Superior Court Deputy General Counsel Sheila O. Recio and longtime Santa Ana family law practitioner Paul T. Minerich have bee...
Litigation
Jury awards $13.9 million to man injured in accident caused by county public defender
By Justin Kloczko
The driver, Donald Prigo, attempted to make a left turn in Norwalk in 2013 when he failed to yield to oncoming traffic and cau...
California Supreme Court
State high court debates reach of anti-SLAPP law in corruption case
By Kevin Lee
Three former Montebello City Council members who allegedly sought to enrich themselves while in office asked the state Supreme...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar trustee suggests chief justice set annual dues
By Lyle Moran
Trustee Dennis Mangers suggested Thursday that the agency propose having the California chief justice set the annual fee the b...
Criminal
Defense attorneys disappointed by state high court's juvenile sentencing ruling
By L.J. Williamson
In a challenge to a teenager's 50-year-to-life sentence, the state Supreme Court Thursday affirmed that recent shifts to state...
A complex litigation group headed by partners Margaret "Peggy" Holm and Robert Zermeno includes two associates. ...
Ousted Tulare County Superior Court Judge Valeriano Saucedo's appeal of a judicial misconduct ruling to the state Supreme Cour...
Alphabet Inc.-owned Google's use of elements from Oracle Corp.'s Java computer language and programming platform in its Androi...
Solo and Small Firms
Murphy Cooke Kobrick was started by ex-SEC litigators
By Banks Albachn
The five-attorney firm specializes in a combination of complex commercial litigation, including class actions. ...
California Supreme Court
High court considers whether state worker can sue state
By Matthew Blake
The state Supreme Court was skeptical about the state of California's argument that public workers can't sue the state but ins...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Outsiders slam State Bar for allegedly leaking audit details
By Lyle Moran
Outside observers of the State Bar offered strong criticism Wednesday of the agency's executives for allegedly violating state...
Litigation
Jury awards $13.9 million to man hit by car on sidewalk, finds Los Angeles County negligent
By Justin Kloczko
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $13.9 million to a man who was severely injured after being involved in a...
A top Silicon Valley corporate counsel will stand trial next week on a charge that he committed felony domestic violence again...
Transactions
SEC establishes new guidelines on company accounting practices
By Banks Albachn
The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing to tighten its scrutiny of how public companies use non-GAAP financial re...
Judges and Judiciary
OC's growing courthouse homeless population affecting jurors, courts CEO warns
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Prospective jurors in Orange County are complaining about the growing number of homeless people camped outside the Santa Ana c...
The Daniels, Fine, Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits LLP partner and full-time neutral with Judicate West died from complicatio...
Intellectual Property
Oracle, Google attorneys debate as jury deliberates copyright case
By Tim O'connor
Attorneys for Alphabet Inc.-owned Google and Oracle Corp. debated motions as the jury deliberated a second day in the closely ...
Prosecutors statewide are concerned about the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, with Mendocino County District Att...
A dinner conversation between Los Angeles County's head of health services and a director at Public Counsel boiled over this w...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Attorneys for Monster LLC won the right to depose Apple Inc. senior vice president Eduardo Cue for a lawsuit against Beats Ele...
Law Practice
Assistant U.S. attorney joins litigation boutique with public defender roots
By Amanda Schallert
An eight-year member of the U.S. attorney's office in the Central District is joining a downtown Los Angeles litigation boutiq...
Judges and Judiciary
California Judges Association elects new president
By Joshua Seboldn
The association elected Tehama County Judge C. Todd Bottke to the organization's presidency Tuesday, replacing Los Angeles Cou...
A prominent labor and employment attorney filed a lawsuit against '80s rocker Eddie Money on behalf of the star's former bandm...
In a dispute over whether Hueston Hennigan LLP was too conflicted to represent the State Compensation Insurance Fund in a civi...
Law Practice
Attorneys advised to have face-to-face chats with potential clients, colleagues
By Lyle Moran
While new lawyers have many technology and social media options to engage with potential clients, veteran lawyers say face-to-...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Qualified immunity rejected for officers who detained attendees at child's party
By Saul Sugarman
San Diego police officers lost their bid for immunity Tuesday at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled they did not su...
Roughly four dozen plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against DirecTV over the company's football packaging deals are now on t...
Four years after a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. entered a contract, the ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Auditor blasts State Bar executives over leak
By Lyle Moran
The state auditor has accused State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker and other bar executives of violating st...