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Harriet S. Posner elected president of L.A. Legal Aid Foundation's board
Posted on September 22, 2008Harriet S. Posner was elected president of the 60-member board of directors at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Posner, who's been on the board for six years, is a partner at Skadden Arps working on complex commercial litigation.
American Golf Corp.'s Mark Friedman joins frozen yogurt company as general counsel
Posted on September 22, 2008Attorney Mark Friedman left golf for frozen yogurt. Friedman recently left American Golf Corp., where he was senior vice president and general counsel, to join Los Angeles frozen yogurt company Pinkberry as vice president of business development and general counsel...
Former Munger Tolles partner returns nearly two decades later
Posted on September 22, 2008Former Munger Tolles partner Susan E. Nash rejoined the firm's Los Angeles office as of counsel, after leaving in 1990. Nash initially joined the firm in 1985, focusing on commercial litigation, and became a partner three years later. Since leaving...
Christensen Glaser changes its name after wiretap conviction
Posted on September 19, 2008Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro has changed its name to Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro after its managing partner, Terry Christensen, was convicted on wiretapping charges. On Aug. 29, a federal jury found Christensen guilty of conspiracy...
Michigan's Brooks Kushman opens L.A. outpost
Posted on September 19, 2008Brooks Kushman, an intellectual property boutique based in Southfield, Mich., has opened an office in Los Angeles. (Press Release) Mark Mizrahi, formerly a partner at Los Angeles-based Belasco Jacobs & Townsley, who joined Brooks Kushman on Sept. 1 as senior...
Effects of financial collapse worry lawyers, law students
Posted on September 18, 2008Almost half of lawyers think their careers will be hurt by the recent collapse of Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. and sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. according to a survey by legal recruitment firm Lateral Link. Of 800 respondents, 42%...
Heller Ehrman discusses dissolution
Posted on September 18, 2008Is Heller Ehrman circling the drain? Heller partners were told that one possibility was to dissolve the 119-year old firm and that management understood if they start exploring a move, sources told The Recorder. (here) If Washington Mutual collapses, one...
San Diego judge Lisa Schall publicly admonished for drunk driving
Posted on September 18, 2008San Diego Superior Court judge Lisa Colleen Schall was publicly admonished by the state Commission on Judicial Performance on Tuesday for drunk, reckless driving in Escondido last year, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported (here). Schall drove on the wrong side of...
Lerach moves to medium-security prison
Posted on September 18, 2008Former securities class-action attorney Bill Lerach was transferred from a minimum-security camp to a medium-security prison in Phoenix, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported (here). Earlier this summer, the former class action attorney was placed in administrative segregation, locked down 23...
L.A. Deputy Dist. Atty. Ken Lamb dies at 55 from tongue cancer
Posted on September 18, 2008Los Angeles Deputy Dist. Atty. Ken Lamb died of tongue cancer on Tuesday, the Long Beach's Press-Telegram reported. (here) He was 55. Some colleagues called Lamb, a former police sergeant, the "Babe Ruth" of the judicial system for having prosecuted....
USC law professor Charles Whitebread dies from lung cancer at 65
Posted on September 18, 2008USC law professor Charles Whitebread died in Santa Monica on Tuesday from lung cancer, Above The Law reported. (here) He was 65. An expert on criminal law, the U.S. Supreme Court and juvenile law, WhiteBread taught at the University of...
Health Net pays $25 million over improperly dropped policies
Posted on September 17, 2008Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. agreed to a $25 million dollar settlement with the state Department of Insurance over the company's improper dropping of coverage for 926 patients, the Associated Press reported (here). Health Net will pay back $14...
Descendants of Armenian genocide file class action against insurer
Posted on September 17, 2008Descendants of the Armenian genocide filed another class action against an insurance company, claiming they are entitled to benefits that should have been paid to the beneficiaries of their ancestors. The class action was filed on Monday against Aviva PLC,...
Journalists file suit against CEO of L.A. Times
Posted on September 17, 2008Six current and former journalists at the Los Angeles Times have filed a class action complaint against the newspaper's parent company, the Tribune Co., and its current chairman and chief executive, Samuel Zell, claiming that he and others have breached...
Andrew Gibson joins San Diego's Marks Golia as an associate
Posted on September 17, 2008Andrew Gibson joined San Diego-based Marks Golia as an associate, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported (here). Gibson represents clients in public and private construction litigation and in commercial litigation such as breach of contract, unfair business practices, interference with contract...
