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Criminal, Government


State auditor slams prisons department

Feb. 1, 2019
By Paula Lehman-Ewing

The department said the report was based on data collected in 2014 and 2015 and most of the recommendations have been or are b...


Law Practice


Law firm opens San Francisco office

Feb. 1, 2019
By Skylar Dubelko

Citing an expanding client base and growing team of litigators as incentives to expand, Benesch Law also noted an interest in ...


Environmental & Energy, Government, Civil Litigation


A recent state judge’s ruling exempting the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority from the California Environmenta...


Bankruptcy


A federal judge largely agreed with Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. Thursday on how the utility should handle its short-term fi...


Civil Litigation, Tax


IRS to pay $40 million in tax shelter case

Feb. 1, 2019
By Meghann Cuniff

The settlement ends Henry Nicholas’ decade-old lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the taxation of distressed as...


The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to lease its former Family Court building at 1555 Sixth Avenue down...


Immigration, Civil Litigation


A federal grand jury indicted 19 people in connection with three Southern California "birth tourism schemes" that helped Chin...


Government


State Attorney General Xavier Becerra is searching for a new solicitor general, but it’s unclear when or why Edward C. DuMont,...


A federal judge blasted Pacific Gas & Electic Co. Wednesday for failing to do enough to reduce wildfire risk during a cont...


Criminal


Defense attorneys believe this is the first case on writ involving the application of the McCoy decision, which said the Sixth...


Labor/Employment, Law Practice, Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles judge has shaved attorney fees related to a Montebello Unified School District wrongful termination judgment, bu...


Bankruptcy, Health Care & Hospital Law


A federal bankruptcy judge has denied Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s bid to stay the sale of two hospitals to Santa Clara C...


Labor/Employment, State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar has released its first report detailing the impact of its legal aid grants, in the midst of debate on whether to...


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


Trump nominates 9th Circuit picks, Feinstein cries foul

Jan. 31, 2019
By Nicolas Sonnenburg

Late Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump announced his nominees for seven California federal bench seats, hours after Congres...


Law Practice


Litigator Lisa Gilford moved to Sidley Austin LLP from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. Gilford ha...


Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation


As widely expected, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday morning.


California Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary


A state Supreme Court committee has opened the door for members of the judiciary to become more involved in transforming the c...


Criminal, Civil Litigation


A class action filed Tuesday accuses insurance companies of conspiring to fix prices and inflate bail bond premiums, a landmar...


Environmental & Energy, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation


Defense counsel for Southern California Gas Company is seeking to remove Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazu...


The best tactics lawyers can employ when corporate attorneys bring them onto a case is know their stuff and stay in their lane...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation


A federal jury has awarded Jet Edge, a Van Nuys-based private aircraft charter company, an $11.9 million verdict against a for...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Government


A legal effort to block a terror-information sharing program used to track individuals the government finds suspicious suffere...


Immigration


A complaint filed by a proposed class of asylum seekers, who are asking a judge to enjoin the government to provide them with ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The California Lawyers Association will soon assume five of the State Bar’s 11 seats in the American Bar Association’s policym...


Criminal, Tax


A federal jury has found personal injury attorney Stephen J. Dougan guilty of corruptly obstructing an IRS audit.


Corporate, Civil Litigation


Before Yahoo Inc. can finalize a $50 million settlement with users affected by a series of data security breaches, company off...


Corporate, Criminal, Government, Civil Litigation, Securities


In his remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine said working people ...


Civil Rights, Criminal, Government


The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation engaged in a “systemic misuse” of information provided by confiden...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Education Law


The American Bar Association’s policy-making body rejected a proposal to raise bar passage standards, though the legal educati...


Law Practice


The firm has named litigator Clay James office managing partner in San Francisco.