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Insurance, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The state accused Essilor Laboratories of America Inc. of offering and paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to opt...


Judges and Judiciary, Insurance, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Attorneys representing StarKist Co. and Dongwon Industries Co. Ltd., defendants in a major tuna price-fixing class action, are...



Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal


Ruling for the American Film Institute, the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Friday that “a volunteer for a nonprofit organi...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation, Banking


The complaint is the latest of several MALDEF has filed on behalf of DACA benefit recipients, citing Section 1981 of the feder...



Consumer Law, Civil Litigation


Food labeling is a field ripe for litigation. Recent consumer class actions include a proposed lawsuit against Frito-Lay for i...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Administrative/Regulatory


One major rift between the bar and the lawmakers appears to be a disagreement about how well "regulatory sandbox" changes have...



Government, Criminal


Dr. Lance L. Gooberman faced a 12-count felony indictment accusing him of misbranding and illegally shipping Naltrexone — a dr...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Florentino "Tino" Garza, who picked cotton and delivered newspapers to support himself after being orphaned and became one of ...



Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


After hearing pitches from several large law firms, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter chose Wylie A. Aitken of Aitken Aitken...


Entertainment & Sports, Criminal


This year, several new true crime documentaries focused on prominent California cases.



Law Practice


The Los Angeles office will be primarily focused on the private equity, asset management and healthcare industries. The firm s...


Judges and Judiciary


President Biden has nominated eight other California district judges. Two of them had Senate Judiciary Committee hearings but ...



Civil Litigation


Changing lawyers is costly, DWP is warned

Dec. 21, 2021
By Blaise Scemama

City Attorney Mike Feuer said Monday he won’t stop the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from removing his office and ...


Entertainment & Sports


Co-defendant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is now barred from selling tickets to Coachella Day One 22 on Ticketmaster.com.



Civil Litigation


The bus company, First Student Inc., initially sued for the costs of maintaining its fleet of school buses in ready condition ...


Environmental & Energy, Criminal


U.S. District Judge William Alsup set a hearing for Jan. 3 for the utility to admit or deny charges involving two fires. If th...



State Bar & Bar Associations


“Under the State Bar’s obligation as a regulatory agency whose principal mission is the protection of the public, it has issue...


Civil Litigation


"It appears to be the longest jury trial in the nation in the last couple of years because of COVID," Thomas P. O'Brien of Ell...



The seven recommendations were: strengthen California’s mental health diversion law; encourage alternatives to incarceration; ...


Bankruptcy


The Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2021, introduced in September by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and John Cornyn, ...



Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


Indira J. Cameron-Banks, a principal at Cameron Banks Law who represents the family of a former Girardi Keese client who has a...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


“It’s a healthy warning to corporations and entities in California that they can’t treat employees poorly; they’re not going t...



Judges and Judiciary


U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Lopez will replace U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez in San Diego. Superior Court Judge Jinsook...



A Presence

Dec. 17, 2021

Patrick Kelly’s years of leadership pay off in mediation



Sonoma County judge’s career has been committed to children.


Torts/Personal Injury, Law Practice, Government, Civil Litigation


California Secretary of State Shirley Weber released the title and summary text for three initiatives proposed by the Civil Ju...



Labor/Employment, Corporate


The report was issued as the law faces continued legal challenges, including in a bench trial in Los Angeles — and as a vetera...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Nearly 45 counties have started their own versions, according to Los Angeles County Judge Paul A. Bacigalupo.



Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Democrats rushed to confirm as many of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees as possible before the end of the year.


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


A consulting agreement signed by an attorney who said he advised the co-creator for the TV reality show "Survivor" was deemed ...