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Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Kristin Bateman, an attorney with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, argued that CashCall’s expenses didn’t matter beca...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Judges and Judiciary, Community News


Judge Guilford spent nearly 14 years on the federal bench before joining Judicate West last year.


Technology, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


John Stossel, a former ABC and Fox news and reporter and presenter, alleged in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that Facebook’s fa...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


SB 762 requires arbitration providers to produce invoices that clearly lay out cost, fees and due dates.


Mergers & Acquisitions, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


“When we singly review serial acquisitions, we may miss the bigger picture patterns of anticompetitive roll-up strategy,” Comm...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Andrei Iancu is now a member of the Irell & Manella LLP team aiding defense of Centripetal Networks’ award against Cisco S...


Corporate, Community News, Books


Veta Richardson’s book is “Take Six: Essential Habits To Own Your Destiny, Overcome Challenges, And Unlock Opportunities.”


A petition for writ of mandate was filed in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday by Starbuzz Tobacco Inc., based in Foothil...


Criminal


“Arranging for a deposition especially during a pandemic would take much more time than Juror No. 7’s live testimony and provi...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Gregory G. Garre, a partner with Latham & Watkins LLP who represents StarKist Co., said about 28% of the class suffered no...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal


The lawsuit’s venue is not a major issue, San Francisco Public Defender Manohar P. Raju said Wednesday. “Regardless of what ju...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Civil Litigation


Valley Air argued it had the authority to create exemptions for petroleum refineries not refining crude oil but still operatin...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Judge Lisa M. Rogan was elected assistant presiding judge.


Securities, Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory


The company is being sued by several current and former employees and by the California Department of Fair Employment and Hous...


Civil Litigation


Lancaster, in northern LA County, sought to charge Netflix Inc. and Hulu LLC 5% of their gross income derived from providing v...


Data Privacy, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Google reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that defendant Luke Wilson had uploaded four images ...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court


Judges told how not to see what they shouldn’t

Sep. 22, 2021
By Craig Anderson

To avoid ethical quandaries, a state Supreme Court advisory committee released guidance Tuesday to judges who routinely search...


Criminal, Appellate Practice


During jury selection, the defendants filed Batson/Wheeler motions against the prosecutor’s exercise of a peremptory strike ag...


Corporate, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said she has noticed the “pendulum swing” in academic settings, an...


Law Practice, Law Office Management, Data Privacy


Tanya Forsheit moved from Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, where she was supervising partner of the Los Angeles office an...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Writing for the court, Judge William A. Fletcher sent the case back to a district court to decide if Grubhub misclassified a d...


Law Practice, Law Office Management, Labor/Employment


McGuireWoods partners Matthew C. Kane and Sylvia J. Kim, senior associate Amy Beverlin and associate Kerri H. Sakaue made the ...


Legal Education, Law Practice


Animal law specialties edge into mainstream

Sep. 21, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

"When I started, I could count the number of animal lawyers I knew of on two hands, and half of them were academics," said Bru...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles attorney Kevin McBride of McBride Law PC, who represents a newly formed organization called the Firefighters 4 Fre...


Obituaries


Dick Esbenshade, 1929-2021

Sep. 21, 2021
By Gina Kim

Cofounder of Munger, Tolles & Olson ‘brought out the best in people’


Securities, Civil Litigation


The complaint, filed by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP along with Motley Rice LLC, alleged the San Francisco company con...


Real Estate/Development, Land Use, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Senate Bill 9, one of four Newsom signed Thursday, will allow as many as two duplexes — two houses with attached units for a t...


Civil Litigation


Judge gives Capitol Annex saviors another chance

Sep. 20, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Sacramento County Judge Laurie M. Earl said she was seeking additional briefs because neither side had cited the case on which...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Lawyers for the Department of Fair Employment and Housing objected to the plaintiffs and the gaming giant proceeding with a ma...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice


“Bittersweet is a perfect word for it. It’s heartbreaking and at the same time, incredibly exciting,” said Leslie Brueckner, w...