Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADR Services founder persevered despite difficulties
By Kamila Knaudt
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
Clerical error could add more than $1M to attorney fees
By Craig Anderson
Class counsel in Illumina securities case could see attorney fees increase from $2.125M to $3.46M
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation
LA deputy DA who refused to dismiss felony charges settles for $300K
By Tyler Pialet
Richard Doyle, the former head deputy of the DA’s Compton office, refused orders from Los Angeles County District Attorney Gas...
Law Practice
Jury summons to start in US Central District’s Orange County courthouse
By Gina Kim
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
By Kamila Knaudt
Four of the five board members responsible for implementing the California Privacy Rights Act are attorneys.
Government
Longtime DOJ veteran becomes acting state attorney general
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
9th Circuit questions whether trial judge considered all factors when throwing out criminal indictment
By Gina Kim
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
US judge OKs $80M attorney fees in Apple throttling case
By Craig Anderson
A number of objectors and Apple argued the attorney fee award was too high.
Technology, Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Quinn Emanuel and Hagens Berman partners to lead Facebook class actions
By Winston Cho
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
Memo shows city knew its lawyer was working with opponent on unrelated suit
By Blaise Scemama
Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel, who represented the city in a lawsuit which sought to blame consulting firm Pricewaterhous...
Insurance, California Supreme Court
Title insurance company must file extra fees with state before charging them
By Craig Anderson
The dispute concerns fees charged by title insurance companies to consumers for ancillary services such as overnight document ...
Workers' compensation expert was always ready to give advice.
Labor/Employment, Government, Civil Litigation
LA, San Francisco DAs sue handyman, cleaning service over worker classification
By Gina Kim
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
California Supreme Court won’t transfer cases from 3rd District, despite delays
By Malcolm Maclachlan
3rd District Court of Appeal executive officer Andrea K. Wallin-Rohmann said the court delivered opinions at the highest rate ...
Government, Criminal
LA DA says policies are ‘major cultural shift,’ warns opponents
By Tyler Pialet
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
Judge dismisses claims on patents for content monitoring
By Gina Kim
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
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
Weather Channel must face trial over tracking app users
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar rebuffed arguments from the International Business Machine-owned company that users consented...
Government, Criminal
LA DAs' union appeals Gascón's public defender appointments
By Tyler Pialet
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
Bar says it needs more than $400K to increase diversity, inclusion
By Henrik Nilsson
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
3rd District opinions have sped up since complaint, but still lag, say attorneys
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“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
Lakers sue insurance company for denying COVID business loss claims
By Gina Kim
Proskauer Rose is representing the Los Angeles Lakers in its fight to collect unpaid claims submitted to Federal Insurance Co....
Labor/Employment, Government
Senators grill labor secretary over California unemployment fraud
By Jessica Mach
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
Judicial Conference proposes 79 new federal judgeships, many in California
By Henrik Nilsson
Should Congress agree with the Judicial Conference proposal, the expanded courts would bring much-needed relief to judges who ...
Judges and Judiciary
Several Los Angeles County judges are leaving the bench
By Arin Mikailian
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
Federal prosecutors accuse Michael Avenatti’s lawyer of plagiarism
By Gina Kim
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
Opioid makers must face trial on deception allegations, judge rules
By Tyler Pialet
The plaintiffs, representing California cities and counties, seek a court order declaring the companies have engaged in unlawf...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Judge pares lawyers’ bias complaint against MoFo
By Jessica Mach
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
9th Circuit to hear appeal of dismissal under Speedy Trial Act
By Gina Kim
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
Tom Girardi tries to give up law license, State Bar says no
By Henrik Nilsson
Famed trial lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients. A psychiatrist says he has Alzheimer’s.