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Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


Ronald Richards, who is tasked with finding firm assets, said in the filing that Erika Girardi collected payments stemming fro...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...



Judges and Judiciary, Immigration


Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...


Data Privacy, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Pointing to the dismissals of other lawsuits similarly claiming that Facebook holds a monopoly on social networking, U.S. Dist...



State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


Hundreds of jurors said they know nothing of Michael J. Avenatti or his criminal charges, except for a vague recollection of h...



Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


Dennis F. Moss, an attorney with Moss Bollinger LLP who represented the plaintiffs, said many companies will have to make chan...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Matthew S. Lee, the governor’s deputy legal affairs secretary, is the new general counsel for the department. Tamara M. Colson...



Government, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


“Obviously we can’t make it a condition in any settlement like this that the officer be fired,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Eric...


Government, Civil Rights


Some employment attorneys have said the Workplace Conduct Unit created three years ago frequently failed to review or investig...



Technology, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge William Alsup pressed both sides on questions relating to the validity and retroactivity of arbitration ag...


Labor/Employment, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Natalie Palugyai will replace Julie A. Su as California’s labor secretary, while Stewart Knox will serve as undersecretary.



Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Defense attorney Brad Brian of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and plaintiffs' attorney Jennifer Keller of Kender Anderle asked...


Family, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Britney Spears can pick her own lawyer, judge rules

Jul. 15, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

The new attorney, Mathew S. Rosengart, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, wasted no time in calling on Spears’ father to...



Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones wrote of the plaintiffs’ expert, Clarkson University professor emeritus L...


Government, Civil Litigation


CalPers settles with 80,000-person class for $2.7B

Jul. 14, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The class of California Public Employees Retirement System members sued the fund in 2013 after it announced an 85% premium inc...



Labor/Employment, Administrative/Regulatory


The 50-47 vote confirming Julie A. Su as the next deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor follows a heated congressi...


Criminal, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


“The county had taken these young girls into their care,” the plaintiffs’ attorney, Justin H. King of Rancho Cucamonga, said i...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, Michael J. Avenatti’s attorney, complained about media coverage of his client’s sentencing i...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


“Spears’ right to select an attorney is not only a basic tenet of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, but also consistent wi...



Technology, Civil Litigation


“We are moving to a digital world and that doesn’t mean causes of action go away. That just means they morph and change and co...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


City Attorney Mike Feuer was not named as a bad actor in the report by a special master who investigated the water billing lit...



Judges and Judiciary


Judge James C. Chalfant, whose previous decisions favored holding indoor religious ceremonies and lifting an outdoor dining ba...


Civil Litigation


Environmentalists sue to save Capitol Annex

Jul. 13, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The complaint says the plan to destroy and replace the 70-year-old Capitol Annex approved by the Legislature violates the Cali...



Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge James V. Selna ruled that the plaintiffs will be unable to state a claim for relief against Reddit because...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


Laurentius Marais of Compass Lexecon in Chicago testified the sale of three prescription drugs made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals...



Judges and Judiciary, Government


U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes of the Southern District of California announces semi retirement as of Aug. 1.


Government, Criminal, Civil Litigation


The prisons department and Sacramento attorney Janice M. Bellucci have tangled for years over what she said is a pattern of ig...



Government, Criminal


Deputy Public Defender Sajid A. Khan, who is best known for writing a pair of posts denouncing the criminal justice system in ...


Government, Civil Rights


Newsom loses bid to have party name on recall ballot

Jul. 13, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The governor’s campaign attorneys inadvertently left his party off paperwork they filed last year with the secretary of state’...