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Former CFO of Girardi Keese is arrested for alleged $10M ‘side fraud’ scheme

Updated: The former chief financial officer of bankrupt Los Angeles law firm Girardi Keese has been arrested on a federal charge of wire fraud.

Nov 9, 2022 1:50 PM CST

Voters in these states added abortion rights to their constitutions Tuesday

Voters in Michigan, California and Vermont approved state constitutional amendments Tuesday that protect abortion rights.

Nov 9, 2022 9:56 AM CST

California bar opened 205 ethics matters about this lawyer, who wasn’t disbarred until this year

The State Bar of California opened 205 disciplinary matters over four decades about lawyer Tom Girardi, who was disbarred in June after he was accused of failing to pay settlement funds to clients in three separate matters.

Nov 7, 2022 11:34 AM CST

Lawyer flubs allowed Politico to access law professor’s election-litigation emails

How did Politico obtain a law professor’s election-litigation emails? It began when a lawyer failed to deactivate a Dropbox link that was created to share documents with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

Nov 3, 2022 12:26 PM CDT

2 Trump appointees battle as 9th Circuit upholds chalking tires; dissent accused of analysis by ‘hyperbole’

Two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump sparred Wednesday on whether a city violates the Fourth Amendment by chalking tires without a warrant to enforce parking time limits.

Oct 27, 2022 1:05 PM CDT

Crime-fraud exception permits release of 8 law prof emails; some indicate Trump certified false court claims, judge rules

A federal judge in California has ruled that the crime-fraud exception allows disclosure of eight otherwise-privileged emails to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

Oct 20, 2022 8:46 AM CDT

DOJ report explains why jailhouse informant program violated defendants’ constitutional rights

A jailhouse informant program in Orange County, California, violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants because of jailers’ involvement, according to a long-awaited report by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Oct 17, 2022 1:31 PM CDT

Health justice lawyer is among 25 recipients of MacArthur ‘genius grants’

A lawyer who is trying to increase access to lifesaving medications by changing the patent system is one of 25 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation fellowships, commonly known as "genius grants."

Oct 14, 2022 3:45 PM CDT

Fired female associate at Kirkland alleges biased treatment by ‘discriminatory cadre’ in IP group

Male associates in the intellectual property litigation group at Kirkland & Ellis were allegedly treated better and paid more money than a fired female colleague, even though they did similar work and had similar experience, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Oct 13, 2022 1:12 PM CDT

Is forever really forever? Question may be answered in lawsuit over UC Hastings name change

When California legislators in 1878 enacted a statute to name the state’s first public law school after a wealthy landowner and state supreme court chief justice, did they consider whether subsequent laws could change the agreement?

Oct 13, 2022 12:06 PM CDT

Lawyer is disbarred after email falsely claims he is dead

A California lawyer has been disbarred after someone used his email address to inform ethics regulators that he had died.

Oct 10, 2022 9:15 AM CDT

Ex-lawyer gets prison time after staging sham depositions, creating bogus documents to claim court wins

A former California lawyer has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for collecting legal fees from clients and then using phony legal documents to persuade them that he was winning their cases.

Oct 6, 2022 11:56 AM CDT

California adopts criminal justice reforms in bills signed by governor

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several criminal justice reform bills into law ahead of a midnight deadline Friday.

Oct 3, 2022 1:16 PM CDT

California bar announces probes of 2 prominent lawyers after report on mishandled settlement funds

The State Bar of California announced Tuesday that it is investigating two prominent Los Angeles lawyers in connection with the mishandled distribution of settlement funds paid by insurers for descendants of Armenian genocide victims.

Sep 30, 2022 10:37 AM CDT

California’s ban on private immigration detention facilities violates supremacy clause, 9th Circuit rules

An en banc federal appeals court ruled Monday that California’s ban on private detention facilities is unconstitutional when applied to facilities used to detain immigrants.

Sep 28, 2022 9:40 AM CDT

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