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Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports


The Weinstein Company, widely considered one of the largest and most successful film studios in the United States, can’t affor...


Prominent San Francisco trial lawyer Christopher Dolan won a $1.75 million jury verdict Monday against the former managing att...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The two sides held a meeting Monday to try to defuse tensions that have bubbled up.


Law Practice, Intellectual Property


McDermott IP group departs for Polsinelli

Dec. 19, 2017
By Caroline Hart

Polsinelli LLP is expanding its intellectual property department with the addition of prominent patent litigator Fabio Marino ...


Intellectual Property, Government


Irell & Manella LLP managing partner Andrei Iancu’s nomination as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has bee...


Retired federal judge and former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Charles B. Renfrew died Dec. 14 in San Francisco. He was 89.


Entertainment & Sports


Bloom firm files countersuit against Depp

Dec. 19, 2017
By Andy Serbe

Attorneys say without a written agreement, Bloom Hergott will have an uphill battle.


Corporate


Health services company American Specialty Health Inc. hires Lance W. Bridges as its first general counsel.


Immigration, Government


While lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s immigration policies continue to rage in California’s federal courts, two ...


Law Practice, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Kozinski retires amid sex harassment allegations

Dec. 18, 2017
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

On Friday, U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate the allegations a...


Immigration, Criminal


The temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney on Thursday also applies to a proposed class of...


A federal law under which attorneys at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its appeals board could refuse to register a t...


In a retrial, former NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been ordered to pay $1.54 million related to an apartment fire at ...



Take Up Residence

Dec. 18, 2017

Adams Stirling's specialty in homeowners association law made it double in size this year.


Civil Litigation, Government, Criminal


After more than a decade of litigation, a land development company has filed a $45.2 million claim against San Bernardino County.


Labor/Employment


The National Labor Relations Board decided to limit when parent companies are liable for the alleged violations of their subsi...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


9th Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith to take senior status

Dec. 15, 2017
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

Smith will retire from active service effective Aug. 11, 2018, giving President Donald J. Trump a sixth seat to fill on the co...


Programs are a fraction of the cost of incarceration but smaller jurisdictions have been slow to adopt them


Civil Litigation


A case in which the El Dorado County Transit Authority had been sued for one of its bus drivers running over a pedestrian in a...


In Recess


Coaching Advocate

Dec. 15, 2017
By Shane Nelson

Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP partner Mark S. Spring has been coaching basketball since law school.


California Courts of Appeal


Three state appellate justices approved

Dec. 15, 2017
By Winston Cho

The Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed a new presiding justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeal as well as two o...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Orange County Bar Foundation gives honors

Dec. 15, 2017
By Meghann Cuniff

Kyle S. Kawakami, a partner with Irell & Manella LLP, received the top honor at the youth support group’s annual meeting.


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco federal judge has certified a class of 1,900 Bank of America N.A. loan officers who filed a lawsuit seeking re...


Law Practice, Government


The state Senate has hired a new legal team to investigate claims of sexual harassment. The group announced Thursday morning b...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Newly appointed Bar Association of San Francisco President Malcolm Heinicke said he will "double down" on existing initiatives...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Embattled 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski will be subjected to a formal investigation regarding allegati...


Community News


Allen Matkins celebrates the holidays

Dec. 15, 2017
By Shane Nelson

The Orange County and Los Angeles offices of Allen Matkins held their annual holiday parties this month, hosting hundreds of S...


This was the second straight year of a slight bump in entering students.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


After months of inactivity, Senator Kamala Harris recently began forming a committee of California lawyers to evaluate candida...


Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal


Teachers who got more retirement benefits than they were supposed to receive must return about eight years of that extra money...