The University of La Verne College of Law has received the 2016 9th Circuit ADR Education Award for its innovative and compreh...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
The seemingly endless demand for fresh episodic entertainment content has caused a shift in the way producers and their financ...
Government
Governor signs bill allowing police to use body scans on all arrestees
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Despite the opposition of the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that ...
Three Bay Area cities have lost their bid to compel Monsanto Co. to pay for the cleanup of a chemical pollutant leaching into ...
Labor/Employment
Appellate panel finds for hotel worker in arbitration dispute
By Matthew Blake
A worker need not arbitrate her employment grievance even if she signed an employee handbook that directly alluded to an arbit...
Government
Driver amnesty program cut back in proposed legislation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A bill to extend an amnesty program that has allowed thousands of people to regain their drivers' licenses has been slashed du...
Criminal
U.S. dismisses own wire fraud case under threat of misconduct finding
By Renee Flannery
Faced with a federal judge's indication he would tell a jury the prosecution had elicited false testimony, the U.S. attorney's...
While the bar says it is hopeful lawmakers will resolve their current stalemate and pass a bill authorizing the agency to coll...
California Supreme Court
Murderer's death sentence reversed by 4-3 vote on rehearing
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court has set aside the death penalty against Gary Lee Grimes by the slimmest of majorities, more than two d...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit allows LA hotel workers' pay raises to go ahead
By Saul Sugarman
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sided with hotel workers when it denied a motion by business groups to stop a...
The state Supreme Court declined Monday to wade into politically charged legal battles over state education funding and teache...
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.