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Labor/Employment


A constructive termination and sex discrimination jury trial against UCLA Medical Center grew heated Wednesday as witnesses so...



Large developer sues over Porter Ranch leak

Feb. 8, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

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.


Civil Litigation


Settlement stops long-awaited Ovitz trial

Feb. 8, 2018
By Steven Crighton

The case, stemming from an incident in 2002, settled just days before trial was to begin.


Law Practice


Health care attorneys move to Nelson Hardiman

Feb. 8, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Health care lawyers Hope R. Levy-Biehl and Stacie K. Neroni joined Nelson Hardiman LLP as partners from Hooper, Lundy & Bo...


Prominent attorney Jon B. Eisenberg has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Insurance and its commissioner, D...


Real Estate/Development


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 Technologies Inc. CEO Travis Kalanick seemed to defy his reputation as an irreverent tech brat when he took the st...


Government


Some attorneys are concerned the state Legislature is taking too direct an approach to combat abuse by internet service provid...


Civil Litigation


A new class action blasted Toyota for allegedly hiding safety defects in its cars that endanger hundreds of thousands of drive...


Criminal


Prosecutor says the county still considers the convict dangerous, which is driving the appeal.


A federal methamphetamine distribution case has emerged as the latest battleground in Orange County’s jail informant scandal.


Law Practice


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

Feb. 7, 2018
By Skylar Dubelko

Howard B. Miller, a longtime Girardi Keese attorney, to join JAMS as a mediator, arbitrator and special master.


Law Practice


Schiff Hardin LLP announced Wednesday that commercial litigator Mauricio Beugelmans has joined the firm as a partner in the Sa...



Order and Stability

Feb. 7, 2018

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

Feb. 6, 2018
By Joshua Sebold

Both trial teams at the Waymo-Uber trade secret trial began their opening statements by identifying a company in the autonomou...


Law Practice


Mirell departs Harder firm for Greenberg Glusker.

Feb. 6, 2018
By Steven Crighton

He said his clients weren’t happy with his former firm’s recent trajectory.


Employees of the state Legislature are one signature away from gaining long-sought whistleblower protections.


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


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

Feb. 6, 2018
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


An attorney for Disney Enterprises Inc. argued that a federal judge should enjoin DVD rental and sales company Redbox Automate...


Persistent semantic clashes and insinuation of an anti-German bias marked a painstaking cross-examination of the plaintiff in ...


Criminal, California Courts of Appeal


A convicted child molester whose attorney successfully petitioned for release with an argument that his client’s trial on whet...


Intellectual Property, Government


The U.S Senate voted to confirm Irell & Manella LLP managing partner Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and Trade...


Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. died in his sleep last week at 88.


Judges and Judiciary, Alternative Dispute Resolution


After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lesley Green retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.


Judges and Judiciary


New Northern District magistrate judge chosen

Feb. 6, 2018
By Arin Mikailian

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...