Judicial Profile
Judge Jerrold Abeles Brings Civility and Precision to Fast-Paced Eviction Trials
MCLE
The pyramid of power: Understanding Iranian family dynamics
The roles and cultural expectations of Iranian families o...
By Abbas HadjianHow the VA turned its back on incarcerated veterans
The VA enacted a regulation in 1999 that formally exclude...
By Eileen C. MooreSoured Lemon: What's next for the State's religion clauses?
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Bremerto...
By Ashfaq G. ChowdhuryUpcoming Webinars
Join us for an engaging webinar with Special Projects Editor Arin Mikailian and Legal Editor Diana Bosetti to explore the Dail...
Discipline Report
Today's News
Torts/Personal Injury, Consumer Law
Fighting cancer 101: A great team, strong faith, and baseball?
By Jack Needham
An obsession with baseball and a coach who wouldn't take any excuses helped get personal injury attorney Joseph Barrett through one of the toughest periods i...
Data Privacy, Civil Litigation
Disney sued over data breach
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The hacker behind the attack claimed it was motivated by Disney's alleged poor treatment of its artists and disregard for its customers, according to court d...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Google to appeal order opening Play Store to all developers
By Craig Anderson
The ruling, which goes into effect Nov. 1, is a sweeping victory for Epic Games, which won a jury verdict last year that found Google Play and the Google Pla...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Jury rules Cognizant discriminated against non-Indians, company to appeal
By Devon Belcher
The company, founded in 1994 in Chennai, India and headquartered in Teaneck, N.J., was accused of discriminating against non-Indian candidates applying for j...
Civil Litigation
$845M judgment in solar Ponzi scheme case vacated
By Skyler Romero
The ruling stems from litigation surrounding claims that solar power supplier company DC Solar Solutions Inc. engaged in a scheme to defraud investors into i...
Environmental & Energy, Consumer Law, Business Law
SF judge skeptical of oil majors' jurisdiction arguments
By Wisdom Howell
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman said that arguments in favor of defendants' motion to quash claims brought by the state and sever...
Columns
The stereotype of Irish drunkenness in an article published on Oct. 4 is unacceptable, and highlights the double standard comp...
Government, Criminal
California's dirty secret: Clean-record deals kept bad cops on the job
By K. Chike Odiwe
California's use of clean-record agreements to conceal the police misconduct of hundreds of officers is an egregious practice ...
Consumer Protection Law
California's Lemon Law has been gutted, leading to a significant erosion of consumer rights
By Joseph A. Kaufman
California's recent legislative changes have significantly weakened the state's lemon law, shifting the burden of dealing with...
Verdicts & Settlements
| Landlord and Tenant | Tom Lackey, Sergio Camacho,... | $19,796,939 |
| Auto v. Auto | Romelia Chaidez, Jorge Chai... | $17,200,000 |
| Hostile Work Environment | Carryn Barker v. San Mateo ... | $8,000,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Diego Guzman and Kevin Whit... | $3,800,000 |
| Auto v. Truck | Jerry Mostad v. County of L... | $2,750,000 |
| Environmental Protection | United States of America, T... | $2,300,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Cassandra Negrete, as an in... | $2,000,000 |
| Malpractice | Jordan Primo v. County of L... | $1,600,000 |
| Wage and Hour | Joey Reyes, individually, a... | $1,200,000 |
| School Incident | Jane Doe 7049 v. Westminste... | $950,000 |
On the Move
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Brian B. Kelly as Shareholder in San Francisco from We Work.
Featured Content
JAMS neutral reflects on her career, what inspires her and what brought her back to JAMS after 20 years on the bench
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Community News
Community News
Dickinson Wright opens San Diego office
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Three intellectual property lawyers have joined the firm from Sheppard Mullin.
Attorney Profiles
Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood provides tax advice and handles tax controversies nationwide. He also serves as an expert witness on tax issues in civil cases. He is best known for advising plaintiffs, de...
Daily Appellate Report
Arbitration, Consumer Law
Kramer v. Coinbase, Inc.
Trial court did not err in concluding that plaintiffs were not required to arbitrate their consumer law, public injunctive relief claims against cryptocurrency company.
Consumer Law, Civil Procedure
Lathrop v. Thor Motor Coach, Inc.
Burden of showing forum selection clause was unreasonable was improperly placed on consumers rather than party seeking to enforce the clause where consumers' claims involved unwaivable st...
Arbitration, Employment Law
Liu v. Miniso Depot CA, Inc.
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act exempts an entire case from arbitration where plaintiff asserts at least one sexual harassment claim subject to t...
Criminal Law and Procedure
People v. Dorado
Dual use of same aggravating factor to impose both full, consecutive terms for sex offenses and upper terms for those same counts was error.
Environmental Law
Yolo Land and Water Defense v. County of Yolo (Teichert Inc.)
Although petitioner elected to prepare the administrative record, County was properly awarded costs for preparing documents requested pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.