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Law Practice


With 8 new partners in 8 months, Akerman grows

Jul. 12, 2018
By Caroline Hart

Akerman LLP has added eight partners to its Los Angeles team and settled into an expanded downtown office, in the past eight m...



Great Expectations

Jul. 12, 2018

Attorneys say they must be at the top of their game in LA Judge Henry Hall’s courtroom.


Immigration, Government


Becerra’s strategy may be risky

Jul. 11, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

National injunction request could expose state on appeal.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Rights


The prosecutor’s online postings have resulted in him being placed on administrative leave


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Council’s disclosures remain murky

Jul. 11, 2018
By Winston Cho

The Judicial Council's goal when it revised California Rules of Court 10.500 concerning the disclosure of judicial administrat...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will soon have its first Trump judge, but the man filling that position doesn’t fit the ...


Law Practice, Environmental & Energy, Criminal


Charging prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct, the defense for a pipeline company involved in an oil spill filed documents Tue...


Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Government


It also contains $140,000 for plaintiffs’ counsel in a complaint against Attorney General Xavier Becerra.


Criminal


Hate crimes in California jumped more than 17 percent from 2016 to 2017, increasing from 931 to 1,093 incidents within the yea...


Judges and Judiciary, State Bar & Bar Associations


Patrick Kelly has been reappointed to the California Judicial Council as one of four attorneys representing the State Bar


Civil Litigation, Government, Constitutional Law


Plaintiffs argue for end to winner-take-all elections

Jul. 11, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is leading a nationwide effort to upend longstanding procedure that designates all electoral votes ...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


Federal prosecutors charged former Apple Inc. employee Xiaolang Zhang with theft of autonomous car trade secrets, arresting hi...


Civil Litigation, Government, California Courts of Appeal


Advocacy groups for minority and low-income homeowners defeated Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature in court Tuesday wh...


Law Practice, Government, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Legislature allows international arbitration in state

Jul. 10, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign SB 766, which cleared the Assembly on Thursday. The bill did not receive a single no vote...


U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary


President Donald Trump named Brett M. Kavanaugh as his U.S. Supreme Court nominee.


Environmental & Energy, Criminal


Judge denies mistrial motion in oil spill case

Jul. 10, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

Judge James Herman denied a motion for mistrial Monday in the criminal negligence trial over a 2015 oil spill.


Immigration, Government


The group hearings approach for immigration prosecutions comes in the midst of the U.S. government’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy.



Real Experience

Jul. 10, 2018

Brandon Braga brings a varied legal background to his work as The Agency RE’s first GC.


Education Law, Corporate, State Bar & Bar Associations


George Leal will take the reins of unaccredited Irvine University College of Law Aug. 15


Civil Litigation


Plaintiffs’ attorneys in a federal negligence lawsuit over last year’s Mandalay Bay shooting are hoping a 2014 weapons arrest ...


Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice


The unanimous opinion Friday from the 3rd District Court of Appeal rejected Richard P. Fisher’s argument that, because he was ...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court


An appellate ruling said that employers’ systems rounding worker hours to the quarter hour are legal as long as the policy is ...


Obituaries


Jacqueline L. Weisberg, 1936-2018

Jul. 9, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Patient, intelligent jurist remembered as a pioneer.


Law Practice


Legal sector employment surged in June

Jul. 9, 2018
By Joshua Sebold

Employment in the legal services industry surged unexpectedly in June, adding 4,800 jobs and reaching a level not seen since J...


Immigration


Judge OKs sanctuary state law

Jul. 6, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

The state of California can continue to bar local authorities from cooperating with U.S. immigration enforcement officials, a ...


Government


A group of Democratic state lawmakers have announced a renewed effort to pass net neutrality legislation this year with a prom...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice


San Diego County’s practice of requiring all civil parties to pay for a court reporter violates equal access to the courts, th...


A patchwork of minimum wage hikes in municipalities across California could cause expensive compliance headaches for small and...


Tax, Bankruptcy


The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a judge to hold Michael Avenatti in contempt for failing to make a payment for back t...


Civil Litigation, Government


Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has quietly dropped his election lawsuit against incumbent Attorney General Xavier Becerra.