Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Embattled judge pleads to remain on the bench despite involvement with clerk
By Saul Sugarman
Valeriano Saucedo, a Tulare County Superior Court judge trying to remain on the bench, told a panel with the Commission on Jud...
Amid a looming U.S. Supreme Court case on consumer privacy, Spokeo Inc., a Pasadena-based personal data search engine, has app...
Litigation
Quinn Emanuel to litigate Volkswagen shareholder suit in Germany
By Gautham Thomasn
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will represent an international group of Volkswagen AG shareholders in a German suit...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar executive director wants controversial chief trial counsel to stay on
By Craig Andersonn
New State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker is trying to convince Chief Trial Counsel Jayne Kim to seek a new ...
During oral argument Wednesday, the justices peppered an attorney arguing for a broad interpretation of CEQA with skeptical qu...
A 2-1 publiopinion found that UCLA did not have to warn student Katherine Rosen about a classmante who made threats about her,...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) ...
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary ViaSat Inc. Carlsbad ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Incoming State Bar President David Pasternak is promising transparency from the organization and is starting with himself. "I ...
After the financial scandals of the early 2000s, measures were taken to force executives to take individual responsibility for...
Brittany Maynard would have smiled on Monday, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act. By Kathy L. Cerminara ...
Trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership are not just about lower tariffs - they are broad exercises in global gove...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit: District judge wrongly reduced attorney fee award in civil forfeiture case
By Craig Andersonn
In reducing an attorney fee award for a civil asset forfeiture case, a San Diego federal judge had impermissibly done the gove...
Entertainment & Sports
Court approves $125M stalking horse bid for Relativity's TV assets
By Ashley Cullinsn
The highly contested Relativity Media LLC bankruptcy is one step closer to a final resolution after an unexpected twist Tuesda...
A Los Angeles law firm has lost another chance to compel arbitration in a proposed class action that accuses its attorneys of ...
In June, Congress gave the president unprecedented fast-frack "authority" to enter into trade agreements with other nations, s...
Law Practice
Northwestern University drops two-year law school program
By Philip Johnsonn
Northwestern University School of Law has suspended admissions for its nascent accelerated program. ...
California Supreme Court
Justices consider whether to allow Citizens United advisory measure on ballot
By K Evin Lee
State Supreme Court justices appeared open Tuesday to adding a non-binding statewide measure, Proposition 49, to the 2016 ball...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review a 2nd Circuit court of appeals decision to overturn the insider trading convictio...
Labor/Employment
AB 465 a protection for workers, not a 'jobs killer'
By Ben Armisteadn
Corporations represented by tort "reform" groups have labeled AB 465, a worker rights bill now on the desk of Gov. Brown, a "j...
Entertainment & Sports
Boutique talent agency files suit over poaching
By Ashley Cullinsn
A boutique talent agency is seeking to upend the entertainment business through a poaching and anticompetitive practices lawsu...
A marathon age and disability discrimination jury trial on Monday turned into a battle of wills between former Los Angeles Tim...
Lead Counsel of Coin Inc. San Francisco ...
The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd as a district judge in the Eastern District of C...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Early release of transgender inmate sparks 9th Circuit skepticism
By Craig Andersonn
Suspicious of a series of "coincidences" surrounding a state prison release of a transgender inmate, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
Volkswagen and Audi's direct communications with diesel car owners run the risk of undermining a pending class action, accordi...
After Pacific Gas & Electric Co. settled a third wave of water contamination cases in 2008 for $24.3 million, about 75 new...
Law firm mergers are once again on pace to break records, with 68 already being completed nationwide in 2015, according to leg...
Just a year after winning a second term, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is taking aim at a more prominent state ...