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Government, Criminal


US attorney to create corporate fraud force

Mar. 7, 2019
By Craig Anderson

Northern District U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson has ambitious plans for his office, including aggressive efforts to prosecut...


Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of UC Irvine School of Law, has donated his personal and professional papers to the unive...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment


In the post-recession environment, employers increasingly want students graduating from law school ready to hit the ground run...


Obituaries


William A. Richmond 1942-2019

Mar. 7, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

William A. Richmond, who served as district attorney in Tulare and Alpine counties, died from lung cancer on March 1 at his h...



The Realist

Mar. 7, 2019

LA Judge Michael Jesic is candid with defendants and lawyers about likely criminal verdicts.


Government, Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The Trump administration on Tuesday called a statement by California’s Democratic senators aimed at stopping the nomination of...


Civil Litigation


The plaintiff in the first of the federal test cases arguing Monsanto’s weedkiller causes cancer took the witness stand Tuesda...


Education Law, State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar is extending its bar exam stress management study another year to include this July’s test and increase particip...


Labor/Employment, Government


After a highly critical ruling reinstating new pay data disclosures employers must give the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity ...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


An Orange County deputy district attorney suspended by the State Bar for failing to disclose exculpatory evidence has been fir...


Law Practice


Technology startup firm arrives in Santa Monica

Mar. 6, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

Fenwick & West LLP, which consistently ranks among the nation’s leading firms for technology startups, is opening in Santa...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that California’s rollback of certain state employees’ ability to purchase pension servic...


Criminal


An Oakland federal judge on Monday struck down San Francisco County’s use of money bail for those suspected of crimes but not ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


By most accounts a $67 million class action settlement over water misbilling by the city of Los Angeles resolved quickly and q...


Immigration, Government


A San Francisco federal judge has once again dismissed the Trump Administration’s attempts to withhold law enforcement funds f...


Law Practice, Criminal


Stephen A. Cazares brings 14 years experience as a prosecutor with the U.S. attorney’s office to his new job.


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar has been considering mandatory attorney malpractice insurance for nearly a year but needs more data to make the ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property


The U.S. Supreme Court ordered software giant Oracle Corp., which won a copyright infringement case against competitor Rimini ...


Graffiti containing the words "Fuck Trump" and an anarchist symbol,often seen on flags waved by self-proclaimed anti-fascists ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


Attorneys say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday requiring copyright owners to await registration before filing claims should ...


Community News



Labor/Employment, Administrative/Regulatory


The board ruled Friday that lobbying costs are not representational and that Beck objectors are entitled to third party verifi...


Securities


San Francisco-based Lyft Inc., a popular rideshare app, filed an initial public offering estimated at $100 million on Friday w...


Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The voices calling for antitrust action to break up powerful technology companies are growing louder in the legislative and ex...


A $67 million class action settlement in a dispute on over-billing for water in Los Angeles involved counsel for the city conc...


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


A 4th District Court of Appeal panel has filed a misconduct complaint against a plaintiff’s attorney for referring to the ruli...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


If Kanye West hoped a lawsuit against his publisher EMI would cajole them into handing over the publishing rights to his music...


Civil Litigation


A federal jury on Friday heard Monsanto attorneys question a statistician prominently involved in lobbying international regul...


Law Practice, Corporate


After 20 years as general counsel, Arthur Block is retiring from his position as Comcast Corp.'s chief legal officer. His repl...


Obituaries


William W. Godward, 1913-2019

Mar. 4, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

The former name partner of the international white shoe firm known today as Cooley LLP has died. He was 105.