Labor/Employment
Employee records policies lag behind new timeline law
By Jessica Mach
Employment attorneys say the disparity prevents complainants from recognizing serial perpetrators while also blocking employer...
Law Practice
Law firms join national effort to let employees off to vote
By Kamila Knaudt
With the U.S. general election just 76 days away, law firms and companies throughout the nation are announcing voter friendly ...
Government
Bill to forgive $15M in outstanding court fees for juvenile delinquents
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SB 1290, despite a potential $15 million price tag, passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Tuesday after days of legi...
The Anti-Defamation League named Jeffrey I. Abrams as regional director of the Los Angeles office on Tuesday. He succeeds Aman...
Criminal
DAs take action to notify victims, survivors when state releases dangerous prisoners
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On Tuesday, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan announced her office has set up a team to find and notify victims when ...
Civil Litigation
‘Star Trek’ actress’ son countersues her ex-manager over property and assets
By Henrik Nilsson
The countersuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Aug. 10, also alleged that the manager moved into Nichelle Nich...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate Justice Laurie Zelon to retire this month
By Arin Mikailian
She cited health issues as the reason for retiring and added she will work remotely through her last day on Aug. 31.
Civil Litigation
Federal judge schedules trial on fight against school closures
By Gina Kim
Parents fighting to send their children back to school given chance to argue their case with permanent injunction, merits benc...
Immigration, Government
Lawyers must ensure ICE isn’t lying about virus in lockup
By Winston Cho
After catching the lawyers in a series of allegedly inadvertent inaccuracies over COVID-19 testing procedures at Mesa Verde, a...
Law Practice
Some California firms are beating lower expectations, with one partially restoring salary cuts
By Craig Anderson
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP on Tuesday trimmed by half its 12% salary reduction for associates, most staff att...
Siemens Medical Solutions scored a victory in a false advertising lawsuit relating to Graves' disease-detecting blood tests fi...
Real Estate/Development, Government
Lawmakers move bill to extend tenant protections by 7 months
By Tyler Pialet
Assembly Bill 1436, authored by Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-0, less th...
Conversations about a third way to classify California workers that departs from the "employee" and "independent contractor" b...
Criminal, Civil Litigation
Murderer seeking release citing virus has been denied evaluation, lawyers say
By Tyler Pialet
Prison officials were ordered on Friday by a 1st District Court of Appeal panel to transfer Ivan Von Staich from his shared ce...
Government, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory
FTC ramps up investigations into companies selling virus cures
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On Friday, the agency sent warning letters to 20 companies, including one in San Diego. Each informs the company or clinic the...
Education Law, Civil Litigation
DOJ case against Yale might be bad sign for Proposition 16
By Henrik Nilsson
The Department of Justice sent a letter to Yale University on Thursday, saying that the school discriminated against Asian-Ame...
Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy
Judge stays some discovery in lawyer’s bankruptcy, citing federal probe
By Justin Kloczko
An Arizona bankruptcy judge has stayed certain discovery proceedings of an attorney tied to a federal probe of the city of Los...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, California Supreme Court
State high court hands victory to nursing homes for damages in neglect lawsuit
By Craig Anderson
In a legal victory for nursing homes, the state Supreme Court on Monday slashed the damages award to the daughter of a man, no...
Immigration, Criminal
‘Deliberate indifference’ to virus at immigrant lockup, judge says
By Winston Cho
Fifty-six of 104 total people detained at Mesa Verde now have the virus, according to a lawyer representing a class of detaine...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Relevance of rare plaintiff victory in virus litigation is disputed
By Blaise Scemama
Most judges who have ruled have found in favor of insurers who say the term "physical loss or damage" means an actual alterati...
Government, Civil Litigation
9th Circuit reverses ruling on wireless carrier surcharge
By Craig Anderson
Reversing a district judge, a 9th U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Friday ruled a state law requiring a surcharge on prepaid wir...
Government, Criminal, California Courts of Appeal
Orange County DA defends report on jailhouse snitches
By Tyler Pialet
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is being scrutinized over a report he commissioned that cleared his office of pro...
Attorneys at estate planning firm Weinstock Manion take great satisfaction from helping others.
Judge Alexander Martinez has twin loves: criminal law and the Star Wars' franchise.
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Gun rights group wins one California case, but loses another
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California continues to be an epicenter of firearms law litigation, with a state affiliate of the National Rifle Association w...
Data Privacy
Final rules for California’s landmark privacy law get OK
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Consumer Privacy Act officially went into effect on Jan. 1. Becerra submitted the proposed regulations on June ...
Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
With lawsuit, Epic Games seeks to exploit tech giant’s congressional woes
By Winston Cho
Seizing upon bipartisan interest to reign in the tech giants, Epic Games advanced narratives raised in the investigation conce...
Immigration, Civil Litigation
Counsel praise Chief Judge Larry Burns’s handling of first federal jury trial post-shutdown
By Gina Kim
Southern District of California jury sides with former ICE agent in civil rights case against the DOJ
Criminal
Acquittal in San Francisco’s first Covid-era state criminal trial
By Tyler Pialet
A jury found defendant David Brown not guilty of felony burglary after he spent more than a year in jail -- five months of whi...
Government, Education Law
Schools must rely more heavily on legal counsel to navigate new Title IX rules
By Jessica Mach
The new Title IX regulations that went into effect at the end of last week preempts state laws that protect individuals from s...