Labor/Employment
State employees' retirement plan case to go forward
By Justin Kloczko
A class of more than 130,000 California Public Employees' Retirement System policy holders suing over rate increases will take...
California Bar
California bar takers fare well on multiple choice section, but poorly overall
By Lyle Moran
Loyola Law School graduate Lloyd Buckley outperformed more than 90 percent of the country on the multiple choice portion of th...
A class of more than 130,000 California Public Employees’ Retirement System policy holders suing over rate increases will take...
Chief Legal Officer Atlassian Inc. (San Francisco) ...
Attorneys for Facebook Inc. argued for dismissal of a lawsuit brought by marketing firms who say they were misled by the compa...
Criminal
Vallejo criminal defense attorney sues Sacramento police for her own arrest records
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The attorney for a man accused of throwing a pie in the face of a mayor of Sacramento has filed a California Public Records Ac...
Infosys Technology Ltd. announced Inderpreet Sawhney will be joining the company as group general counsel effective July 3. ...
Criminal
LA DA creates unit to take 'environmental prosecutions to the next level'
By L.J. Williamson
Polluters, beware: Adding more resources and staff, with more to come, the office has elevated its existing Environmental Crim...
Corporate
Delivery startup Sun Basket adds GC in executive hiring spree
By Paula Lehman Ewing
San Francisco-based meal kit delivery startup Sun Basket Inc. announced last week Isobel A. Jones will join the company as gen...
A successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a history of domestic violence arrests is now facing a civil employment lawsuit ...
Attorneys for Facebook Inc. argued for dismissal of a lawsuit brought by marketing firms who say they were misled by the compa...
Corporate
Jaunt names former TiVo legal chief first general counsel
By Paula Lehman Ewing
San Mateo-based virtual reality technology developer Jaunt Inc. appointed Matthew P. Zinn, the longtime general counsel for Ti...
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. wrote a letter to current Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday in support ...
Litigation
US Supreme Court limits state courts' jurisdiction over out-of-state plaintiffs in pharmaceutical case
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Defense attorneys cheer, plaintiffs’ lawyers lament. ...
Labor & Employment
Recruiting company sued under Private Attorneys General Act
By James Getz
A former recruiter is suing staffing giant Adecco USA under California's Private Attorneys General Act, alleging state labor l...
Law Practice
Ex-DOJ attorney joins Robins Kaplan antitrust, trade group
By Garrett Green
Former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney Tai Milder has joined the Robins Kaplan LLP antitrust and trade regulation gr...
Pepperdine University failed to convince a U.S. District Judge on Monday to exclude several pieces of critical evidence in a T...
Immigration
Federal government handling asylum claims more strictly, lawyers say
By Chase Di Feliciantonio
Lawyers and other experts are reporting changes in the ways the federal government is handling asylum and related claims. ...
Recent history casts doubt on whether bill to increase family law judges will be implemented
By Malcolm Maclachlan
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would allow the courts to convert up to 10 subordinate juridical...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
Government
California's Fair Political Practices Commission announces new general counsel
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
California's Fair Political Practices Commission announced the appointment of Jack Woodside as the its general counsel. ...
Superior Court Judge Contra Costa County (Richmond) ...
Judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasadena) ...
Litigation
Defense in $56 million wrongful death case seeks to get out of default
By Justin Kloczko
Nearly a year after being in default of a wrongful death suit, a Hollywood director is now asking a Los Angeles County Superio...
Litigation
Eviction battle between LA Times building owner and tenant put on ice
By Eli Wolfe
An eviction battle between the owner of the Los Angeles Times building and a tenant company with 1,000 employees hit a snag on...
Government
Justice Department settles with Genesis Healthcare over alleged unnecessary procedures, poor care
By Andy Serbe
The Justice Department announced Friday that Genesis Healthcare Inc. will pay the federal government $53.6 million including i...
Education
Faculty lawsuit to stop Whittier Law closure voluntarily dismissed
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Rachana A. "Radha" Pathak, of counsel at Stris & Maher LLP, said different groups still are considering legal options.
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar official falls victim to scam, loses agency $18,500
By Lyle Moran
Chief Financial Officer Christine Wong was the bar employee who fell victim to the recent scam, according to multiple sources.
Criminal
27 state AGs investigate drug companies' role in opioid crisis
By Malcolm Maclachlan
California's attorney general has joined with 26 others in an informal coalition to investigate drug companies for taking acti...
Immigration
Trailer bill prohibits renting jail space to immigration authorities
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
A trailer bill that passed along with the California state budget includes provisions that would further curtail the ability o...