Brown asks judge to reject motion to seize $8 billion for prison healthcare
Posted on September 17, 2008California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked a federal judge to reject a motion by the federal prison receiver that aims to seize $8 billion in state funds for a massive prison healthcare facilities construction project. The legislature approved $7.4 billion...
After the train wreck in L.A., a train wreck in court
Posted on September 16, 2008Lawyers with expertise in personal injury litigation against railroads anticipate that more than 100 lawsuits seeking up to $500 million in damages could be filed stemming from last week's crash involving a commuter train in Los Angeles that killed 26...
Bankruptcy associate Caroline Djang joins Jeffer Mangels
Posted on September 15, 2008Caroline Djang joined Jeffer Mangels' Los Angeles office as a bankruptcy associate. Djang previously clerked for four judges at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Two join Archer Norris' insurance practice
Posted on September 15, 2008Attorneys Charles Diaz and Roger Marken join Archer Norris' Southern California office's as of counsel. Diaz and Marken were previously partners at Murtaugh Meyer, working in the insurance industry for over 25 years. Diaz, who joins the firm's Los Angeles...
Corporate restructuring attorney Nathan Schultz joins Greenberg Traurig
Posted on September 15, 2008Corporate restructuring and bankruptcy attorney Nathan Schultz joined Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office as of counsel.Schultz has represented clients in health care, hospitality, real estate and retail. At Greenberg Traurig, he'll represent debtors, creditors, committees, investors and parties interested in...
Want the nation's biggest courthouse? It'll cost $1.1 billion.
Posted on September 15, 2008The cost to build the biggest courthouse in the nation in downtown Los Angeles has tripled to $1.1 billion according to the General Accounting Office, the Los Angeles Times reported (here).The construction of the federal courthouse on Broadway and 1st...
Aguirre pays $1,500 for campaign consultants' misdeeds
Posted on September 15, 2008City Attorney Michael Aguirre agreed to pay a $1,500 fine because his campaign consultant asked 133 city employees for donations for his 2008 campaign, 10 News reported (here). The San Diego Ethics Commission wrote in a press release on Thursday...
Gibson Dunn makes top 10 list of family friend firms
Posted on September 15, 2008Yale Law Women named Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn among its top 10 family friendly firms in its third annual survey, The American Lawyer reported (here). The group sent a 35-question survey to 100 top firms and provided an unranked list...
McDermott Will adds 11 first-year associates in L.A., Orange County
Posted on September 15, 2008McDermott Will hired 85 associates from the class of 2008, with 8 first-year associates joining the firm's Los Angeles office and three joining its Orange County office, The Recorder reported (here). UCLA law school graduates N. Ellen Drews, Keith Fichtelman...
Lee S. Edmon elected first woman assistant presiding judge at L.A. Superior Court
Posted on September 12, 2008The first woman was elected assistant presiding judge at Los Angeles Superior Court, the second-highest administrative position on the court on Wednesday, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. (here, here) If tradition holds, Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon will also become...
Prosecutors go back to middle school
Posted on September 12, 2008The Los Angeles City Attorney's office is sending prosecutors to poorly performing middle schools in crime-ridden areas, the Los Angeles Times reported (here). Partnering with the school district, prosecutors will be sent to at least nine "priority middle schools," hoping...
No prison for high school student accused of hacking to improve grades
Posted on September 11, 2008One of the two 18-year olds charged with hacking onto a high school teacher's computer to improve their grades won't go to prison, the Associated Press reported. (here) Orange County student Tanvir Singh faced up to three years in prison...
Campaign seeks 25,000 L.A. attorneys to feed 1 million
Posted on September 11, 2008The Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and Horvitz & Levy are trying to get 25,000 attorneys to participate in a two-week food drive to feed one million people locally. The "Motion to Strike Hunger" campaign will take place from Sept. 15-30,...
Pasedena's Sheldon Mak creates IP ADR group
Posted on September 11, 2008Pasedena,Calif.-based law firm Sheldon Mak created an intellectual property alternative dispute resolution group. Headed by firm shareholder Jeffrey Sheldon, the group will represent clients and provide neutrals for mediation, arbitration, early neutral evaluation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings, according...
Tax attorney Margaret S. Ng joins Garrett DeFrenza as associate
Posted on September 11, 2008Tax attorney Margaret S. Ng joined Costa Mesa real estate and business law firm Garrett DeFrenza as an associate. Ng works on U.S. and California income tax and California real property tax planning for individuals, corporations, partnerships and limited liability...
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Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
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