Joyce E. Cutler

California attorneys will be required to report other lawyers for misconduct, including seditious conspiracy, insurrection, or treason, under the annual State Bar fee bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday.

Southern California Edison Co. and the federal government tentatively settled a lawsuit alleging the utility’s negligence led to the largest wildfire in California’s history, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

A divided en banc federal appeals court granted California’s emergency stay request in a case over the state’s law limiting gun magazines from holding more than 10 bullets.

California businesses and employers won’t receive automatic stays of orders while appealing a denial or dismissal of a motion to compel arbitration under a bill (S.B. 365) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed this week.

Trump attorney John Eastman will rely on a retired federal appeals court judge, a self-described election integrity advocate, and a former law student to bolster his defense as his California State Bar disciplinary trial enters its terminal phase.

John Eastman defended his urging Vice President Mike Pence to delay certifying electors in the 2020 presidential election, telling a California State Bar Court judge Tuesday that he was in constitutional terms “petitioning an officer of the government for redress of rather serious grievances.”

John Eastman, the Trump lawyer fighting to retain his license to practice law in California, testified Wednesday that he’d not have spent so much time trying to convince Vice President Mike Pence and his chief counsel that the vice president could reject presidential electors or delay the electoral vote counting if he knew Pence had already made up his mind.

Litigation over a flaw in a cryogenic tank that led to the destruction of hundreds of embryos and human eggs has settled, with the California Supreme Court dismissing the case at the parties’ request.

A Trinity Law professor and former law student of John Eastman praised her former law professor as a “very good man who has impeccable moral character, integrity.”

Retired D.C. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown called upon to defend John Eastman, characterized the conservative legal scholar as a meticulous researcher, thoroughly prepared with an in-depth knowledge of chosen topics.