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Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy


Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.’s request to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali for permission to pay roughly $235 million ...


Judges and Judiciary, Education Law


The estate of late state appeals court Justice Allison M. Rouse and his wife, attorney Dorothy B. Rouse, donated $50 million t...


Entertainment & Sports



Law Office Management


Munger Tolles names new co-managing partners

Mar. 8, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP announced Wednesday that Malcolm A. Heinicke and Hailyn J. Chen have been elected co-managing p...


Civil Litigation, Government


The LA City Council on Wednesday voted 10-2 in favor of authorizing city attorney Mike Feuer to settle the ongoing civil right...


Civil Litigation, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Kiesel out of LA water billing case

Mar. 7, 2019
By Justin Kloczko

Prominent Beverly Hills attorney Paul R. Kiesel stepped down Wednesday from his role as special counsel to the city of Los Ang...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


A U.S. magistrate judge denied Qualcomm's motion to compel Apple to turn over its source code for inspection.


A California federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s proposed reinstatement of a citizenship question to...


California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


1st District considers issuing tentative rulings

Mar. 7, 2019
By Brian Cardile

They're tucked inconspicuously near the end of a lengthy issuance out Wednesday from the 1st District Court of Appeal that pro...


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 ...


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