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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.


In Recess


The Best Move

Mar. 15, 2021

Los Angeles attorney Philip Wang is an international chess master.



Law Practice


Former Senate judiciary chief launches consulting company

Mar. 15, 2021
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


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


U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found users failed to allege the company profited from their personal information and said it’s i...


Criminal


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


California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye said, “We can and will innovate more to enhance services.”


Labor/Employment, Government


The California Business and Industrial Alliance, a trade organization that was launched in 2017 to challenge California's Priv...



Insurance, Civil Litigation


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

Mar. 12, 2021
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 ...




Prepared and Persistent

Mar. 12, 2021
By David Houston

Suzanne Segal digs into disputes and won’t give up, lawyers say


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal


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


Multiple factors may now point at one potential nominee: Assemblyman Robert A. Bonta, D-Alameda, though there is still strong ...


Labor/Employment


Uber and Lyft to share sex assault information

Mar. 12, 2021
By Jessica Mach

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


Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the Eastern District of California wrote 26 pages. U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez...


Intellectual Property


2020 was notable for patent litigation

Mar. 12, 2021
By Winston Cho

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


Cedric Chao established his own boutique in the Bay Area following tenures at Morrison & Foerster and DLA Piper.


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


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


A panel of federal appeals judges on Wednesday appeared ready to allow a shareholder to challenge California’s corporate board...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


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


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


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

Mar. 11, 2021
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...


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

Mar. 11, 2021
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

Mar. 11, 2021
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...