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Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Attorneys for camera company GoPro Inc. asked a federal judge to end their case or otherwise sanction their opponent at a hear...


Environmental & Energy, Government


A group of Democratic lawmakers have introduced a package of bills they say will make sure lead paint manufacturers stay on th...


California Supreme Court, Education Law


Plaintiffs’ attorneys say universities will be held to a higher standard after the state Supreme Court ruled that UCLA had a d...


Education Law


The school is the first in California to get approval from the American Bar Association to offer additional online education


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation


The state Supreme Court on Thursday tightened the procedural timeline for filing motions to dismiss strategic lawsuits against...


New criteria for some high-level managers working for multinational companies in the U.S. looking to secure a green card may r...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The association has considered requiring 75 percent of a school’s bar takers to pass within two years.


In Recess


Elevated Perspective

Mar. 23, 2018
By Shane Nelson

Strange & Butler LLP partner Brian Strange has summited the highest peaks on all seven continents but a devastating person...


Government


U.S. Senate passes online sex trafficking bill

Mar. 22, 2018
By Steven Crighton

The bill has been heavily criticized by open internet advocates and sex worker groups.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Entertainment & Sports, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


9th Circuit affirms ‘Blurred Lines’ ruling

Mar. 22, 2018
By Steven Crighton

The ruling, decided largely on procedural grounds, shocked music attorneys.


Government, Immigration


A federal magistrate judge said Wednesday he would allow California to depose two high-level U.S. government officials in a ca...


On the latest ruling involving Orange County's jailhouse informant controversy, a judge prohibited a defense attorney from que...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, California Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Probate


A three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel asked the California Supreme Court to consider whether two children conc...


Government, Civil Litigation


Facebook Inc. may be facing a public relations nightmare over allegations of data mining by Cambridge Analytica, but legal obs...


Corporate, Civil Litigation


Kleiner Perkins defeats unique shareholder suit

Mar. 22, 2018
By Joshua Sebold

Lawyers representing Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers knocked out a lawsuit in which plaintiffs alleged that the venture c...


Government, Immigration


Any effort to punish a small city in Orange County that is refusing to comply with California’s so-called sanctuary law could ...


Some other California law schools also saw significant changes in their U.S. News ranking.


Criminal, Judges and Judiciary


DA charges man with threatening OC judge

Mar. 22, 2018
By Meghann Cuniff

A man accused of threatening an Orange County Superior Court judge during arraignment has been charged with a felony.


Government


Three men who want to be California's next attorney general debated in the state capital on Wednesday. Notably absent was the ...


Law Practice


Latham & Watkins LLP announced Tuesday that chairman William H. Voge has stepped down “effective immediately” after disclo...


Contracts, Entertainment & Sports


Greenberg Glusker and Cohen Milstein have produced templates for other lawyers to follow.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Jury renders $68M against heart surgeon

Mar. 21, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

A Kern County Superior Court jury in a medical malpractice case delivered $12.4 million in punitive damages Tuesday, rounding ...


Law Practice


Paul Hastings hires 10 lawyers from Loeb & Loeb

Mar. 21, 2018
By Steven Crighton

The newly added entertainment attorneys will be based at the firm’s new Century City office.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals repeatedly pressed the government Tuesday on its claim that it was justified i...


California Courts of Appeal, Criminal


In a case that may more sharply define Proposition 57’s criteria for determining which inmates doing life might be eligible fo...


Government, Immigration


Attorneys say that a recent decision by the U.S. attorney general to vacate an important decision on whether asylum seekers ar...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles County jury has awarded $30 million to the children of a worker who was killed by a rock crushing machine.


Civil Litigation, Securities, U.S. Supreme Court


A few securities litigation defendants hoping to avoid fighting class actions in state court saw those dreams dashed after the...


Real Estate/Development, Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles couple has been accused of unlawfully converting tenants’ rent-controlled apartments into hotel units under the ...


Law Practice


Kate Kendell — who joined the organization in 1994 and has served as executive director since 1996 — will step down at the end...