U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Deputies who shot two homeless people not entitled to immunity, 9th Circuit rules
By Fiona Smith
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies who conducted a warrantless search of a backyard shack and shot a homeless couple wh...
Criminal
LAPD Chief Beck pledges to increase number of mental health response teams
By L.J. Williamson
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck pledged Wednesday to increase the number of response teams with members specially traine...
The company responsible for video game franchises World of Warcraft and Diablo has been accused by a former employee of miscla...
Los Angeles County, the nation's largest trial court, expects to implement e-filing on all civil cases by November. ...
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Korn Ferry International Century City ...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger has a baby, will return for oral arguments next month
By Saul Sugarman
State Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, marking the first time anyone can remember an...
Criminal
Apple officially cites NY case in San Bernardino iPhone matter
By Amanda Schallert
Apple officially brought the government's recent loss on an order to unlock an iPhone in New York to its case in San Bernardin...
Dealmakers
State Bar & Bar Associations
Report accuses Dunn, Girardi of currying favor with bar leaders
By Lyle Moran
A Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP report says Los Angeles plaintiff's attorney Thomas V. Girardi had close relationships and fr...
El Dorado Judge Warren Stracener's time as a teacher helped shape him into the judge he is now.
As the trial lawyers who prevailed on the motion for new trial based upon the significant misconduct of plaintiff's counsel in...
Insurance fraud defense firm Knox Ricksen LLP has been dismissed from both hacking complaints by personal injury firm Reyes &a...
In a dispute over dismissed employees, a judge will let fraud claims go forward against Elon Musk's Mars colonization company,...
Venable LLP poached intellectual property litigator Susan E. Hollander from K&L Gates LLP Tuesday, the latest in a line of...
For buttering up Chinese officials at state-owned telecommunications companies, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. agreed Tuesday to p...
Newport Beach attorney Stephen Young Kang was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison for two counts of wire fraud and...
Judge Sheldon Sloan passed away Friday at the age of 80. Friends and family described him as a likable, smart, and hard workin...
California Supreme Court
State high court mulls parole options for teen offenders
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court seemed uninterested Tuesday in overturning a teenage murderer's lengthy prison sentence on constitutio...
In an employment dispute that has dramatically expanded use of the state Private Attorney General Act or PAGA, a superior cour...
Litigation
Pimco founder opposes his former company's effort to quash suit
By Saul Sugarman
Lawyers representing Pacific Investment Management Company LLC founder William H. Gross filed a motion Tuesday opposing his fo...
House committee members grilled the FBI director at an encryption hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, leaning in favor of Apple I...
The State Bar's board was falsely told that California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye wanted Joseph L. Dunn to be fired ...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Ellie Mae Inc., Pleasanton ...
A federal California jury on Monday ruled that Southern California Edison is not liable for a number of power outages at the T...
Apple Inc. received a boost in its legal fight over a 1789 statute Monday when a New York magistrate judge rejected the federa...
Bulk grocer Smart & Final Stores Inc. announced the appointment of Leland P. "Lee" Smith as senior vice president and gene...
Litigation
Trump seeks to keep chief plaintiff in class action case against his university
By Amanda Schallert
In a motion filed last week, attorneys for Donald Trump and his now-obsolete Trump University argued that lead plaintiff Tarla...
In a win for polar bears, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Obama administration decision to set aside a vast ex...
Apple Inc.'s refusal to obey a court order to unlock the iPhone of one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attack ...
U.S. Supreme Court
San Jose affordable housing law affirmed by U.S. Supreme Court
By Saul Sugarman
Opponents of a San Jose affordable housing law on Monday failed to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ordinance, wh...