Corporate
Facebook, Baker McKenzie lead child advocacy training program
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Facebook hosted a training event for in-house lawyers on how to defend children.
UK insurance giant Clyde & Co LLP has opened its doors in Los Angeles, the law firm announced Monday.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar issues consumer alerts about two attorneys
By Lyle Moran
The lawyers are accused of misappropriating at least $100,000 in client funds.
Criminal
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to recommend the appointment of Kenneth Clayman as Interim Public Defender
By L.J. Williamson
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plans to recommend the appointment of Kenneth Clayman to the post of interim publi...
After just two months on the job, Los Angeles County Bar Association CEO Rick Cohen has resigned following his efforts to chan...
Business immigration attorneys were divided on whether the development was positive and timely for their clients or an attempt...
Administrative/Regulatory
State water agency claims it can issue $11B in bonds
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The California Department of Water Resources has filed a validation action in Sacramento Superior Court seeking to confirm its...
The jury must determine how much of a $30 million request by Quincy Jones is owed, if any.
On Monday, the lead counsel for Pepperdine University attempted to pick apart the credibility of one of the two plaintiffs sui...
Companies hoping to compel websites to identify anonymous users who post defamatory statements received a major victory when a...
Criminal
Seeking new trial or acquittal, attorney says juror lied
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A federal judge on Monday expressed skepticism about arguments for two men convicted of insider stock trading.
A secondary issue in a 12-day-old Supreme Court ruling proved binding Monday in a Private Attorneys General Act trial court di...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
In misclassification feud, Uber moves to sanction drivers’ lawyer
By Matthew Blake
The lawyer for a class of more than 240,000 current and former Uber drivers in California defied a judge’s protective order an...
Jury hits Nissan for $24.9M in brake failure, but found no malice or fraud
By Justin Kloczko
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury delivered a $24.9 million verdict against Nissan North America Friday, finding the car manuf...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Staff had suggested destroying more than 2,300 fingerprint cards the agency had never sent to law enforcement.
End to driver’s license suspensions for nonpayment would help poor, hurt budget
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A budget bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown could reduce collections for traffic fines and fees by $40 million to $100 million an...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
To send message, State Bar proposes six-month suspension of DA accused of withholding evidence
By Andy Serbe
The State Bar recommended a six-month suspension for an Orange County prosecutor whom they accused of withholding exculpatory ...
Criminal
Changing standard for traffic trials could save court resources but undermine due process
By L.J. Williamson
At the request of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the Commission on the Future of California’s Court System has examined tr...
A state constitutional amendment could be passed ahead of a repeal of federal restrictions.
A second plaintiff in the Pepperdine University discrimination trial took the stand on Friday to testify about her interaction...
Inside the packed courtroom of Judge Randolph Hammock, Bowman & Brooke LLP attorney Thomas Klein contested the plaintiffs’...
Defense counsel grilled one of the former college athletes suing Pepperdine University for discrimination during a grueling cr...
Saying that a State Bar counsel misled him in a previous hearing about an attorney’s ability to get discovery in State Bar Cou...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit Conference panel grapples with ‘fake news’
A panel discussed the phenomenon of ‘fake news’ and the impact and it has on courts and judges on the last day of the 9th Circ...
As four other pharmaceuticals companies fight a lawsuit over opioid promotion, drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has reached an agreement ...
Retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge Lillian M. Stevens, who spent nearly 20 years on the bench, died March 17. She was 87.
California Courts of Appeal
The 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday declined to publish an opinion that affirms a new trial for an Orange County mur...
Obituaries
Patent litigator Rachel Krevans, known for trial wins, dies at 60
By Joshua Sebold
Rachel Krevans, a star patent litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP, died Wednesday after battling cancer for two and a hal...
Philip L. Reznik, an associate at Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP, moonlights as an improv artist at the LA Connecti...