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Santa Barbara sole practitioner Darryl W. Genis is to spend two years in federal prison for failing to pay taxes on $3.5 milli...


Litigation


A federal judge gave his blessing to a proposed settlement that accounts for the vast majority of remaining vehicles that lost...


U.S. Supreme Court


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy pushes civic education improvements at a Sacramento event. ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


An Orange County judge has ordered the city of San Clemente to stop issuing building permits for most of its area until it com...


Barry Currier, the ABA's managing director of accreditation and legal education, said California's high passing standard is li...


Oracle America Inc. has spent years breaking its contractual obligation to pay sales representatives' commissions, according t...


Corporate


With President Donald Trump promising to spend at least $1 trillion on new infrastructure projects over the coming decade, con...


Litigation


Cotchett firm sues over tilting Millennium Tower

Feb. 15, 2017
By Joshua Seboldn

A prominent plaintiffs' firm has filed what it described as its first wave of litigation for individual condominium owners who...


California Courts of Appeal


A state appellate court affirmed the authority of Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to regulate insurance rates and ensure tha...


Environmental


While the state Department of Water Resources tries to avert a potential disaster at the Oroville Dam, the agency's attorneys ...


A case against alleged government and energy industry corruption by R. Rex Parris began with a bang, but seems to be going out...


Corporate Counsel


Damien P. Eastwood

Feb. 15, 2017
By Banks Albachn

General Counsel MapR Technologies Inc. (San Jose) ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Feb. 14, 2017
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.


U.S. Supreme Court


"The Supreme Court has either acquiesced in this shift in lawmaking power or has actually facilitated it," Justice Samuel Alit...


U.S. Supreme Court


Kennedy told the Association of Business Trial Lawyers the public should denounce speech it finds reprehensible. ...


RedCrow Inc., a Mill Valley-based crowdfunding platform, announced the hiring of Christopher P. Laia as general counsel and ch...


Litigation


A small Brazilian nonprofit group is taking technology giant Alphabet Inc.-owned Google to court for allegedly not giving the ...


Government


After failed efforts in the past, bills have been introduced again to allocate more judges to Riverside and San Bernardino cou...


The chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee said he wants to find out why the state has such a stringent passing score. ...


Judicial Profile


Dean D. Pregerson

Feb. 14, 2017
By Kevin Lee

US District Judge Dean Pregerson's 20 years of rulings has changed lives, protected prisoners.


Litigation


A songwriting duo has sued fellow composer Marco E. Beltrami, claiming he passed as his own a song they produced to be used as...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Feb. 13, 2017
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

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


Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals on Friday ordered a hearing regarding the ongoing jail informant controv...


Judicial Profile


Glenn Mondo

Feb. 13, 2017
By Justin Kloczko

Superior Court Commissioner Orange County (Fullerton) ...


Media


On-set jokes were free speech, panel finds

Feb. 11, 2017
By Steven Crighton

Comments made by actor Marlon Wayans were part of the creative process, says appellate court. ...


When meeting with potential clients, Virginia M. Blumenthal said she and the three other attorneys at Blumenthal Law Offices f...


Litigation


Plaintiffs in a putative class action accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of systematic age discrimination faced an uphill bat...


Government


Attorney General Xavier Becerra has tapped a prominent Democratic political law firm to help him in his 2018 run for a full te...


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


A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declined Thursday to reinstate President Donald J. Trump's executive order banning t...


Corporate


HP general counsel pushes outside counsel to diversify

Feb. 11, 2017
By Paula Lehman Ewing

Kim M. Rivera, the general counsel for Palo Alto-based HP Inc., announced a new program Thursday that will obligate outside co...