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L.A. attorney pleads no contest to pressuring witness

Posted on July 19, 2010
Sean Erenstoft of the Law Office of Sean Erenstoft in Sherman Oaks is expected to lose his law license after pleading no contest to criminal charges that he pressured a witness against testifying against his client in a stalking case,...

Pay cuts for state workers rejected -- for now

Posted on July 19, 2010
Judge Patrick Marlette of Sacramento County Superior Court denied an injunction sought by Governor Schwarzenegger to cut the pay of more than 200,000 state workers. The governor has maintained, and two courts have agreed, that state law requires the reductions...

These are not the lasers you're looking for, but maybe this cease-and-desist letter is ...

Posted on July 19, 2010
Via Techdirt: Earlier this month Lucasfilms Ltd. sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Hong Kong-based company named Wicked Lasers, whose latest high-powered product too closely resembled the lightsaber from Lucas' Star Wars films. The letter called the Pro Arctic laser...

And Tellez makes three: Chaney tosses Dole verdict

Posted on July 16, 2010
Judge Victoria Chaney, acting as a Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court judge, threw out a $2.3 million verdict against Dole Food Co., ruling that widespread fraud orchestrated by the plaintiffs' attorneys prevented the food company from deposing witnesses...

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Gallo, accused of killing Adenhart, will be tried in Orange County

Posted on July 16, 2010
Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Toohey has denied a motion to move the trial of a driver accused of killing Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two of his friends. Toohey rejected the argument that defendant Andrew Thomas Gallo can't...

Two new Akin Gump partners in L.A.

Posted on July 16, 2010
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has announced that Dino E. Barajas and Elliot Hinds have joined the firm as partners in Los Angeles. Their practices encompass project finance, M&A, private equity transactions, joint ventures and debt finance. Mr.....

New partner at Michelman & Robinson

Posted on July 15, 2010
Michelman & Robinson, LLP, has announced that Mark H. Zafrin has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities Department. Mr. Zafrin will divide his time between M&R's New York and Los Angeles offices. Mr. Zafrin specializes...

Appeals court suggests 'Crude' outtakes may be limited

Posted on July 15, 2010
Joe Berlinger, the director of the documentary "Crude," may have to turn over some outtakes to Chevron after all, according to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The three-judge panel seemed to agree with the previous decision by U.S....

California violates privacy with DNA law, says ACLU

Posted on July 15, 2010
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a civil rights lawsuit filed by the ACLU aimed at striking down a voter-approved measure to collect DNA samples from anyone in California facing felony...

Attorneys reach predatory lending settlement with Wells Fargo on behalf of NAACP

Posted on July 15, 2010
On Monday, the NAACP recognized attorneys Brian Kabateck and Richard Kellner for their efforts in combating predatory lending against blacks. In April, they reached an agreement with Wells Fargo & Co. that gives the NAACP better access to the bank's....

OC judge dismisses Traudt pot case

Posted on July 14, 2010
Via the OC Register: As expected, Orange County Superior Court Judge Nomoto Schumann has dismissed Malinda Traudt's suit, in which she hoped to prevent the city of Dana Point from closing the pot dispensary, Beach Cities Collective, that her parents....

New associate at Levene Neale

Posted on July 14, 2010
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P. has announced that Lindsey L. Smith has been named an associate at the Los Angeles-based firm. Smith joined Levene Neale from Loyola Law School where she was an admissions reviewer. Previously, she was...

Chevron and Berlinger at NY appeals court over 'Crude' outtakes

Posted on July 14, 2010
Oral arguments begin today at the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York in Chevron's action to obtain 600 hours of outtakes from Joe Berlinger's documentary film "Crude," a behind-the-scenes look at a class-action lawsuit in Ecuador the energy giant...

McInerney murder/hate crime trial to begin, says judge

Posted on July 14, 2010
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell has denied Brandon McInerney's attorney's request for a three-month delay. Scott Wippert said he needed to interview more witnesses and do some further preparations. Campbell says the defense has had plenty of time...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell trial opens in Riverside

Posted on July 14, 2010
A case filed by the Log Cabin Republicans challenging the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy excluding homosexuals from serving in the military has been brought to trial today in front of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside. The case...

