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Banking, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The lawsuit says Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard APC violated an ethical wall when it shared information about the ba...


Civil Litigation


“I plan to have someone confirmed in the next couple of weeks,” poker-player plaintiff Michael Postle told Sacramento Superior...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Lucie Barron said she faced skepticism because she was not a lawyer and was a woman when she founded one of California’s now l...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice


Class counsel in Illumina securities case could see attorney fees increase from $2.125M to $3.46M


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government


Richard Doyle, the former head deputy of the DA’s Compton office, refused orders from Los Angeles County District Attorney Gas...


The district court stressed that, unlike its eastern and western divisions, the southern division comprises just one county wh...


Data Privacy, Government


Privacy Protection Agency board members named

Mar. 19, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

Four of the five board members responsible for implementing the California Privacy Rights Act are attorneys.


Government


Chief Deputy Attorney General Matthew Rodriquez has had a long career in California state government.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judges and Judiciary


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, in a revolt against his colleagues of the Central District of California, has been dismi...


Civil Litigation, Technology


A number of objectors and Apple argued the attorney fee award was too high.


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Technology


Keller Lenkner LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP filed a joint lawsuit in December based on the theory that Fa...


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel, who represented the city in a lawsuit which sought to blame consulting firm Pricewaterhous...


California Supreme Court, Insurance


The dispute concerns fees charged by title insurance companies to consumers for ancillary services such as overnight document ...


Obituaries


Stanley Y. Oda, 1938-2021

Mar. 18, 2021
By Jessica Mach

Workers' compensation expert was always ready to give advice.


Civil Litigation, Government, Labor/Employment


Handy Technologies Inc. said the lawsuit fundamentally mistates the rights of the company and the workers who perform cleaning...


California Courts of Appeal, California Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary


3rd District Court of Appeal executive officer Andrea K. Wallin-Rohmann said the court delivered opinions at the highest rate ...


Criminal, Government


Since taking office in December, Gascón has faced a flurry of opposition from within his office, on the bench and from law enf...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Technology


Palo Alto Research Center, owned by Xerox Corp., accused the three companies of infringing on some of its inventions that made...


Judges and Judiciary


Momentum grows for change in funding court construction

Mar. 18, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Legislative Analyst’s Office has suggested moving responsibility for court construction back into the General Fund, as exi...


Civil Litigation, Data Privacy


U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar rebuffed arguments from the International Business Machine-owned company that users consented...


Criminal, Government


An advisor to DA George Gascón said the three public defenders were lateral hires because they were appointed to the same posi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The bar is funding the initiatives from attorney “opt out fees,” which generate around $300,000 per year, but the need is far ...


Appellate Practice, California Courts of Appeal, Judges and Judiciary


“The burden of cases that have piled up over the past six years has become overwhelming and unmanageable by that court alone,”...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, Insurance


Proskauer Rose is representing the Los Angeles Lakers in its fight to collect unpaid claims submitted to Federal Insurance Co....


Government, Labor/Employment


Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, considering Julie A.Su’s nomination for a post ...


Judges and Judiciary


Should Congress agree with the Judicial Conference proposal, the expanded courts would bring much-needed relief to judges who ...


Judges and Judiciary


The retirements in the past few months, with more coming this spring, leave a lot of vacancies on the Los Angeles County Super...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Avenatti’s lawyer was accused of ripping off Michael Flynn’s defense motion filed in 2019 but attorney H. Dean Steward called ...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law


The plaintiffs, representing California cities and counties, seek a court order declaring the companies have engaged in unlawf...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Trial is scheduled to begin in August on claims that MoFo engaged in pregnancy and maternity discrimination and violated equal...