Technology, Civil Litigation
Apple defense challenges Microsoft witness over app competition
By Winston Cho
The defense strategy aimed to impugn the credibility of Xbox Game Studio’s parent company, which failed to secure approval fro...
Civil Litigation
State expert’s data questioned by defense in Orange County opioid trial
By Blaise Scemama
In cross-examination of the state’s analytical expert, the defense brought out her admission that her calculations of billions...
Tax, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory
San Francisco cryptocurrency exchange summoned in tax probe
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The latest order is part of a wider effort to catch people who hide transactions using virtual currencies such as Bitcoin.
State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar prosecutor seeks default in Tom Girardi’s discipline action
By Henrik Nilsson
The famed plaintiffs’ lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients. Neither he nor any representative has re...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, California Courts of Appeal
Can anti-SLAPP be used to squelch employment claims?
By Craig Anderson
During oral arguments, the justices appeared skeptical of an Orange County hospital’s argument that the statute can be used to...
Bankruptcy
Former CFO of Girardi firm must appear in bankruptcy court, even if he takes the 5th
By Jessica Mach
The attorney for Chris Kamon says his client is concerned about legal exposure in a federal investigation of the Girardi firm ...
More than a dozen district attorneys have partnered with the Oakland nonprofit For the People over the last year to evaluate c...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Panel revives suit claiming Snapchat speed filter negligently designed
By Gina Kim
The parents of the two teens killed in a crash sued Snap, saying the speed filter is what caused their children to drive at hi...
Civil Litigation
Defense stymies expert testimony and materials in opioid trial
By Blaise Scemama
"There is quite literally nothing I could anticipate from this witness that could authenticate this material," Orange County S...
Government, Criminal
LA County defenders track how staffing impacts results
By Tyler Pialet
The direction from the county board of supervisors comes four months after the board asked Public Defender Ricardo Garcia to p...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Government
Senate leader threatens to freeze bar fee over long-vacant position
By Malcolm Maclachlan
“The State Bar has been in active recruitment for both the executive director and the chief trial counsel,” Interim Executive ...
Civil Litigation
Pet owners, vets, SPCA sue over rules against telemedicine
By Kamila Knaudt
Plaintiffs’ attorney Bruce Wagman of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP in San Francisco said, “Our goal is to increase acce...
Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Rights
Patent case against Pfizer, BioNTech to proceed
By Gina Kim
Senior U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff in San Diego refused to dismiss the case, finding that the federal safe harbor prov...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Epic CEO doesn’t know how App store changes would affect others
By Winston Cho
When asked by the judge overseeing the trial between the two companies if he understands how other apps would be affected if A...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Former IRS chief counsel joins Gibson Dunn in LA
By Henrik Nilsson
Michael J. Desmond, who helped push through regulations for the 2017 federal tax cut, said he joined Gibson Dunn because of it...
Real Estate/Development, California Supreme Court
Landlords’ attorney relieved at removal of tenants’ delay tactic
By Craig Anderson
The Monday decision by the state Supreme Court limited the use of a motion of quash summons and affirmed a 1st District Court ...
The public meeting follows five closed meetings that the work group has held since December. As of Tuesday, the work group has...
Real Estate/Development, Government
Bill to govern commercial evictions passes Assembly Judiciary Committee
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Until July 1, 2025, AB 255 would require a commercial landlord to conduct a “good faith” negotiation with tenants who present ...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Death sentence reversed for mom who killed 4 children
By Tyler Pialet
The court’s 146-page opinion by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye concluded that Sandi Dawn Nieves deserves a new penalty d...
Technology, Education Law, Civil Litigation
Firms file to force state to address inequity in schools reopening
By Malcolm Maclachlan
New funds don’t help students from closed schools, a motion from Public Counsel and Morrison & Foerster LLP argued.
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Mayer Brown insurance regulatory team moves to Wilkie Farr
By Kamila Knaudt
Kara Baysinger joined the San Francisco office of Willkie Farr as co-chair of its insurance regulatory group.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Objections predominate in opioid trial of 4 pharmaceutical companies
By Blaise Scemama
Attorneys for the other drug companies facing deceptive marketing allegations in California have repeatedly stressed the need ...
Civil Litigation
Wrigley is latest candymaker to file trademark case against cannabis company
By Gina Kim
The lawsuit, filed by Kyle R. Petersen of Loeb & Loeb LLP, argues that California law forbids edible cannabis products fro...
Law Practice
Girardi Keese trustee moves to transfer cases, hire counsel
By Jessica Mach
Elissa D. Miller of SulmeyerKupetz APC, who was appointed to handle the firm's finances in January, filed a series of motions ...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Digital marketplace future at heart of Apple v Epic Games trial
By Winston Cho
Epic Games detailed an alleged decadelong scheme by Apple to create a closed marketplace for its apps. Apple portrayed itself ...
Civil Litigation
Freeway housing injunction could be reinstated in LA homeless case
By Gina Kim
Last June, the city and county struck a deal to provide 6,700 beds for those living near freeway ramps, overpasses and underpa...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Does order to disclose litigation funder signal something new?
By Henrik Nilsson
After Tradeline Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., an Indian cotton company, lost its antitrust lawsuit against J.G. Boswell Company and J...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal
US DOJ asks judge to rethink freeing vaccinated ex-lawyer from prison
By Tyler Pialet
In a five-page filing late Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert D. Rees of the Northern District of California argued former...
Military Law, Civil Litigation
Paul Hastings, Public Counsel win pro bono victory for veterans’ appeals
By Kamila Knaudt
The U.S Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims’ ruling not only requires the department to allow future appeals, but allows past ...
Government
Bill OKs successors pursuing pain, suffering damages for deceased relatives
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SB 447, opposed by medical and business organizations, passed the state Senate 21-9.