Government, Criminal
Amy Karlin named interim federal public defender in Central District
By Meghann Cuniff
Amy M. Karlin is now interim federal public defender for the Central District of California.
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
City attorneys, others sue San Diego over pension plan
By Meghann Cuniff
Municipal employee groups in San Diego have banded together to sue the city over pension limitations that exempt only police o...
Government, Administrative/Regulatory
States win backdoor victory on net neutrality
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The FCC won the overall case. The court turned back a challenge to the commission’s 2017 decision to eliminate net neutrality ...
Civil Litigation, Government
City sues county over sale of coliseum land
By Malcolm Maclachlan
It’s unlikely Oakland Athletics outfielders will need to dodge tiny homes for the homeless while catching fly balls anytime so...
Menlo Park-based cancer research company GRAIL Inc. has announced the appointment of Marissa Song as the company's new general...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Access to Justice Commission splits from the State Bar
By Lyle Moran
The California Commission on Access to Justice split from the State Bar on Tuesday, marking the end of a nearly 25-year run in...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision Tuesday that McDonald's Corp. is not responsible for w...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar prosecutors ask state high court to reinstate misconduct findings
By Justin Kloczko
In a rare move, State Bar prosecutors are petitioning the state Supreme Court to reinstate misconduct findings against an atto...
ENGIE GC Tanya Willacy appreciates boutique firms’ expertise in developing law.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal, California Supreme Court
High court questions ex-prosecutor’s role in capital case
By Jessica Mach
Eight years after successfully prosecuting a man for organizing the murder of his estranged wife, the role of a former deputy ...
Labor/Employment
Uber plan to merge services not response to AB5, it says
By Glenn Jeffers
To many, Uber's announcement last week it would merge its ride-hailing, food-delivery and Jump bike-scooter services into an a...
The state attorney general and Public Utilities Commission are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality ...
Civil Litigation
$40 million talc verdict continues string of plaintiff wins
By Justin Kloczko
A Los Angeles jury found Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder contained asbestos ands awarded a plaintiff couple $40 million, r...
A Buchalter team helped Hyundai Motor Company beat a $40 million products liability lawsuit after a Los Angeles jury freed it ...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Kirkland & Ellis wins $125M jury verdict for technology company
By Carter Stoddard
A jury in New Jersey awarded technology company EagleView $125 million in lost profits, agreeing with a Kirkland & Ellis t...
Veto of state environmental bill avoids confrontation with water contractors
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Newsom angered environmentalists by vetoing SB 1, a bill that would have enshrined several federal environmental bills into st...
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is closing its San Francisco and Austin offices after nine partners left to join Houston-based Bake...
Retired Lassen County Judge Joseph Harvey, who influenced the development of the state's evidence code, has died. He was 91.
Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Nonlawyer investment in law firms could provide broad benefits, supporters say
By Lyle Moran
Allowing nonlawyers to invest in law firms and other legal services providers would provide California’s legal industry with a...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA’s reasons for dismissing billing lawsuit questioned
By Blaise Scemama
The city of Los Angeles’ decision to dismiss its lawsuit against Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC over a faulty utility billing sys...
Monsanto Co. is trying to improperly change its strategy midstream in the federal Roundup cases by trying to admit new experts...
Attorneys for Elon Musk are seeking to depose a BuzzFeed writer the Tesla CEO pressed to investigate a man now suing him for d...
Civil Litigation, Immigration
Immigration judges file labor grievance, escalating fight with DOJ
By Glenn Jeffers
The union representing the nation's 400-plus immigration judges filed a pair of complaints against the U.S. Department of Just...
Government, Criminal
California tries to push forward rape kit bill, but expiration of federal law may cut processing funds
By Jessica Mach
The expiration of a federal law on Monday is poised to impact processing times for rape kits in California, which are already ...
Immigration, California Supreme Court
State’s attorneys among those asking Supreme Court to toss president’s decision on DACA
By Malcolm Maclachlan
President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program must be thrown out, according...
SanDisk LLC resolved for $50 million Thursday a long-running legal battle over accusations it misled investors about the healt...
Securities, Civil Litigation
Facebook investor lawsuit dismissed, given new deadline to amend complaint
By Nicole Tyau
Investors in the social networking giant were unsuccessful for now in bringing a class action lawsuit to Facebook over their l...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Billionaire boss’ antics not intended to harm, executive testifies in sex case
By Steven Crighton
David Nussbaum, a former vice president and senior vice president of billionaire Alki David’s Hologram USA Inc., confirmed he ...
Law Practice, Government
Another ballot measure proposed to end medical negligence damages cap
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Consumer Watchdog filed a new ballot measure Thursday to make a frontal assault on the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act,...
Law Practice
Perkins Coie bolsters San Francisco office with 2 lateral hires
By Craig Anderson
The firm hired a pair of attorneys at its San Francisco office this week — the former chair of Vedder Price P.C.’s employment ...