Greenspoon Marder LLP has expanded its intellectual property practice group to California, opening an office Monday in San Die...
Law Practice
Trump administration changes H-1B rules just as it starts taking applications
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The government began accepting H-1B work visa applications on Monday and is proceeding despite changes announced just before a...
Education
UC Irvine law school dean among three candidates to lead UC Berkeley School of Law
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Erwin Chemerinsky joins UCLA School of Law Professor Laura E. Gómez, who is UCLA College Division of Social Sciences' interim ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bill would allow bar not to share certain student data from law schools
By Lyle Moran
Recently amended legislation would prohibit the State Bar from publicly disclosing data shared by law schools or "testing enti...
Stanislaus County Judge Ruben Villalobos wins high praise for his pursuit of different options.
Law Practice
Top firms initiate new flexible work programs, results debated
By Eli Wolfe
A group of top-tier firms formalized flexible work programs earlier this month, reigniting debate about whether these arrangem...
Litigation
Orange County jury awards $20.4 million in 10-year dispute
By Meghann M. Cuniff
An Orange County jury has awarded $20.4 million to the former business partner of real estate magnate Bruce Elieff after Elief...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to consider latest Trump administration travel ban
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The Trump administration's announcement Thursday that it would appeal the preliminary injunction against its latest executive ...
Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.
Litigation
Judge gives final approval to $25M Trump University settlement
By Lyle Moran
A San Diego federal judge said the deal resolving three cases would provide an "extraordinary amount of recovery" for class me...
Litigation
Retired state employees can avoid payment of damage awards, judge rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A judge has ruled that the State Personnel Board does not have the power to order former state employees to pay compensatory d...
Trump administration fires back at chief justice's critique of arrests of people who entered US illegally
With the addition of a suit by O'Melveny & Myers LLP, led by partner Daniel Petrocelli, there are now three firms suing ov...
Criminal
OC judge says court decisions preventing him from seeing sheriff's discovery material is bad law
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Judge Thomas M. Goethals said it is difficult to understand why higher courts don't trust trial courts to review such document...
A contingent of public officials and private attorneys kicked off Mediation Awareness Week at Los Angeles City Hall. ...
Law Practice
Higgs Fletcher & Mack's new managing partner starts today, plans for expansion
By Thor Kamban Biberman
Steven J. Cologne is succeeding John L. Morrell on Friday as the firm's managing partner, a role Morrell filled since 1997. ...
Criminal
OC Superior Court employee who ran 7-year bribery racket pleads guilty
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Jose Lopez Jr., 36, accepted nearly $250,000 in bribes over the seven years of his employment at the court in exchange for dis...
Litigation
Judge appears likely to approve $25M settlement of Trump University suits
By Lyle Moran
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel called the percentage of funds that class members were expected to recoup from the resol...
A bill to phase out state contracts with for-profit prisons by next year and end their use by 2028 has been introduced in the ...
Intellectual Property
Two former patent trial board judges join Covington & Burling
By Eli Wolfe
In a boost for Covington's patent office trials practice, partner Peter Chen and of counsel Scott Kamholz joined the firm this...
California Supreme Court
Environmental study for Banning Ranch development inadequate, court rules
By Kevin Lee
The city of Newport Beach failed to conduct an adequate environmental review for a highly publicized plan to develop 401-acre ...
Government
Controversy has arisen over Antelope Valley head deputy DA's handling of pleas
By L.J. Williamson And Malcolm Maclachla
Attorneys and court personnel have said Steven Frankland, head deputy of the DA's branch office in Lancaster, routinely instru...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Federal judge: California cities immune from antitrust liability for ambulance services
By America Hernandez.
At issue in the case decided late Wednesday was whether local governments can retain their public immunity when they participa...
Betty Barry-Deal, the first woman to serve as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, died on March 12 in her daughter'...
Corporate
185 general counsel urge Congress to maintain funding for Legal Services Corp.
By Paula Lehman Ewing
The legal executives sent a letter Tuesday in response to President Donald J. Trump's proposal to defund Legal Services Corp.,...
Criminal
State AG to press forward with death penalty argument for Orange County confessed murderer
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Before a Thursday pretrial conference, Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals said he may consider dismissing the death penal...
Judges and Judiciary
Annual law library event to honor appellate judge
By Justin Kloczko
Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library will host their annual Beacon of Justice Award gala on April 5 in honor of 2nd D...
Education
UC Hastings hopes to boost appeal by building academic village
By Lyle Moran
UC San Francisco, an expected co-anchor of the village, has also agreed to jointly develop hundreds of new housing units that ...
Litigation
Forever 21 store had illegal 'English-only' policy, employees allege
By Matthew Blake
Forever 21 Retail Inc. will shop for defense counsel after the state's anti-discrimination employment agency sued the retailer...
California Courts of Appeal
Court: Prosecutors can try case in which alleged victim is married to DA
By L.J. Williamson
Calaveras County District Attorney Barbara Yook erected a "Chinese wall" to prevent a conflict of interest, an appellate court...