Community News, Legal Education, Military Law
Retired Navy officer will lead new Military Law Center at McGeorge
By Malcolm Maclachlan
McGeorge has about 30 students who are veterans and has had a Military Law Society chapter for the past 20 years, created to h...
Civil Litigation, Government
4 lawsuits for candidates challenge aspects of recall ballot
By Winston Cho
One recognizable Republican is challenging his disqualification from the race, another is looking to use his preferred title a...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
State’s opioid trial goes on, seeks twice the amount of global settlement
By Blaise Scemama
The Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee nearing a $26 million global deal with opioid distributors said litigation such as the thr...
Criminal, Government
9 counties chosen for state Resentencing Pilot Program
By Kamila Knaudt
The $18 million, three-year program will provide money and other assistance to further prosecutor initiated resentencing effor...
Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ex-Girardi Keese lawyers can’t escape client funds lawsuit
By Craig Anderson
David R. Lira and Keith D. Griffin, who worked for Los Angeles based Girardi Keese and plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi,...
Law Office Management, Law Practice
Brandon Fox returns to Jenner & Block from DOJ
By Gina Kim
Fox joins the firm in August. He left the U.S. attorney’s office in May. During his last two years he oversaw 180 federal pro...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Avenatti represents himself against charges he stole from clients
By Gina Kim
Michael J. Avenatti’s attorney, H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, was given an advisory role in the defense.
California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
LA Times seeks release of Tom Girardi’s bar investigation documents
By Nicole Tyau
“This is an extraordinary situation in which this court’s intervention is needed to restore public confidence in California’s ...
Civil Litigation, Government
Fired official alleges sexual harassment by state controller
By Jessica Mach
“This lawsuit is baseless and without merit,” Bill Ainsworth, public information officer for the state treasurer, said in a st...
Civil Litigation, Real Estate/Development
San Diego stops rent payments, alleges corruption, gets notice to leave
By Blaise Scemama
City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced the filing of a complaint to void the city’s lease-to-own agreements for the 101 Ash S...
Bankruptcy, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Girardi Keese estate lawyers fight new bid to remove trustee’s counsel
By Craig Anderson
After Girardi lost her first try at disqualifying Richards, her new attorney -- Evan C. Borges of Greenberg Gross LLP -- filed...
Criminal, Government
Using new law, state AG probes officer-involved shooting
By Kamila Knaudt
“As required under AB 1506, the California Department of Justice immediately took action to initiate our investigation that wi...
Government
Conservative talk radio host might sue over being left off recall candidate list
By Winston Cho
“If the Secretary of State’s decision is not reversed, we will see them in court,” he said Monday in a statement.
California Courts of Appeal, California Supreme Court, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
2 justices recuse themselves from case on 3rd District delays
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A longtime appellate attorney has accused the court of unreasonable delays in criminal cases.
Education Law, Tax
School boards sue state controller over tax guidance
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California School Boards Association claimed in a complaint Friday that Controller Betty Yee violated state tax laws and P...
Civil Litigation, Government, Labor/Employment
AB 5 controversy over gig drivers is still live, US judge says
By Jessica Mach
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee dismissed the Uber’s and Postmates’ constitutional challenge, concluding that Assembly Bill 5...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Judges and Judiciary
Some county courts reinstate mask mandates
By Craig Anderson
Many courts in metropolitan areas — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Sacramento counties — had kept their...
Law Practice, Mergers & Acquisitions
Law firms expand, betting on continued M&A surge
By Henrik Nilsson
In the first half of 2021, businesses spent $1.74 trillion on M & As involving U.S. companies, compared to $511.79 billion...
Civil Litigation, Government
Campaign fund soliciting among county employees not OK, judge says
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland found that issuing a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights
A lawsuit says Sony says doesn’t live up to diversity claims
By Jessica Mach
“We are seeing a trend of large companies like Sony far too often pay lip service to diversity and inclusion while failing to ...
Bankruptcy, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Tom Girardi’s wife hiding California Lottery payments, attorney says
By Henrik Nilsson
Ronald Richards, who is tasked with finding firm assets, said in the filing that Erika Girardi collected payments stemming fro...
Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
J&J was sued the day it recalled aerosol sunscreens
By Jessica Mach
In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...
Immigration, Judges and Judiciary
AG Garland says immigration judges can resume delaying deportations
By Kamila Knaudt
Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...
Antitrust & Trade Reg., Data Privacy
Antitrust suit against Facebook may be time barred, judge says
By Winston Cho
Pointing to the dismissals of other lawsuits similarly claiming that Facebook holds a monopoly on social networking, U.S. Dist...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar to review special master’s report on LA water bill attorneys
By Blaise Scemama
The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...
Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Most prospective jurors never heard of Avenatti
By Gina Kim
Hundreds of jurors said they know nothing of Michael J. Avenatti or his criminal charges, except for a vague recollection of h...
California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment
Millions of workers benefit from state Supreme Court ruling
By Craig Anderson
Dennis F. Moss, an attorney with Moss Bollinger LLP who represented the plaintiffs, said many companies will have to make chan...
Administrative/Regulatory, Government
Newsom names 2 state attorneys to Department of Cannabis Control
By Henrik Nilsson
Matthew S. Lee, the governor’s deputy legal affairs secretary, is the new general counsel for the department. Tamara M. Colson...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Government
Orange County pays teen $195K for deputy’s gun threat
By Gina Kim
“Obviously we can’t make it a condition in any settlement like this that the officer be fired,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Eric...
Civil Rights, Government
Legislature’s unit to review staff mistreatment to improve, says head
By Jessica Mach
Some employment attorneys have said the Workplace Conduct Unit created three years ago frequently failed to review or investig...