Yuhl Carr co-founder known for zealous advocacy, warm personality
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Trustee details ‘mess’ of Girardi Keese cases
By Craig Anderson
Elissa D. Miller of SulmeyerKupetz, who is handling the firm’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy, said during a hearing she and other attor...
Criminal, Environmental & Energy
Sonoma DA charges PG&E with dozens of crimes for Kincaid Fire
By Tyler Pialet
DA Jill Ravitch charged PG&E with five felonies, including recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, recklessly ...
Civil Litigation, Education Law
College entrance exam takers finalize $16M settlement
By Gina Kim
A federal judge also awarded class counsel fees of nearly $4 million, 24.5% of the total settlement, along with $78,634 in lit...
U.S. Supreme Court
US may argue in California charity donors cases at high court
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The U.S. Department of Justice did an about-face on the two related cases. President Donald Trump’s administration agreed with...
Banking, Civil Litigation
Lawsuits against BofA over unemployment benefits consolidated
By Jessica Mach
The plaintiffs’ claims were filed earlier this year, after law enforcement and state agency reports revealed that billions of ...
Law Office Management, Law Practice
Goodwin Procter continues life sciences practice expansion
By Kamila Knaudt
With the addition of Can Cui, formerly with Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Steven Green, previously with Latham & Watkin...
Civil Litigation
Accuser seeks default against mogul; he says he wasn’t served
By Blaise Scemama
An attorney for a woman who says Alki David sexually assaulted her says the businessman is dodging service, but his counsel sa...
Administrative/Regulatory, Technology
Latest leak could mean Facebook violated 2019 FTC settlement
By Winston Cho
The data includes the phone numbers, email addresses, biographical details and more that was the subject of the FTC’s $5 billi...
Law Practice, Technology
Keker Van Nest partner’s argument won the day for Google
By Craig Anderson
Robert Van Nest’s argument, made in 2012 and again in a 2016 retrial, was the decisive factor in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 ...
Western Growers Association, California Fresh Fruit Association and Growing Coachella Valley seek an injunction against a Coac...
Civil Litigation, Criminal
Indigent’s excessive force suit can proceed without him paying legal fees
By Tyler Pialet
U.S. District Judge William Alsup held the plaintiff has legal standing to bring claims alleging three City of Pinole police o...
The report does not breakdown what positions are being scaled back, but according to legal recruiters, it is likely office sta...
Banking, Civil Litigation
$95.7M Wells Fargo settlement nears, with $32M in fees
By Winston Cho
In a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement, plaintiffs’ attorneys at Stevens LC and Haffner Law PC emphasized the ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Outside counsel may have to pay costs after LA drops suit
By Blaise Scemama
Responding to the lawsuit filed by New York based electronic discovery company JJ Shea’s, former outside counsel to the city ...
Intellectual Property, Law Office Management, Law Practice
Iancu rejoins Irell & Manella after stint as patent chief
By Kamila Knaudt
With the experience he has gained leading the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and as undersecretary of commerce for intellect...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice
Trustee objects to firm taking on Girardi Keese clients
By Jessica Mach
Abir Cohen Treyzon and Salo LLP, which is also known as ACTS, entered into an agreement to assume responsibility for thousands...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles judge admonished for second time for conduct on the bench
By Craig Anderson
The Commission on Judicial Performance admonished Judge Patrick E. Connolly for behaving improperly to attorneys.
Native Americans
Federal judge orders California to complete tribe compacts
By Malcolm Maclachlan
U.S. Senior Judge Anthony W. Ishii’s summary judgment order marks the first major break in a series of cases arguing Gov. Gavi...
Criminal, Government, Law Practice
LA DA slashes gang, narcotics divisions
By Tyler Pialet
Prosecutors in the Hardcore Gang Unit and Major Narcotics Division attended virtual meetings Wednesday, when they were told bo...
Government, Judges and Judiciary
San Joaquin County judge appointed
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The San Joaquin County Superior Court now has a full complement of judges.
Civil Litigation, Technology
Lawyers resist working together to lead Google ad class action
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman directed the lawyers “back to the drawing board to work something else out” on who will se...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary
LA courts ramp up in-person civil jury trials
By Blaise Scemama
Presiding Judge Eric Taylor laid out several factors each judge must now address before a civil case is deemed ready for a cou...
Administrative/Regulatory, Labor/Employment
NLRB to ‘vigorously prosecute’ retaliation for employee ‘concerted activity’
By Jessica Mach
Acting General Counsel Peter S. Ohr said the board will also clarify what types of conduct is protected by federal law.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court
High court OKs Facebook texts to non-customer
By Craig Anderson
Attorneys familiar with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act say the high court’s Thursday ruling will limit lawsuits — commo...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
Some think Girardi downfall could tarnish the profession
By Henrik Nilsson
Thomas V. Girardi’s national stature allowed the alleged wrongdoing to penetrate into popular culture in a way most attorney s...
Admiralty/Maritime, Judges and Judiciary
New judge to handle dive boat fire mass tort case
By Gina Kim
Plaintiffs removed the previous LA County judge from the Conception case on a peremptory challenge.
The approval Tuesday comes as the high court is working through a backlog of nearly 20 other requests, the most recent of whic...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights
Nestle defeats mislabeling claim of child slave labor
By Gina Kim
“Nowhere in the operative complaint does plaintiff identify the product she purchased,” U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz wr...
Law Office Management, Law Practice
21 Dentons litigators join Husch Blackwell in LA, Bay Area
By Kamila Knaudt
The mass tort litigation team will be the foundation of Husch Blackwell’s two new offices in California.