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Law Practice


Myers Nave has nabbed former Housing and Urban Development assistant secretary Eva Plaza from Gerard Fox Law PC for the firm’s...


Judges and Judiciary


Critics seeking to recall Judge Aaron Persky for what they claim is a consistent bias in favor of privileged defendants in sex...


Criminal


OC sheriff says she won’t run again

Jun. 28, 2017
By Meghann Cuniff

As arrangements were being made for Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to testify in a superior court hearing investigating...


Corporate


Dealmakers

Jun. 27, 2017
By Melanie Brisbon


litigation


Judge cuts away cosmetology student lawsuit

Jun. 27, 2017
By Matthew Blake

A federal judge tossed a lawsuit claiming that cosmetology schools illegally exploit students for free labor, finding that the...


Litigaton


Zootopia lawsuit tentatively dismissed

Jun. 27, 2017
By Steven Crighton

The plaintiff must provide more evidence of the supposedly infringed work, a judge ruled.



The Explorer

Jun. 27, 2017
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Dana DuFrane, VP of legal affairs at luxury good marketplace TheRealReal, relishes challenges.



Hands-On Approach

Jun. 27, 2017

San Diego County Judge Roderick Shelton goes the extra mile to get through to juvenile offenders.


California Supreme Court


An independent contractor surgeon at a Riverside County public hospital who allegedly pocketed taxpayer money for his own bene...


Administrative/Regulatory


California-accredited law schools will be required to provide students with more opportunities for practice-based learning tha...


Corporate


Biologics company LakePharma appoints first GC

Jun. 27, 2017
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

LakePharma Inc., a Belmont-based contract research organization focusing on biologics, appointed Hajime Tada as its first gene...


Corporate


Fintech company Credit Karma hires first GC

Jun. 27, 2017
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Credit Karma hired its first general counsel, Susannah S. Wright, who took the reins of the company’s legal department June 5.


U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration


Business immigration attorneys are divided over how to advise clients and their employees regarding international travel after...


California Courts of Appeal


The Orange County Superior Court judge overseeing an unprecedented evidence hearing in a capital case was correct last year wh...


With its decision Monday to not hear a case challenging California’s statutes restricting concealed carrying of firearms in pu...


Citing a $6 million deficit coming into the next fiscal year, San Diego County Superior Court is offering severance packages t...


An assistant public defender trying to get the death penalty dismissed against a mass murderer spent Monday eliciting testimon...


Southern California Gas Company beat a shareholder class action on Wednesday when Judge Roger T. Benitez granted a motion to d...


Health insurer Anthem Inc. has reached a proposed $115 million settlement agreement in a class action stemming from a 2015 dat...


The outcome of a $65 million trial over a damaged blimp has been thrown into question after a magistrate judge agreed to reope...


Immigration


An Ethiopian man has won another chance to avoid government-imposed removal from the U.S. following a decision by the 9th U.S....


Criminal


Jail informant close to a deal, after 11 years

Jun. 26, 2017
By Meghann Cuniff

A prosecutor said Friday that he’s close to a plea deal for one of Orange County’s most prolific jail informants, who has been...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


A proposed sports complex that would take away Santa Monica Courthouse parking has prompted concerns about a lack of access to...


A Los Angeles County judge ruled Friday that a fired African-American employee’s wrongful termination and racial discriminatio...


Litigation


Former Snapchat employee seeks to avoid arbitration

Jun. 26, 2017
By Steven Crighton

Anthony Pompliano claims he wasn’t given a chance to review the arbitration agreement.


Criminal


A bill in the state Legislature would define the removal of a condom as an act of rape.


A San Diego Superior Court judge has allowed plaintiffs in a case against Civic San Diego, the successor to the city’s former ...


Entertainment & Sports


The plaintiff claims to have approached Disney with a similar story years before the film’s release.


In Recess


Ingrid K. Campagne and Charles T. Sheldon, a married pair of Walsworth partners, have been rescuing shelter dogs through their...


Community News


The Los Angeles Paralegal Association celebrated annual Paralegal Day on June 7 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club .