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Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded at least $223 million to a semiconductor design company after concluding its ...


Securities, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission San Francisco regional director Jina L. Choi, known for leading investigations into Te...


Civil Litigation, International Law


Trial begins Tuesday over $40M Pissarro painting

Dec. 3, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

A 13-year-old dispute over a $40 million Camille Pissarro painting, held by a Spanish museum and claimed by descendants of Hol...


Immigration, Government


Asylum denials increased under Obama and Trump, study says

Dec. 3, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

Trump administration policy changes around asylum have likely contributed to a year-over-year trend of increasing denials of a...


Tax, Criminal


The grand jury indictment follows a plea deal by lawyer Margaret Q. Quick’s former partner.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


The Judicial Council’s legislative priorities for 2019 look a lot like its goals in other recent years: more judges and more c...


Civil Litigation


It was a fairly typical breach of fiduciary duty case in Los Angeles Superior Court that resulted in a $3.5 million jury verdi...


After losing a battle for public records with the State Bar, UCLA law professor Richard Sander is suing the University of Cali...


Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Robert Mueller probe has called into question just exactly how bullet-proof joint defense...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Governor names a dozen new superior court judges

Nov. 30, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Gov. Jerry Brown has named 12 new superior court judges, including the fourth administration legal adviser tapped for the benc...


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


With two Republicans breaking ranks, U.S. Senate leaders were forced to cancel an important Judiciary Committee meeting Thursd...


Civil Litigation


Charles Stevens, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, has been appointed by a federal judge to investigate allegation...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment


One of India’s largest outsourcing technology companies did not discriminate against U.S. citizens by favoring Indian and othe...


Civil Litigation


Thirty five families, including a man who lost his home for the second time to a fire allegedly caused by Pacific Gas & El...


Government, Criminal


Bomb scare prompts San Francisco Hall of Justice evacuation

Nov. 30, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

An incendiary device or firework was set off at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, causing an evacuation of the building and c...


In Recess


The Rescue Artist

Nov. 30, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Corporate attorney David Katz jumps from helicopters and sometimes catches the bad guy.


Obituaries


Michael D. Four, Feb. 29, 1956 — Nov. 23, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

The longtime union-side labor attorney and partner at Schwartz Steinsapir Dohrmann & Sommers LLP died suddenly while on va...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


Defense rests in Mongols racketeering trial

Nov. 30, 2018
By Meghann Cuniff

Lawyer Joseph A. Yanny is pitting the integrity of law enforcement against the integrity of the Mongols.


Litigation & Arbitration, Civil Litigation


Volkswagen investors claiming the automaker's emmissions scandal was not only environmentally noxious, but also singed their p...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Jay-Z claimed Wednesday that the American Arbitration Association didn’t have enough African-American arbitrators qualified to...


Litigation & Arbitration, Constitutional Law


The firestorm over deplatforming, in which conservative pundits have not been allowed to speak in public spaces because of the...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


California prison officials must continue to comply with a court order requiring timely transfers of mentally ill inmates, a f...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


The reitred professional wrestler was called as an expert witness because of his early Mongols membership.


Civil Litigation, Criminal


A San Francisco federal judge demanded answers from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. concerning its role and potential culpabili...


Accusing the police department of “reckless disregard” for attorney-client privilege, deputy public defenders in Los Angeles i...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Government, California Courts of Appeal


Inland Empire physicians who successfully sued to block California’s assisted suicide law lacked standing to challenge the leg...


Labor/Employment


Employers sue to halt PAGA

Nov. 29, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

In an attempt to curb the Private Attorney General Act, lawyers representing an alliance of business owners filed a complaint ...


California Supreme Court


Chief Justice’s chambers attorney gets promotion

Nov. 29, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has announced her new principal attorney: Sunil “Neil” Gupta.


A group of homeless people do not have the constitutional right to camp on a vacant piece of fenced-off land owned by the city...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy


A federal judge rejected a motion Wednesday for a protective order by attorney Michael Avenatti which would have applied to fi...