Insights

Los Angeles – March 11, 2025: The Daily Journal recognized Crowell & Moring’s victory in Mass v. The Regents of the University of California as one of the “Top Verdicts of 2024.”

Washington – February 18, 2025: Chambers and Partners has ranked 12 Crowell & Moring practice groups and 17 individual lawyers in the Chambers Global 2025 guide.

Los Angeles – February 7, 2025: The Los Angeles Business Journal named Crowell & Moring partners Emily Kuwahara and Nicole Janigian Simonian to its 2025 Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys list. The list honors lawyers who are “impactful on the legal scene while serving as trusted advisors in the L.A. region.”

Jon Welner will be interviewing Larry Goldzband, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), on the Commission’s new plan to prepare the SF Bay Area for sea-level rise. BCDC is the agency responsible for permitting all development on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. On December 5, 2024, the BCDC adopted the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP). The RSAP is a region-wide plan for the San Francisco Bay shoreline that guides the creation of coordinated, locally planned sea level rise adaptation actions that work together to achieve a regional One Bay Vision. This includes BCDC’s guidelines for how local governments must meet the requirements of SB 272, a new State mandate that requires all local governments along the shoreline to prepare a Subregional Shoreline Adaptation Plan by 2034.

Join Agustin Orozco alongside Gregory Becker from the Office of the Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, and Donald Yoo, Chief Compliance Officer at UCLA Health, for an insightful session on best practices for engaging with healthcare enforcement regulators. This presentation will cover essential strategies for responding to government inquiries and investigations, and offer guidance on proactively reporting regulatory concerns.

Crowell & Moring's Jennie VonCannon, Evan Wolff, and Michael Gruden, members of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity and Government Contracts Groups, will be speaking at the NCMA World Congress, taking place on July 23, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. They will lead a skill-based session, "Making CMMC 2.0 Requirements Work for Your Organization," at 10:30 AM PST.

Join Crowell’s International Trade and Government Affairs attorneys as they explore the anticipated Trump Administration’s tariffs and their implications along with new customs and trade remedy issues facing importers.

Get ready for 2025 by joining us to review the major changes to California employment law that occurred in 2024.  This year, California finally reformed the state’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”), limiting the ability of plaintiff’s to bring claims unrelated to their own employment experiences and creating significant incentives for employers to act swiftly to find and fix any employment law violations.

Join Jennie VonCannon alongside fellow panelists Dipo Akin-Deko, Head of Legal at Bower Group Asia, Inc., and Koutayba Yamak, Partner at PwC, for an AI webinar hosted by Trace International as they share their insights into all things AI and data analytics.

Although data analytics and AI have been popular topics in recent years, interest in AI further surged following the release of ChatGPT in December 2022 and is revolutionizing the way that work gets done. Our panelists will discuss the risks and benefits of AI and data analytics, as well as providing practical guidance for how to justify the cost and value-adds to a company’s leadership, how to continually evolve with new changes, and how to analyze and use data. The panelists will also demonstrate how data analytics and AI can be used to identify and respond to corruption.