Amanda Bronstad

Morris Polich & Purdy, an 80-attorney Los Angeles firm that specializes in litigation, has opened a San Francisco office with the addition of five real estate attorneys who were lured away from San Francisco's Carroll, Burdick & McDonough.

In April, three bands boarded a vintage train for a tour through the American Southwest. The bands formed a joint venture to manage the tour and control revenues and related intellectual property. Matthew Wilson, an associate at Atlanta's Arnall Golden Gregory, who structured the deal, described the arrangement.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has who joined the Fifth and Seventh circuits in ruling that a copyright is registered when an application is submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office. Two other circuits disagree.

Drinker Biddle & Reath has continued its expansion spree in Los Angeles with the acquisition of six-attorney litigation boutique Eisenberg Raizman Thurston & Wong. The move raises to 14 the number of attorneys in the firm's rapidly expanding office in West Los Angeles.

Tyco, DuPont and other defendants moved to dismiss 8,000 plaintiffs from the multidistrict litigation in South Carolina alleging exposure to the "forever chemical" PFAS in drinking water, citing missing medical records and other factual information.

This week: A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to allow plaintiffs to amend a first-of-its-kind suit against manufacturers of ultra-processed foods, such as Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz. Lawyers for Meta and Snapchat will respond in court today about videotaping their top executives at the next social media addiction trial. Find out who represents Nvidia in a class action alleging it built multiple commercial AI voice products by using human speech from prominent journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators.

This week: A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to allow plaintiffs to amend a first-of-its-kind suit against manufacturers of ultra-processed foods, such as Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz. Lawyers for Meta and Snapchat will respond in court today about videotaping their top executives at the next social media addiction trial. Find out who represents Nvidia in a class action alleging it built multiple commercial AI voice products by using human speech from prominent journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, at a Wednesday hearing, told lawyers she tentatively planned to allow the testimony of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, as well as Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel, at the July 27 trial.

On Thursday, San Francisco's Smith Krivoshey, former class counsel in a consumer class action over kombucha beverages, sought more than $100,000 after U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Davis Wright partner Jacob Harper and former associate Joseph Elie-Meyers to complete at least two hours of CLE courses, including one on legal ethics.

On Thursday, San Francisco’s Smith Krivoshey, former class counsel in a consumer class action over kombucha beverages, sought more than $100,000 after U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Davis Wright partner Jacob Harper and former associate Joseph Elie-Meyers to complete at least two hours of CLE courses, including one on legal ethics.