Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar says prosecutor withheld evidence in disciplinary proceeding
By Andy Serbe
Disciplinary proceedings in State Bar Court began on Wednesday against Orange County Deputy District Attorney Sandra Lee Nassa...
Civil Litigation
Rock star loses anti-SLAPP fight, wins protective order
By Steven Crighton
A judge found Eddie Money’s allegedly discriminatory behavior predates his free speech claims.
Criminal
OC hearing won’t pause for 13,000 newly discovered sheriff’s department emails
By Meghann Cuniff
An Orange County judge declined Wednesday to pause an evidence hearing in a capital case to allow a prosecutor time to review ...
Labor/Employment, Government
Labor board pick expected to undo Obama-era decisions
By Matthew Blake
President Donald J. Trump has named a Los Angeles lawyer to fill the National Labor Relations Board’s final vacancy, and the v...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Many arbitration firms ignoring state law, report claims
By Kevin Lee
Nearly two out of three private arbitration firms in California are not complying at all with a state law that requires public...
Government
Auditor recommends all State Bar employees work 40 hours a week
By Lyle Moran
A state audit released Tuesday reported that 80 percent of the bar’s more than 500 full-time employees are on a 36.25-hour wor...
Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
LA hospital settles fraud claim with $42M payout
By Eli Wolfe
Pacific Alliance Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay a $42 million settlement to resolve allegations that it was submitting ...
Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
LA hospital settles fraud claim with $42M payout
By Eli Wolfe
Pacific Alliance Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay a $42 million settlement to resolve allegations that it was submitting ...
Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law
LA hospital settles fraud claim with $42M payout
By Eli Wolfe
Pacific Alliance Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay a $42 million settlement to resolve allegations that it was submitting ...
Underscoring the severity of the case, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday gave more time to a Hollywood direc...
Criminal, Constitutional Law
California, federal courts diverge on wiretap use
By Logan Noblin
An annual judiciary report published Wednesday showed that the number of wiretap applications that were approved by California...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Auditor slams State Bar for lack of financial safeguards
By Lyle Moran
The bar allowed nearly 40 percent of its more than 500 employees to secure purchasing cards with monthly credit limits ranging...
Law Practice
Three litigators move from Michelman & Robinson to Nossaman within month
By Skylar Dubelko
Nossaman LLP's has added new partner William Adams, former head of commercial and business litigation at Michelman & Robin...
A crippling ransomware attack hit several major European companies Tuesday morning, taking international law firm DLA Piper as...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Concerns raised about allegations of sex-based favoritism in OC DA’s investigations bureau
By Meghann Cuniff
Allegations of rampant favoritism related to sexual relationships within the investigations bureau of the Orange County distri...
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review the federal ban on states allowing sports gambling, which could potentially re...
Civil Litigation
Judge seems to favor financial regulator against mortgage finance company
By Joshua Sebold
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seemed to have the upper hand over Nationwide Biweekly Administration in closing argu...
Law Practice
Myers Nave nabs former HUD assistant secretary from Gerard Fox
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
Myers Nave has nabbed former Housing and Urban Development assistant secretary Eva Plaza from Gerard Fox Law PC for the firm’s...
Critics seeking to recall Judge Aaron Persky for what they claim is a consistent bias in favor of privileged defendants in sex...
As arrangements were being made for Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to testify in a superior court hearing investigating...
A federal judge tossed a lawsuit claiming that cosmetology schools illegally exploit students for free labor, finding that the...
The plaintiff must provide more evidence of the supposedly infringed work, a judge ruled.
Dana DuFrane, VP of legal affairs at luxury good marketplace TheRealReal, relishes challenges.
San Diego County Judge Roderick Shelton goes the extra mile to get through to juvenile offenders.
California Supreme Court
Independent contractor can be charged with public employee fraud, court rules
By Kevin Lee
An independent contractor surgeon at a Riverside County public hospital who allegedly pocketed taxpayer money for his own bene...
Administrative/Regulatory
State-accredited law schools given new skills training mandate
By Lyle Moran
California-accredited law schools will be required to provide students with more opportunities for practice-based learning tha...
LakePharma Inc., a Belmont-based contract research organization focusing on biologics, appointed Hajime Tada as its first gene...
Credit Karma hired its first general counsel, Susannah S. Wright, who took the reins of the company’s legal department June 5.
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration
Immigration lawyers divided on advice in wake of travel ban ruling
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Business immigration attorneys are divided over how to advise clients and their employees regarding international travel after...