Some 500 attorneys, judges and their guests attended the 13th annual Tribute to the Champions of Justice dinner, hosted by the...
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorneys took part in the inaugural Back on My Feet Treadmill Challenge on Oct. 25 in downtown...
Criminal defense attorney Louis J. Shapiro has signed on for a second season as a legal consultant for the NBC comedy “Trial &...
Judge Edward Moreton relishes the eclectic mix of matters he hears in his Los Angeles court.
Health Care & Hospital Law, Administrative/Regulatory
State seeks injunction against transient rehab facilities
By Justin Kloczko
For a second time, the state attorney general’s office is seeking to shut down a number of roving drug rehabilitation faciliti...
Immigration, Government
California faces tough fight against Trump immigrant decision
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The plaintiffs who filed a motion Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent President Donald J. Trump’s administra...
Keith C. Wetmore, the longtime chairman of Morrison & Foerster LLP, announced Wednesday that he will join legal recruiting...
Government, Environmental & Energy
State lawsuit against BP can proceed, judge rules
By Winston Cho
A San Francisco County judge has tentatively rejected British Petroleum America Production Co.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by t...
Professors argue for class certification in minor league baseball spat
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
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
Court: Woman can get restraining order against ex-spouse in another state
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
State Bar staff want attorneys to pay re-fingerprinting costs
By Lyle Moran
Lawyers submitted fingerprints when applying to the bar, but they were not kept.
Immigration, Government
Government needs to do more to stop H-1B visa fraud, report says
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
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
Former Sonoma County attorney sentenced to prison for wire fraud
By Winston Cho
A federal judge sentenced Scott Steever, a disbarred Rohnert Park attorney who ran what was once Sonoma County’s largest law f...
A retired judge said efforts intended to address problems in the patent system have weakened it as a whole through over-regula...
Government, Corporate
Tech in-house attorneys defend companies in hearing on election ads
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
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
Magistrate judge has tough questions as Grubhub employment trial ends
By Joshua Sebold
A U.S. magistrate judge had difficult questions for both sides as closing arguments were held in a bench trial to determine wh...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court denies cert in case testing West Hollywood ‘inclusionary zoning’ policy
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to step into a California dispute over a municipal law requiring builders to sell a fraction o...
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 its 15th year, women’s networking group still develops close bonds
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
In a profession that is dominated by men, a group of successful female attorneys have learned that close professional and pers...
Labor/Employment
Stanford to pay $8.4M over alleged labor code violations
By James Getz
Stanford University will pay out $8.4 million in a settlement over alleged inaccuracies in pay statements that occurred from 2...
Government
FPPC permits unlimited donations in legislator’s recall campaign
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Overruling its own chair, the California Fair Political Practices Commission has issued a final opinion that will allow other ...
The donation will support the “Shanin Specter Courtroom,” among other items.
Government, Corporate
In-house attorneys to testify in hearings on Russian attempt to influence election
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Top attorneys from California-based technology companies will answer questions this week from the U.S. House and Senate regard...
Attorney Hirman Martin was arraigned Monday on four felony charges related to the tax returns of a professional football player.
Wells Fargo mortgage salespeople on commissions not paid minimum wages, lawsuit says
By Matthew Blake
Wells Fargo owes its mortgage sales people “tens of millions” of dollars, according to a plaintiffs’ attorney who says the ban...
San Diego Judge David Rubin tries to create a comfortable environment for lawyers in his courtroom.
