Community News
Consumer attorneys hand out honors at annual convention
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Consumer Attorneys of the Year Award went to Deborah Chang, Randi McGinn, Zoe Littlepage with Athea Trial Lawyers LLP in E...
Family, Community News
National Adoption Day celebration kicks off Saturday morning at Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero will join Los Angeles County Superior Court Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner and other comm...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Community News
Gone With the Dogs
By Jessica Lynn Murray
Criminal, Community News
UC Irvine Law clinic helps release inmate 7 years early
By Devon Belcher
Director Katharine Tinto said it’s the clinic’s 19th successful case since 2017, when its students started compassionate relea...
Education Law, Community News
USD School of Law dean receives 2023 Bernard E. Witkin Award
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“I was proud to highlight our commitment to diversity and to advancing the rule of law,” Dean Robert A. Schapiro.
Community News, Civil Rights
Legal hotline will help students facing antisemitism on campus
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Volunteer lawyers from other firms and companies, as well as from other organizations, are invited to participate in this proj...
Community News
Blank Rome sponsors career day for young women in Los Angeles
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
“We pulled together 30 thought-leaders from Blank Rome, clients and friends of mine and the firm, to talk about their career d...
Community News
Consumer Watchdog hands out honors at 'Rage for Justice' event
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP partner Niall P. McCarthy was presented with the Lifetime Legal Achievement Award at the 15t...
Technology, Community News, California Supreme Court
AI can’t replace ‘empathy and judgment,’ chief justice says
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The current and former chief justices of California met on a Sacramento stage on Thursday and talked about a range of issues f...
Wednesday's celebration was held in New York and livestreamed to The Lot at Formosa in West Hollywood.
Community News, California Courts of Appeal
Supreme Court Historical Society bestows legal writer awards
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The top three writers represented UC Irvine School of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law. They read summaries of their papers t...
Community News
CAALA inducts titans of plaintiffs’ bar into Hall of Fame
By David Houston
Recent scandals in the Southern California legal community cast a pall over what was otherwise an occasion for celebration.
Real Estate/Development, Community News
Advocacy groups bicker over who caused minority homelessness in Los Angeles
By Skyler Romero
Attorneys for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights accused the Los Angeles Community Action Network of having a hand in shaping ...
Real Estate/Development, Community News
Attorneys for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights accused the Los Angeles Community Action Network of having a hand in shaping ...
Education Law, Community News
LA ABOTA holds 1st mock trial with students
By Skyler Romero
“We are really hoping people go home to their families and start thinking about what kind of career they want to have, and we...
Community News
Manatt celebrates opinion-influenced poetry
Events, Community News
Arab American lawyers mark heritage month with sold-out dinner
By David Houston
Justice Joshua Groban of the California Supreme Court talked about the ways in which lawyers can secure bench appointments.
Community News
Rocking for a Cause: Law Rocks Los Angeles sets the Bar High
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
This event marked the beginning of the 12th Annual Law Rocks World Tour, with its next California battle scheduled for April 2...
Community News, Alternative Dispute Resolution
The CLA Litigation Section Law Rocks, battle of the bands, is returning to Los Angeles
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The nonprofit organization behind the fundraising event will have 13 bands competing for charities.
Entertainment & Sports, Community News
LA Lawyers Philharmonic prepares to perform, holds auditions
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
heir last show was the Violins of Hope concert in March 2020 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Community News, California Courts of Appeal
LA County Superior Court seeks attorneys to represent indigent defendants in Appellate Division
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Law Practice, Environmental & Energy, Community News, Appellate Practice
Disaster Legal Assistance Collaborative seeks lawyer volunteers
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Founded two years ago to assist with disaster recovery amid the dual crises of COVID-19 and devastating wildfires, California ...
The National Judicial College is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023 with special programs scheduled in Miami, New York ...
Community News
Trials scheduled to resume in Los Angeles County
Judges and Judiciary, Community News, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit judge to receive 2022 Susan and Carl Bolch Jr. Prize
By David Houston
The prize will be awarded on March 18 at a ceremony in San Diego. Wallace has been a federal judge for 50 years, first on the ...
Community News
Attorney Stanley P. Gold receives Judge Learned Hand Award
By Skyler Romero
“Stanley’s accomplishments are many, and we are proud that he now joins an esteemed group of Learned Hand alumni over these pa...
Community News
Bay Area firms band together to end domestic violence
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Banding Together to End Domestic Violence is an annual attorney battle-of-the-bands fundraiser benefiting the Family Violence ...