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Former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group agrees to pay $30M to settle action

Posted on September 11, 2008
The former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group Inc., William McGuire, has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit brought after it was revealed that executives and directors of the Minneapolis-based health care provider had backdated...

San Diego D.A.'s office opens second year of "Citizens Academy"

Posted on September 10, 2008
The San Diego District Attorney's Office began a free, 10 week course to demystify the criminal justice system for members of the public, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported (here). The Citizens Academy, which began yesterday, brings "a diverse group of...

Judge rules math teacher's God banners aren't religious

Posted on September 10, 2008
School officials shouldn't have made a San Diego math teacher take down his 7-foot long God banners, a federal judge ruled on Friday. School officials argued that Brad Johnson's banners were theistic and thus in conflict with the public school's...

Retired judge Zintra Janavs joins ADR Services in L.A.

Posted on September 10, 2008
Recently retired judge Dzintra I. Janavs joined ADR Services' Los Angeles office as a mediator and arbitrator. Janavs worked at the U.S. Atty.'s office in Los Angeles for 24 years as first assistant chief of the civil division, assistant chief...

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Lerach may go to high-security prison, allegedly offered guard season football tickets

Posted on September 09, 2008
So much for low-security prison life for William Lerach. Earlier this summer, the former class action attorney was placed in administrative segregation, locked down 23 hours a day, after allegedly offering a prison guard season tickets to NFL games during...

The taco truck wars continue

Posted on September 09, 2008
County officials are asking a Los Angeles judge to reconsider his decision to throw out a law aimed at taco truck operators, the Associated Press reported (here). The law, passed by county supervisors in April, raised the penalty on taco...

Judge rejects plea deal for Broadcom Corp. co-founder

Posted on September 09, 2008
A judge has rejected a plea deal reached between federal prosecutors and Henry Samueli, the co-founder and former chief technical officer of Broadcom Corp., in a criminal backdating probe, finding that the agreement would "erode the public's trust in the...

UCLA law school gets $4 million for international justice clinic

Posted on September 09, 2008
UCLA School of law got a $4 million endowment to create the first endowed program on international justice and human rights at a law school on the West coast, according to a press release.Sanela Diana Jenkins, a survivor of the...

Three business & tech lawyers join Procopio Cory

Posted on September 09, 2008
Attorneys Steven Jaye, John Cleary and Vessela V. Stoyanova joined San Diego's Procopio Cory. Jaye, who joined the firm as of counsel, spent the last 13 years as senior vice president and general counsel for Sunrise Medical in San Diego....

$660 million priest abuse settlement in question after retired judge's recusal

Posted on September 08, 2008
Survivors of clergy abuse won a massive $660 million settlement last year. But they can expect a long wait to find out if the confidential priest files in the case can go public as the court-appointed mediator recused himself.Former state...

Knobbe Martens becomes largest O.C. firm with new hires

Posted on September 08, 2008
Knobbe Martens recently became the largest firm in Orange County, passing long-time leader Rutan & Tucker, the O.C. Business Journal reported (here).The firm recently hired 30 attorneys at its Irvine headquarters, giving it 170 local lawyers to Rutan & Tucker's...

Litigator David Johnson joined Jeffer Mangels as of counsel

Posted on September 08, 2008
Commercial litigator David Johnson joined Jeffer Mangels' Los Angeles office as of counsel. He was previously at Hooper Lundy and used to work as a CPA, or certified public accountant.

Judge rejects motions to dismiss MySpace suicide case

Posted on September 05, 2008
A federal judge in Los Angeles rejected two motions to dismiss charges against a Missouri woman who is accused of defrauding MySpace.com by creating a false account in a hoax that allegedly led to a teenage girl's suicide, the Associated...

Carson City bans sex offenders sharing a home

Posted on September 05, 2008
The Carson City Council banned sex offenders from sharing a home on Tuesday, CBS 2 reported (here). The passage of Jessica's Law prompted parole officers to cluster sex offenders in residences, CBS 2 reported. The voter-approved, California law says that...

Man gets 26 years in prison for stealing $20 from ice cream vendor

Posted on September 04, 2008
Scream for ice cream. But please don't steal it. A 23-year old Oxnard gang member was sentenced to over 26 years in prison last month for robbing an ice cream vendor of $20 and six ice cream cones, the Ventura...

