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U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary


Trial judges need not disclose campaign contributions or ties with various legal and judicial organizations while serving as p...


Law Practice, Corporate, Community News


Partner Jennifer Briggs Fisher was selected for her commitment to mentoring young lawyers in the firm’s offices across the cou...



Funny Man

Nov. 2, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Labor lawyer Kevin Ruf's comedy career began when he spent his bar prep money to mount .


Intellectual Property


The Department of Justice announced a federal grand jury in Northern California has indicted companies in China and Taiwan as ...


Law Practice, Corporate, Community News


Girardi Keese and Sidley Austin attorneys honored at Loyola Law School Civil Justice Program’s 14th annual Tribute to the Cham...


Mediator Ralph Lombardi follows up constantly to see a dispute to the end.


Government, Criminal


Grudge match in Orange County DA runoff

Nov. 1, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

The race for district attorney in Orange County features a grudge match between a 20-year incumbent and his former employee. T...


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


The federal government will likely petition the U.S. Supreme Court again to review the legal battle over the Trump administrat...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal, State Bar & Bar Associations


A San Francisco prosecutor negligently suppressed evidence while trying a murder case in Solano County in 2013, a State Bar ju...


Obituaries, Judges and Judiciary


A memorial service will be held Saturday for Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Almquist.


Transportation, Civil Litigation


The question of whether a city is bound by its own policy determining if adequate infrastructure is available for construction...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


Quarreling Monsters cited the likes of Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Wicked Witch of the West at t...


Immigration


Immigrant’s appeal to remain in the US rejected

Nov. 1, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

The Board of Immigration Appeals blocked the appeal of an immigrant who entered the country illegally who asked not to be sent...


Civil Litigation, Government


In what prosecutors believe to be the largest settlement of its kind, a Los Angeles County judge approved a $9 million settlem...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


A landmark racketeering trial targeting the Mongols motorcycle gang’s trademarked logos opened Wednesday with a federal prosec...


Immigration, Government


While many scholars have said the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution would bar President Donald Trump from ending automat...


Government


The contrast between liberal, Trump administration-suing incumbent Xavier Becerra and Republican opponent Steven Bailey, a ret...


Civil Litigation


Teacher sex abuse suit settles on eve of trial

Oct. 31, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

In what the plaintiff’s attorneys are calling the largest payout by the Los Angeles Unified School District to a sexual abuse ...


Civil Litigation


Plaintiffs’ attorneys are split on whether to accept a global settlement from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for allegedly cau...


Corporate


On-demand dog walking app Wag adds general counsel

Oct. 31, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

As the company grows and its leadership team expands, Craig Gatarz will focus on building out Wag’s legal and compliance funct...


Government, Criminal


An alleged culture of harassment and backstabbing, a crossover between politics and prosecution, and the loss of 79 years of e...


Law Practice, Corporate


Dan Horwood will oversee all of Ra Medical System Inc.’s legal activities and policies, specifically the business expansion an...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, Civil Rights


In what the plaintiff's attorneys are calling the largest payout by the Los Angeles Unified School District to a sexual abuse ...


Judges and Judiciary


LA County voters to choose in 4 judicial runoffs

Oct. 30, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

After a crowded primary election saw a rash of prosecutors vying for 11 judicial seats in Los Angeles County, four remaining h...


Civil Litigation, Government, Constitutional Law


Attorneys representing California and the United States faced off in federal court Monday over a law that would give the state...


Entertainment & Sports, Alternative Dispute Resolution


The Golden State Warriors must pay roughly $55 million in outstanding debt from the renovation of its stadium decades ago when...


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


ACLU and government attorneys clashed on Monday over whether an injunction allowing a large class of detained immigrants to re...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution


The U.S. Supreme Court heard back-to-back arguments Monday concerning the Federal Arbitration Act, dealing with whether courts...


The attorney for a Black Lives Matter activist announced a plea deal hours ahead of a hearing on her motion to force the entir...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


In a trial that begins this week, the U.S. attorney’s office is seeking forfeiture of a motorcycle gang’s trademarked logos.