Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
Judge issues remedial order in prisons mental health case
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The changes U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ordered this week follow from her ruling earlier this month that off...
Civil Litigation, Government, California Supreme Court
San Diego scores victory against taxpayer suit against ballpark bonds
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court, reversing a 4th District Court of Appeal decision, ruled Thursday nonparties cannot sue to block the ...
Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
State high court revives suit against revised child pornography reporting law
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by therapists challeng...
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawsuits related to homeless grip municipalities throughout California
By Meghann Cuniff
State high court revives suit against revised child pornography reporting law
California Supreme Court
Governor releases some, still redacted, clemency records
By Jessica Mach
The First Amendment Coalition announced receipt of the records Monday, over two months after the state Supreme Court issued si...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Several California law schools faced struggles in 2019
By Lyle Moran
More California law schools may have accreditation trouble in coming year.
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
FBI raids, dropped suit and stonewalled depositions marked LA water bill tangle this year
By Justin Kloczko
Three investigations, six resignations, and one dropped case later, the $67 million water billing settlement refuses to go awa...
Civil Litigation
Judge ditches $15M jury award in legal battle against the Los Angeles Times
By Glenn Jeffers
A judge tossed out a $15 million jury award against the Los Angeles Times in an age and disability discrimination suit filed b...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Wells Fargo decision expected to raise $4M for legal aid
By Lyle Moran
Wells Fargo's decision to offer a higher interest rate on the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts it holds is expected to gene...
Government
Women attorney/legislators delivered for trial bar in 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan
SACRAMENTO -- In September, Sen. Jeff Stone, R-La Quinta, stood up in the California Senate to warn AB 51, a bill barring arbi...
Government
Law allowing med-mal claims against DoD is flawed: lawyers
By Blaise Scemama
Prompted by the plight of an Army Green Beret with lung cancer, President Donald Trump signed legislation that allows servicem...
Criminal
Law on juvenile criminals splits attorney general and county prosecutors
By Jessica Mach
A rift between Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the state’s district attorneys, five cases before the California Supreme Co...
Government, Corporate
One lawyer’s quest to teach America’s high schoolers about the democratic process
By Glenn Jeffers
When Laura W. Brill started The Civics Center, a nonprofit that works with schools to preregister 16- and 17-year-olds to vote...
Law Practice, International Law, Immigration
Law school wants to help US and Mexican lawyers understand each other
By Lyle Moran
University of Arizona's law school is teaming with a Mexican university to offer a certificate program focused on Mexican publ...
LOS ANGELES -- Killing time after a client meeting at Grand Central Station's Mid-City Comics, in downtown Los Angeles, entert...
Judges and Judiciary
4 judges named to superior courts in Central Valley
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Gavin Newsom had an early Christmas present for the Fresno and San Joaquin county courts on Monday: four new superior cou...
Education Law, Government
Defrauded students ask judge to fine Department of Education $100k
By Winston Cho
A class of defrauded students asked a U.S. magistrate judge Monday to increase a $100,000 contempt fine against the U.S. Depar...
Securities, Corporate
Disappointment, litigation follow top IPOs in 2019
By Winston Cho
After multibillion-dollar valuations, Uber and Lyft were hit with a flurry of lawsuits alleging they misled investors after ma...
Civil Litigation, Government
Dreyer Babich team wins $27M from Sacramento County for traffic accident
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Sacramento County and its insurers agreed to the largest legal settlement of its type in the county's history: $27 million to ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
LA court’s family law maven joins Signature Resolution
By Henrik Nilsson
Thomas T. Lewis, the former supervising judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court's family law division, has joined Signa...
Obituaries
‘Tree planter’ built for the future at Morrison Foerster LLP
By Winston Cho
Marshall Small cared about the future, agreed those who worked with him. Not his future, they said, but the future of those wh...
Securities, Criminal
SEC says Sacramento radio financial adviser defrauded hundreds of elderly clients
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Sacramento radio host and Springer Investment Management Inc. ow...
Civil Litigation, Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Sutter Health proposed settlement will feature monitor, changes in business practices
By Craig Anderson
Sutter Health has agreed to pay a $575 million settlement and change several of its business practices in a resolution announc...
Without saying outright whether or not a southern Lebanese man facing criminal charges has been monitored under the Foreign In...
Civil Litigation
Kern County jury awards $70.5 million in personal injury trial
By Meghann Cuniff
Attorneys say the verdict, which includes $5.5 million for post-traumatic stress disorder, is a record in the county.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Hellen Hong hopes her experience can bring meaningful changes to support California's needy
By Lyle Moran
Legal aid organizations across the state are struggling to attract and retain attorneys because the salaries they offer cannot...
Labor/Employment
EEOC says it’s now collected 85% of required pay data
By Glenn Jeffers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Management and Budget have again asked a federal judge to a...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judge denies PwC discovery motion against LA over dismissed water billing dispute
By Blaise Scemama
Pricewaterhouse Coopers took a blow Thursday in its fight for sanctions against the City of Los Angeles after a judge denied i...
Judges and Judiciary
Bay Area judge publicly admonished for hitting attorney
By Winston Cho
The superior court judge hit a female deputy public defender’s hand when she placed it on the bench, “inadvertently us[ing] en...
Education Law, Government, California Supreme Court
High court affirms unreimbursed school mandates are constitutional
By Craig Anderson
The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an appellate court concluding it is constitutional for the Legislature ...