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Real Estate/Development, Government


A bill to repeal statewide rent control restrictions died in the State Assembly on Thursday after a long and contentious commi...


State Bar & Bar Associations


CAALA president looks to 2018

Jan. 12, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

Incoming Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles President Mike Arias looks to 2018.


Immigration, Criminal


A veteran defender of sex offenders is taking the U.S. State Department to task for illegally implementing restrictive passpor...


Corporate, Civil Litigation


Litigations mount in Intel security flaw fallout

Jan. 12, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Investors for the San Francisco-based chip developer allege company omitted dangers of a security flaw in public filings.


Labor/Employment, Government


A ruling could give California public employees the legal ammunition they need to shoot down a five year-old law that reduced ...


Government


After several years of disappointing state budgets, the judicial branch in California got some good news on Wednesday.


Immigration, Government


Plaintiff’s attorney’s expressed confidence that a San Francisco federal judge’s order will hold up on appeal in the combined ...


Criminal


A top white-collar crime attorney defending a corporate executive in his second insider trading trial on Wednesday worked to p...


Intellectual Property


In a split decision, a federal appellate court partially overturned a $39.5 million ruling Wednesday for cybersecurity company...


Attorney productivity has plummeted costing law firms an average of $74,100 per lawyer, per year, a new report found.


The legendary and notoriously offbeat defense litigator J. Tony Serra reentered the public consciousness this week when he beg...


A Los Angeles County judge condemned a 15-year delay in holding a trial to review the man’s continued incarceration.


Government


Sen. Kamala Harris joins Senate Judiciary Committee

Jan. 10, 2018
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Sen. Kamala D. Harris, D-California, was appointed to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.


Law Practice


The group, consisting of five partners and an associate, will be split between Hinshaw’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


Kirkland & Ellis LLP threw its support behind a public impact lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court on Monday that ac...


Civil Litigation


A federal judge in San Diego dismissed a class action brought by hundreds of U.S. sailors against a Tokyo-based electricity pr...


Immigration, Government


Legal experts doubt that significant federal litigation will result from the Trump administration’s decision to end deportatio...


Real Estate/Development


A bill to repeal a state law that prohibited California cities and counties from putting rent control on apartments built afte...


Melissa Murray talked about the challenges of being interim dean in the aftermath of allegations against the former dean.


A superior court judge on Monday said Los Angeles County can decide where the estate hearing of Charles Manson will take plac...


Law Practice, Government


A nonprofit organization operated by the California Legislative Women’s Caucus has cut ties with a law firm that has become em...


Labor/Employment


The engineer fired by Alphabet Inc.-owned Google after posting a memo criticizing the company’s diversity policies sued his fo...


Immigration, Government


Immigration experts are divided on the federal government’s decision to review a case management tool used by immigration judg...


Corporate


Veteran in-house attorney Arnold A. Pinkston takes the reins of CoreLogic’s legal team.


State Bar & Bar Associations


Hilarie Bass, president of the American Bar Association, told the Daily Journal she wants a probe into what kinds of testing m...


The Los Angeles city attorney’s office has jumped into the fray of numerous actions taken against Los Angeles and Long Beach p...


Corporate


Emeryville drug developer tabs new general counsel

Jan. 9, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

Biotech in-house veteran Danny Hart to lead legal team at XOMA Corp.


Law Practice, Government


A nonprofit organization operated by the California Legislative Women’s Caucus has cut ties with a law firm that has become em...


Corporate


California had more IPOs in 2017 as Snap took top spot

Jan. 8, 2018
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

California had 27 companies go public in 2017, raising a collective $6.5 billion, up from 2016 when 21 companies in the state ...


Immigration, Criminal


The Mexican national acquitted of Kate Steinle’s killing was sentenced to three years in prison on a gun possession charge but...