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Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations


Even bar exam defenders say law schools should have more clinical hours and collaborate closely with law firms to better train...


Law Practice


Jonathan I. Kravis started Monday in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.


Civil Rights, Criminal


Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Santa Cruz) on Monday announced an amendment to Assembly Bill 1472 that would make false police r...


Civil Rights, Consumer Law


The San Francisco-based company has agreed to revise its wheelchair policies within 30 days and communicate them to new and cu...


Law Practice


Signature Resolution LLC reopened its offices in Los Angeles and Century City on Monday for in-person mediations.


California Courts of Appeal, Civil Litigation


Brick-and-mortar businesses must ensure their websites are reasonably accessible to people with disabilities, according to the...


Securities, U.S. Supreme Court


The good news for the SEC is that the court, by an 8-1 margin, rejected a bid to block the agency from requiring disgorgement ...


Government, Judges and Judiciary


$150M cut in state courts without federal aid

Jun. 23, 2020
By Blaise Scemama

While an agreement has been reached, the Assembly and Senate leaders and the governor are still “ironing out” the budget detai...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice


Judges, clerks and marshals officially returned to the Spring Street Courthouse on the first day of the LA County courts’ ramp...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Entertainment & Sports


Actors lose bid to keep ages off casting website

Jun. 22, 2020
By Craig Anderson

The panel affirmed a district judge’s opinion that the 2016 law, which forbids websites from sharing the ages of actors and ot...


Law Practice


Jeffrey M. Reisner, a prominent bankruptcy practitioner, has joined Steptoe & Johnson LLP as a partner and the leader of i...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Rights


Court filings show the prosecution said it was striking the three jurors because they expressed extreme anti-prosecution and a...


Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court


To extend discrimination protections to LGBTQ employees, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark opinion on Title VII relied on a li...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


Rideshare industry foe Shannon Liss-Riordan is continuing her crusade for a court order forcing certain companies that lawmake...


Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations


Accredited law schools must maintain a minimum bar passage rate of 40% or more for five years. The Long Beach school has been ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary


Ethics rule issued for appellate justices

Jun. 19, 2020
By Craig Anderson

State appellate justices who were removed from a case on a peremptory challenge as a trial court judge should disqualify thems...



Doing the Work

Jun. 19, 2020

Judge Anne Hwang researches and reads the briefs to come to correct rulings, lawyers say.


Law enforcement agencies were also urged Thursday to develop a system for tracking resigning officers who are under investigat...


California Supreme Court


US judge nixes challenge to wildfire fund

Jun. 19, 2020
By Gina Kim

PG&E ratepayers who sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the CPUC over the enactment of Assembly Bi...


Government


The attorneys for the plaintiffs — San Francisco-based D. Gill Sperlein and Harmeet K. Dhillon of Dhillon Law Group Inc. — the...


Government, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice


Access advocates pressure court to end closed proceedings

Jun. 19, 2020
By Malcolm Maclachlan

While attorneys and litigants can dial in, or in some cases physically attend, there is often no way for people not directly i...


Criminal, Environmental & Energy


As the two-year chapter arising out of the Camp Fire that wiped out Paradise came to a close Thursday, Butte County Superior C...


Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations


Sean M. Scott hopes to distinguish the law school by having a targeted master of laws and master's program and expand the scho...


Immigration, U.S. Supreme Court


The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to block the Trump administration's attempt to end the Deferred Action for Child...


Real Estate/Development, Government


Unlike other bills designed to provide aid to renters, landlord advocates somewhat support SB 14109.


Real Estate/Development, Government, Tax


LA aims to tax unoccupied rental units

Jun. 19, 2020
By Blaise Scemama

Vancouver, Oakland, and Washington D.C. have already levied a vacancy tax, claiming it will motivate owners to return units to...


California Courts of Appeal, Consumer Law


The case is believed to be the first superior court mesothelioma case to be heard on appeal in the country, but differs from t...


The no cash bail experiment will continue in some parts of the state.


California Courts of Appeal, Government


An appeals court stayed a temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order for the fall election.


Central, Southern District of California nominees probed before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in wake of police...