LA County Superior Court Commissioner Cynthia Zuzga focuses on mental health treatment.
Public Interest
State Bar says legal aid groups to receive $7M in federal grants
By Riley Guerin
Crime victims in California will benefit from nearly $7 million in new federal grant funding to 17 legal aid nonprofits, the S...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Senate, Assembly have competing bar dues bills
By Lyle Moran
The state Senate is moving ahead with its own version of a bill that would authorize the State Bar to collect attorney dues in...
Labor/Employment
Employers cannot require class action waivers, 9th Circuit rules
By Logan Noblin
In a decision that could set up a pivotal showdown over arbitration law, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rul...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley, Ropes assist in Pfizer's $14 billion acquisition of Medivation
By Banks Albachn
San Francisco-based Medivation Inc., a biotechnology company responsible for the widely successful prostate cancer treatment X...
Litigation
Claim: Student complaints of inappropriate touching by teacher ignored
By Justin Kloczko
A Palm Desert student who told school officials his elementary teacher molested students was ignored and instead sent to a psy...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Law schools accredited by the American Bar Association are required each year to publicly disclose how their graduates perform...
A Los Angeles federal judge has dismissed a $600 million lawsuit brought by a California company alleging price fixing, corrup...
An allegedly inebriated attorney and her husband beat an Uber driver after he requested they take their argument outside his c...
Criminal
OC judge in Dekraai death penalty case 'disturbed' by new material
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A judge presiding over the death penalty case of Seal Beach mass murderer Scott Dekraai said Friday he was "disappointed" and ...
Product Liability
Longstanding suit against coffee vendors will continue
By Justin Kloczko
A more than six-year-old lawsuit against Starbucks Corp. and other coffee makers, alleging their brews contain a cancer-causin...
Three state Senate bills affecting arbitration face votes in the less friendly confines of the Assembly this week. ...
At the request of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the state Supreme Court will consider whether a federal rule that fav...
The Assembly approved amendments Friday to a new State Bar dues bill crafted with the hopes of possibly securing support from ...
SF County Presiding Judge John Stewart has won plaudits for steady leadership of the court.
A list of moves from around the state.
Riverside County Commissioner Kenneth Fernandez is ready, and he expects attorneys to be too.
Century City mediator Kenneth S. Wolf knows trust and estate law is often a matter of compromise and understanding. ...
Criminal
Defense, prosecution waive Orange County judge's recusal
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The recent election of two Orange County deputy district attorneys to the superior court bench prompted one of their future co...
A once-controversial bill on state intellectual property has been dropped by its author in deference to an effort by Gov. Jerr...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Morgan Hill attorney's money laundering conviction upheld
By Saul Sugarman
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the conviction of a former Morgan Hill criminal defense attorney who ...
The founding of Pioneer Law Group LLP represented a bet on the Sacramento real estate market. ...
Litigation
Second suit filed by company that built housing, retail space along LA metro stop
By Justin Kloczko
The company that leased the space to build the 35,000-square-foot, mixed-used development at the Wilshire and Vermont metro st...
California Supreme Court
Retired state attorney's lawsuit revived by high court
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court has revived a retired deputy attorney general's putative class action against the state of California ...
A major wildfire blocked six judges from reaching their courthouses this week when flames forced closure of the Cajon Pass hig...
Litigation
Ex-Times cartoonist crowd-funds $75,000 bond to fight dismissal of wrongful termination suit
By Justin Kloczko
A fired Los Angeles Times cartoonist suing for defamation and wrongful termination has crowdsourced the $75,000 in bond money ...
Law Practice
Judge orders litigation finance contract discoverable
By America Hernandez
A federal judge wants proof that 12,500 Nigerian plaintiffs really do have a benefactor willing to wire hundreds of millions o...
Labor/Employment
Citing small PAGA payout, judge rejects Uber settlement
By Matthew Blake
A judge rejected a settlement of up to $100 million between Uber Technologies Inc. and a class of California and Massachusetts...
Litigation
CEQA lawsuit seeks review of state agency's pesticide approval
By Phil Johnson
A collection of environmental groups has sued the state Department of Food and Agriculture, alleging a new wrinkle in a statew...