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Civil Litigation, Government


State sues US over high-speed rail defunding

May 22, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California High-Speed Rail Authority are seeking to block the U.S. government from rescinding nearly...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Five workers sued AT&T Mobility on Tuesday, alleging that upper management enabled a toxic environment of discrimination a...


Tesla moved to compel arbitration, arguing that since Vaughn acted as an employee and held a full-time job offer containing a ...


Civil Litigation


An employee of a Washington-based consulting firm contracted by Bayer AG posed as a journalist for increased access to a landm...


Civil Litigation


A civil jury finds that an Orange County-based attorney intentionally interfered with plaintiffs’ efforts to recover $24 milli...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


The lawyers Johnny Depp hired to sue his lawyers are now suing him.


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


For the second time in two weeks, U.S. Senate Republicans voted to confirm a California nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation, Government


The city of San Francisco wants to buy its local power grid from Pacific Gas & Electric in a bid to create an independent ...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee is to decide who will take over a major class action Avenatti tried to bring to verdict in 2017.


Sidley Austin LLP has added its third private equity partner in a month to its Century City offices. Eric Kauffman, the most r...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Aliso Canyon gas leak litigation on Monday hailed a report stating Southern California Gas Compan...


Judges and Judiciary


The Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished Los Angeles County Judge Jose I. Sandoval for continuing a rese...


Law Practice, Community News


Ricardo Echeverria of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP in Claremont received the Lifetime Legal Achievement honor Saturday at Co...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The attorney wife of a disbarred British solicitor said her husband was a “brilliant legal mind” during her testimony Monday i...


Civil Litigation


Federal judge denies energy drink company’s motion to dismiss competitor’s civil claims in long-running case over false advert...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The February pass rate was 31.4%, 4 points higher than last year but still the second-worst result in over three decades.


Law Practice, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Bill that would end many court fines escapes committee

May 21, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A sweeping Senate bill that would end most fines and fees paid by defendants narrowly survived a key legislative deadline, des...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Several local bar associations say the State Bar’s proposed fee increase will hurt their funding and membership.



Making Lives Better

May 21, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

Kathy Hibbs’ career has been in industries that are addressing people’s most basic problems.


Paul W. Nash, Ariel C. Shaeps and Elizabeth J. Wilgenburg have been promoted from senior counsel to partnership at the Allen M...


Immigration, Government


The Trump administration's emergency declaration to build a border wall faced its first test Friday as attorneys for 20 states...


Labor/Employment, Intellectual Property


As California and other states limit restrictive covenants employers use to protect essential information like trade secrets, ...


Civil Litigation, Criminal, Civil Rights


A class of individuals who were arrested protesting the Sacramento district attorney's decision not to charge the two police o...


Government, Criminal


AG drops resistance to new transparency law

May 20, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

After a judge issued a tentative order that would compel the release of records by the state Department of Justice under the s...


Civil Litigation


In what defense attorneys are calling a novel trial strategy, pharmaceutical giant Allergan USA Inc. won $48,500 instead of th...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Minutes before a malpractice trial recessed Friday, a defense attorney for Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP began reading to the jur...


Government, Criminal


Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could face criminal charges of manslaughter and reckless arson over the role it is believed to ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A new case management system at the State Bar Court has hit some snags, taking case calendars and dockets offline for months, ...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected a revised bid from the U.S. attorney’s office to seize the club’s trademarked logos


Entertainment & Sports


If a minor wants to keep his fraud lawsuit against Epic Games Inc. out of arbitration, attorneys say he had better stop playin...