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.
Los Angeles attorney Philip Wang is an international chess master.
Law Practice
Former Senate judiciary chief launches consulting company
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Hannah-Beth Jackson, an attorney, led the powerful committee for nearly seven years before she had to step down late last year...
Criminal, Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
Judge orders cameras to watch guards at 5 prisons
By Gina Kim
Senior U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California found credible the declarations of several ph...
Technology, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation
Zoom immune from privacy claims stemming from video hack
By Winston Cho
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found users failed to allege the company profited from their personal information and said it’s i...
Harry Sassounian was convicted in 1984 of first degree murder for the shooting death of Kemal Arikan, the Los Angeles consul g...
Technology, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council mulls how to streamline court proceedings
By Henrik Nilsson
California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye said, “We can and will innovate more to enhance services.”
Labor/Employment, Government
Opponents, supporters of state labor secretary lobby Congress
By Jessica Mach
The California Business and Industrial Alliance, a trade organization that was launched in 2017 to challenge California's Priv...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Sacramento arena sues insurer for COVID business losses
By Gina Kim
The lawsuit, filed in federal court, was joined by nearby hotels and retailers that lost business during the pandemic.
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
State Bar objects to Tom Girardi's conservatorship
By Henrik Nilsson, Jessica Mach
In a filing Friday, the bar's Chief Trial Counsel wrote that this conservatorship proceeding may interfere with the State Bar ...
Suzanne Segal digs into disputes and won’t give up, lawyers say
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal
Incivility can be basis for reducing fees, panel rules
By Henrik Nilsson
A 2nd District Court of Appeal panel affirmed a decision to cap an attorney's fees because of his incivility, in a case that s...
Government
As Becerra gets closer to new job, another possible AG is touted
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Multiple factors may now point at one potential nominee: Assemblyman Robert A. Bonta, D-Alameda, though there is still strong ...
Thursday’s move follows a series of lawsuits passengers filed against Uber and Lyft in recent years, in which the passengers a...
Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation
Two US judges rule against churches fighting indoor worship bans
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the Eastern District of California wrote 26 pages. U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez...
There were 4,060 new patent cases filed last year — the first increase in filings since 2015, according to a new study. Distri...
Litigation & Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution
International litigator and neutral joins Federal Arbitration
By Kamila Knaudt
Cedric Chao established his own boutique in the Bay Area following tenures at Morrison & Foerster and DLA Piper.
Civil Rights, Civil Litigation
NAACP, BLM protesters sue San Jose over alleged police action
By Tyler Pialet
Rachel Lederman, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, said while the suit seeks unspecified compensatory damages and a court order d...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th circuit considers California’s board diversity law
By Henrik Nilsson
A panel of federal appeals judges on Wednesday appeared ready to allow a shareholder to challenge California’s corporate board...
Judges and Judiciary, Government
CJP oversight, public recording of court streaming in new bills
By Malcolm Maclachlan
AB1577 would create the “Committee to Review the Operations and Structure of the Commission on Judicial Performance.” This bod...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
State Bar says Girardi is ineligible to practice law; psychiatrist says he has Alzheimer's
By Jessica Mach
But ethics experts say the State Bar's decision -- which came a day before a psychiatrist stated in court filings that Girardi...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
Santa Clara County joins suit to vacate health services Sunset Rule
By Winston Cho
The Sunset Rule adds automatic expiration dates to more than 18,000 policies issued by the Department of Health and Human Serv...
Law Office Management
Debevoise & Plimpton to open San Francisco office
By Kamila Knaudt
The San Francisco office, the firm’s third in the U.S. and 10th globally, will be led by comanaging partners Michael Diz and D...
Criminal
Man who carjacked 40 minutes after no-bail release gets 5 years
By Tyler Pialet
The Bay Area case drew national attention because of the brazen attack and because it took center stage in a contentious publi...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Judge preliminarily OKs Sutter Health $575M settlement
By Malcolm Maclachlan
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine T. Massullo last year rejected an earlier version of the agreement after the...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation
Bay Area groups sue Clearview biometric database
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Plaintiffs contend in a complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday that the New York firm's data collection p...