Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy
Tom Girardi’s wife hiding California Lottery payments, attorney says
By Henrik Nilsson
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
J&J was sued the day it recalled aerosol sunscreens
By Jessica Mach
In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...
Judges and Judiciary, Immigration
AG Garland says immigration judges can resume delaying deportations
By Kamila Knaudt
Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...
Data Privacy, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust suit against Facebook may be time barred, judge says
By Winston Cho
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
Bar to review special master’s report on LA water bill attorneys
By Blaise Scemama
The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal
Most prospective jurors never heard of Avenatti
By Gina Kim
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
Millions of workers benefit from state Supreme Court ruling
By Craig Anderson
Dennis F. Moss, an attorney with Moss Bollinger LLP who represented the plaintiffs, said many companies will have to make chan...
Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Newsom names 2 state attorneys to Department of Cannabis Control
By Henrik Nilsson
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
Orange County pays teen $195K for deputy’s gun threat
By Gina Kim
“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
Legislature’s unit to review staff mistreatment to improve, says head
By Jessica Mach
Some employment attorneys have said the Workplace Conduct Unit created three years ago frequently failed to review or investig...
Technology, Civil Litigation
Retroactive arbitration contracts may defeat class action against Cricket
By Winston Cho
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
Governor names new leaders for state labor agency
By Jessica Mach
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
Judge to decide if juror can be dismissed for not having COVID vaccine
By Blaise Scemama
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
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
Judge slams LA city attorney’s expert in suit against retailers
By Craig Anderson
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
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
Labor secretary confirmed by Senate faced stiff opposition
By Jessica Mach
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
Suit says LA County allowed sex abuse of girls in detention
By Kamila Knaudt
“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
Defense calls for mistrial and trial delay in Avenatti’s client theft case
By Gina Kim
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
Civil rights groups urge probate judge to allow Britney Spears to choose lawyer
By Henrik Nilsson
“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
Judge signals she’ll narrow suit over YouTube moderator trauma
By Winston Cho
“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
LA city attorney’s office engaged in massive scheme, cover-up, report says
By Blaise Scemama
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 Chalfant won’t hear cases from bench until mask mandate lifts
By Nicole Tyau
Judge James C. Chalfant, whose previous decisions favored holding indoor religious ceremonies and lifting an outdoor dining ba...
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
Reddit not liable for pornographic posts of underage girls
By Gina Kim
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
No link between J&J opioids and sales in California, expert testifies
By Blaise Scemama
Laurentius Marais of Compass Lexecon in Chicago testified the sale of three prescription drugs made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
3rd San Diego federal judge takes senior status
By Gina Kim
U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes of the Southern District of California announces semi retirement as of Aug. 1.
Government, Criminal, Civil Litigation
Prisons department accused of denying sex criminals early release
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The prisons department and Sacramento attorney Janice M. Bellucci have tangled for years over what she said is a pattern of ig...
Government, Criminal
Santa Clara DA gets challenge from the left, following trend
By Craig Anderson
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
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The governor’s campaign attorneys inadvertently left his party off paperwork they filed last year with the secretary of state’...