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Litigation


An Orange County jury has awarded $20.4 million to the former business partner of real estate magnate Bruce Elieff after Elief...


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


The Trump administration's announcement Thursday that it would appeal the preliminary injunction against its latest executive ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Apr. 3, 2017
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.


A San Diego federal judge said the deal resolving three cases would provide an "extraordinary amount of recovery" for class me...


Litigation


A judge has ruled that the State Personnel Board does not have the power to order former state employees to pay compensatory d...


Immigration


Chief Justice gets US official reply

Apr. 3, 2017
By Kevin Lee

Trump administration fires back at chief justice's critique of arrests of people who entered US illegally


Litigation


With the addition of a suit by O'Melveny & Myers LLP, led by partner Daniel Petrocelli, there are now three firms suing ov...


Judge Thomas M. Goethals said it is difficult to understand why higher courts don't trust trial courts to review such document...


Government


A contingent of public officials and private attorneys kicked off Mediation Awareness Week at Los Angeles City Hall. ...


Steven J. Cologne is succeeding John L. Morrell on Friday as the firm's managing partner, a role Morrell filled since 1997. ...


Jose Lopez Jr., 36, accepted nearly $250,000 in bribes over the seven years of his employment at the court in exchange for dis...


U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel called the percentage of funds that class members were expected to recoup from the resol...


Government


A bill to phase out state contracts with for-profit prisons by next year and end their use by 2028 has been introduced in the ...


Intellectual Property


In a boost for Covington's patent office trials practice, partner Peter Chen and of counsel Scott Kamholz joined the firm this...


California Supreme Court


The city of Newport Beach failed to conduct an adequate environmental review for a highly publicized plan to develop 401-acre ...


Government


Controversy has arisen over Antelope Valley head deputy DA's handling of pleas

Mar. 31, 2017
By L.J. Williamson And Malcolm Maclachla

Attorneys and court personnel have said Steven Frankland, head deputy of the DA's branch office in Lancaster, routinely instru...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


At issue in the case decided late Wednesday was whether local governments can retain their public immunity when they participa...


Obituaries


Betty Barry-Deal, 1921-2017

Mar. 31, 2017
By Kevin Lee

Betty Barry-Deal, the first woman to serve as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, died on March 12 in her daughter'...


The legal executives sent a letter Tuesday in response to President Donald J. Trump's proposal to defund Legal Services Corp.,...


Before a Thursday pretrial conference, Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals said he may consider dismissing the death penal...


Judges and Judiciary


Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library will host their annual Beacon of Justice Award gala on April 5 in honor of 2nd D...


UC San Francisco, an expected co-anchor of the village, has also agreed to jointly develop hundreds of new housing units that ...


Forever 21 Retail Inc. will shop for defense counsel after the state's anti-discrimination employment agency sued the retailer...


California Courts of Appeal


Calaveras County District Attorney Barbara Yook erected a "Chinese wall" to prevent a conflict of interest, an appellate court...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Mar. 30, 2017
By STEPHEN LARSON

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.


Obituaries


John J. Quinn, 1933-2017

Mar. 30, 2017
By Eli Wolfe

Attorney John J. Quinn, a cheerful lion of the courtroom and a beloved mentor to dozens of lawyers and judges, died Sunday. He...


A Tesla Inc. assembly line worker has filed a lawsuit against the luxury automaker, claiming he endured months of racial discr...


Marketing


Criminal justice awards at Loyola

Mar. 30, 2017
By Riley Guerin

Loyola Law School held its annual Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice on March 24. ...


Law Practice


Lawyer once illegally in US claims thriving practice

Mar. 29, 2017
By Malcolm Maclachlan

Sergio C. Garcia — who rose to fame when his attempt to become an attorney despite being in the country without permission spa...


Government


Makan Delrahim, the Los Angeles attorney tapped by President Donald J. Trump to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrus...