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Corporate, Law Practice


Shawn Baldwin, who comes from Equifax Inc. and Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will be developing Select Interior Concept Inc.’s legal poli...


Law Practice


Marc Dworsky, who was lead counsel for all of the nation’s residential mortgage-backed litigation against Wells Fargo, moves t...


Criminal, Intellectual Property


Prosecution rests in Mongols racketeering trial

Nov. 15, 2018
By Meghann Cuniff

Two retired federal agents who infiltrated outlaw motorcycle gangs recently took the unusual role of defense witnesses for the...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation


With the jury selected, a personal injury trial began Wednesday involving a Texas man accusing Monster Energy Drinks of causin...


Government, Immigration


Thousands of immigrants were deported in the last fiscal year as the result of information sent to the federal government by C...


Corporate, Civil Litigation, Securities


An executive accused of insider trading will pay $1.5 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission case against him,...


Law Practice


Specialists Michele Haydel Gehrke and Anne Cherry Barnett have left Polsinelli LLP to take point in Reed Smith LLP’s labor dep...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges and Judiciary


The White House has filed formal paperwork to nominate five attorneys and one state judge to a slate of federal bench seats in...


Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court.


Education Law


UC Berkeley Law abandons Boalt name

Nov. 14, 2018
By Erin Lee

Berkeley Law is eliminating the Boalt name from its campus in light of John Boalt’s racist views.


Government, Civil Litigation


As firefighters battle deadly blazes across California, wildfire liability promises to be one of the biggest issues in the sta...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment


A UC Berkeley administrator who oversees Title IX compliance has been selected as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ first...


Labor/Employment


By a federal judge’s post-trial rulings on the nature and calculation of damages in an employment misclassification trial agai...


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Entertainment & Sports


The National Collegiate Athletic Association argued that its viewers “overwhelmingly oppose” upending the current compensation...


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


A Virginia-based animal advocacy group trying to stop an Orange County synagogue from practicing the ritual slaughter of chick...


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


Immigrant children facing deportation will not automatically be given immigration lawyers after 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...


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


Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging...


Government


A judge has tentatively ruled that the city of Santa Monica’s election system violated the California Voting Rights Act, the 2...


Corporate, Law Practice


Jones Day hires 2 former Supreme Court clerks in LA

Nov. 14, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Brittney Lane Kubisch, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Eric Tung, who clerked for Justice Neil...


Corporate, Law Practice


Trio launches statewide consumer firm

Nov. 14, 2018
By Matthew Sanderson

Micha Liberty, Greg Rizio and Daren Lipinsky have launched Rizio | Liberty | Lipinsky, with offices in Oakland, Riverside, Chi...


Entertainment & Sports, Probate


Stan Lee’s death could spark massive legal battle

Nov. 14, 2018
By Steven Crighton

If reports of an internal power struggle between Stan Lee's closest confidantes in the months leading up to his death prove ac...


The number of calls were disclosed Friday in a hearing before Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory L. Prickett, who is o...


Criminal, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government


Seven Democratic members of Congress, including three Californians, are calling for President Donald Trump’s pick to run the U...


Government, Law Practice


Ann M. O’Leary, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom’s new chief of staff, may be better known in legal circles than she is to the Sacramen...


Immigration, Labor/Employment


US workers sue Tata, claim citizenship bias

Nov. 13, 2018
By Blaise Scemama

One of India’s largest outsourcing technology companies faces a federal class action in Northern California alleging the compa...


Government, Civil Litigation


Freedom of Information Act lawsuits jumped last quarter

Nov. 13, 2018
By Chase DiFeliciantonio

There was a significant jump in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits last quarter, according to a new report that found a backl...


Civil Litigation, Education Law


The Law School Admission Council was ordered to pay a state agency $480,000 in attorney fees for litigation over accommodation...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges and Judiciary


The politicization of the judicial appointment process was on full display last week, as Republicans coped publicly with the l...


Government, Immigration


The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s new rule banning asylum reque...


Government, Civil Litigation


A closely-watched civil trial pitting sober living homes against the city of Costa Mesa in a battle over government regulation...