could have wide applicability again, said...


Law Practice


The firm elevated two lawyers in Los Angeles and one in the Palo Alto office.


As courts prepare to adopt a statewide emergency bail schedule Monday, some district attorneys are advising their line prosecu...