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Government, Real Estate/Development

When Onni Capital contracted for the former LA Times property, it thought a park was being built nearby. When plans changed, t...


Civil Rights

Litigation over UC protester policy continues

Aug. 23, 2024
By Sunidhi Sridhar

Some pro-Palestinian student protesters are fighting back in court against what they say are violations of their due process r...



Civil Litigation, Torts/Personal Injury

The plaintiff argues the shooting was "foreseeable" given a history of violent conduct at Airbnb properties and the city's ban...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, California Supreme Court, Torts/Personal Injury

The court's previous decision in Robinson Helicopter v. Dana Corp. left unanswered the question of whether fraudulent concealm...



California Supreme Court

The state Supreme Court sided with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle and rejected Los Angeles' argument t...


Appointments made to State Bar governing bodies

Aug. 23, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The Committee of Bar Examiners oversees the development and administration of the California Bar Exam, managing the moral char...



Do the Right Thing

Aug. 23, 2024

Start every case listening, not talking, mediator Barry Baskin believes


"I swear to you ... every client got every penny they were supposed to get," disbarred plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi testif...



Community News, Slideshow

Attorneys came together for an evening of drinks and networking at the Los Angeles County Bar Association's summer mixer, held...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Land Use

A group of investors aiming to build a model city abandoned their plans in Solano County, but they are still trying to hold lo...



Judges and Judiciary

In an unusual move, Justice Eileen C. Moore devoted part of the court's opinion to urging the Orange County DA to be 'more cau...


A neurologist called by the U.S. attorney's office to rebut a defense expert said after interviewing Tom Girardi and those nea...



Environmental & Energy, Government

Defendants' actions or failures to act caused water from several sources to combine and cause oversaturation, worsening the pr...


Civil Litigation, International Law

Stanford University has maintained that Li Rui, a personal secretary and later prisoner of Mao Zedong, intended for his works ...



9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Class Action

"Because applying the correct standard reveals disputes of material fact regarding whether 'reasonable' users of Google's prod...


The case is reminiscent of a famous 1994 case in which a woman in New Mexico was scalded by hot coffee at a McDonald's drive-t...



Hopkins Carley will merge with Lathrop GPM

Aug. 21, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Hopkins Carley has 62 attorneys in San Jose and Redwood Shores. Lathrop GPM has 360 attorneys in eight states and Washington, ...


Judges and Judiciary

The lawmaker behind the bill says it will "mitigate the over penalization of women involved in criminal cases."



Government, Technology

One legal expert said that the lawsuit could be deliberately targeting small players in the hope of creating precedent to late...


Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told jurors that clients were calling and emailing daily throughout 20...



Torts/Personal Injury

"The city had 52 weeks to fix the problem, while the plaintiff had just 1 second to avoid it," Arash Homampour, who represente...


Civil Litigation, Insurance

Making insurers wait for victims to be paid in mass torts could be tried elsewhere, plaintiffs' attorneys in the Maui fire lit...



Civil Litigation, International Law

Nanyang Li said she was committed to compiling her father's writings because he spoke highly of the Hoover Institution. Li Rui...


California Supreme Court

Justice Kelli M. Evans, writing for the majority, said that dependency courts must do extensive diligence to determine if chil...



Lawyers claim Google damages Play Store customers by building its marketing campaign on false and misleading representations a...


Several charts shared with jurors throughout IRS Agent Ryan Roberson's three-day testimony showed that during the final decade...



Criminal, Government

Here's what criminal law will likely look like in 2025

Aug. 20, 2024
By Malcolm Maclachlan

A recent poll shows Proposition 36, which would roll back some of the criminal justice changes of the past few years, winning ...


Civil Litigation

The company designs games that prioritize purchases over strategy and skill, according to the latest lawsuit, filed in Los Ang...



Civil Litigation, International Law

Trial began Monday in Oakland in a dispute over the papers and diaries of Li Rui, a personal secretary to Mao Zedong.


Attorney Arash Homampour said he wants to foster a new generation of lawyers committed to making a positive impact in society.