Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy
Attorney for Girardi's wife asks to withdraw from her cases
By Jessica Mach
“There has been a fundamental and material breakdown in the relationship between the firm and Ms. Girardi,” Peter J. Mastan, s...
Labor/Employment
Stanford mental health counselors sue over anti-Jewish harassment
By Craig Anderson
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
Most federal courts in California keep pandemic protocols
By Gina Kim
As California reopened, federal courts differed on mask mandates, leaving it up to judges to make their own decisions.
Technology, Civil Litigation
Oracle can pursue major copyright violation claims against HPE
By Winston Cho
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
Lawyer wants retrial after client convicted by masked jurors
By Gina Kim
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
New workplace COVID rules easier to apply, but still risky
By Jessica Mach
Employers can expect a host of practical challenges, and will need to consider laws beyond Occupational Safety and Health Admi...
Government
Water bill case report nears release, but city says violates rights
By Blaise Scemama
Los Angeles attorney Eric George of Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP said special master Edward Robbins of ...
Criminal
AG seeks reversal of conviction of woman whose stillbirth caused by drugs
By Kamila Knaudt
“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
LA lawyer leads DA opponent in donations to unseat AG Bonta in 2022
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
San Diego Court back to normal today, other courts opening
By Craig Anderson
In an announcement Monday afternoon, the San Diego County Superior Court said, "Public access will generally revert to prepand...
Demetria Graves knows divorces affect whole families, approaches cases as a peacemaker.
Commissioner Evan Kitahara has often used a new law to grant diversion.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
After $15 million judgment, cryogenic tank maker faces more suits over loss of eggs and embryos
By Winston Cho
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
Judge gets several 1,000-page motions from opioid trial plaintiffs
By Blaise Scemama
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
Mixed response to bar’s plan to audit high-dollar trust accounts
By Henrik Nilsson
The bar is under criticism for failing to discipline plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, who is now accused of stealing mill...
Government
3 ex-prosecutors are favorites for US attorney in Central District
By Craig Anderson
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
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
Immigration court should have relied on woman’s torture claim, 9th Circuit says
By Blaise Scemama
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
Freelance journalists tell circuit AB 5 changes don't solve their problems
By Jessica Mach
Amendments to California’s worker classification law didn’t apply to all freelance writers
Technology, Civil Litigation
Judge leans to YouTube’s preemption defense in child data gathering suit
By Blaise Scemama
Proposed class action alleges the company deceptively gathered children’s data for targeted marketing.
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
Lawyers and judge mull how to allege Uber’s rating system is racist
By Jessica Mach
The proposed class action was dismissed once for being “sparse and poorly drafted”
Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court
Justice Liu asks Legislature to review life without parole for under 25s
By Kamila Knaudt
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
California appeals federal judge’s striking of assault gun ban
By Gina Kim
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
9th Circuit extends stay on order to clear LA homeless camp
By Gina Kim
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
Girardi case leads bar to impose reforms on its discipline system
By Henrik Nilsson
In making the announcement, the trustees appeared to acknowledge what critics have long said was a history of bar investigator...
Technology, Civil Litigation
Fall 2022 trial date in Facebook case illustrates backlog
By Winston Cho
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
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.
The one time highflying plaintiffs' lawyer made a rare appearance in court Wednesday.
Government, Civil Litigation
Pot businesses challenges Sacramento fee based on alleged harm
By Malcolm Maclachlan
After California voters legalized recreational use of pot with Proposition 64 in 2016, the city imposed a 1% fee on the gross ...