Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports
NCAA says legislation gives state schools unfair recruiting advantage
By Glenn Jeffers
With SB 206 headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, California may deliver the first major blow to the NCAA and its strident effor...
Judges and Judiciary, Obituaries
Leader of LA County courts through difficult times dead at 79
By Justin Kloczko
Retired Superior Court Judge James A. Bascue, who over his 35-year career rose from prosecutor to presiding judge before havin...
ADR Services neutral Michael Balmages loves to share his passion for the night sky.
Criminal, Government
Heavily amended felons on juries bill heads to governor
By Jessica Mach
Prosecutors’ and defense attorneys’ disagreements about the bill’s likely effects continued after its passage Wednesday.
After clearing the concurrence vote in the Assembly floor Thursday afternoon, AB 1215, which bans law enforcement from using f...
California Courts of Appeal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Panel rejects justice’s move to strike accuser’s testimony
By Carter Stoddard
A panel of Commission on Judicial Performance special masters Thursday denied Justice Jeffrey Johnson’s motion to strike the t...
Capping off four new partner hirings at WilmerHale this week, three former Foley & Lardner attorneys are joining WilmerHal...
Entertainment & Sports, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Nintendo sues website offering free video game downloads
By Steven Crighton
The video game giant has recently increased it’s enforcement actions against alleged video game pirates.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Justice makes last testimony in defense, says accuser lied
By Carter Stoddard
Justice Jeffrey Johnson was recalled as the last witness in his Commission on Judicial Performance hearing Wednesday and testi...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
‘Bones’ TV show litigation settlement amount undisclosed
By Steven Crighton
Contentious litigation over profits from the hit TV series "Bones" ended quietly with an undisclosed settlement Wednesday.
Antitrust & Trade Reg., Corporate, Criminal
Judge orders Starkist to pay $100M fine in price-fixing scheme
By Winston Cho
StarKist Co. will pay a $100 million criminal fine for its role in a canned tuna price-fixing scheme, a federal judge ruled We...
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Government, Labor/Employment
Arbitration agreement may be voided for late fee payments in bill sent to governor
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SB 707 would do two very different things if it becomes law: one relating to arbitration contracts, the other to the diversity...
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Judge rejects gag order on anti-abortion defendants
By Craig Anderson
A judge on Wednesday rejected a proposed prosecution gag order to block anti-abortion defendants — and their lawyers — accused...
Senate approves bill that would ban “pay-to-delay” schemes blamed for keeping generic drugs off the market
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The bill invokes the Cartwright Act, a state antitrust law, and applies it to drug makers. But the situation AB 824 addresses ...
Labor/Employment
Legislature OKs bill to curb ‘gig’ workers; Uber vows to ignore
By Glenn Jeffers
A bill that could switch millions of California gig economy workers from independent contractors to employees passed the Legis...
Civil Litigation
State realtors sue city over regulations on converted garages
By Meghann Cuniff
The writ petition is the first action in response to a state law overhaul in 2016
Immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
High court pauses battle over national injunctions
By Brian Cardile
Conspicuous procedural exchanges between the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a San Francisco-based district judge prompt...
State Bar & Bar Associations
June Baby Bar exam results slightly lower than expected
By Jessica Mach
The confirmed pass rate for the First-Year Law Students’ Examination is slightly lower than the State Bar had predicted in mid...
Law Practice
UCLA professor uncovers nationwide scams involving fake court orders
By Ilan Isaacs
Eugene Volokh found eight types of de-indexing scams including: outright court forgeries; fake stipulated injunctions involvin...
The experienced litigator comes from San Francisco boutique Durie Tangri.
Government, Securities
California joins lawsuit against SEC over broker-dealer rule
By Meghann Cuniff
The action targets the so-called Best Interest Rule, set to take effect next year
Criminal, Government, Labor/Employment
Legislature passes bills on criminal justice, debt collection, workplace harassment
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Legislature passed bills Tuesday relating to criminal justice, debt collection and workplace harassment as it worked towar...
Government, Civil Litigation
Emails between water billing plaintiff and LA city’s counsel not protected, judge rules
By Justin Kloczko
An attorney’s attempt to block the release of documents exchanged his former client regarding a controversial Los Angeles wate...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration
Dispute over national injunctions appears headed to Supreme Court
By Brian Cardile
The Department of Justice, in a battery of filings Tuesday, reproached a renewed national injunction halting Trump administrat...
Corporate, Law Practice, Securities
Former SEC official joins Munger Tolles in LA
By Gina Kim
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official John W. Berry is joining Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm announce...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former corporate lawyer aims to offer resolve disputes faster with “a new form of ADR”
By Jessica Mach
Christopher (Kit) Kaufman, previously a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP who specialized in corporate law, is launching an ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg., Government
Becerra avoids antitrust probes of Google, Facebook
By Craig Anderson
Google joined Facebook Inc. on Monday as Silicon Valley technology giants to face antitrust probes by multiple state attorneys...
Law Practice
Federal prosecutor Kevin M. Lally joined McGuireWoods LLP as partner
By Justin Kloczko
Lally, who said he was drawn to the large, complex corporate investigations at McGuireWoods, will bolsterits white collar and ...
Law Practice
Willkie Farr opens San Francisco office with 2 new partners
By Carter Stoddard
Simona Agnolucci and Ben Hur joined the firm from Keker, Van Nest & Peters.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation
9th Circuit appears to side with lender in CFPB case
By Winston Cho
The Trump administration's impact on a traditionally liberal-leaning federal circuit court may be no more apparent than in a r...