Labor/Employment
UCLA doctors clash over response to discrimination allegations
By Matthew Blake
A constructive termination and sex discrimination jury trial against UCLA Medical Center grew heated Wednesday as witnesses so...
A luxury home builder is suing Southern California Gas Company over the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak, claiming the local real es...
A botched attempt to notify HIV patients about their medication has ballooned into multimillion-dollar litigation.
The case, stemming from an incident in 2002, settled just days before trial was to begin.
Health care lawyers Hope R. Levy-Biehl and Stacie K. Neroni joined Nelson Hardiman LLP as partners from Hooper, Lundy & Bo...
Insurance
Lawyer sues insurance commissioner over out-of-state adjusters handling fire claims
By Winston Cho
Prominent attorney Jon B. Eisenberg has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Insurance and its commissioner, D...
Real Estate/Development
Subsidized tenants win $2M from LA housing authority over unclear notices
By Lila Seidman
After 10 years of litigation and two trips to the 9th Circuit, a U.S. District judge ruled last week that the due process clau...
Intellectual Property
Former Uber CEO queried in trade secrets theft trial
By Joshua Sebold
Former Uber Technologies Inc. CEO Travis Kalanick seemed to defy his reputation as an irreverent tech brat when he took the st...
Some attorneys are concerned the state Legislature is taking too direct an approach to combat abuse by internet service provid...
A new class action blasted Toyota for allegedly hiding safety defects in its cars that endanger hundreds of thousands of drive...
Prosecutor says the county still considers the convict dangerous, which is driving the appeal.
Criminal
Defense attorneys using OC jail informant scandal to defend clients
By Meghann Cuniff
A federal methamphetamine distribution case has emerged as the latest battleground in Orange County’s jail informant scandal.
The California Appellate Law Group recently opened a second office in Los Angeles to better meet its Southern California clien...
The support for experiential learning came during a public hearing hosted by an ABA commission.
Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Longtime LA lawyer to join JAMS as a neutral
By Skylar Dubelko
Howard B. Miller, a longtime Girardi Keese attorney, to join JAMS as a mediator, arbitrator and special master.
Schiff Hardin LLP announced Wednesday that commercial litigator Mauricio Beugelmans has joined the firm as a partner in the Sa...
Ventura County Judge Roger Lund won’t allow parents’ angry disputes to upset children.
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Both sides point fingers as Waymo trial begins
By Joshua Sebold
Both trial teams at the Waymo-Uber trade secret trial began their opening statements by identifying a company in the autonomou...
He said his clients weren’t happy with his former firm’s recent trajectory.
Government
Legislature approves bill aimed to protecting Capitol employees who allege sexual harassment.
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Employees of the state Legislature are one signature away from gaining long-sought whistleblower protections.
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
California labor law can apply to coastal rigs on Outer Continental Shelf
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Oceanic drilling rig workers received a significant victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when a three-judge pane...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Kozinski misconduct inquiry ends
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Judicial Council for 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that it is unable to address merits of complaints against former 9...
Intellectual Property
Judge questions old statutes’ applicability to new digital age
By Andy Serbe
An attorney for Disney Enterprises Inc. argued that a federal judge should enjoin DVD rental and sales company Redbox Automate...
Labor/Employment
Defense questions UCLA doctor’s handling of audit, view of German men
By Matthew Blake
Persistent semantic clashes and insinuation of an anti-German bias marked a painstaking cross-examination of the plaintiff in ...
Criminal, California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court stays release of violent child molester
By L.J. Williamson
A convicted child molester whose attorney successfully petitioned for release with an argument that his client’s trial on whet...
Intellectual Property, Government
US Senate confirms LA attorney as patent office director
By Caroline Hart
The U.S Senate voted to confirm Irell & Manella LLP managing partner Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and Trade...
Obituaries
Retired LA County judge remembered for sharp mind, sense of humor
By Shane Nelson
Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. died in his sleep last week at 88.
Judges and Judiciary, Alternative Dispute Resolution
LA County judge retires, joins benchmark Resolution Group
By Arin Mikailian
After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lesley Green retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.
Civil litigator Thomas Hixson was selected as a magistrate judges in San Francisco, the court announced Monday.
Private equity lawyers David M. Smith, Robert T. Graffum and Nicolai M. Schwarz-Gondek joined O’Melveny & Myers LLP as par...