Law Practice
Hueston Hennigan hired to probe alleged UC interference with audit
By Kevin Lee
The University of California Board of Regents has hired a former state Supreme Court justice and a Los Angeles law firm to inv...
Labor/Employment
Unexpected acting director named after unexpected departure of Patent and Trademark Office leader
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
In a surprise announcement, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross named associate solicitor Joseph Matal to serve as an inter...
Insurance
Los Angeles receives almost $20M less than it sought from downtown fire lawsuit
By Justin Kloczko
The city of Los Angeles got a substantially smaller settlement amount than it had sought related to a downtown apartment fire ...
Environmental
State agency sued for records of asbestos contamination from dam
By Malcolm Maclachlan
An environmental group has sued to compel the state Department of Water Resources to turn over documents and correspondence re...
After barely an hour of deliberation, a jury ruled in favor of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. on Wednesday, ending a tri...
Richard Samp's claim that San Francisco's billboard health warning ordinance must be invalidated on First Amendment grounds is...
Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar of the state Supreme Court was honored by colleagues before her final oral argument session Tuesda...
Government
Chamber of Commerce seeks disclosure in litigation finance cases
By Joshua Seboldn
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce continued its ongoing campaign against litigation finance by petitioning the U.S. Administrative ...
California Supreme Court
ACLU asks state high court for government-collected license plate data
By L.J. Williamson
The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation asked the state Supreme Court to make public data collected by LA County law enfor...
Two attorneys from Los Angeles County have filed a putative class action against Infinity Insurance, alleging the insurer ille...
Speaking before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, L. Ashley Aull of the U.S. Attorney's Office argued that U.S...
Criminal
OC judge's questions point toward calling sheriff to testify
By Meghann M. Cuniff
An Orange County judge who's considering dismissing the death penalty in a mass murder case continued a line of questioning Tu...
Government
LA supervisors vote to halt public defender registration fees
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to discontinue the collection of $50 upfront fees charged to indigen...
California Supreme Court
State high court skeptical of malicious conduct charge against firm
By Matthew Blake
Justice Goodwin Liu suggested plaintiffs' lawyers were making a "very banal" point about legal procedure: That evidence emerge...
Technology & Science
SpaceX final arguments: Did ex-tech blow whistle or smoke?
By Andy Serbe
Referencing the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, plaintiff's attorney Carney Shegerian reminded the jury of the consequence...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar hasn't conducted criminal background checks on all applicants
By Lyle Moran
The bar is required by state law to collect fingerprints from applicants for admission so that criminal record checks can be p...
A veteran intellectual property litigation attorney delivered the bombshell Tuesday to some 12,000 Uber Technologies Inc. empl...
Criminal
Brown appointees on state high court skeptical of initiative expediting death penalty
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court's newest justices took turns Tuesday grilling lawyers about Proposition 66, the landmark initiative vo...
Litigation
State to get $53M over Dish Network's telemarketing calls
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California will receive $53.25 million from DISH Network LLC over illegal telemarketing calls.
Corporate
Electric bus maker hires Silicon Valley in-house vet to head legal
By Paula Lehman Ewing
Proterra Inc., a producer of zero-emission commercial transit vehicles, announced the appointment of JoAnn C. Covington to chi...
Criminal
Ten attorneys charged by Orange County in 'capping' scheme
By L.J. Williamson And Malcolm Maclachla
Ten attorneys and six "cappers" are facing criminal charges for their alleged role in a multi-million dollar workers compensat...
Technology & Science
As plaintiff's time runs out, he makes last appeal from witness stand in SpaceX case
By Andy Serbe
Taking the stand again in one last attempt to persuade a jury that he was fired for blowing the whistle on sloppy testing proc...
An ABA council had previously proposed requiring 75 percent of a law school's bar exam takers to pass within two years of grad...
Criminal
Murder victim's widower testifies in emotional evidence hearing
By Meghann M. Cuniff
The testimony from a bereaved family member of one of the victims followed remarks by Orange County Superior Court Judge Thoma...
Law Practice
Reed Smith hires banking and finance team from MoFo for SF office
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Reed Smith LLP has hired a banking and finance team from Morrison & Foerster LLP, the second team the firm has added from ...
California Supreme Court
Suit against local governments not limited to property taxpayers, court rules
By Kevin Lee
The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that plaintiffs who do not own property can still sue local governments for illegally spe...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
Facing a Friday deadline, state legislators got more bills passed under the wire, but left one of the most significant crimina...
Superior Court Commissioner Los Angeles County (Monterey Park) ...
Stacy Boulware Eurie fills many roles, but primarily as a Sacramento County juvenile judge.
