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Some 500 attorneys, judges and their guests attended the 13th annual Tribute to the Champions of Justice dinner, hosted by the...


Community News


Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorneys took part in the inaugural Back on My Feet Treadmill Challenge on Oct. 25 in downtown...


Community News



In Recess


Hollywood Esq.

Nov. 3, 2017
By Shane Nelson

Criminal defense attorney Louis J. Shapiro has signed on for a second season as a legal consultant for the NBC comedy “Trial &...



Something New

Nov. 3, 2017
By Justin Kloczko

Judge Edward Moreton relishes the eclectic mix of matters he hears in his Los Angeles court.


Health Care & Hospital Law, Administrative/Regulatory


For a second time, the state attorney general’s office is seeking to shut down a number of roving drug rehabilitation faciliti...


Immigration, Government


The plaintiffs who filed a motion Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent President Donald J. Trump’s administra...


Law Practice


Longtime MoFo leader to become legal recruiter

Nov. 2, 2017
By Caroline Hart

Keith C. Wetmore, the longtime chairman of Morrison & Foerster LLP, announced Wednesday that he will join legal recruiting...


Government, Environmental & Energy


A San Francisco County judge has tentatively rejected British Petroleum America Production Co.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by t...


As Major League Baseball’s post season reached a climatic finish, a baseball fight of a different nature is just heating up in...


A magistrate judge had tough questions for a healthcare company accused of denying inpatient mental health services to insuran...


Former Eastern District prosecutor nominated for another term


California Courts of Appeal


The 3rd District Court of Appeal has ruled a woman can get a restraining order against her ex-husband even though he lives tho...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyers submitted fingerprints when applying to the bar, but they were not kept.


Immigration, Government


Workplace site inspections by the government to prevent fraud in the H-1B work visa program fail to fully protect against abus...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Criminal


A federal judge sentenced Scott Steever, a disbarred Rohnert Park attorney who ran what was once Sonoma County’s largest law f...


Intellectual Property


Experts panel bemoan patent system

Nov. 1, 2017
By Steven Crighton

A retired judge said efforts intended to address problems in the patent system have weakened it as a whole through over-regula...


Government, Corporate


In-house attorneys from Alphabet Inc.-owned Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. were grilled by the U.S. Senate Judiciary C...


A magistrate judge refused to let a tech company duck written discovery during a hearing on Tuesday, noting that a prior judic...


Labor/Employment


A U.S. magistrate judge had difficult questions for both sides as closing arguments were held in a bench trial to determine wh...


The U.S. Supreme Court declined to step into a California dispute over a municipal law requiring builders to sell a fraction o...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles County jury returned a $31 million verdict for a man who was hit by a car as he crossed a street near Los Angele...


Law Practice


In a profession that is dominated by men, a group of successful female attorneys have learned that close professional and pers...


Labor/Employment


Stanford University will pay out $8.4 million in a settlement over alleged inaccuracies in pay statements that occurred from 2...


Government


Overruling its own chair, the California Fair Political Practices Commission has issued a final opinion that will allow other ...


Education Law


The donation will support the “Shanin Specter Courtroom,” among other items.


Government, Corporate


Top attorneys from California-based technology companies will answer questions this week from the U.S. House and Senate regard...


Tax, Criminal


Veteran tax attorney indicted on fraud charges

Oct. 31, 2017
By Meghann Cuniff

Attorney Hirman Martin was arraigned Monday on four felony charges related to the tax returns of a professional football player.


Wells Fargo owes its mortgage sales people “tens of millions” of dollars, according to a plaintiffs’ attorney who says the ban...



Customer Friendly

Oct. 31, 2017

San Diego Judge David Rubin tries to create a comfortable environment for lawyers in his courtroom.