Government, Real Estate/Development
Luxury property developer wants money back after homeless housing proposed nearby
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
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
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
No dismissal of case seeking to hold Airbnb liable for shooting death
By Wisdom Howell
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
California Supreme Court clarifies exemption of tort claims from economic loss rule
By Jack Needham
The court's previous decision in Robinson Helicopter v. Dana Corp. left unanswered the question of whether fraudulent concealm...
California Supreme Court
Trial judge can impose monetary sanctions for discovery abuse
By Craig Anderson
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
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
The Committee of Bar Examiners oversees the development and administration of the California Bar Exam, managing the moral char...
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
LA County Bar Association hosts summer mixer for members
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
City of their dreams may be dead, but antitrust litigation lives on
By Malcolm Maclachlan
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
Appellate judge takes OC DA to task on choice of words in brief
By Skyler Romero
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...
Girardi knew right from wrong, didn't have Alzheimer's, government expert says
By Devon Belcher
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
Homeowners sue Rancho Palos Verdes over acceleration of landslides
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
Defendants' actions or failures to act caused water from several sources to combine and cause oversaturation, worsening the pr...
Civil Litigation, International Law
Dissident's works face destruction in China, professor says
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
9th Circuit: 'Browser agnosticism' irrelevant in Google privacy case
By Craig Anderson
"Because applying the correct standard reveals disputes of material fact regarding whether 'reasonable' users of Google's prod...
Woman scalded by hot coffee at a drive-thru sues Starbucks
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
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 has 62 attorneys in San Jose and Redwood Shores. Lathrop GPM has 360 attorneys in eight states and Washington, ...
Judges and Judiciary
New law aims to address gender bias in California court proceedings
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The lawmaker behind the bill says it will "mitigate the over penalization of women involved in criminal cases."
Government, Technology
'Deepfake nudes' lawsuit could be attack on Section 230
By Wisdom Howell
One legal expert said that the lawsuit could be deliberately targeting small players in the hope of creating precedent to late...
Criminal
Pandemic and failing health caused mounting debt, Girardi's secretary testifies
By Devon Belcher
Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told jurors that clients were calling and emailing daily throughout 20...
Torts/Personal Injury
LA jury awards $18M to woman who broke ankle in Long Beach pothole
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
"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
Hawaii law makes insurers wait for Maui fire victims to be paid, attorneys say
By Laurinda Keys
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
Stanford provides protection, CCP member's daughter testifies
By Sunidhi Sridhar
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
Divided state Supreme Court clarifies procedure for Indian child welfare cases
By Craig Anderson
Justice Kelli M. Evans, writing for the majority, said that dependency courts must do extensive diligence to determine if chil...
Technology
Woman who lost nearly $5M in crypto app scam blames Google's advertising
By Wisdom Howell
Lawyers claim Google damages Play Store customers by building its marketing campaign on false and misleading representations a...
Defense argues 'bad accounting' to blame as government rests in Girardi case
By Devon Belcher
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
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
Roblox hit with another lawsuit targeting addictive game design
By Antoine Abou-Diwan
The company designs games that prioritize purchases over strategy and skill, according to the latest lawsuit, filed in Los Ang...
Civil Litigation, International Law
Chinese party critic wanted papers housed at Stanford, daughter testifies
By Sunidhi Sridhar
Trial began Monday in Oakland in a dispute over the papers and diaries of Li Rui, a personal secretary to Mao Zedong.
Southwestern Law School receives $1M gift for public service scholarships
By Douglas Saunders Sr.
Attorney Arash Homampour said he wants to foster a new generation of lawyers committed to making a positive impact in society.