Labor/Employment
Uber nearing settlement in recruitment program lawsuit
By Matthew Blake
A judge conditionally greenlighted an Uber Technologies Inc. employment lawsuit settlement that emanates from a possible misst...
Litigation
Putative class action against AT&T over phone refunds moved to federal court
By Tim O'connor
An AT&T Inc. wireless customer who claims the carrier reneged on its assurance to buy back any new mobile phone returned w...
A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.
Government
Senate bill to legally define 'forensic autopsy' making its way through Assembly
By L.J. Williamson
A bill that would resolve ambiguities in California law by defining who may perform a forensic autopsy has received the suppor...
A UC Irvine research institute dedicated to U.S.-China economic relations is expanding thanks to a $2.75 million donation from...
Hyperloop One, a high-speed transportation startup, named Marvin Ammori its new chief legal officer. The move comes less than ...
Attorneys who a filed a salacious breach of contract complaint alleging a prominent venture capitalist broke a $40 million set...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit hears case challenging NSA warrantless surveillance
By Logan Noblin
On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case challenging the NSA's ongoing warrantless sur...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules on juvenile immigration detention practices
By Saul Sugarman
A national policy favoring the release of minors from immigration detention centers was upheld Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Convicted of obstruction, ex-sheriff's deputies plead case before 9th Circuit
By Saul Sugarman
If an enforcement officer breaks the law, but was just following orders, is that a convictable offense? Many defense attorneys...
California Assemblymembers David Chiu and Don Wagner rightly address ["Fed up with the State Bar," June 27] the schizophrenic ...
In response to a fatal accident last month involving a Model S, the NHTSA announced it is opening a preliminary investigation ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit rules prosecutor not immune for false declaration
By Meghann M. Cuniff
A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity for misrepresenting a brain-surgery bound w...
Katherine E. Lewis, a veteran deputy public defender, is Orange County's newest Superior Court commissioner. She began Tuesday...
A federal judge blocked an attempt by NFL teams to boot a putative class action by former players who claim team doctors hande...
Prominent intellectual property attorney James H. Pooley, a past White House appointee to the World Intellectual Property Orga...
Ignyta Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology company focused on precision medicine in oncology, Tuesday appointed Dr. Christia...
Civil Rights
Hayward must refund National Lawyers Guild in public records case
By Phil Johnson
The ruling marks what appears to be the first successful challenge to municipalities charging for public access to police body...
The State Bar's most recent administration of the test students at unaccredited law schools must pass in order to later sit fo...
Labor/Employment
Uber lawyers must produce reams of evidence they might not have
By Matthew Blake
Lawyers in the Uber Technologies Inc. misclassification lawsuit must produce a mountain of information U.S. District Judge Edw...
California Courts of Appeal
Workers cannot picket inside Wal-Mart stores, state appellate court rules
By Saul Sugarman
The nation's largest union of retail and grocery workers cannot picket inside Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s California locations, the...
General Counsel Postmates Inc. (San Francisco) ...
San Diego life sciences and tech transactions guru John E. Wehrli has jumped ship from Latham & Watkins LLP to join Jones ...
Litigation
Jury awards HP $3 billion in Oracle breach of contract trial
By Phil Johnson
In the face of a second defeat in its contract dispute with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle Corp. has vowed to appeal — aga...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Attorneys helped birth MLK Hospital
By Kibkabe Araya
The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles would not have been a reality if not for the health care at...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar increasing fee for failing MCLE audit
By Lyle Moran
The State Bar is increasing to $200 the fee assessed to lawyers who fail the agency's annual audit of their compliance with co...
The attorney who led the charge against Led Zeppelin in a recently resolved copyright infringement trial has been suspended fr...
The ACLU threatened to sue the Orange County district attorney's office over its response to a request for records related to ...
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A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.