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Intellectual Property, Criminal


Prosecution rests in Mongols racketeering trial

Nov. 15, 2018
By Meghann Cuniff

Two retired federal agents who infiltrated outlaw motorcycle gangs recently took the unusual role of defense witnesses for the...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights


With the jury selected, a personal injury trial began Wednesday involving a Texas man accusing Monster Energy Drinks of causin...


Immigration, Government


Thousands of immigrants were deported in the last fiscal year as the result of information sent to the federal government by C...


Securities, Civil Litigation, Corporate


An executive accused of insider trading will pay $1.5 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission case against him,...


Law Practice


Specialists Michele Haydel Gehrke and Anne Cherry Barnett have left Polsinelli LLP to take point in Reed Smith LLP’s labor dep...


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


The White House has filed formal paperwork to nominate five attorneys and one state judge to a slate of federal bench seats in...


Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court.


Education Law


UC Berkeley Law abandons Boalt name

Nov. 14, 2018
By Erin Lee

Berkeley Law is eliminating the Boalt name from its campus in light of John Boalt’s racist views.


Civil Litigation, Government


As firefighters battle deadly blazes across California, wildfire liability promises to be one of the biggest issues in the sta...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A UC Berkeley administrator who oversees Title IX compliance has been selected as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ first...


Labor/Employment


By a federal judge’s post-trial rulings on the nature and calculation of damages in an employment misclassification trial agai...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The National Collegiate Athletic Association argued that its viewers “overwhelmingly oppose” upending the current compensation...


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


A Virginia-based animal advocacy group trying to stop an Orange County synagogue from practicing the ritual slaughter of chick...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Immigrant children facing deportation will not automatically be given immigration lawyers after 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...


Government, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging...


Government


A judge has tentatively ruled that the city of Santa Monica’s election system violated the California Voting Rights Act, the 2...


Law Practice, Corporate


Jones Day hires 2 former Supreme Court clerks in LA

Nov. 14, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Brittney Lane Kubisch, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Eric Tung, who clerked for Justice Neil...


Law Practice, Corporate


Trio launches statewide consumer firm

Nov. 14, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Micha Liberty, Greg Rizio and Daren Lipinsky have launched Rizio | Liberty | Lipinsky, with offices in Oakland, Riverside, Chi...


Probate, Entertainment & Sports


Stan Lee’s death could spark massive legal battle

Nov. 14, 2018
By Steven Crighton

If reports of an internal power struggle between Stan Lee's closest confidantes in the months leading up to his death prove ac...


The number of calls were disclosed Friday in a hearing before Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory L. Prickett, who is o...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Seven Democratic members of Congress, including three Californians, are calling for President Donald Trump’s pick to run the U...


Law Practice, Government


Ann M. O’Leary, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom’s new chief of staff, may be better known in legal circles than she is to the Sacramen...


Labor/Employment, Immigration


US workers sue Tata, claim citizenship bias

Nov. 13, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

One of India’s largest outsourcing technology companies faces a federal class action in Northern California alleging the compa...


Civil Litigation, Government


Freedom of Information Act lawsuits jumped last quarter

Nov. 13, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

There was a significant jump in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits last quarter, according to a new report that found a backl...


Civil Litigation, Education Law


The Law School Admission Council was ordered to pay a state agency $480,000 in attorney fees for litigation over accommodation...


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


The politicization of the judicial appointment process was on full display last week, as Republicans coped publicly with the l...


Immigration, Government


The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s new rule banning asylum reque...


Civil Litigation, Government


A closely-watched civil trial pitting sober living homes against the city of Costa Mesa in a battle over government regulation...


Government, Environmental & Energy


California’s most prominent members of Congress want answers about the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to close its Envi...


Law Practice


Spertus Landes hires 7, opens downtown LA office

Nov. 12, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

The two offices for the trial firm are technologically synchronized to work together as one firm, topping out at 20 attorneys ...