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Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


“There has been a fundamental and material breakdown in the relationship between the firm and Ms. Girardi,” Peter J. Mastan, s...


Labor/Employment


Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin said in their complaints they were pressured to join “whiteness accountability” affinity gro...



Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops


As California reopened, federal courts differed on mask mandates, leaving it up to judges to make their own decisions.


Technology, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar found there is enough evidence indicating that Hewlett Packard Enterprise partnered with serv...



Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal


The case could prompt other criminal defenders to request new trials in cases where jurors were allowed or required to wear op...


Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, Administrative/Regulatory


Employers can expect a host of practical challenges, and will need to consider laws beyond Occupational Safety and Health Admi...



Government


Los Angeles attorney Eric George of Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP said special master Edward Robbins of ...


“Imprisoning a woman for the death of her unborn child is not justice, and it is not in line with the law,” Attorney General R...



Government


Nathan Hochman, a Republican, has raised $479,000 as of Monday. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, has c...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops


In an announcement Monday afternoon, the San Diego County Superior Court said, "Public access will generally revert to prepand...




Mindful of Impact

Jun. 14, 2021

Demetria Graves knows divorces affect whole families, approaches cases as a peacemaker.



Empowered to Act

Jun. 14, 2021
By David Houston

Commissioner Evan Kitahara has often used a new law to grant diversion.



Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


A federal jury in San Francisco found that Chart Industries was mostly responsible for the accident that caused the loss of eg...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


After hearing the people’s case in chief during a seven-week virtual bench trial, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wil...



State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


The bar is under criticism for failing to discipline plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, who is now accused of stealing mill...


Government


Attorneys familiar with the vetting process say they do not know when President Joe Biden will nominate top prosecutors in the...



State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education


Fewer people took February bar exam, more passed

Jun. 14, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

The report released Wednesday showed that 3,098 people took the exam in February, compared to 4,205 in February 2020, but 1,15...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The decision culminates a three-year legal saga, in which Delfina Soto Soto spent more than two years in an immigration detent...



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


Amendments to California’s worker classification law didn’t apply to all freelance writers


Technology, Civil Litigation


Proposed class action alleges the company deceptively gathered children’s data for targeted marketing.



Labor/Employment, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


The proposed class action was dismissed once for being “sparse and poorly drafted”


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court


In a statement filed Wednesday concurring with the high court’s denial of review in the case of a man convicted of two murders...



Government, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Attorney General Rob Bonta said he will also ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Senior U.S. District Judge Roge...


Civil Litigation


The appeal stems from a sweeping 110-page preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge David O. Carter issued in litigation brou...



Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


In making the announcement, the trustees appeared to acknowledge what critics have long said was a history of bar investigator...


Technology, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge James Donato moved the trial, which was supposed to start in December, to next September at the earliest. ...



State Bar & Bar Associations


Leah Wilson returns as State Bar executive director

Jun. 11, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

Wilson is to start on July 12. She returns to the bar after 18 months as a senior director at the consulting firm Resource Dev...


Podcast host Howard Miller talks with leading tax expert Robert Wood on California tax proposals.




Law Practice


Tom Girardi's brother appointed conservator

Jun. 10, 2021
By Henrik Nilsson

The one time highflying plaintiffs' lawyer made a rare appearance in court Wednesday.


Government, Civil Litigation


After California voters legalized recreational use of pot with Proposition 64 in 2016, the city imposed a 1% fee on the gross ...