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Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mark LeHocky, who has more than three decades of legal experience, has joined ADR Services Inc. as a neutral.


State Bar & Bar Associations


As media outlets wage legal battles nationwide in the name of a free and open press, the Beverly Hills Bar Association will ho...


Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Following a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions making it easier than ever for employers to compel arbitration, some plaint...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Faced with mounting caseloads and judges set to take senior status or retire, the chief judge of the Eastern District sent a d...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Bankruptcy


With a contempt of court action pending, lawyers seeking a $10 million judgment from Michael Avenatti are asking for a receive...


Criminal, Civil Rights


The judge said there is no public interest in unsealing one of the 624 wiretap warrants issued in one two-year period by a now...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A four-person San Diego law firm will have to pay nearly $85,000 in sanctions for using photos of beverage products it pulled ...


Immigration, Criminal


Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey is cracking down on fraudulent immigration legal services, a problem advocat...


Civil Litigation


One of the lead cases arguing Monsanto Co.’s glyphosate-based weed killers cause cancer almost got dismissed on procedural gro...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


VidAngel can’t selectively produce evidence supporting its claim that it thought its service was legal while withholding poten...


Education Law


In the past five years, 15 of California’s 20 nationally-accredited law schools have hired new deans, which experts say is a t...


Gov. Gavin Newsom had plenty for legal watchers in his first annual State of the State address. He doubled down on the state’s...


Civil Litigation, Government


A Los Angeles County judge has deferred a claim challenging the validity of a state rule exempting a cancer risk in coffee bac...


Environmental & Energy


A Santa Barbara County judge’s decision not to approve a class settlement in a major coastal land access case and to order an ...


Criminal


Mixed judicial rulings follow new felony murder law

Feb. 13, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Rulings by superior court judges in the first month and a half of the law’s enactment reveal a division among trial judges and...


Labor/Employment, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


State issues largest-ever wage theft citation

Feb. 13, 2019
By Andy Serbe

A City of Industry-based construction company has been fined $12 million by the state for wage theft, the largest of its kind ...


Robert E. Allen said he was drawn to the litigation firm’s collegial and diverse working environment.


Civil Litigation


The San Francisco federal judge overseeing litigation on allegations that Monsanto Co.’s glyphosate-based weed killer causes c...


Immigration, Government, Environmental & Energy, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The 2-1 decision affirms a ruling from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel


Judges and Judiciary, Antitrust & Trade Reg., 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a $44.4 million antitrust verdict against the company that makes Swis...


Civil Litigation


‘New arguments’ slammed in Nazi art lawsuit

Feb. 12, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

After 14 years and three appeals, the last closing brief was filed Monday in a dispute over a $40 million Camille Pissarro pai...


Advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, alleging that it decided to improperly remove temporary pe...


Education Law, State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar is recruiting attorneys to participate in a panel evaluating the content tested on the bar exam. Applications ar...


Civil Litigation, Government


Courts around the state are suddenly taking up the same question: Does a new law demanding the release of police discipline re...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear en banc a challenge to Hawaii’s restrictions on the open carry of firearms.


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


A federal appeals court Friday weighed a case testing whether U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos violated a privacy law w...


Labor/Employment, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


But Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila F. Hanson's decision includes sanctions that defense attorneys hope will make it...


Military Law, Immigration


Thousands of green-card holders head to basic training after a divided panel upheld a stay of a Pentagon policy requiring more...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


The court shot down the legal theory that payroll companies carry liability under contract law for wage violations by clients.


Judges and Judiciary, Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The nominations of Perkins Coie LLP partner Eric D. Miller and U.S. Magistrate Judge Bridget Shelton Bade head to the Senate f...