Smith's FCPA sentencing postponed for the fourth time

Posted on July 14, 2010
Former Pacific Consolidated Industries LP executive Leo Winston Smith pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to pay $71,000 in bribes in the United Kingdom to a Defense Ministry official so that PCI secure Royal Air Force contracts worth some $11...

SoCal woman sentenced for self-texting threats

Posted on July 13, 2010
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Especially one with an unlimited text plan. Jeanne Mundango Manunga, a 25-year-old woman from Santa Ana, was sentenced to a year in jail last Friday for sending hundreds of threatening text messages...

McTiernan pleads guilty in Pellicano wiretapping case

Posted on July 13, 2010
Film director John McTiernan has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and a federal judge about having paid Anthony Pellicano $50,000 to wiretap a Hollywood producer's phone. McTiernan's lawyers have described the plea as a "conditional guilty plea that...

Dismissal expected in Dana Point med-marijuana suit

Posted on July 13, 2010
Orange County Superior Court Judge Nomoto Schumann has issued a tentative ruling that dismisses Malinda Traudt's case against Dana Point in which she sued to keep the medical marijuana dispensary Beach Cities Collective open. Traudt's family purchases the drug from...

Former Rehab Financial prez pleads guilty on embezzlement charges

Posted on July 13, 2010
Belinda Exon, the former president of now-defunct Rehab Financial, pleaded guilty yesterday to one felony charge of embezzling $3.9 million in federal funds meant for low-income housing loans in 23 California cities, most of them in Southern California...

Brownstein Hyatt adds three in L.A.

Posted on July 13, 2010
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has announced that Les Lo Baugh and Karol K. Denniston have joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as its newest shareholders. Joining Denniston in her transition to Brownstein is former DLA Piper corporate restructuring associate, Brendan...

Judge consolidates iPhone suits into class action

Posted on July 13, 2010
Class action suits over the iPhone 4. A new Consumer Reports study that gives the thumbs-down to the iPhone 4's antenna. And now this: Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has consolidated...

9th Circuit rules for reconsideration of Guatemalan woman's asylum case

Posted on July 13, 2010
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed two immigration courts' deportation orders for Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who had petitioned the immigration courts for asylum in 2003. Perdomo had cited the high rate of...

Hacker retained by former KB Home CEO Karatz

Posted on July 13, 2010
Bruce Karatz has retained Jonathan Hacker, an appellate specialist at O'Melveny & Myers, for his legal team. Hacker, who is a partner in the Washington office of Los Angeles-based O'Melveny, has written briefs in dozens of cases before the U.S....

Dole disciplinary action results in suspension for Walter Lack, reprimand for Thomas Girardi

Posted on July 13, 2010
Walter Lack, of the Los Angeles firm Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack, has been suspended for six months from practicing in front of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The penalty was handed down because of the fraudulent appellate briefs...

No lifelines for Disney in 'Millionaire' verdict

Posted on July 12, 2010
Last Wednesday a federal jury awarded Celador International, Ltd. $269.4 million in damages after unanimously finding that Disney subsidiaries, ABC Television, Buena Vista Television, and Valleycrest Productions, Ltd. had breached their contract with Celador to share profits from the game...

Two of counsel and one associate join Murchison & Cumming

Posted on July 12, 2010
Murchison & Cumming, LLP has announced that Carlos E. Needham and Steven C. Spronz have become Of Counsel to the firm and that Molly E. Healy has joined the firm as an associate. Carlos Needham, formerly a partner at Manatt,...

Publicity rights suit a disaster for Love

Posted on July 12, 2010
Talk about feeling broke up. Via Techdirt: A few years back former Beach Boy Brian Wilson released an album in the UK by distributing copies to all the subscribers of the UK newspaper The Mail in the UK and Ireland....

ADR Services forms Korean Specialty Panel

Posted on July 12, 2010
Many civil cases filings in Southern California courts involve some Korean element, whether Korean parties, Korean legal issues or business customs. To that end, ADR Services, Inc., announces the formation of its Korean Specialty Panel. Two prominent figures in Korean...

Milbank partner forms his own firm to "connect more closely" with clients

Posted on July 08, 2010
Gregory Evans has left Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he was a litigation partner, to form his own firm, Integer Law Corporation. It's a move he'd been considering since the economic downturn. He says, "I want to, in this...

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