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Judges and Judiciary


The Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished Los Angeles County Judge Jose I. Sandoval for continuing a rese...


Law Practice, Community News


Ricardo Echeverria of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP in Claremont received the Lifetime Legal Achievement honor Saturday at Co...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


The attorney wife of a disbarred British solicitor said her husband was a “brilliant legal mind” during her testimony Monday i...


Civil Litigation


Federal judge denies energy drink company’s motion to dismiss competitor’s civil claims in long-running case over false advert...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The February pass rate was 31.4%, 4 points higher than last year but still the second-worst result in over three decades.


Law Practice, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


Bill that would end many court fines escapes committee

May 21, 2019
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A sweeping Senate bill that would end most fines and fees paid by defendants narrowly survived a key legislative deadline, des...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Several local bar associations say the State Bar’s proposed fee increase will hurt their funding and membership.



Making Lives Better

May 21, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

Kathy Hibbs’ career has been in industries that are addressing people’s most basic problems.


Paul W. Nash, Ariel C. Shaeps and Elizabeth J. Wilgenburg have been promoted from senior counsel to partnership at the Allen M...


Immigration, Government


The Trump administration's emergency declaration to build a border wall faced its first test Friday as attorneys for 20 states...


Labor/Employment, Intellectual Property


As California and other states limit restrictive covenants employers use to protect essential information like trade secrets, ...


Civil Litigation, Criminal, Civil Rights


A class of individuals who were arrested protesting the Sacramento district attorney's decision not to charge the two police o...


Government, Criminal


AG drops resistance to new transparency law

May 20, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

After a judge issued a tentative order that would compel the release of records by the state Department of Justice under the s...


Civil Litigation


In what defense attorneys are calling a novel trial strategy, pharmaceutical giant Allergan USA Inc. won $48,500 instead of th...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice


Minutes before a malpractice trial recessed Friday, a defense attorney for Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP began reading to the jur...


Government, Criminal


Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could face criminal charges of manslaughter and reckless arson over the role it is believed to ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A new case management system at the State Bar Court has hit some snags, taking case calendars and dockets offline for months, ...


Civil Litigation


U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected a revised bid from the U.S. attorney’s office to seize the club’s trademarked logos


Entertainment & Sports


If a minor wants to keep his fraud lawsuit against Epic Games Inc. out of arbitration, attorneys say he had better stop playin...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A controversial, stricter bar passage standard is now in effect after the American Bar Association’s legal education council a...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, California Supreme Court


The state Supreme Court is mulling whether to hear an appeal that could appreciably expand court access to indigent prisoners ...


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


Senate Republicans are moving forward with a nominee to a California seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, despite th...


Bryan Schwartz and his fellow alumni doggedly pursue evasive defendant employers.



Watching & Listening

May 20, 2019
By Arin Mikailian

Judge Elizabeth Humphreys watches birds, but in court is careful to hear all parties.


Entertainment & Sports


Venable LLP filed a complaint on behalf of Petty Unlimited LLC, a company established in the late musician Tom Petty’s will, a...


Government


A bill designed to prevent public agencies from using attorney fees as a bargaining chip in California Public Records Act liti...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A superior court judge questioned the purpose of an entire day’s testimony Thursday in a case seeking to establish whether the...


Law Practice, Community News


Five third-year law students received $2,000 scholarships at L.A. Association of Business Trial Lawyers dinner.


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


A three judge panel in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the issue Thursday of whether a prison can be forced to ...


Civil Litigation, Government


Counsel for the city of Inglewood allege Latham & Watkins LLP marshalled a multi-pronged campaign to stop construction of ...