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Technology, Government


One legal expert said that the lawsuit could be deliberately targeting small players in the hope of creating precedent to late...


Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told jurors that clients were calling and emailing daily throughout 20...


Torts/Personal Injury


"The city had 52 weeks to fix the problem, while the plaintiff had just 1 second to avoid it," Arash Homampour, who represente...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


Making insurers wait for victims to be paid in mass torts could be tried elsewhere, plaintiffs' attorneys in the Maui fire lit...


International Law, Civil Litigation


Nanyang Li said she was committed to compiling her father's writings because he spoke highly of the Hoover Institution. Li Rui...


California Supreme Court


Justice Kelli M. Evans, writing for the majority, said that dependency courts must do extensive diligence to determine if chil...


Lawyers claim Google damages Play Store customers by building its marketing campaign on false and misleading representations a...


Several charts shared with jurors throughout IRS Agent Ryan Roberson's three-day testimony showed that during the final decade...


Government, Criminal


Here's what criminal law will likely look like in 2025

Aug. 20, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A recent poll shows Proposition 36, which would roll back some of the criminal justice changes of the past few years, winning ...


Civil Litigation


The company designs games that prioritize purchases over strategy and skill, according to the latest lawsuit, filed in Los Ang...


International Law, Civil Litigation


Trial began Monday in Oakland in a dispute over the papers and diaries of Li Rui, a personal secretary to Mao Zedong.


Attorney Arash Homampour said he wants to foster a new generation of lawyers committed to making a positive impact in society.


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The ruling, upholding part of a preliminary injunction blocking part of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, is the...


Technology, Government


An attorney who specializes in First Amendment law is optimistic that SF City Attorney David Chiu's lawsuit against the websit...


Civil Litigation


Nurse on temporary placement left abruptly, sped through a red light and caused a multi-vehicle crash.


Criminal


Sirhan denied parole again

Aug. 19, 2024
By Laurinda Keys

It was the 17th parole hearing for Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant who killed Robert F. Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel...


Tom Girardi's voicemails and emails giving clients and other attorneys excuses why settlement funds can't be paid undermine hi...


Judges and Judiciary


Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner said the dashboard makes it clear that the reporter shortage has escalated into a "constit...


The Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project aims to connect the San Fernando Valley and the Westside of Los Angeles through a rail ...


The first defense witness for disbarred attorney Tom Girardi, his neurologist, was called out of order, delaying the prosecuto...


Family, California Courts of Appeal


The infant was placed with the attorney by the Department of Children and Family Services after the mother tested positive for...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


"We conclude the Legislature intended to exempt public employers such as the hospital authority from Labor Code provisions gov...


Data Privacy, Consumer Protection Law, Civil Litigation


Despite only one of the defendants being situated in the United States, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said he's confi...



Building Connections

Aug. 16, 2024

Former San Francisco judge James McBride wants to look parties in the eye.


Civil Litigation


The conduct leading to the recording's creation, and its later dissemination, was illegal and therefore constituted unprivileg...


A defense attorney involved in the famous manslaughter case against music icon Michael Jackson's physician said this type of c...


SB 549 would create a three-month window for gaming tribes to sue card rooms they believe are infringing on their right to pro...



Craig S. Simon 1953 -- 2024

Aug. 16, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Known as the 'Subro King,' he represented insurers in mass litigation.


More than 60 cases have been dismissed after an appellate ruling last month that the court had unlawfully delayed cases, citin...


Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Rights


U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi declined to mandate any specific policies and procedures or tell UCLA administrators what t...