News on Northern California Record

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with 14 attorneys general, urged the Biden Administration to extend the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for all 17 countries currently designated – or at minimum extend it for the seven countries for which the designation ends within six months.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the sentencing of Michelle Mack, the ringleader of an organized retail crime ring that spanned 21 California counties and involved an estimated $8 million worth of stolen beauty products.

GT Silicon Valley Shareholder Ian C. Ballon will be speaking in office at the ACC Internet, AI & Privacy Law and Litigation: Year in Review program.

Co-Chair of the Class Action and Appellate Litigation Practice Group Amir Nassihi will speak on “Mass Arbitration Protocols,” next Tuesday, January 14, at MassArbCon2025 in Laguna Niguel, California.

Greenberg Traurig’s Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group will host an in-person networking reception in conjunction with the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

While you’re in San Francisco for the 2025 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, join influential executives, innovators, and investors at the McDermott Forum.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Hoyt Y. Sze and Margia Corner have joined the firm as healthcare partners in San Francisco. Most recently Sze and Corner served as co-interim deputy general counsels for the University of California where they served as the principal legal advisors for the UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee and oversaw legal matters across the university system’s expansive healthcare network, which includes six academic medical centers, 20 health professional schools and eight community hospitals, including one freestanding children’s hospital.

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, began the new year by elevating 28 attorneys to shareholder across its U.S., Mexico and Singapore offices, which became effective on January 1, 2025.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned drivers of a significant increase in text-based toll scam activity.

California Attorney General Bonta , as part of a multistate coalition, announced the filing of an amicus brief in support of the state of Maryland in Kipke v. Moore and Novotny v. Moore, two consolidated challenges to Maryland’s restrictions on carrying firearms in various sensitive places.

GT San Francisco is hosting their in office Home for the Holidays Networking Reception on January 8th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a statement in response to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s decision denying in large part Big Tech’s attempt to stop Senate Bill (SB) 976 from going into effect on January 1, 2025.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced filing a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court to involuntarily dissolve C.C.O.A. Housing Corporation, a nonprofit public benefit corporation that incorporated in California in 1979 to provide affordable housing for “elderly persons and handicapped persons.” C.C.O.A.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the U.S. Department of Labor’s petition for rehearing en banc in an appeal challenging a federal rule that established a minimum wage increase for federal contractors of $15.00 per hour in 2022, with additional increases annually.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta released guidance to help businesses across the state comply with the new law regarding implementation of the flavored tobacco ban. Effective January 1, 2025, Assembly Bill (AB) 3218, builds on the implementation of the flavored tobacco ban (SB 793, 2019) by enacting new enforcement efforts from the Attorney General’s office and the establishment of a list of all tobacco products that are permissibly unflavored and allowed to be sold in California.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief in the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in support of a proposed affordable housing project in Goleta. Located in Santa Barbara County, Goleta is experiencing an acute housing shortage, and approximately 75% of lower-income renter households and 64% of lower-income owner households in Goleta are spending more than 30% of their income on housing.

The 2024 edition of LMG Life Sciences named five Sheppard Mullin partners “Life Science Stars” across its FDA, Corporate and Intellectual Property categories.

The global law firm Jones Day announces that the 37 lawyers listed below will be admitted to the Firm’s partnership effective January 1, 2025.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today unveiled a new law enforcement bulletin highlighting the statutory changes and additions made to current law under the newly passed Proposition 36.

California Attorney General Bonta , together with 18 attorneys general, announced the formation of a multistate coalition to hold irresponsible firearms industry members accountable for their actions that proliferate gun violence.