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Ogletree Deakins shareholders Karen Tynan and Charles Thompson discuss how California employers can obtain workplace violence ...



Labor/Employment


A complaint against Alaska Air claims the airline systematically underpays flight crew by failing to compensate for time spent...


Consumer Protection Law


The complaint says the mugs contain lead that leaches onto the skin when consumers handle the mugs.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Michael J. Libman, the only attorney in the Los Angeles water billing litigation scandal ordered to disgorge his fees, was rec...


District Attorneys from four Southern California counties are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend emergency price gouging p...



How RFK Jr. could reshape vaccine litigation

Jan. 30, 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan

If confirmed as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could roll back liability protections and expa...


Data Privacy, Class Action, Civil Litigation


A new class action accuses Amazon of secretly tracking and selling California residents' sensitive location data through its a...


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation


Uber is accused of hiding violent incident reports in a lawsuit by 1,500 women claiming sexual assault by drivers. The plainti...


Administrative/Regulatory


In his first address to Los Angeles County judges and staff, the new presiding judge focused on enhancing community outreach a...


Criminal, Administrative/Regulatory


State Bar moves to suspend Andrew Do's law license

Jan. 30, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The State Bar of California is set to suspend Andrew Hoang Do's law license following his guilty plea to federal bribery consp...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was selected as Alameda County's new DA after Pamela Price's recall. Dickson, a former prosecutor, ...


Civil Litigation


A judge chided the San Francisco City Attorney's team for excessive discovery in a flood damage lawsuit, setting a trial date ...


Judges and Judiciary


Alameda County judge named district attorney

Jan. 29, 2025
By James Twomey

Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was appointed to a two-year term to replace the DA ousted by voters last year.


Wisner Baum's clients have joined the dozens of lawsuits filed against Southern California Edison now that there is more evide...


Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory


The Trump administration's order to temporarily freeze federal grants and loans has sparked a constitutional battle, with nonp...


Civil Litigation


In an $18M lawsuit, the U.S. government seeks dismissal, denying malicious prosecution claims against Erika Girardi's ex-fashi...


A Los Angeles judge has ordered Southern California Edison to refrain from reenergizing power lines in the area where the Eato...


A U.S. Navy veteran and surf instructor has filed a federal lawsuit against Newport Beach, claiming its ordinance requiring wr...


Data Privacy


LinkedIn seeks dismissal of a class action lawsuit claiming the company's Insight Tag illegally collected medical data from Ci...


Environmental & Energy, Contracts


The Terra Bella Irrigation District has accused the U.S. Department of the Interior of initiating a $500 million canal project...


Labor/Employment, Class Action


A San Francisco judge has postponed a decision on a motion to add a co-representative to a Private Attorneys General Act lawsu...


Judge R. Shawn Nelson, with a background in politics, applies leadership skills to manage his busy courtroom efficiently, redu...


Government, Education Law


For the fourth time in recent years, a proposal to fund a law school at UC Riverside has been put on hold. With Riverside and ...


Torts/Personal Injury


Five plaintiffs dropped their lawsuits against Mead Johnson and Abbott Laboratories on Monday in a case involving claims that ...


Judges and Judiciary


The California Judges Association's Judicial Fairness Coalition will host a series of virtual town halls starting Feb. 25, add...


Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


In a victory for social media companies, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday enjoined California's SB 976, wh...


OpenAI General Counsel Che Chang weighed in on the emergence of China's DeepSeek AI platform, calling it a potential driver fo...


Labor/Employment, Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Robin Park raised concerns with Baker Tilly management that a partner there was practicing without being admitted to the Calif...


Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Monday directing the California Coastal Commission to suspend permitting requireme...


Labor/Employment, Contracts


Miller Barondess LLP won a $10.1M verdict for James Boothe, who resigned due to post-merger breaches of his employment contrac...