Twenty-five criminal cases dismissed in Riverside County last month

Posted on September 04, 2008
Riverside County dismissed 25 criminal cases in August because there weren't any judge to hear them, the Associated Press reported (here). In July, 22 cases were dismissed because defendants weren't getting their Constitutionally guaranteed speedy trial, the AP reported...

9th Circuit to rule on emotional damages in privacy issue

Posted on September 04, 2008
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to choose a side in a circuit split when it hears an HIV-positive pilot's claim that he is entitled to emotional distress damages against the government for sharing his medical...

Bush appoints L.A. attorney to cultural property advisory committee

Posted on September 04, 2008
The managing partner of Arent Fox's Los Angeles office was appointed by President Bush to a three year term on the President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee.Los Angeles attorney Robert O'Brien joins the 11 member committee that includes experts in the...

Commercial litigator David Stern joins Winston Strawn

Posted on September 04, 2008
Commercial litigator and media and entertainment attorney David Stern joined Winston & Strawn's Los Angeles office as a partner. Stern, who was previously a partner at Sonnenschein Nath, represents corporate and individual clients in complex commercial litigation...

Nudists win lawsuit against state parks

Posted on September 03, 2008
Nudists at San Onofre State Beach won a lawsuit last Wednesday against the state parks department , the Los Angeles Times reported (here). In June, park officials had announced a nudity ban at the beach, which has been a safe...

Immigrants struggle to get lawyers while immigration-related prosecutions soar

Posted on September 03, 2008
Immigration-related prosecutions are on the rise, while immigrants are struggling to find legal representation. A survey by the Executive Office for Immigration Review found 58% of immigrants nationwide going to immigration-related cases without a lawyer, the Los Angles Times reported...

Labor lawyer Pamela McKee dies of ovarian cancer at 55

Posted on September 03, 2008
Los Angeles labor lawyer Pamela W. McKee died of ovarian cancer on August 29, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. She was 55. McKee worked for the Department of Labor in Philadelphia for 10 years before moving in 2001 to La Ca�ada,...

Proskauer Rose's Anthony Pacheco re-elected president of L.A. Police Commission

Posted on September 03, 2008
Los Angeles attorney Anthony Pacheco was re-elected to his second term as president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel reported (here). The five-member board acts like a corporate board of directors to the L...

Corporate team from Duane Morris jumps to Sheppard Mullin

Posted on September 03, 2008
Three corporate attorneys from Duane Morris ? Robert G. Copeland, James A. Mercer III and Michael S. Umansky ? have joined Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as partners in the San Diego area. Copeland, who focuses on corporate...

Bankruptcy filings in Western states increase dramatically

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Western states, at the epicenter of mortgage foreclosures, now see the fallout in skyrocketing bankruptcy filings, up by nearly 61% in the 12 months ending June 30, over the same 2007 period, court statistics show. The states of the...

Federal judge refuses to certify meal, rest period class action against McDonalds

Posted on September 02, 2008
In one of the first cases to cite a recent California appellate decision involving employee meal and rest periods, a federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to certify a class of about 45,000 workers at McDonald's Corp. who allege...

Qualcomm cited for contempt

Posted on September 02, 2008
A federal judge in Los Angeles cited Qualcomm Inc. for contempt of an injunction issued in December to block infringement of four patents for 3G Cellular and Push-to-Talk products owned by Broadcom Corp. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna issued...

Irell & Manella's names co-chairs of emerging tech group

Posted on September 02, 2008
Matthew Sant and Gregory Klein were named the co-chairs of Irell & Manella's emerging technologies group which provides legal and business advice to "innovative companies developing disruptive technologies," according to a firm press release. Sant is a partner at the...

Christensen, Pellicano convicted on two counts of wiretapping charges

Posted on August 29, 2008
Terry Christensen, the lawyer who was accused of paying private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the phones of an opponent in a high-stakes divorce trial, was convicted on two counts of wiretapping charges. A federal jury on Friday convicted Christensen,...

Melvyn Weiss reports for lock-up

Posted on August 28, 2008
Melvyn Weiss, co-founding partner of Milberg, the shareholder class action law firm once called Milberg Weiss, begins his 30-month prison sentence today at a men?s minimum security facility in Morgantown, W.Va. Weiss pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal...

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