Civil Litigation, Education Law, State Bar & Bar Associations
Law school drops suit over competitor’s San Jose proposal
By Lyle Moran
Lincoln Law School of San Jose had sought to block a competitor’s proposal to open a branch in the same city.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Retired state appellate justice joins JAMS
By Caroline Hart
Justice Ignazio J. Ruvolo has joined JAMS as a mediator, arbitrator and special master, the ADR provider has announced. Ruvolo...
Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations
Association of Corporate Counsel recognizes pro bono and diversity awardees
By Matthew Sanderson
The Association of Corporate Counsel Southern California chapter hosted a small reception for the pro bono and diversity award...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Beverly Hills bar celebrates pro bono clinic anniversary
By Kibkabe Araya
More than 100 people celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Roxbury Park Pro Bono Legal Clinic, the longest running community ...
San Diego County Judge Lorna Alksne has thrived in many different court assignments.
Native Americans, Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Tribes cannot avoid national labor board authority, court rules
By Eli Wolfe
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed that Native American casinos can’t skirt the authority of the National La...
Government
Liberal PAC financing multiple DA challengers across the state
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A political action committee organized by people who worked on Bernie Sanders' insurgent presidential campaign is backing prog...
Law Practice, Criminal
Greenberg Gross attorneys ‘already working’ on Bill Cosby appeal
By Meghann Cuniff
A Pennsylvania jury’s guilty verdict against entertainer Bill Cosby on Thursday sets the stage for an appeal that will be led ...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Attorney spars with law professor witness in NCAA defamation case
By Justin Kloczko
It was clear that officials involved in overseeing the NCAA committee that sanctioned USC over the Reggie Bush benefits scanda...
Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law
UC Berkeley speech case to continue
By Joshua Sebold
A federal judge allowed a free speech case against the University of California to continue but stripped out any hope for puni...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Proposal would require disclosure of judges who reach settlements in harassment cases
By Winston Cho
The Judicial Council’s Rules and Project Committee unanimously approved a proposal Thursday amending procedures to require all...
Civil Litigation, Insurance
Inverse condemnation ruling against PG&E upheld
By Winston Cho
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. lost a bid Thursday to persuade a Sacramento County judge to reconsider his ruling that inverse c...
Immigration, Government
Legal program for immigrants in deportation saved, for now
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Immigration advocates said legal jobs, money and court time would be saved after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an o...
For better or worse, criminal defense attorney Richard Chacon’s life is an open book.
Manatt partner George Kieffer composes orchestral music and plays several instruments.
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers handed out $2,000 scholarships to five law students on April 24 during its dinner an...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Jury grants $1.9M in punitive damages to harassed paralegal
By Andy Serbe
While the original verdict on April 13 granting the plaintiff $250,000 was not unanimous, every juror agreed some punitive dam...
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration
Earlier high court decision may indicate travel ban’s fate, lawyers say
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Both sides made significant concessions during oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court over the legality of Presiden...
Peter Thiel had funded the lawsuit that brought the media company to bankruptcy.
Government
Bill allowing more data breach suits moves ahead in state Legislature
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The state Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a bill that would allow people to sue companies for data breaches, even if t...
Civil Litigation
Attorney gets NCAA investigator to admit holes in defamation trial
By Laurinda Keys
The plaintiff’s attorney in a former USC football coach’s defamation trial against the NCAAy got an investigator to admit to h...
Civil Litigation
Toyota attorneys report 501 settlements of acceleration defect lawsuits
By Meghann Cuniff
Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. told a federal judge Wednesday that they’ve settled 501 lawsuits related to a defect that cau...
Attorneys Janet Levine and Jeff Rutherford have joined Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP as partners from Crowell & Moring LLP...
Labor/Employment, Government
Bill to block pre-employment arbitration agreements passes in legislative committee
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A bill that would prevent employers from requiring pre-employment arbitration agreements passed a key committee test on Tuesda...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Supreme Court affirms patents as public rights, rules appeal board must decide all claims
By Andy Serbe
In dual decisions issued Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court, an administrative process for challenging patents was affirmed but...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, International Law, Corporate
High court relieves foreign corporations from US liability for acts committed abroad
By Meghann Cuniff
In a split decision closely watched in California, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations cannot be...
Immigration, Government
Department of Justice prepares for possible ‘caravan’ crossing into the US
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
A caravan of migrants arriving at the U.S. border could face prosecution and detention under recent U.S Department of Justice ...
Government, Civil Rights
Civil rights groups sue over allegedly inadequate voter language assistance
By Winston Cho
California civil rights groups are suing the secretary of state, alleging sufficient language assistance has not been provide...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
Testimony starts in ex-USC football coach’s defamation trial against NCAA
By Justin Kloczko
An LA County Superior Court jury began hearing evidence Tuesday in a trial over whether the NCAA defamed an ex-USC football co...
Securities, Administrative/Regulatory
SEC fines Yahoo $35M over cyber breach
By Eli Wolfe
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a settlement in a first of its kind cyber breach case against the compan...