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Alleged in-law of al-Qaeda official gets bail

Posted on February 25, 2009
Over the strong objections of the government, a federal judge in Orange County agreed to grant bail Tuesday for the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's alleged security coordinator in a case that is stirring debate about the FBI's use of...

Payouts to departing Heller partners equal more than $7 million

Posted on February 25, 2009
Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008, a Friday bankruptcy filing by the firm shows. The filing paints a picture of Heller's shrinking capital coffers as a steady stream of partners...

The challenges of renewable energy

Posted on February 25, 2009
The Recorder continues its Green Letter Law Hot Topics series with a discussion by two Paul Hastings attorneys about the tension between finding alternate energy sources and preserving natural habitats. Check it out here.

Six associates promoted to partnership at Munger Tolles

Posted on February 25, 2009
In the Los Angeles office, Manuel F. Cachán will focus on complex litigation. Cachán served as a law clerk to Judge Arthur L. Alarcon of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Cachán received his J.D. from Harvard Law School....

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Sheppard Mullin attorney layoffs total 25 for the year

Posted on February 25, 2009
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton announced on Tuesday that by the end of this week, the firm will have laid off 25 attorneys since the beginning of the year.According to an e-mailed statement, some terminations were performance-related while others were...

Kay challenges legitimacy of State Bar Court in his own defense

Posted on February 24, 2009
San Francisco trial lawyer Philip Kay is boldly attacking the State Bar's discipline system as inherently unfair in his own defense against the agency. Part of his strategy is referring to documents and reports generated in a former State Bar...

Climate change practice groups emerge in CA

Posted on February 24, 2009
The Obama administration has fast-tracked domestic policy related to climate change and energy independence to the top of its agenda. And California is leading the way for the nation in climate change policy changes, including the new Green Chemistry Initiative...

Governator got raw deal with execution moratorium, switches tactics

Posted on February 24, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his lawyers have switched strategies in the legal battle to resume executions, agreeing to submit revised lethal injection protocols for public review rather than continue appealing state court decisions that the redrafted rules are illegal...

$30 million Tae Bo verdict gets its own transformational training on appeal

Posted on February 24, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw will get a new trial in a legal malpractice case brought by the creator of a popular exercise program, who won a $30 million verdict against the law firm in 2005. A California state appeals court has thrown...

Counselor dares Orangewood to move on religious discrimination

Posted on February 23, 2009
A counselor is suing the Orangewood Children's Home for religious discrimination after she was suspended for six weeks without pay because a group of teens she was supervising overheard Christian music at the Huntington Beach Pier, the lawsuit says. Maureen...

Relative of Afghan militant arrested for perjury and naturalization fraud, claims blackmail

Posted on February 23, 2009
A Tustin man of Afghan origin, who failed to mention in his application for U.S. citizenship that his brother-in-law is designated as an Al Qaeda terrorist, appeared in federal court Friday to answer charges that could send him to prison...

California farmers face a glass less than half full

Posted on February 23, 2009
In a blow to California farmers struggling with a persistent drought, federal authorities released projections on Friday showing that little or no water would be available from federal sources this year for agricultural use. State water supplies were also expected...

Disruptive billboards prompt regulation rethink in L.A.

Posted on February 23, 2009
Kevin Fry, president of the Washington-based anti-billboard group Scenic America, said Los Angeles has the worst billboard problem in the country. The proliferation has prompted officials to impose a moratorium on new ads as the city considers new regulations aimed...

L.A. firms face 2009 with cautious optimism and fiscal conservatism

Posted on February 23, 2009
With looming uncertainty over prospects for 2009, major Los Angeles-based firms are counting 2008's single-digit revenue growth ? or even a slight decline ? as a boon.They're bracing for worse conditions in 2009. Revenue grew slightly at Gibson, Dunn &...

Feds take on war monument, church-state, and donut holes

Posted on February 23, 2009
And that's just one case.The Supreme Court said today it would decide whether the government can maintain a cross in a national park to honor fallen soldiers in the latest test of church-state separation. At issue is an 8-foot-tall cross...

