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Government


The City and County of San Francisco were the first to challenge the August 2019 amendment that said immigration status could ...


Environmental & Energy


What the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation got from its water users this week was two vastly different proposals: The first was submi...


A key witness admitted under oath that he didn’t see the incident that preceded the death of the famed private investigator.


The ACLU and a putative class say the sheriff is violating individual’s privacy rights


No one is voiceless if someone listens, LA County commissioner says.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


An Nguyen Ruda joins Robert H. Bunzel as comanaging principal of San Francisco based Bartko, Zankel, Bunzel & Miller PC. K...


Securities


Penalties must exceed business cost, Gurbir Grewal tells conference.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Armstrong Teasdale opens first office in California

Feb. 2, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Labor and employment attorney Julie O’Dell joined the partnership and will sit in the new Orange County office.


"They really only started to contend that the offer was improper once they realized that they didn't beat it at trial, because...


Judges and Judiciary


"The decision recognizes both the importance of the Political Reform Act and that it is critical to encourage (rather than det...


Class Action


According to a motion for preliminary approval filed by plaintiffs’ lead counsel Julian Hammond of Hammond Law PC in Seattle, ...


Labor/Employment, Judges and Judiciary


"Without a change to our current trajectory, the future is clear: As early as next year, the court will not have enough court ...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


3 new partners join Seyfarth Shaw in San Francisco

Feb. 2, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

San Francisco office managing partner Christian Rowley said, "We continue to expand our offerings to service a growing group o...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Managing partner Thomas P. Fitzgerald said the firm decided to strengthen its San Francisco office to mirror the strength it c...


Criminal


The federal indictment in Los Angeles accuses Thomas V. Girardi and Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of t...



Girardi and others indicted on federal charges

Feb. 1, 2023
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Former plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyer Thomas V. Girardi was indicted Wednesday in separate federal cases in Los Angeles an...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Tracie L. Brown was nominated for presiding justice of the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division 4. Judge Tari Cody o...


Securities


Noting it had been 20 years since President George W. Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in the wake of a series of co...


Government, Environmental & Energy


SB 253, a bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, would require companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenues who d...


Civil Litigation


Superior Court Judge Ruth A. Kwan slashed the hourly rates sought by Shegerian & Associates by 25% to 64% across the board...


Labor/Employment


U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria A. Audero found Monday that the plaintiffs’ subpoena to CEO Chris Kemnczinski to produce documents...


Environmental & Energy


Amy C. Johnsgard of Coast Law Group LLP said in her opening statement that Long Beach’s annual 4th of July fireworks have stip...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Retired Court of Appeal justice joins ADR Services Inc.

Feb. 1, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Justice Thomas L. Willhite Jr. spent 30 years as a jurist and authored more than 2,000 opinions.


Technology, Securities


Investors who said they suffered billions of dollars in losses because of Elon Musk’s Aug. 7, 2018 tweet stating he was consid...


Legal Education, Communications Law


On Saturday, Southwestern Law School’s Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law and the Armenian Bar Association w...


Judges and Judiciary


Committee says CJP should have more power, larger budget

Jan. 31, 2023
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The committee’s report urged against wholesale structural changes to the state’s judicial disciplinary body.


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Including taxes and fees, the Judicial Performance Defense Insurance program cost about $970,000 during the 2017-18 fiscal ye...


California Supreme Court


Chief Justice names supervising attorney for Supreme Court

Jan. 31, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Kyle Graham has been the court’s assistant chief supervising attorney since 2017. He succeeds Jake Dear, who retired in December.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Former federal prosecutor joins Willkie Farr in LA

Jan. 31, 2023
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Marina A. Torres worked in the Obama administration on the Department of Homeland Security’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arr...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Greenberg Traurig’s office will be staffed by more than 10 shareholders, of counsel, associates, and other legal experts from ...