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Dreier Stein's former entertainment chair et al. jump to Robins Kaplan

Posted on January 21, 2009
A group of entertainment litigators from Dreier, Stein, Kahan, Browne, Woods, George, has joined the Los Angeles office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.Michael Plonsker, former co-chairman of the entertainment and media department at Dreier, Stein, Kahan, Browne, Woods, George,...

L.A. lawyers in inaugural attendance

Posted on January 20, 2009
Several California lawyers made the trek to Washington to attend President Obama?s inauguration on Tuesday.Among the crowds, estimated at between 1.5 million and 3 million people, were lawyers from Los Angeles who obtained tickets to the event, which, at about...

Riverside County judge: I'd rather be jogging

Posted on January 16, 2009
California?s Commission on Judicial Performance has charged Riverside County Judge Christopher J. Sheldon with shirking his duties, often taking the afternoons off. The charges, which include willful misconduct in office, persistent failure or inability to perform his duties and conduct...

A mixed verdict for 'America's Sheriff'

Posted on January 16, 2009
A federal jury on Friday acquitted former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona of conspiracy and mail fraud charges in a case alleging that he illegally used his office to enrich himself and his friends and family. Carona, once dubbed "America's...

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L.A. DA not shielded from workplace retaliation suit

Posted on January 15, 2009
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is not entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliation claim filed by a deputy district attorney in his office who spoke publicly about...

Milberg kickback plaintiff Howard Vogel ducks prison -- for now

Posted on January 15, 2009
The last defendant to report to federal prison in the criminal kickback case against Milberg LLP, Howard J. Vogel, has received an extension of his surrender date to Jan. 28. Vogel, a former lead plaintiff for the New York firm,...

Chapman founding law dean retires from teaching

Posted on January 15, 2009
The founding dean of Chapman University School of Law in Orange, Calif., Jeremy Miller, has retired from his job as law professor.Miller took over as dean before the school opened in 1995. He stepped down two years later after several...

Allegations of homophobia, hostile workplace in Nixon Peabody's LA office

Posted on January 14, 2009
A public finance attorney has launched a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Nixon Peabody, alleging that he was subjected to taunting and ridicule while working at the firm's Los Angeles office. Henry Har, now an associate in Holland & Knight's San...

Bratz gets a legal makeover

Posted on January 13, 2009
MGA Entertainment, the maker of Bratz dolls, has replaced its legal counsel in preparation for the second phase of a copyright infringement trial against Mattel Inc. On Friday, MGA retained Patricia Glaser, a partner at Los Angeles-based Glaser Weil Fink...

Whittier Law School gets back on track

Posted on January 13, 2009
After years of attempting to get off of probation with the American Bar Association, Whittier Law School has reason to celebrate: 84% of its students who took the California bar exam last July passed?the best pass rate the school has...

Two Milberg kickback defendants set to report to jail

Posted on January 12, 2009
Two defendants convicted in the criminal kickback case against Milberg LLP, former partner Steven Schulman and Howard J. Vogel, a former lead plaintiff represented by the New York firm, are scheduled to report to federal prison this week. Both were...

Lawyers won't let Polanski lose his nose in Los Angeles

Posted on January 05, 2009
Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski, who fled the country more than 30 years ago on the eve of sentencing for having sex with a minor, asked today that his case be moved from a Los Angeles justice system they...

High court rules breakaway parishes rightfully lost ownership rights

Posted on January 05, 2009
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that three Southern California parishes who left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers cannot retain ownership of their church buildings and property. The state's high court ruled...

Conference concludes law education requires rethink

Posted on January 05, 2009
The two-day Leading Legal Innovation conference, sponsored by the Southern California Innovation Project at USC's Gould School of Law, drew 30 law firm leaders, professors and entrepreneurs to address necessary improvements for law education. Among the topics on the table:...

UC and Coughlin make new year a little happier for former Enron investors

Posted on January 05, 2009
Seven years after joining the federal class-action lawsuit against Enron Corporation in December 2001, the University of California will now begin distributing settlement funds of approximately $7 billion to nearly 200,000 investors, both individual and institutional...

