Michael Carrozzo's military background helps him control a Santa Barbara criminal courtroom.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Data Privacy
Governor signs privacy bill, law enforcement scrambles to adjust
By Joshua Seboldn
Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday that will make it much more difficult for local and state law enforcement to emplo...
Law Practice
What if an amicus is called out, but the court is wrong?
By Hannah Hartshornn
An interesting and perplexing problem: What does an amicus do when the amicus brief is called out by a justice during oral arg...
A class action against a private military contractor for grueling labor conditions won class certification and survived a moti...
Loyola Law School's 11th annual Champions of Justice awards honored Girardi Keese partner Amy Fisch Solomon and Richard Carrol...
A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a San Diego tax attorney be disbarred for entering into $1.4 million in question...
Litigation
Gender discrimination suit against Facebook is quietly dropped
By Craig Andersonn
One of the lawsuits filed at the time of Ellen Pao's unsuccessful gender discrimination trial against venture capital firm Kle...
Labor/Employment
Media giant Thomson Reuters faces employee misclassification suit
By Dominic Fracassan
The lawsuit alleges that the company violated a host of California labor statutes by wrongfully classifying scores of their em...
A state commission is considering revising California law on mediations so that some lawyers could get sued for malpractice, b...
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have funded 12 new judgeships with $5 million, asking the Judicial Counc...
Enduring its fourth consecutive year of severe drought with no end in sight, California has undertaken efforts mostly unpreced...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Fresno County Judge Don Penner insists on authority and preparedness in felony home court.
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Metropolitan Courthouse) ...
Law Practice
Renne Sloan continues expansion, poaching 4 attorneys from Meyers Nave
By Joshua Seboldn
Labor/Employment
Bankruptcy puts stay on American Apparel litigation avalanche
By Matthew Blaken
The company's Chapter 11 filing is a serious bump in the road for Keith Fink and client Dov Charney who have serially sued the...
A review of Ari Berman's "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." By Robert Rubin ...
A law which recently took effect in California expressly excludes text messages from the definition of 'writing' when it comes...
U.S. Supreme Court
9th Circuit senior judge honored with distinguished service award
By Matthew Hamity
Senior Judge Edward Leavy of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will receive the 31st Annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished...
Judicate West Santa Ana ...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP filed a class action late Wednesday against Pomona Unified School District after developme...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Yoga moves do not deserve copyright protection, 9th Circuit rules
By Craig Andersonn
Yoga teachers nationwide breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a yoga seque...
Solo and Small Firms
A veteran appellate lawyer's small firm has had a large impact
By Joshua Seboldn
Veteran appellate specialist Charles Kagay and his firm, Spiegel Liao & Kagay PC, is highly regarded for their expertise i...
California Courts of Appeal
Court: No free speech aegis for mugshot aggregator
By L.J. Williamson
A California Court of Appeals denied a claim that posting mug shots of arrestees and charging a fee to remove the photo is a p...
The current DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. chief legal officer will head up the Palo Alto technology solutions giant in Nove...
As body-worn cameras are being deployed in police departments around California and the country, courts are having to grapple ...
The state Supreme Court issued fewer opinions during its last term than in at least five years, a trend that some experts attr...
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC founder and “bond king” William H. Gross sued the company Thursday for breach of co...
On Oct. 4, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 96, prohibiting most ivory sales in California. By Jean Su ...