Criminal, Government
DAs to continue fight for public sexually violent predator hearings
By Kamila Knaudt
“It’s critically important, and it’s something that I’m not going to give up on,” San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan ...
Community News, Legal Education
Southwestern Law alumni offer trial experience fellowship for students
By Pete Escobar
The Yoka-Panish Civil Justice Fellowship will allow first-year students to participate in two five-week civil trials, working ...
Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy
Oil company says ship traffic jam may be culprit in spill
By Gina Kim
Potential legal actions are also clearly scaring investors of Amplify Energy Corp., which owns the oil platform, known as Elly...
Civil Litigation, Insurance
Actor wins $6.3M insurance verdict for burned home
By Henrik Nilsson
Devin A. McRae of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP represented actor Shannen Doherty in the five-day jury trial.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, Insurance
Virus exclusion or not, insurers win
By Craig Anderson
More than 64% of lawsuits against insurers over the denial of business interruption coverage in state courts across the nation...
SB 447, passed by the Legislature in September, was sponsored by the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Attorn...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers want to know more about judge’s financial interests in cases
By Malcolm Maclachlan
"It's not just the Sammartino needed to be recused, it's that she weirdly decided in Target's favor, the company whose stock s...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
$52B opioid trial ends with tense attorney-judge exchange
By Blaise Scemama
“It took five times for the court to finally get an answer to its question, ‘Is there any evidence that any medically inapprop...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, Insurance
Ruling for insurers, 9th Circuit says cause of closures ‘not debatable’
By Craig Anderson
“There are now seven federal court of appeals decisions on COVID-19 business interruption claims, and every one rejects policy...
Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Gas leak case will pay Girardi Keese creditors, trustee says
By Henrik Nilsson
The Porter Ranch gas leak litigation settled last week for $1.8 billion. Together with the Frantz Law Firm, Girardi Keese repr...
Judges and Judiciary
25,000-word judiciary omnibus bill signed into law
By Malcolm Maclachlan
AB 1578 aims at expanding public access to administrative hearings, but not recording them and contains new rules about everyt...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Technology
$2B Nikola v Tesla patent suit suspended due to no-shows
By Winston Cho
“Plaintiff Nikola Corp. bears the burden of prosecuting this case and moving it to a resolution. It has dropped the ball, and ...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
CHP settles with former officer, in anti-gay harassment case
By Kamila Knaudt
“It’s a significant settlement and sends a strong message to the California Highway Patrol that it needs to improve and reform...
Civil Litigation, Torts/Personal Injury
Last minute deal brings $41.75M for brain-damaged man
By Gina Kim
The eleventh hour deal between their client, Eric Murillo and U-Haul Co. of California Inc. came after a three-week arbitratio...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice
CourtCall remote service sues LA Courts for canceled contract
By Kamila Knaudt
“In more than 25 years of service, this is the first instance in which CourtCall has been forced to bring such an action agai...
Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
3 Eastern District judges recuse in toxic label litigation
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The triple recusal case is about the labeling of foods that contain acrylamide under Proposition 65. An intervenor, the Counci...
Civil Litigation, Contracts
Creators of Chinese online shopping site stole idea, suit claims
By Gina Kim
But lawyers for PacTech Holdings, a technology incubator and software product maker, say Fanli’s creators breached contract
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Riot Games discrimination case ordered into settlement talks
By Gina Kim
Melanie L. Proctor, representing the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, said she feared the settlement would ena...
Abortion, guns and the scope of arbitration agreements are all on the docket as the justices take the bench on Monday.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Biden names 2 for San Diego federal bench
By Craig Anderson
The nominees are U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Lopez of San Diego, a former criminal defense attorney who has worked as a federa...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
US judges in California named as not properly recusing
By Malcolm Maclachlan
It's an absolute rule. There is no de minimis exception to it, even if its one stock," Arthur D. Hellman, an emeritus professo...
Criminal, Government
Penal Code revision panel seeks more parole, end of three strikes law
By Kamila Knaudt
The committee, composed of judges, academics and lawmakers, directed its staff to draft a final report that will be voted on a...
Civil Litigation, Government
Judge pleads for compassion as city seeks shelter closure
By Henrik Nilsson
The City of Orange and a homeless shelter disagreed on how much time is needed for the shelter to move.
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Putative class counsel denies state attorney’s insinuations
By Gina Kim
"The plaintiffs very strongly take exception to the suggestions by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing that there is...
Civil Litigation, Securities
Are investors misled if they only read the headline?
By Winston Cho
“You have unreasonable investors unreasonably relying on immaterial statements,” Riccardo Mauro DeBari, a partner at Thompson ...
Environmental & Energy, Intellectual Property, Law Office Management, Law Practice
Greenberg Traurig adds shareholders in environment, IP practices
By Pete Escobar
Brian Kelly joined from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. Hazel Ocampo joined from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Na...
Government
Assemblymember David Chiu named San Francisco city attorney
By Kamila Knaudt
Mayor London N. Breed announced Chiu’s appointment after Dennis Herrera, who held the post for almost 20 years, was confirmed ...
California Courts of Appeal, Judges and Judiciary
‘Time to make a change,’ says Justice David Thompson
By Winston Cho
Justice David A. Thompson of the 4th District Court of Appeal will return to private practice on Oct. 15 after 24 years as an ...
Criminal, Government, International Law
Extradition of former Peruvian president is OK’d
By Winston Cho
Alejandro Toledo Manrique is one of dozens of politicians and four former Peruvian presidents caught in a sweeping corruption ...
Entertainment & Sports, Government
State civil rights agency may derail game company settlement, plaintiffs say
By Gina Kim
The dispute highlights the gap between women and their lawyers who want to be made financially whole for the discrimination th...