SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Calabasas attorney Daniela Koiman faces suspension and probation following a July 11 California Supreme Court order over failures to perform with competence, release client files and return an unearned fee, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Mexican attorney Christopher Brian Conkle faces suspension and probation following a July 11 California Supreme Court order over allegations of commingling and failure to provide an appropriate accounting, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Hemet attorney Trent Wayne Thompson faces suspension and probation following a July 10 California Supreme Court order regarding allegations of commingling, misappropriation and failing to maintain proper accounting records, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Oakland attorney Sandra Lynette Smith faces suspension and probation following a July 10 California Supreme Court order for failing to appear in court and "reckless failure to perform legal services with competence", according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Kingsburg attorney Ruth Ellen Ratzlaff faces suspension and probation following a July 10 California Supreme Court order over failures to perform, appear and timely pay sanctions, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — San Diego attorney George Garcia Perez faces suspension and probation following a July 10 California Supreme Court order after he allegedly failed to cooperate participate in two disciplinary proceedings against him, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Inglewood attorney Perfisity McGhee faces suspension and probation following a July 10 California Supreme Court order for allegedly failing to report and pay sanctions and to pay court-ordered cost, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO – Monsanto this week filed a combined reply brief and cross-respondent’s brief in the Dewayne Johnson cancer case against its Roundup weed killer in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District, Division One.
SAN FRANCISCO – On one coast, Bayer AG is fighting to reverse eye-popping jury verdicts based on a contested theory Roundup herbicide made by its Monsanto unit causes cancer. On the other, Johnson & Johnson begins hearings this week in federal court in New Jersey over its request to exclude more than 20 expert witnesses plaintiff lawyers need to prove their case that Johnson’s Baby Powder is contaminated with deadly asbestos and can cause ovarian cancer.
A federal judge Monday significantly reduced the $80.27 million in damages awarded to a Bay Area man who claims that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Irvine attorney Garfield Langmuir-Logan faces disbarment following a recent California Supreme Court order and his multiple DUI convictions, according to a recent report issued by the State Bar of California and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Sun City attorney Ken Zhiyi Liang has been summarily disbarred following a June 24 California Supreme Court decision and 2015 conviction for obstruction, witness tampering and other charges in a federal Southern California "birthing houses" investigation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime San Francisco attorney Kevin Lee Thomason has been summarily disbarred following a June 24 California Supreme Court decision and his 2015 felony conviction for arson.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Petaluma attorney David Rey Silva faces suspension following a June 24 California Supreme Court order over allegations that included failure to timely pay a settlement and commingling, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Palmdale attorney Michael Stuart Paxton faces suspension and must pay restitution following a June 24 California Supreme Court over misconduct in multiple client matters, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime San Jose attorney Robert Alan Machado faces suspension following a June 24 California Supreme Court order after he allegedly failed to supervise a disbarred attorney, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Los Angeles attorney David Joseph Koppelman faces suspension and probation following a June 24 California Supreme Court order over an alleged extortion attempt, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has granted State Farm General Insurance Co. and others' motion to dismiss a suit filed against it by Northern California residents whose homes were destroyed in wildfires in 2017.
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Longtime Santa Barbara attorney and former public defender Rafael Mazo Amezaga Jr. faces probation following a June California Supreme Court order after two DUI convictions, according to a recent State Bar of California announcement and court documents.
A Federal judge said that he would reduce the amount of punitive damages awarded to Edwin Hardeman in his case against Monsanto from earlier this year.
