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Health Care & Hospital Law, Labor/Employment


Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower issued $447,836 in citations against Bodega Latina Corp., which owns 52 El Super grocer...


Administrative/Regulatory, Data Privacy


FTC might seize tech companies’ algorithms

Jul. 28, 2021
By Winston Cho

FTC chief technologist Erie Meyer said Tuesday that the commission will also consider corporate restructuring, bans and other ...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


San Francisco school historic murals saved for now

Jul. 28, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled the school board “ignored CEQA in pursuit of a predetermined result” and or...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice


Over the objections of the disgraced lawyer, his former employee guided jurors through a financial ledger that showed client m...


Civil Litigation, Litigation & Arbitration, Technology


San Mateo County Superior Court Judge V. Raymond Swope approved the deal brokered by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm that will prov...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


Students sue universities over COVID rules

Jul. 27, 2021
By Gina Kim

On Monday, two students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles sued to block the university’s requirement that all stud...


Law Office Management, Law Practice, Mergers & Acquisitions


Bradley Finkelstein, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for 20 years, joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner in S...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, Criminal


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected a bid by Pangang Group Co. Ltd. and its affiliates to dismiss a criminal ...


Civil Rights, Health Care & Hospital Law


By reducing ambiguity over whether long COVID qualifies as a disability, Monday's federal guidance could help strengthen affli...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse in San Francisco found that Mauro Botta, a former senior manager, was lawfully terminated de...


Criminal, Government


Before the Cerritos’ council passed the resolution 4-1, Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, who is among a group of deputi...


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy, Government


In her June 20 motion, New York-based attorney Aide Poulson argued the court should let Penny Newman intervene because the sta...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Government


The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of ret...


California Courts of Appeal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary


“ … Just because it is no longer criminal for a temporary judge to receive compensation from private parties doesn’t mean it’s...


Civil Litigation, Securities, Technology


An investor claimed in a lawsuit that the company failed to disclose that it “required a sizable cash injection” and was “susc...


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government


In the complaint filed by Wendy Musell, a sole practitioner and of counsel to Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, Senior Deputy Dis...


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


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Daniel P. Collins, rejected the state’s argument that the case by private school paren...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations


According to the bar petition, James L. Miller had messaged his clients that he was seriously ill and closing his practice, bu...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Intellectual Property


A Novartis spokesman acknowledged that the company infringed on Plexxikon’s patents for skin cancer drugs and that it might ha...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation


Personal injury attorneys Philip Sheldon and Robert Finn worked closely with Girardi to litigate and settle cases under fee sh...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


On the day federal authorities charged the disgraced lawyer with stealing client money, he showed up at a former client’s hous...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco rejected Wisk Aero LLC’s bid for a preliminary injunction, writing the ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations


A total of 36 people were either reconfirmed, changed positions or were added as members.


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


“If we don’t get the critical mass of the states, we’re done; this deal fails,” said Joseph F. Rice of Motley Rice LLP.


Administrative/Regulatory, Government, Labor/Employment


Former US attorney named to investigate EDD fraud

Jul. 22, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

McGregor W. Scott of King & Spalding LLP will head the state’s investigation of last year’s massive unemployment fraud.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary


The support among judges for eliminating the recommendation clashes with the views of some attorneys, who say there should be ...


Government


Talk show host wins place on recall ballot, tax returns unneeded

Jul. 22, 2021
By Winston Cho, Malcolm Maclachlan

During a brief hearing in Sacramento County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon, Judge Laurie M. Earl said the election rule...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Keenly aware that he was giving the most important — and perhaps final — performance of his legal career, Michael J. Avenatti ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Litigation & Arbitration


“It settled essentially on the eve of trial,” said Justin T. Berger, a partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP in Bur...


Civil Litigation, Community News, Law Practice, Legal Education


Founders Richard L. Hasen and David Kaye said the unfettered growth of digital media and the spread of misinformation made the...