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The program, which has awarded over $7 million to more than 300 students, aims to support students who demonstrate academic pr...


Civil Litigation


Judge reprimands attorneys in prison rape litigation

Jun. 11, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Judge Lauri A. Damrell said the hearing on Monday shouldn't have happened and was "a waste of judicial resources."


State Bar & Bar Associations


Michael Libman is alleged to have shared details of his efforts to hire hackers to execute the scheme, including engaging an i...


Civil Litigation


Judges that volunteered to assist the Civil Division have had "significant" training in the fundamentals of the cases they wil...


International Law


Plaintiffs' attorneys filed an emergency motion last week asking that 9th Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson be disqualified from th...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The lawsuit alleges that the hotel companies shared confidential pricing and occupancy information with revenue management sof...


Education Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation


The complaint alleges that UCLA officials allowed antisemitism to spread without doing enough to protect the rights of Jewish ...


Civil Litigation


Plaintiff's counsel had moved to vacate an arbitration order after noticing Birdwell California's payment to the arbitrator wa...


"Defendants told these lies, and never stopped, because it was a better story than the truth, and better stories make money," ...


U.S. District Judge Vince G. Chhabria received a call from a plaintiff in the Roundup litigation who said that she had refused...


"We have a trail of documents that tell the truth of what happened," Susman Godfrey LLP partner Amanda K. Bonn told jurors. "T...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


New rules published by the FTC mean the scope of conduct that can be considered as anti-competitive is much broader than it ha...


Technology, Data Privacy


The company is accused of using software from TikTok and Salesforce to build profiles of users.


Mergers & Acquisitions, Criminal


British tech mogul Mike Lynch and former Autonomy vice president Stephen Chamberlain were acquitted after an 11-week trial in ...


Civil Litigation


Quinn Emanuel disqualified from appeal of $10B dispute

Jun. 7, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The hearing on the motion to disqualify was punctuated by Quinn Emmanuel senior counsel Kathleen M. Sullivan addressing the ju...


Law Practice, Criminal


Andrew P. Young played a pivotal role in "Operation Trojan Shield".


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


Lead counsel named in 23andMe litigation

Jun. 7, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

23andMe, which recently announced a new goal of mining genetic data and partnering with pharmaceutical companies for research ...


Environmental & Energy, California Supreme Court


The ruling marks a political shift, with People's Park - once a symbol of the 1960s Berkeley counterculture - having no suppor...


Roderick Thompson tailors his dispute resolution approach to best fit each case.


"The court essentially determined this is a political question and the County of Los Angeles is in the driver's seat," counsel...


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation


Attorneys for a medical transportation company had argued that the circumstances of a 2023 crash, while "distasteful," were no...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court


The question revolves around a 1986 law, the Civil Discovery Act, and whether trial court judges have independent authority to...


Terren Peizer's case marks the first time the Department of Justice has sought criminal insider trading charges against an exe...


Environmental & Energy


Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 149 last year, which allows governors to certify some important projects to resolve environmental ...


Immigration



Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The State Bar found 200 client files when it raided her office on May 29.


The lawyer sued Uber following its April 2016 launch in Argentina, claiming the company knowingly concealed the fact that he w...


Community News


Christen Press and Tobin Heath of the U.S. women's national soccer team were honored for their dedication to the cause.


Criminal, Administrative/Regulatory


Assembly votes to extend remote criminal proceedings

Jun. 5, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Assembly passed SB 92, which would extend remote criminal proceedings until 2026, by a 6-0 vote despite opposition from la...


The case is the first time the Department of Justice has brought criminal insider trading charges solely based on an executive...