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State Bar & Bar Associations


A controversial, stricter bar passage standard is now in effect after the American Bar Association’s legal education council a...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court is mulling whether to hear an appeal that could appreciably expand court access to indigent prisoners ...


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


Senate Republicans are moving forward with a nominee to a California seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, despite th...


Bryan Schwartz and his fellow alumni doggedly pursue evasive defendant employers.



Watching & Listening

May 20, 2019
By Arin Mikailian

Judge Elizabeth Humphreys watches birds, but in court is careful to hear all parties.


Entertainment & Sports


Venable LLP filed a complaint on behalf of Petty Unlimited LLC, a company established in the late musician Tom Petty’s will, a...


Government


A bill designed to prevent public agencies from using attorney fees as a bargaining chip in California Public Records Act liti...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A superior court judge questioned the purpose of an entire day’s testimony Thursday in a case seeking to establish whether the...


Law Practice, Community News


Five third-year law students received $2,000 scholarships at L.A. Association of Business Trial Lawyers dinner.


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A three judge panel in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the issue Thursday of whether a prison can be forced to ...


Civil Litigation, Government


Counsel for the city of Inglewood allege Latham & Watkins LLP marshalled a multi-pronged campaign to stop construction of ...


Civil Litigation


Attorneys for Facebook Inc. argued Thursday the company's faulty video metrics were only estimates to help advertisers, and it...


MGM Resorts International indicated in financial disclosures that lawsuits brought by victims and family members of the 2017 M...


Prosecutors can proceed with criminal conspiracy charges against two anti-abortion activists in connection with filming Planne...


Government


Cal Fire released the cause of the 2018 devastating Camp Fire that sparked in Butte County in November 2018, which is the dead...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The California bar exam may soon be the country’s first bar exam proctored remotely with the help of artificial intelligence s...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


A key California Senate budget subcommittee has approved $40 million to pay a legal judgment to 3,400 active and retired state...


Attorneys on both sides of the landmark Monsanto weedkiller litigation indicated they are not willing to settle after three mu...


Criminal


Avenatti retains new private defense attorney

May 16, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

A judge on Wednesday ordered Avenatti to reimburse the public defender’s office for all work.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A consumer rights law firm was hit with multiple sanctions this week after a U.S. magistrate judge said one of its attorneys i...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


The matter has spawned 25 defendants, a criminal investigation and imprisoned a state senator, but injured parties have not ma...


Labor/Employment, Government


A superior court jury has rejected claims of discrimination and retaliation brought by a former photographer for the State Ass...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Edwards Wildman trial begins with a strange twist

May 16, 2019
By Carter Stoddard

A superior court jury heard opening statements and testimony Wednesday aimed at determining the validity of the business pract...


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


The U.S. Senate voted 52-45 Wednesday to confirm Jenner & Block LLP partner Kenneth K. Lee to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circu...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


Half of female attorneys and one third of male attorneys have been bullied at their job, according to a new global survey.


Government, Environmental & Energy


Attorney General Xavier Becerra and a coalition of state fishing and conservation groups sued the Westlands Water District in ...


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


California 9th Circuit nominee clears key Senate vote

May 15, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

Kenneth K. Lee, one of President Donald Trump's picks for three open California seats on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...


The text of the ordinance highlights the concern many civil rights organizations have about the weakness of the technology whe...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A California tenant applicant has won a long-running federal appeal over consumer reporting limitations, setting new case law ...


Law Practice, Community News


Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP hosted its annual anniversary celebration at the Exploratorium at Pier 15 i...