"What they lost can never be remedied," says Josh Koskoff of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder of the nine families he and partner Alinor Sterling represent. "But despite their grief, and through their courage and their persistence, they have won a measure of accountability."

The rare securities class action trial, only the second ever in Australia, resulted in a defense win for lawyers at Herbert Smith Freehills and their client, engineering firm Worley.

From now on, Insurers will be more hesitant to rely on the so-called "genuine dispute" doctrine to knock out bad faith claims pretrial.

In-house lawyers from Uber Technologies Inc., HP Inc., and Applied Materials encouraged law firms to keep up their efforts on diversity and inclusion and to focus on personal relationships with clients during a videoconference panel sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

Scott DeVries, who spent 13 years at Winston, says that the move will offer him the opportunity to continue working on the policy-holder side of cases after Winston has transitioned to representing insurers.

California's First District Court of Appeal held that the ride-sharing company couldn't be held liable for injuries caused by a Lyft driver behind the wheel of a car rented as part of a company-sponsored program who collided with two vehicles while driving home from a separate job.

Travelers Casualty Insurance Co. of America has asked for a declaratory judgment that damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic fall under exclusions in two insurance policies purchased by the Geragos & Geragos law firm.

Across the Bay Area, litigators who represent some of Silicon Valley's top companies report they are adjusting to litigating remotely, juggling family and work, and grappling with all the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus. But challenges remain.