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Alternative Dispute Resolution


Lucie Barron said she faced skepticism because she was not a lawyer and was a woman when she founded one of California’s now l...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Class counsel in Illumina securities case could see attorney fees increase from $2.125M to $3.46M



Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Richard Doyle, the former head deputy of the DA’s Compton office, refused orders from Los Angeles County District Attorney Gas...


The district court stressed that, unlike its eastern and western divisions, the southern division comprises just one county wh...



Government, Data Privacy


Privacy Protection Agency board members named

Mar. 19, 2021
By Kamila Knaudt

Four of the five board members responsible for implementing the California Privacy Rights Act are attorneys.


Government


Chief Deputy Attorney General Matthew Rodriquez has had a long career in California state government.



Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, in a revolt against his colleagues of the Central District of California, has been dismi...


Technology, Civil Litigation


A number of objectors and Apple argued the attorney fee award was too high.



Technology, Law Practice, Civil Litigation


Keller Lenkner LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP filed a joint lawsuit in December based on the theory that Fa...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel, who represented the city in a lawsuit which sought to blame consulting firm Pricewaterhous...



Insurance, California Supreme Court


The dispute concerns fees charged by title insurance companies to consumers for ancillary services such as overnight document ...


Obituaries


Stanley Y. Oda, 1938-2021

Mar. 18, 2021
By Jessica Mach

Workers' compensation expert was always ready to give advice.



Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation


Handy Technologies Inc. said the lawsuit fundamentally mistates the rights of the company and the workers who perform cleaning...


Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal


3rd District Court of Appeal executive officer Andrea K. Wallin-Rohmann said the court delivered opinions at the highest rate ...



Government, Criminal


Since taking office in December, Gascón has faced a flurry of opposition from within his office, on the bench and from law enf...


Technology, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Palo Alto Research Center, owned by Xerox Corp., accused the three companies of infringing on some of its inventions that made...



Judges and Judiciary


Momentum grows for change in funding court construction

Mar. 18, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Legislative Analyst’s Office has suggested moving responsibility for court construction back into the General Fund, as exi...


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar rebuffed arguments from the International Business Machine-owned company that users consented...



Government, Criminal


An advisor to DA George Gascón said the three public defenders were lateral hires because they were appointed to the same posi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The bar is funding the initiatives from attorney “opt out fees,” which generate around $300,000 per year, but the need is far ...



Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


“The burden of cases that have piled up over the past six years has become overwhelming and unmanageable by that court alone,”...


Insurance, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


Proskauer Rose is representing the Los Angeles Lakers in its fight to collect unpaid claims submitted to Federal Insurance Co....



Labor/Employment, Government


Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, considering Julie A.Su’s nomination for a post ...


Judges and Judiciary


Should Congress agree with the Judicial Conference proposal, the expanded courts would bring much-needed relief to judges who ...



Judges and Judiciary


The retirements in the past few months, with more coming this spring, leave a lot of vacancies on the Los Angeles County Super...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Avenatti’s lawyer was accused of ripping off Michael Flynn’s defense motion filed in 2019 but attorney H. Dean Steward called ...



Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation


The plaintiffs, representing California cities and counties, seek a court order declaring the companies have engaged in unlawf...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


Trial is scheduled to begin in August on claims that MoFo engaged in pregnancy and maternity discrimination and violated equal...



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


Frustrated by the pause on jury trials in the Central District of California,U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who sits in...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


Famed trial lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients. A psychiatrist says he has Alzheimer’s.