Law Practice
Dentons expands IP practice with addition of MoFo patent group
By Skylar Dubelko
Major international law firm, Dentons, expands IP and Technology practice in the U.S.
Gifted golfer Collin L. Waring, an associate at the CGS3 office in San Diego, is no stranger to low scores on the links.
Longtime deputy attorney general Gordon R. “Sam” Overton, who spent much of his 35-year career at the Department of Justice in...
Beverly Hills attorney Howard N. Madris, who practiced bankruptcy law for nearly three decades, died suddenly July 20 from wha...
Criminal
State prosecutor charged with uploading child pornography
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
A deputy attorney general in San Diego is on administrative leave and home detention after being charged with possessing child...
Corporate
Amid litigation and falling share prices, Snap loses top lawyer
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Three years into his tenure, Christopher T. Handman, general counsel for Snap Inc., has left the company.
A luxury resort that offers timeshares is suing a firm that offers “timeshare exit” services in federal court, claiming that t...
A board-certified pharmacologist and toxicologist testifying as the plaintiff’s first witness in the Johnson & Johnson tal...
The judge assigned to hear a lawsuit by the Commission on Judicial Performance against California State Auditor Elaine Howle w...
California Supreme Court
State high court says CEQA applies to public projects
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, pre-empts a federal law in a ca...
California owes 3,400 active and retired judges about $40 million and must pay now, a judge ordered Thursday, but the state mi...
Attorneys for a data analytics company asked a federal judge Thursday to block Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn from preventing ...
Entertainment & Sports
Olivia de Havilland, 101, seeks to speed up ‘Feud’ trial against FX, Ryan Murphy
By Lila Seidman
Weeks after filing a suit against showrunner Ryan Murphy and FX over her depiction in the Emmy-nominated series, “Feud: Bette ...
Apple Inc. suffered another defeat in an intellectual property case brought by the University of Wisconsin, when a federal jud...
Toyota dealer sues manufacturer for attempting to drive him out of business
By Andy Serbe
A suit filed in Orange County alleges that after a longtime Toyota dealer created a program to streamline customer repairs in ...
Opening arguments in Johnson & Johnson talc trial present opposite views of what science shows
By Justin Kloczko
Attorneys for a dying woman urged a jury on Wednesday to find that the company should have warned consumers about baby powder
Criminal
US judge denies all post-trial motions in major insider trading case
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The order from U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford clears the way for a new trial for James V. Mazzo, a corporate executive...
Deputy Attorney General Erika Hiramatsu, who will become chair this fall, is keeping an open mind about whether the bar exam p...
The rate at which securities fraud class actions are filed in federal court hit an all-time high for the first half of 2017, a...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit dismisses False Claims Act lawsuit against for-profit university
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
In a unanimous decision, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday that an appeal brought by relators who filed a lawsuit alleging the Uni...
LA County injunction request seeks earthquake study before Aliso Canyon can reopen
By Justin Kloczko
An injunction request filed by Los Angeles County seeks to halt resumed natural gas injections at the Aliso Canyon facility th...
A potential $1 billion real estate lawsuit spanning 14 years between four brothers undramatically fizzled out on the eve of tr...
California Supreme Court
Court gives judges more leeway in resentencing
By L.J. Williamson
A unanimous court ruled that judges could consider the facts underlying charges, even when those charges have been dismissed, ...
Judges can again officiate at weddings for money, gifts after recent ban
By Skylar Dubelko
After a 6½-month ban, judges may get paid for performing marriage ceremonies on weekends and legal holidays.
An attorney for two former Pepperdine University women’s basketball players who are suing the school on Tuesday grilled the fo...
Government
Sessions announces rules targeting sanctuary jurisdictions
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday afternoon that state and local recipients of a federal justice grant program ...
Entertainment & Sports
Ball is in UC’s court as travel ban could cost schools millions in revenue
By Andy Serbe
California’s “travel ban” bill could cost public university athletic departments not just games, recruits, and playoff appeara...
Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has hired Laurel Finch to lead its legal team as the company’s chief legal o...
VMWare Inc., a cloud infrastructure developer, named Amy M. Fliegelman Olli its next general counsel.
