By Alaina Lancaster | May 11, 2020
Los Angeles County Superior Court appears to be among the first court systems to require judicial officers to wear a face covering.
By Ross Todd | May 11, 2020
"Why would federal prosecutors exercise the tremendous discretion entrusted to them with such a lack of compassion?" wrote U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in rejecting a plea agreement that delayed when the defendant could ask for compassionate release. The region's top prosecutor said the Northern District of California U.S. attorney's office had changed its model plea agreement in a way that would allow such requests prior to the judge's order.
By Samantha Stokes | May 11, 2020
More Am Law 25 firms, including at least one more on Monday, are using compensation levers to shore up their finances in an economy upended by COVID-19.
By Ross Todd | May 11, 2020
Recently released statistics from state courts in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco indicate how court closures at the end of March affected the number of civil filings in the first quarter and point to the backlog courts will face as they begin to reopen to non-emergency cases.
By Ross Todd | May 10, 2020
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Alex Spiro's name topped the complaint Tesla filed against Alameda County in a bid to reopen its Fremont production plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones | May 8, 2020
Wilmer Hale partner David Bowker, whose case was one of the first to proceed by telephone, gives a behind-the-scenes account of preparing for and delivering arguments in the new environment.
By Alaina Lancaster | May 8, 2020
Matthew Becker, of Becker Law Practice in Sacramento, said he plans to file other suits on behalf of nonessential businesses, noting that about 90% of the flood of inquiries he's gotten have come from members of the cosmetology industry.
By Patrick Smith | May 8, 2020
Cost-cutting measures at law firms and other major legal employers have continued to accelerate since they began in March.
By Ross Todd | May 7, 2020
David Faigman, the chancellor and dean of the University of California, Hastings College of Law, discusses his decision to have the school join a lawsuit brought on behalf of residents and businesses in San Francisco's Tenderloin district demanding action to address tent encampments and drug dealing on neighborhood sidewalks.
By M.C. Sungaila | May 7, 2020
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