Law Practice
Myers Nave nabs former HUD assistant secretary from Gerard Fox
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Myers Nave has nabbed former Housing and Urban Development assistant secretary Eva Plaza from Gerard Fox Law PC for the firm’s...
Critics seeking to recall Judge Aaron Persky for what they claim is a consistent bias in favor of privileged defendants in sex...
As arrangements were being made for Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to testify in a superior court hearing investigating...
A federal judge tossed a lawsuit claiming that cosmetology schools illegally exploit students for free labor, finding that the...
The plaintiff must provide more evidence of the supposedly infringed work, a judge ruled.
Dana DuFrane, VP of legal affairs at luxury good marketplace TheRealReal, relishes challenges.
San Diego County Judge Roderick Shelton goes the extra mile to get through to juvenile offenders.
California Supreme Court
Independent contractor can be charged with public employee fraud, court rules
By Kevin Lee
An independent contractor surgeon at a Riverside County public hospital who allegedly pocketed taxpayer money for his own bene...
Administrative/Regulatory
State-accredited law schools given new skills training mandate
By Lyle Moran
California-accredited law schools will be required to provide students with more opportunities for practice-based learning tha...
LakePharma Inc., a Belmont-based contract research organization focusing on biologics, appointed Hajime Tada as its first gene...
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
Immigration lawyers divided on advice in wake of travel ban ruling
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Business immigration attorneys are divided over how to advise clients and their employees regarding international travel after...
California Courts of Appeal
4th District panel says OC judge was right again on jailhouse informants
By Meghann Cuniff
The Orange County Superior Court judge overseeing an unprecedented evidence hearing in a capital case was correct last year wh...
U.S. Supreme Court
California’s concealed carry law stands, as U.S. high court decides against cert
By James Getz
With its decision Monday to not hear a case challenging California’s statutes restricting concealed carrying of firearms in pu...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego County Superior Court looks to close commissioner courtrooms, offers severance
By Justin Kloczko
Citing a $6 million deficit coming into the next fiscal year, San Diego County Superior Court is offering severance packages t...
Criminal
OC Sheriff’s Department official’s testimony contradicts colleague
By Meghann Cuniff
An assistant public defender trying to get the death penalty dismissed against a mass murderer spent Monday eliciting testimon...
Litigation
Judge dismisses shareholder class action against Sempra Energy and SoCalGas
By Andy Serbe
Southern California Gas Company beat a shareholder class action on Wednesday when Judge Roger T. Benitez granted a motion to d...
Litigation
Plaintiffs’ lawyers reach $115M data breach settlement with Anthem
By James Getz
Health insurer Anthem Inc. has reached a proposed $115 million settlement agreement in a class action stemming from a 2015 dat...
Litigation
Evidence reopened after government lawyers claim key witness lied
By Eli Wolfe
The outcome of a $65 million trial over a damaged blimp has been thrown into question after a magistrate judge agreed to reope...
An Ethiopian man has won another chance to avoid government-imposed removal from the U.S. following a decision by the 9th U.S....
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
Proposed sports field causes parking concern from LA Superior Court judges
By Justin Kloczko
A proposed sports complex that would take away Santa Monica Courthouse parking has prompted concerns about a lack of access to...
Litigation
Fired African-American Wells Fargo teller beats summary judgment motion
By Matthew Blake
A Los Angeles County judge ruled Friday that a fired African-American employee’s wrongful termination and racial discriminatio...
Anthony Pompliano claims he wasn’t given a chance to review the arbitration agreement.
Criminal
Lawmaker’s bill would classify covert condom removal as rape
By L.J. Williamson
A bill in the state Legislature would define the removal of a condom as an act of rape.
Litigation
Judge gives green light to whistleblowers’ depositions in Civic San Diego case
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
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
Lawsuit claims Disney lifted elements for “Inside Out”
By Steven Crighton
The plaintiff claims to have approached Disney with a similar story years before the film’s release.
Ingrid K. Campagne and Charles T. Sheldon, a married pair of Walsworth partners, have been rescuing shelter dogs through their...
The Los Angeles Paralegal Association celebrated annual Paralegal Day on June 7 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club .
