Administrative/Regulatory, Corporate, Civil Litigation, Securities
SEC sues Elon Musk, seeking his removal as a Tesla officer
By Steven Crighton
“Rounding up” Tesla’s stock to $420 per share was a marijuana reference meant to impress his girlfriend, Elon Musk claims. On ...
Criminal, Government, Immigration
Governor vetoes bill to bar immigration arrests in courthouses
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Jerry Brown rejected a bill Thursday that would have barred civil arrests by immigration officials at California’s courth...
Entertainment transactional attorney Robert Darwell has a thriving Instagram account of food and drink servers.
California Courts of Appeal, Criminal
Appellate court rejects DA’s petition to reconsider release of sexual predator
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office seems to be setting the stage for a Supreme Court hearing in an effort to ke...
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Deborah Ryan was confirmed Thursday as its next presiding judge.
Civil Litigation
San Francisco federal judge certifies class of homeless people in Berkeley
By Sean Kagan
A federal judge has certified a class of homeless Berkeley residents, ruling the city’s disposal of their property violates th...
Civil Rights, Civil Litigation, Education Law
Judge declines injunction against college testing company per party stipulation
By Justin Kloczko
A federal judge Thursday held off on granting a preliminary injunction stopping a college testing company from disclosing disa...
Civil Litigation
Plaintiff shows jury mangled legs in seizure-prone driver trial
By Blaise Scemama
Jurors and spectators in the courtroom stood up Thursday to get a look at the mangled legs of Jason Lo, a 32-year-old Air Forc...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Labor/Employment, Education Law
Former UC Berkeley professor sues university over suspension for alleged sexual harassment
By Erin Lee
Former UC Berkeley professor Nezar AlSayyad is suing the university, claiming his suspension penalty over a sexual harassment ...
Government, Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Attorneys address future of Nazi-looted art
By Matthew Sanderson
Four panels at the first-ever Skirball Cultural Center event addressed the finding of Nazi-looted art, navigating the legal sy...
Community News
Greenberg Traurig Women’s Initiative hosts talk on disrupting implicit bias
By Matthew Sanderson
The talk featured Hilarie Bass, firm co-president, and L. Song Richardson, dean of the University of California, Irvine School...
U.S. Supreme Court
Politically fraught Kavanaugh fight makes an 8-justice SCOTUS term seem ever more likely
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
If D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, facing a series of sexual misconduct allegations, isn’t confirmed to the U.S. Supreme C...
Government, Immigration
‘Sanctuary’ policies limiting ICE arrests, according to study
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
New data highlights how so-called “sanctuary” policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immig...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations
California is one of few states implementing new anti-harassment rule
By Erin Lee
An ABA rule concerning harassment and discrimination is hotly debated by states. So far, most have opted to reject it.
Civil Litigation
Trial in which seizure-prone driver hit motorcyclist winding down
By Blaise Scemama
In the waning days of a personal injury jury trial involving a seizure-prone Southern California Gas Co. driver who crashed a ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, Government
Nonprofit seeks en banc review of ruling it must disclose donors
By Andy Serbe
A conservative nonprofit organization is seeking an en banc rehearing after a federal appeals panel ruling that it has to disc...
Entertainment & Sports, Government, Intellectual Property
New music licensing law awaits Trump’s signature
By Steven Crighton
Significant changes to music licensing laws that haven’t been updated since cassette tapes were still popular are one step awa...
Government, Civil Litigation
State to get $26M of Uber data breach settlement money
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay $148 million in a nationwide settlement over a 2016 data breach, of which California will...
Corporate, Law Practice
Former LA corporate partner returns to Munger Tolles in DC
By Melanie Brisbon
Brett J. Rodda has rejoined the partnership at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, the firm said Wednesday.
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, Litigation & Arbitration
Former Google engineer’s suit headed to arbitration
By Andy Serbe
A lawsuit filed against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google by an engineer who claims he was terminated for criticizing a former co-wor...
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation, Education Law
Judge confirms constitutionality of San Diego anti-bullying program
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction to San Diego parents who said the school district’s anti-Islamophobia initiati...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government
9th Circuit sits en banc to mull constitutionality of San Francisco soda health warning
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared unsure Tuesday of how to rule on a challenge to a San Francisco ordin...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court
9th Circuit unravels class of Uber drivers suing over misclassification
By Andy Serbe
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decertified a class of some 160,000 Uber drivers who claim they are misclassified as...
Criminal
Panel hears plea to overturn doctor’s murder conviction
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
An attorney for the only physician known to have been convicted of murder in the U.S. for prescribing opiates asked a state ap...
Environmental & Energy, Government
Jury sides with public agencies in groundbreaking groundwater rights trial
By Meghann Cuniff
Public water suppliers have prevailed against private landowners in what attorneys believe was the first jury trial over groun...
Corporate, Entertainment & Sports
Golden State Warriors promote general counsel to chief legal officer
By Matthew Sanderson
The National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors announced that it promoted David Kelly, its then-general counsel a...
Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports
Testimony closes in landmark NCAA antitrust trial
By Winston Cho
Both sides in the potentially landscape-altering National Collegiate Athletic Association antitrust case finished examining ex...
Insurance, Law Practice
Pillsbury adds 2 litigators to insurance practice
By Matthew Sanderson
Steven Knott and Joan Cotkin come to the firm’s Los Angeles office from Nossaman LLP.
Government, Civil Litigation
Fired state Senate staffer’s retaliation suit can move forward, judge rules
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A judge has allowed all but one claim to go forward in a retaliation case filed by a fired state Senate staffer who said she w...
Environmental & Energy, Law Practice
King & Spalding nabs lead MoFo environmental lawyer
By Erin Lee
Peter Hsiao heads King & Spalding’s West Coast environmental team.