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Judges and Judiciary


Senate confirms LA judge to federal bench

Dec. 22, 2020
By Craig Anderson

Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha was confirmed by an 80-8 margin. Neither of California's Democratic senators, Vice President-el...


Government


Federal lawmakers finalized the text of the Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations legislation Monday. The money going to the Legal S...


Judges and Judiciary


For the first time a Commission on Judicial Appointments hearing will be virtual and available to the public at large.


Law Office Management, Law Practice


While many firms have navigated this year’s uncertainty well — and better than they may have anticipated — that has not been ...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Office Management


Girardi involuntary bankruptcy sought

Dec. 21, 2020
By Craig Anderson

The petition, filed by Thomas V. Girardi's longtime law partner, Robert M. Keese, the widow of a former firm lawyer and severa...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week, the Dominguez Firm signed a referral agreement ...


Judges and Judiciary


On Friday, the spokesman, Maxwell Szabo, said in an interview the DA’s office is no longer seeking to “paper” Judge Shellie L....


Law Office Management, Law Practice


Mardirossian & Associates Inc. has become Mardirossian Akaragian LLP, as Armen Akaragian, who’s worked with his uncle, Gar...


This normalization of the merger between personal and professional life has been a shared experience by all attorney and one t...


AB 108, introduced Wednesday by Assemblymen Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis Obispo, and Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, would amend t...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation, Technology


Antitrust experts say there's a reason it's so rare for courts to break up a large enterprise. Judges aren't equipped to make ...


Civil Litigation, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Office Management


Thomas V. Girardi is accused of stealing millions of dollars from a wide variety of clients, from children who died in the cra...


Government, Judges and Judiciary


LA DA seeks to 'paper' judge

Dec. 18, 2020
By Blaise Scemama

Stating Judge Shellie Samuels was prejudiced against the DA’s office, newly appointed Chief Deputy District Attorney Joseph F....


Civil Litigation, Environmental & Energy


SoCalGas’ parent company to remain in Porter Ranch well blowout case after LA judge denies summary judgment motion


Government, Labor/Employment


Thirty-five other states already cross reference unemployment and prison data. AB 110 would also require checks with county ja...


Legal Education


The Columbia Law School Center for Chinese Legal Studies will be named in honor of the school's first Chinese graduate, Hong Y...


Coverage lawsuits hinge on whether business interruptions imposed by government authorities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Businesses sue Cal/OSHA over new COVID standards

Dec. 18, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Cal/OSHA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by approving its temporary standards "without prior public notice or a full...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court


Cross Culture Christian Center, represented by Dean R. Broyles, argued the Lodi police actions were religiously intolerant and...


Administrative/Regulatory, Entertainment & Sports, Health Care & Hospital Law


Attorneys and restaurant owners say the state and county orders are haphazard and depend on political influence.


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, U.S. Supreme Court


The decision to hear the case comes amid legislation from dozens of state lawmakers to allow athletes to profit from their per...


Criminal


In October 2019, Chelsea Becker gave birth to a stillborn son. She was arrested days later after hospital staff told the Kings...


Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations


This year, Utah and Arizona approved several significant changes opening up for legal service companies to provide new forms o...


Legal Education


Students and professors alike asked if remote education could match in-person classroom standards. But as law schools have ada...


The directive from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón instructed prosecutors to use specific language when see...


Legal Education


Santa Clara University law school names new dean

Dec. 17, 2020
By Henrik Nilsson

Michael J. Kaufman, dean at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 2016, will take the post on July 1, 2021.


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


The lawsuit is an unusual example of a plaintiff in a patent lawsuit alleging pre-litigation infringement claims are extortion...


Labor/Employment


US issues guidance on vaccination requirement

Dec. 17, 2020
By Jessica Mach

Before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its guidelines, the question of whether employers could manda...


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation


While appellate courts have plugged away with their usual calendars, albeit over Zoom, civil trials essentially stopped in March.


Government, Judges and Judiciary


Many of the current problems with courts go back long before the pandemic brought them to wide public attention, said Sen. Tho...