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Jun. 15, 2018

Mediator John C. Edwards has a knack for getting through to difficult personalities.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Government, Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court


Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee grilled the administrative head of the federal courts during a hearing on workp...


Government, Immigration


Immigration judges use delay tactic

Jun. 14, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an end to a docketing mechanism judges used to allow immigrants to indefini...


Government, Civil Litigation


Language added this week to budget bills for state courts will make significant changes to cy pres funding in California, reve...


Corporate, Law Practice, Civil Litigation, Securities


A federal judge has said he plans to approve $52.5 million in attorney fees, part of a record $250 million settlement in an un...


Bankruptcy, Law Practice


Jason M. Frank listed 54 lawsuits in which he believes his former employer, Eagan Avenatti LLP, will potentially earn attorney...


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


An employment dispute between minor league baseball players and the sport’s national governing body unfolded before the 9th U....


Civil Litigation


Beats claims it doesn’t have to pay former hedge fund manager Steven Lamar anything for headphones released after the initial ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, Government, Law Practice


A bill that would allow out-of-state and foreign attorneys to represent international arbitration clients in California moved ...


Criminal, Environmental & Energy


Jury members, deciding whether Plains All American Pipeline was criminally negligent in their handling of a 142 thousand gallo...


Corporate, Government, Civil Litigation


Pacific Gas and Electric Co. warned investors and shareholders that it expects to record a “significant liability for losses” ...


Civil Litigation


Industrial designer Robert Brunner didn’t have many negative things to say about his longtime business associates at Beats Ele...


Administrative/Regulatory, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Judge dismisses most claims in medical device case

Jun. 13, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

A judge has dismissed most federal class action claims alleging that a fat-freezing company misled consumers into thinking its...


Government, Labor/Employment


A clause in a state bill regulating cannabis businesses which requires them to enter "labor peace agreements" in order to be l...


Law Practice


A new managing partner and chief executive officer is poised to lead Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court


In a nearly unanimous decision, the justices ruled Monday that tolling provisions that allow plaintiffs to bring individual la...


Government, Immigration


Immigration attorneys will likely face greater difficultly securing asylum for clients who say they have faced violence from d...


Criminal


Commercial litigator defends murder accused

Jun. 12, 2018
By Steven Crighton

A murder trial that began Monday is the first criminal trial defended by Rick Richmond, managing partner of Jenner & Block...


California Supreme Court, Government


The state Senate Judiciary Committee will take up a bill Tuesday clarifying that many different types of taxes, not just prope...


Civil Litigation


Molestation victim gets $25.3 million verdict

Jun. 12, 2018
By Andy Serbe

A Los Angeles County jury has found an after-school supervisor and the school that employed him jointly liable to the tune of ...


Corporate


Corii Berg replaces Wayne Levin, who resigned last November.


Government, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County and the city of Oakland have joined the lawsuit against opioid manufacturers scheduled for trial in Orange ...



Air and Space

Jun. 12, 2018

Amy Gonzalez says San Diego Airport is a closely regulated transportation hub and landlord.


Government, Labor/Employment


Amid a tangle of National Labor Relations Board rulings, a recusal and congressional concern, labor attorneys are looking forw...


Government, Judges and Judiciary


A proposed $500,000 cut to the agency failed to make it into Gov. Jerry Brown’s final budget.


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


A legal dispute concerning adult film actress Stormy Daniels' decision to go public about her allegations of a 2006 affair wit...


Civil Litigation


Partway through an aggressive cross-examination of plaintiff Steven Lamar, Beats Electronics’ counsel Arturo Gonzalez told a c...


California Courts of Appeal, Civil Rights


In a case pitting land use against coastal access, an appellate panel ruled San Diego can prohibit people from accessing a bea...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


As a nearly teenage Holden Lenz likely braces himself for his first year in high school, the lawsuit filed over a video of him...


Government


Loretta Lynch addressed a San Diego group promoting women in the law and society