A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved
Volkswagen AG's announcement that it will spend $14.7 billion to clear up the company's admitted scheme to evade government-ma...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ross Moody knows how to dexterously put cases into context.
A state fund reserved for courthouse construction is running dry more quickly than anticipated, prompting local judicial leade...
Litigation
Company that owns multiple dating sites agrees to make them LGBT accessible
By Justin Kloczko
Spark Networks, which owns 10 online dating websites, has settled two lawsuits claiming lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
Criminal
San Bernardino County DA dismisses murder charge against four-times-tried William Richards
By L.J. Williamson
The San Bernardino County district attorney dismissed murder charges Tuesday against William Richards, the namesake for a bill...
A federal judge rejected a $1.75 million settlement between Coach Inc. and the company's sales associates in litigation over t...
U.S. Supreme Court
A 9th Circuit Fannie Mae decision will be reviewed by the high court
By Joshua Seboldn
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would take up a foreclosure case in California that centers on whether the Fe...
Judges and Judiciary
Brown appoints 18 superior court judges in 10 counties
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed 18 superior court judges in 11 counties on Tuesday, most of them Democrats with experience in publi...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Van Nuys) ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Former State Bar investigations manager files whistleblower retaliation suit against agency
By Lyle Moran
John Noonen claims he was fired for making internal complaints about former bar prosecutor's actions. ...
Perspective
Letter to the editor: Column forgets executive order history
By Riley Guerin
Jay Sekulow's recent guest column, "Divided court blocks Obama" (June 24), ignores the use of executive orders by recent presi...
Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison on charges stemming fr...
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Secretary ON Semicondu...
The Phillips Lerner family law firm ends its 26-year life when its four attorneys and staff join Blank Rome LLP on July 1. ...
Law firm leaders and students searched for solutions to the legal industry's female brain drain problem at the Women in Law Ha...
Litigation
'Happy Birthday to You' not yet public domain, judge rules
By Steven Crighton
The song "Happy Birthday to You" is one step closer to entering the public domain with a federal judge's approval Monday of a ...
Discipline
Start Bar Court review department affirms disbarment recommendation
By Phil Johnson
A review department for the State Bar Court affirmed a recommendation that Wade Anthony Robertson Jr. be disbarred for stealin...
Litigation
Paramount settles profit participation suit for $6.81 million
By Steven Crighton
The settlement between Paramount Pictures Corp. and a group of the company's profit participants who claimed they were massive...
A teenager who says he was subjected to an unprovoked beating by police at the Los Angeles County Fair when he was trying to f...
Hueston Hennigan LLP's dual representation of the State Compensation Insurance Fund in a civil case and a defendant in a relat...
In the midst of growing debate about whether there are too many law schools, a federal advisory panel has recommended that the...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Waves of innovative, evidence-based policies have eroded the traditional juvenile justice model, diverting resources away from...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar accused of violating open meeting law
By Lyle Moran
A State Bar watchdog has accused the agency of holding an illegal phone meeting in which bar leaders allegedly voiced their op...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate justice William Rylaarsdam retires Thursday
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The 79-year-old senior member of the court isn't ready to leave the law, so he'll be volunteering a few days each week at Lega...
Los Angeles-based company Epsilon Electronics Inc. has won a $1.5 million arbitration award handed down in the Rabbinical Coun...
State Bar & Bar Associations
LACBA installs new officers, honors Gilbert, Kuehl
By America Hernandez
Appellate Justice Arthur Gilbert and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl were honored at the county bar's installation ...
Judges and Judiciary
Interpreter video pilot program approved by Judicial Council
By Kevin Lee
The Judicial Council unanimously approved Friday a pilot program to gauge whether state courts can implement live video of int...
Labor/Employment
Rideshare plaintiffs' lawyer sees Lyft approval helping Uber case
By Matthew Blake
The suddenly emboldened plaintiffs' lawyer for Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers declared one federal judge's initi...