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Community News, Legal Education, Military Law


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


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


The Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee nearing a $26 million global deal with opioid distributors said litigation such as the thr...


Criminal, Government


The $18 million, three-year program will provide money and other assistance to further prosecutor initiated resentencing effor...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


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


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


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


“This is an extraordinary situation in which this court’s intervention is needed to restore public confidence in California’s ...


Civil Litigation, Government


“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


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


After Girardi lost her first try at disqualifying Richards, her new attorney -- Evan C. Borges of Greenberg Gross LLP -- filed...


Criminal, Government


“As required under AB 1506, the California Department of Justice immediately took action to initiate our investigation that wi...


“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


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

Jul. 20, 2021
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


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

Jul. 20, 2021
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

Jul. 19, 2021
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


U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland found that issuing a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights


“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


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


In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...


Immigration, Judges and Judiciary


Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Data Privacy


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


The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


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


Dennis F. Moss, an attorney with Moss Bollinger LLP who represented the plaintiffs, said many companies will have to make chan...


Administrative/Regulatory, Government


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


“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


Some employment attorneys have said the Workplace Conduct Unit created three years ago frequently failed to review or investig...