OCI Is Broken—And Big Law Is Losing Its Grip

Above The Law (April 17, 2025)– Stanford just announced that their 2L On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) is scheduled from May 5 to 9. That’s not a typo. That means that OCI—the key moment in top law students’ paths where they secure that 2L summer job that leads to an offer after graduation—is happening before students have started their … Continued

Ten victims of the Jan. 7 fires sue the California Fair Plan over smoke damages

Los Angeles Times (April 10, 2025)– Kathleen Jordan, her husband and young daughter, consider themselves fortunate. They not only managed to flee to safety from the Eaton fire, but the family’s Altadena home somehow escaped the flames, even though their chicken coop and detached storage units burned, like many homes on their street. But three … Continued

Eaton Fire Victim Wants Sanctions Against SoCal Edison

Law360 (February 11, 2025)– A victim of the recent devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena has told a California state judge that Southern California Edison and its attorneys should face sanctions for allegedly concealing efforts to reenergize electrical transmission lines while the blaze was still burning last month. The argument came in a reply brief filed … Continued

Edison Utility Accused of Secretly Damaging Power Line Evidence

Bloomberg Law News (February 11, 2025)– Edison International‘s Southern California utility likely damaged key evidence of its power lines in Eaton Canyon, even as its lawyers told a state judge in Los Angeles the evidence was being preserved, lawyers suing the utility said.   A regulatory filing revealed that transmission lines in Eaton Canyon were … Continued

Court filing accuses Southern California Edison of tampering with possible Eaton fire evidence

Los Angeles Times (February 11, 2025)– Attorneys representing several Altadena residents who lost homes in the Eaton fire are asking a judge to sanction Southern California Edison, alleging that, by secretly re-energizing transmission lines, the utility may have altered key evidence showing how the deadly fire started. “SCE altered the very transmission lines in Eaton … Continued

Mother of woman killed in Eaton Fire sues California utility

Reuters (January 17, 2025)– The mother of a woman who was killed the Los Angeles-area Eaton Fire on Friday sued Southern California Edison in what may be the first death-related case brought against the electric utility in connection with the disaster. Multiple fires that began to burn and quickly spread across Los Angeles in strong Santa Ana … Continued

Eaton Fire, one of the LA wildfires, blamed on utility company, lawsuit alleges

USA Today (January 13, 2025) — A Southern California woman who lost her house in the wildfires devastating the area says a local utility company sparked the inferno that turned her longtime home into cinders, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Evangeline Iglesias says the utility, Southern California Edison, failed to shut down its power equipment despite strong warnings, resulting … Continued