Attorneys leave Mayer for Sheppard "to work both sides of the road"

Posted on January 05, 2009
Bryan Daly, Charles Kreindler and Peter Morris joined the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as equity partners this week, each after two years or less at Mayer Brown. They were joined in the move by Barbara...

Tech companies looking to courts for relief from patent case damages

Posted on December 30, 2008
Oracle, Apple Inc., Yahoo, Intel Corp. and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft Corp. as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for infringing on...

Two San Diego Superior Court judges retiring next week

Posted on December 30, 2008
William Kennedy and Michael Wellington, two of San Diego's more experienced Superior Court judges, will retire next week. Kennedy, 78, was appointed by then-Gov. George Deukmejian in July 1983 after serving as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California...

Heller claims am-Bush partly responsible for Chapter 11 filing

Posted on December 30, 2008
Defunct Heller Ehrman filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, putting a stay on at least five suits filed against the firm since it announced on Sept. 26 that it would dissolve. According to a memo sent from the...

Sonar settlement seen as victory by both sides

Posted on December 29, 2008
The Navy and several environmental groups settled a lawsuit that challenged the Navy's use of sonar around the globe as dangerous to whales and other marine mammals, the two sides said Saturday. The Navy said the settlement, reached Friday but...

Nine South Bay projects halted by emissions ruling

Posted on December 29, 2008
A Los Angeles Superior Court judgment issued last month has blocked at least nine modernization projects at public and private facilities in the South Bay, including planned upgrades at two public facilities - the Palos Verdes Landfill and the Terminal...

Al Meyerhoff, famed labor lawyer, dies at 61

Posted on December 29, 2008
Al Meyerhoff, a prominent environmental and labor lawyer whose landmark cases included the 2002 settlement of a class-action lawsuit against some of America's biggest clothing retailers that alleged sweatshop abuses on the island of Saipan, died December 21st of complications...

Post-Pellicano/Christensen convictions, wiretap civil suits abound

Posted on December 29, 2008
The criminal wiretapping convictions of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and lawyer Terry Christensen have re-energized related civil lawsuits filed against five Los Angeles law firms, including Christensen's former firm. At least 15 lawsuits related to Pellicano, who was convicted last...

Writ of attachment may mean bankruptcy on horizon for Heller

Posted on December 29, 2008
A San Francisco landlord for defunct Heller Ehrman won a key court ruling earlier this month that means bankruptcy is now likely, according to attorneys who have dealt with similar cases. San Francisco Superior Court granted the landlord, 333 Bush...

Buchalter Nemer adds new litigation shareholder

Posted on December 18, 2008
Buchalter Nemer announced that Michael L. Meeks is joining the Firm as a Shareholder in Orange County today. Mr. Meeks? practice encompasses commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and financial institutions litigation. Meeks has successfully defended numerous clients in high-stakes litigation...

Trend shows outside counsel being left outside as budget cuts increase

Posted on December 18, 2008
Demonstrating a trend that has significant implications for law firms, a growing number of California companies are under pressure to control costs and handle more work in house, where they can come closer to paying wholesale rather than retail for...

Makings of a Ponzi-demic

Posted on December 18, 2008
Prosecutors in Los Angeles announced the arrest of a real estate broker in an alleged Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $62 million. Milton Retana, a 43-year-old El Salvadoran national living in Newark and owner of a Huntington Park...

Taser settlement a first for San Jose

Posted on December 18, 2008
San Jose officials Tuesday agreed to pay $70,000 to the wife and child of a man who died in 2005 after police jolted him with Tasers, marking the city's first settlement over a fatality linked to the stun guns. The...

Walls of San Quentin among collateral damage as budget crisis halts public works projects

Posted on December 18, 2008
With a $40 billion budget deficit looming, California state officials halted thousands of public works projects statewide Wednesday, including the $26.5 million Santa Ana courthouse and expansion of the state's death row at San Quentin.Potentially more troublesome legally is stoppage...

Madoff investors to fight the feeders

Posted on December 17, 2008
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of individuals and groups that invested capital in Bernard Madoff Investment Securities (BMIS) through Stanley Chais...

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