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Labor/Employment


Developer accuses unions of ‘greenmail’

Jan. 11, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

Developers behind a $150 million project in Los Angeles have filed a federal lawsuit claiming labor unions attempted to blackm...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County will no longer accept fax filings for complex civil cases beginning April 1, completing a phase into electr...


In Recess


The Big Picture

Jan. 11, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

In law or behind the lens of a camera, David Altschul captures the full landscape of humanity.


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports


Actress Ashley Judd's sexual harassment claim against producer Harvey Weinstein brought under a state civil code protecting vi...


Growth in the Los Angeles market has been modest at best for the firm but that may be about to change, legal industry insiders...


Criminal, California Courts of Appeal


In a huge win for indigent defendants caught in the revolving cycle of poverty and court fees, a panel of state appellate judg...


Labor/Employment, Government


Core tenets of a #MeToo bill vetoed by the governor last fall have been reintroduced as separate bills, for consideration unde...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Gibson Dunn lawyers, defending Uber Technologies Inc. in an antitrust suit, claim Quinn Emanuel should be disqualified due to ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations


The state Supreme Court has approved an Orange County deputy district attorney’s six-month suspension for failing to disclose ...


Civil Litigation, Government


The state Senate has settled with a former staffer for $350,000, one of the largest payouts in the history of the Legislature.


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment


The Supreme Court decided unanimously on Tuesday that in the presence of a clear delegation clause, the arbitrability of a dis...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar is projecting an operating deficit for the third year in a row, and is proposing a 30 percent increase in attorn...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A federal law making it a crime for people who have entered the U.S. illegally to possess firearms is consistent with the Seco...


Obituaries, Judges and Judiciary


Alice A. Lytle, the first African-American woman to serve as a superior court judge in California history, died Dec. 21. She w...


The government has no “constitutional duty” to provide ongoing mental health treatment to families formerly separated at the U...


California Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory


Just four days after taking the oath, new state Supreme Court Justice Joshua P. Groban sat in on oral arguments for the first ...


Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law


A federal judge overseeing a case challenging the state’s money bail system appeared extremely skeptical of the industry’s def...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


A federal prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to authorize the forfeiture of the Mongols motorcycle club’s trademarked logos, a...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


With the plaintiff's apparent disappearance after a bid to enforce his "zombie trademark" for the name "Desilu" turned disastr...


Mergers & Acquisitions


There were 48,063 mergers and acquisitions deals announced in 2018 that totaled $4.026 trillion. More deals were announced in ...


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


Federal courts in California and elsewhere will continue to operate through Jan. 18 despite a shutdown, according to the Admin...


U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a qualified immunity finding made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the second ...


Criminal


Attorneys at Miller Barondess LLP have reached a $1.975 million tentative settlement with the city of Los Angeles.


Law Practice, Family


Blank Rome expands family law practice

Jan. 8, 2019
By Justin Kloczko

Blank Rome LLP has absorbed longtime boutique firm Buter, Buzard, Fishbein & Royce LLP, expanding its bicoastal family law...


The San Francisco city attorney’s office has hired The Coca-Cola Company’s former chief marketing counsel, George K. H. Schell...


Intellectual Property


New guidelines will make it more difficult to reject patents, attorneys say.


Government


After he was sworn in as state attorney general Monday, Xavier Becerra took shots at his most frequent opponent in court: the ...


Government


Orrick partner named as top legal aide to new governor

Jan. 8, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Analea J. Patterson, 47, as his chief deputy legal ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Government


An ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit has led to what attorneys and city officials describe as unprecedented change


U.S. Supreme Court, Entertainment & Sports


A right of publicity case media attorneys warned would be a "nuclear bomb" for the entertainment industry was permanently disa...