(Subscription required) Modeled after a program that once operated out of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse cafeteria, the Resolve Law LA Virtual Mandatory Settlement Conference (MSC) Program has become an increasingly popular option for attorneys litigating personal injury and employment cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court. 

The California high court has ordered that former Executive Director of the State Bar Joseph Dunn, 67, be suspended from practicing law for one year, with execution stayed, and face an actual suspension for the first 30 days of his 365 day probationary period relating to charges that he intentionally misled the body’s Board of Trustees during his tenure by saying, in 2013, that no agency funds would be used to fund a then-upcoming trip to Mongolia.

The California Supreme Court yesterday held that defendants who seek resentencing based on claims that they could not presently be convicted of murder due to changes in the law regarding imputed malice are not categorically barred from relief based on the fact that the errors they assert in their petition could have been raised on direct appeal.

A California Court of Appeal overturned two convictions for an animal rights activist who was found guilty of felony conspiracy and trespassing stemming from actions he took at Petaluma chicken and duck farms in 2018 and 2019, animal rights organization Direction Action Everywhere said Thursday. The animal rights group said the court rejected the prosecutor’s argument that animals are to be categorically excluded from a “necessity defense.”