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Government


Increased visa vetting procedures recently announced by the U.S. State Department are creating uncertainty among some immigrat...


Product Liability


In his summary judgment denial on Friday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge rejected Dunkin' Donuts' defense argument ...


Government


Employment in California's legal services industry took a slight hit recently, shedding 1,000 jobs between March and April, en...


Labor/Employment


A unique bench trial ended Friday with plaintiffs' pushing the labor code's land the defense saying it meant to do no wrong.


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday revived a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies accused of failing to discl...


ADR Provider


Listening to Emotions

Jun. 3, 2017
By XYZ

Neutral Matthew Argue uses emotional intelligence in high-conflict disputes. ...


Education


LSAT to be offered more frequently

Jun. 3, 2017
By Lyle Moran

The admissions test will be administered six times a year instead of four starting in mid-2018. The move comes as more schools...


The state Supreme Court unanimously overturned the convictions of two defendants for attempted murder after finding Thursday t...


Environmental


President Donald J. Trump's Thursday announcement that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord, wh...


Labor/Employment


Beginning their direct defense against a lawsuit by a former technician who says he was fired for whistleblowing about sloppy ...


California Supreme Court


Reversing a lower court decision, the state Supreme Court held Thursday that a defendant cannot be charged with making crimina...


Government


State Assembly ends contract with Eric Holder

Jun. 2, 2017
By Joshua Sebold

California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon confirmed Thursday that his side of the Legislature will end its contract with form...


Criminal


OC judge asks sheriff's officer pointed questions

Jun. 2, 2017
By Meghann M. Cuniff

An Orange County judge asked pointed questions and criticized the credibility of a law enforcement veteran's immunity-protecte...


Labor/Employment


Asked by Joseph M. Sellers, lead lawyer for a plaintiff representative group of thousands of McDonald's overnight workers, wha...


Litigation


The judge found that Greenberg Traurig had properly implemented an ethical screen in a case involving the former manager of N....


Santa Clara University School of Law tops list of first-time bar exam takers from February test. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Managers at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. who supervised a technician who has sued the company for alleged whistleblowe...


California Courts of Appeal


A Stockton city employee who posted a nude photo of a co-worker with a crude comment must be reinstated because a private arbi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Two Pepperdine University School of Law professors also concluded that lowering the passing score on the exam would likely inc...


A superior court judge on Wednesday questioned the truthfulness of a uniformed sheriff's lieutenant who hours earlier was gran...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


OC judge admonished for sex-charged Facebook post

Jun. 1, 2017
By L.J. Williamson And Malcolm Maclachla

Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeff Ferguson has been publicly admonished by the Commission on Judicial Performance after ...


A superior court judge on Wednesday questioned the truthfulness of a uniformed sheriff's lieutenant who hours earlier was gran...


Government


Bill to aid "revenge porn" victims advances in Legislature

Jun. 1, 2017
By Malcolm Maclachlan And L.J. Williamso

State legislators have been meeting every day this week as bills face a Friday deadline to pass.


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that federal courts cannot have a blanket policy for shackling all defen...


Law Practice


U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and domestic violence victim advocates have found common ground over a shared concern that...


Former Space Exploration Technologies Corp. technician Jason Blasdell animatedly gave his account of how the results of radioa...


Labor/Employment


Kathryn Froehlich, senior project manager for McDonald's, told Joseph M. Sellers, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & To...


Law Practice


Summer associate joins firm that successfully argued her family's asylum petition 15 years ago. ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel ruled Monday in a split decision that a Mexican man's request to stay in the...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


A veteran liberal judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the deportation of a Mexican immigrant wh...