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Corporate


Founding partners Drew Koning and Blake Zollar left their jobs at Cooley on Aug. 17 and opened their new firm on Aug. 20. They...


In Recess


The Highest Peak

Sep. 21, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The Western Justice Center will host a talk on the increasingly common hybridization of arbitration and mediation Sept. 27.


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


The Commission on Judicial Performance and the state auditor have reached a stipulated settlement in their nearly two-year leg...


Judges and Judiciary, Immigration, Government


Sessions makes another move to rein in immigration judges

Sep. 20, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Judges and experts said the decision was not as impactful as others Sessions has come out with in recent months on immigration...


Labor/Employment, Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The Commission on Judicial Performance has alleged a Contra Costa County judge sexually harassed multiple women and committed ...


Civil Litigation


Opening statements began in a negligence trial alleging property owners have allowed homes to sink into the ground while the d...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Jurors in the fraud trial against Buchalter APC will no longer consider punitive damages when they deliberate next week, an Or...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has announced it will rehear an immigration case en banc testing whether minors who cros...


Judges and Judiciary


Victor Torres was sworn in Tuesday as San Diego County Superior Court’s newest commissioner following his election by local ju...


Civil Litigation


The briefness of Ashley Judd’s shared work history with Harvey Weinstein strengthened the case for her defamation claim agains...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Education Law


USC’s new Office of Professionalism and Ethics will oversee all complaints and investigations at the university.


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


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in favor of an immigrant who it said faced deportation because of his race. Ex...


Civil Litigation


Monsanto Co. has requested that a $289 million jury verdict be thrown out in two post-trial motions claiming that the plaintif...


Corporate


Western Justice Center appoints new executive director

Sep. 20, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Nonprofit leader Elissa Barrett will succeed former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin.



A Joke and a Smile

Sep. 20, 2018

Orange County Superior Court Judge Brett London builds misdemeanor defendants' trust, attorneys say.


U.S. Supreme Court, Law Practice


While Judge Brent Kavanaugh is gearing up for perhaps the most crucial event of his career — an appearance Monday before the S...


Military Law, Judges and Judiciary, Government, Civil Rights


The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle a series of injunctions blocking the president from implementing a ban on tran...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott warned of changing the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s compensation model Tuesday b...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


Settlement allows audit of CJP to start

Sep. 19, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The Commission on Judicial Performance and the state auditor have reached a stipulated settlement in their nearly two-year leg...


Securities, Civil Litigation, Corporate


Tesla says it is cooperating with DOJ inquiry

Sep. 19, 2018
By Andy Serbe

Tesla Inc. and founder Elon Musk are facing scrutiny from the Department of Justice, in the latest round of fallout from the C...


Civil Litigation, Government, California Supreme Court


Citizens who file California Public Records Act requests will no longer risk owing huge legal fees to public agencies under a ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


A forensic accountant on Tuesday told jurors in the fraud trial against Buchalter APC, that a plaintiffs’ expert used flawed m...


Transportation, Civil Litigation


Suzuki Motors of America was ordered by an Orange County jury to pay $6 million in punitive damages and $2 million in compensa...


Law Practice, Intellectual Property


A Duane Morris Silicon Valley intellectual property group is jumping to Rimon Law.


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports


The survival of Ashley Judd’s sexual harassment claim could depend on whether producers are held to the same professional stan...


Civil Litigation


A British diver who helped save a team of young soccer players from a Thailand cave this summer answered billionaire Elon Musk...


Immigration, Government


Sessions memo blasts injunctions

Sep. 18, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The chancellor of a Big Ten school and the commissioner of the American Athletic Conference advocated for the “purity of colle...


The former state Supreme Court justice was praised for being a trailblazer for women