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California attorneys should brace for Phase 2 of the State Bar's Client Trust Account Protection Program (C-TAPP), which will ...


SB 253 bans remote bar exams and mandates transparency after widespread failures and complaints over the February 2025 test.


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


A San Jose federal judge declined to dismiss key claims in a lawsuit brought by major music labels against the developer of AI...


Federal defenders in California argue Bilal Essayli's acting U.S. attorney role violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, cit...


California will reform Medi-Cal communications for blind recipients under a court-approved settlement resolving a lawsuit over...


Rosemarie T. Ring, who has specialized in complex litigation involving privacy, intellectual property, and emerging technologi...


Avy Mallik, former general counsel for the state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, brings deep experience in ...



Former presiding justice of 4th District joins JAMS

Oct. 8, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Kathleen O'Leary will handle appellate, business and commercial, civil rights, government, employment, insurance, personal inj...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles jury found Johnson & Johnson acted with malice in the death of 88-year-old Mae Moore, awarding her family ne...


The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that the law that opened a statute of limitations window for old sexu...


A San Francisco judge tentatively awarded LegalMatch co-founder Anna Ostrovsky $8.34 million, finding she was wrongfully termi...


An attorney for LA Alliance warned receivership could return if Los Angeles continues delaying approval of independent homeles...


Criminal, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal


Nearly six years after granting review, the California Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday to decide whether judges mu...


Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed AB 1155, a McGeorge clinic-originated bill requiring California law schools to allow studen...


Civil Procedure


A San Francisco judge granted Mintz Levin a protective order blocking a subpoena that sought testimony from attorney Cheryl Re...


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


The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari, leaving intact a 9th Circuit ruling that found Live Nation's Ticketmaster arbitratio...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles judge allowed Calabasas' lawsuit over fire debris disposal at Calabasas Landfill to proceed, despite early testi...


At the nonprofit's first gala, Judicate West co-founder Var Fox pledged three-year scholarships for two students--its largest ...


At the Filipino American Lawyers of Orange County's eighth annual gala in Irvine, the theme of kapwa--"shared self"--framed aw...


Judges and Judiciary


A Los Angeles judge denied Sacramento County Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard's motion for trial preference in her judicial compensa...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said the State Bar cannot confirm or deny any investigation but reminded attorneys that Cal...


A new class action accuses Disney of illegally collecting children's data on YouTube by mislabeling videos, following a recent...


U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary, Government, Civil Litigation


A San Francisco district judge refused to pause union litigation during the government shutdown, while the Supreme Court conti...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Judge Christine Van Aken denied motions to dismiss fraud claims in a heated legal dispute involving Berding & Weil LLP, re...


Civil Litigation


CAOC demands probe into DTLA Law over fraud allegations

Oct. 6, 2025
By Skyler Romero, Malcolm Maclachlan

CAOC is urging an urgent State Bar probe into DTLA Law Group over allegations of paying people to file false sex abuse claims,...


Civil Litigation


A federal lawsuit alleges fertility test company Proov shared sensitive health data with Google despite assurances it would no...


A San Diego judge denied sanctions but condemned Tyson & Mendes for miscited and non-existent authority, factual misstatem...


The county settled some 6,800 cases related to its now shuttered MacLaren Hall home for foster youth without taking a single d...


A coalition of tribes urged a Sacramento County judge to preserve their lawsuit against card rooms, arguing a new state law al...


A federal judge ruled that an advance conflict waiver signed by investors' counsel bars the disqualification of Quinn Emanuel...