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Government, Environmental & Energy


Karen E. Skelton, who will advise Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, spent the last decade as founder and CEO of Skelton Stra...


Insurance, Civil Litigation


The insurance company argued California courts have repeatedly recognized that policyholders could not reasonably allege COVID...


Law Practice, Law Office Management


The founding members of the office are newly added corporate and securities shareholder Brent A. Reinke, who joined from Music...


Labor/Employment


If Congress doesn't pass the ambitious federal bill, the prospect of gig workers unionizing would still be on the table as lon...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Despite San Fernando Valley personal injury attorney Michael J. Libman arguing his civil rights were being violated and that a...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


Judge David O. Carter of the Central District axed plans to enlist outside assistance from Social Justice Legal Foundation and...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation


Despite San Fernando Valley personal injury attorney Michael J. Libman arguing his civil rights were being violated and that a...


“What our settlement achieves is that it now allows the return of indoor sports that previously had not been allowed,” said Ia...


Civil Litigation


The settlement announced on the same day a lawsuit was filed in San Francisco Superior Court is part of a sweeping investigati...


Steven C. Bailey of San Diego-based Bailey & Romero, represents a Nevada County restaurant that made claims under the Fir...


Labor/Employment, Government


Opinions are now divided on whether the bill, which substantially amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier fo...


Technology, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Plaintiffs’ lawyer Benjamin Siegel did not technically violate the protective order, wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson...


Government, Criminal


Steve G. Kalar says it is time to let someone else bring in a new kind of energy and mindset to the job.


“We hope our deposit in an institution that is poised to support Black communities is not only a call to action for the legal ...


Law Office Management


Barbara L. Becker, New York partner and co-chair of the mergers and acquisitions practice group becomes chair and managing par...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The U.S. Supreme Court, which is reviewing a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the statute, asked the solic...


Technology, Labor/Employment


U.S District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said while it was easy to imagine "a plaintiff successfully stating a dispa...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation


A federal judge in San Francisco indicated skepticism Wednesday about his power to force all current and future plaintiffs sui...


Government, Criminal


The task force’s focus would be on suppliers instead of street-corner dealers, District Attorney Chesa Boudin said, which is w...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


The suit claims O'Brien was ordered to discipline a swimming coach at the college, Sage Hopkins, after he compiled a 300-page ...


The city attorney's office has not extended the offer to the plaintiff and said this week that it may not do so.


Civil Litigation


As alleged in the complaint, a skilled nursing home receives the highest reimbursement rates from Medicare-covered residents w...


Law Office Management


Sun, known for his complex business litigation and white collar defense work, called the move a seamless fit, adding he was at...


Technology, Civil Litigation


The California residents didn’t suffer sufficient harm to sue the consumer DNA company because the information is publicly acc...


California Courts of Appeal


The county already had lifted the ban, pointing to declining COVID-19 infection rates and more hospital capacity, but legal ex...


Technology, Labor/Employment


The statement said the contract "does not focus on wages and benefits, which are already generous at Glitch," and focuses part...


Civil Litigation


Presiding over a lawsuit filed last year by an alliance of business owners and residents who said the government failed to add...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Panel asks if in-person schools are a right

Mar. 3, 2021
By Craig Anderson

Parents filed a lawsuit arguing the restrictions, requiring school closures when counties have faced a spike in deaths and hos...


Judges and Judiciary


State judiciary diversity increased in past 14 years

Mar. 2, 2021
By Malcolm Maclachlan

There are now 70 open superior court judgeships and six spots for appellate justices, according to data released Feb. 1 by the...


State Bar & Bar Associations


This will be the third time the exam has been administered online because of the pandemic.