Judge rules rights were not respected in government raid

Posted on February 20, 2009
An immigration judge has dismissed the case of a Mexican man facing deportation after ruling that federal agents violated his rights during a work site raid last year in Van Nuys. Los Angeles Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor issued a written...

Courts score wins in new California budget

Posted on February 20, 2009
After five round-the-clock days of legislative horse trading and stalemates, California's judicial leaders scored two key political victories Thursday as state lawmakers finally closed a $40 billion budget deficit. Among the three-dozen bills legislators sent to Gov...

Ontario PD no longer feel like somebody's watching them

Posted on February 20, 2009
The city of Ontario has reached a $2.75 million settlement with 125 of its police officers who sued over being secretly videotaped while dressing in the department's men's locker room. The class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of the 125...

Law School Admissions Council sued for discrimination by blind student

Posted on February 20, 2009
The National Federation of the Blind and a blind law school applicant filed a discrimination lawsuit against the national law school admissions test administrator, The Law School Admissions Council, in a California Superior Court. The lawsuit, which was filed on...

Dean Again offers expertise, gets slammed, rebuts. Must be Thursday.

Posted on February 19, 2009
Erwin Chemerinsky is making the rounds, lending his analysis of the Prop 8 legal challenges. Heather MacDonald of the WSJ recently took the dean to task rather harshly for his role in a lawsuit that alleges that authorities in the...

Bonds' team keeping mum on defense strategies

Posted on February 19, 2009
Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds made headlines two years ago, first by getting indicted, and then by enlisting a squadron of the Bay Area's best defense attorneys. Now, with jury selection approaching in a case that, from a legal standpoint,...

Breach of contract suit might have Akin wishing for a different Del

Posted on February 19, 2009
The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego has hosted a long list of dignitaries, including 11 U.S. presidents and royalty from at least 10 countries. San Diego's "beacon of grandeur and refinement," a seaside resort and a National Historic Landmark,...

Scholarly impact study includes four CA universities

Posted on February 19, 2009
Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings has just released a study of "the top ten law faculties with the most scholarly impact" between 2005-2008. Three California universities make the top 10, with UCLA having been studied but not ranked. The top...

Hells Angels: Trademark suit against Fawn to be filed

Posted on February 18, 2009
The Hells Angels motorcycle club is suing a Visalia, Calif., woman in federal court, alleging "cyberpiracy" and trademark infringement. The club says Fawn Myers illegally registered more than 20 Internet domain names associated with the Hells Angels and then placed...

Miss lead? Copper's better for condors in SoCal.

Posted on February 18, 2009
Because it is now against the law to use leaded bullets in the "condor range" in parts of southern California, new copper and other non-lead bullets have found a permanent home there. Lead is a toxic heavy metal that has...

Seagate sues insurer over unpaid legal costs

Posted on February 18, 2009
Disk drive giant Seagate Technology settled a patent fight with Cornice Inc. two years ago. Problem is, according to Seagate, its insurer won't pick up the tab for its lawyers at Fish & Richardson. With the company now suing its...

Internal Affairs deems defender's actions "very poor judgment" but not fraud

Posted on February 17, 2009
A draft report from county investigators faulted Alternate Public Defender Timothy Chandler for ?very poor judgment? for his role in a real estate deal involving his wife and a lawyer he hired, but it concluded there was insufficient evidence that...

Yoo escapes protests at Chapman

Posted on February 17, 2009
In Berkeley, city leaders branded him a war criminal and human rights activists put up a billboard to denounce him. But in suburban Orange County, Professor John Yoo -- the primary architect of the Bush administration's policy on harsh interrogation....

Wrongful-death suit names nearly two dozen defendants in killing of teen

Posted on February 17, 2009
The family of a gay middle school student who was shot to death in class has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit that accuses the school district, a shelter and a gay rights organization of failing to protect him. The teenager, Lawrence...

New city attorney for Atherton

Posted on February 17, 2009
Longtime public law attorney and Bay Area native Wynne Furth has taken over as city attorney for the town of Atherton. Furth was selected to represent the town by its newly contracted law firm, McDonough Holland & Allen PC. Before...

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