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Environmental & Energy, Government


The U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit in state court under the California Environmental Quality Act over water rights could h...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will not reconsider a decision establishing that prosecuting homeless people for sleepin...


Government, Civil Litigation


The second civil trial for a disbarred attorney who says the mistreatment of her and other inmates at Los Angeles County Jail ...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation


A federal judge deciding whether to stay actress Ashley Judd’s defamation case against Harvey Weinstein heard arguments Monday...


Labor/Employment


Plaintiff Dawn Knepper never opted out of the firm’s arbitration policy.


Civil Litigation


A Contra Costa Superior Court jury awarded $21.4 million to the families of two brothers who died of cancer after being expose...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court


Conservative nonprofits seeking to strike down as unconstitutional California disclosure laws requiring them to share with the...


Labor/Employment


An Orange County judge handed opponents of California's Private Attorneys General Act a significant win in a tentative ruling ...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


Apple, Qualcomm head for major battle

Apr. 1, 2019
By Blaise Scemama

The trial will pit Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook and Qualcomm’s CEO Steve Mollenkopf in the witness box.


Wells Fargo & Co. General Counsel C. Allen Parker is filling in as the company’s interim chief executive officer following...


Government, Education Law


State lawmakers introduced a six-bill package they hope will close college admissions loopholes exploited in the recent scandal.


A federal judge has certified a class of job applicants accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of age discrimination, reversing h...



Character Driven

Apr. 1, 2019

Baker Marquart LLP is a family-oriented firm that tries high-profile cases.


Community News, Criminal


Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara spoke last Thursday at a Beverly Hills Bar Associatio...


Criminal, Government


DAs seek state AG’s recusal in death penalty fight

Mar. 29, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

District attorneys are taking the position that the state attorney general should recuse himself from a federal case involving...


An attorney representing a couple arguing Monsanto’s massively popular weedkillers cause cancer urged the jury Thursday to joi...


California Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Criminal


Someone’s legally responsible for representing non-convicted respondents on appeal, California Supreme Court justices determin...


Civil Litigation, Education Law


The district has agreed to instruct teachers to treat all religions equally, not to promote one over the other and not to allo...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation


While the current trial is supposed to determine whether Perfect 10 defrauded Giganews, for the CEO it seemed to be a platform...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports


Attorneys who won an injunction for Division I college athletes forcing the NCAA to drop some caps on its education-related co...


Civil Rights


U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez said California ammunition limits violate the Second Amendment.


California Courts of Appeal, Education Law


A 2nd District Court of Appeal panel upheld the expulsion of a USC law student for plagiarizing a law journal application.


In Recess


Tree of Life

Mar. 29, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

Lawyer's knowledge of trust and estate law helped him find deep meaning in his own history.


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, California Supreme Court


The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a federal appeals court order appointing a special prosecutor in former Maricopa ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government, Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court


Oil producers who petitioned the California Supreme Court Wednesday to overturn an anti-SLAPP case on due process grounds said...


Criminal, Government


District Attorney Diana Becton is under pressure after releasing a heavily redacted report last week outlining years of sexual...


Criminal


A Federal grand jury indicted San Jose immigration lawyer Danhong "Jean" Chen and her ex-husband and office manager Jianyun "T...


Corporate


FDIC names Nick Podsiadly general counsel

Mar. 28, 2019
By Nicole Tyau

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced the appointment of Nick Podsiadly as general counsel and the promotion of ...


The just-passed Paycheck Fairness Act which expands sex discrimination class actions, damages, and company reporting requireme...


Civil Litigation


Avenatti parts ways with only paying client

Mar. 28, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

The troubled attorney is no longer representing a company that he testified was paying him $35,000 monthly.