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UCLA law dean says students haggling for scholarships

Posted on July 14, 2008
A tip to law students -- haggle over merit-based scholarships. Students who show their best scholarship offer from one school to the dean of students at another school are increasingly getting the offer matched, UCLA law dean Michael Schill told...

O.C. gives first death sentence since 2005

Posted on July 14, 2008
Ex-felon and police informant Anthony Navarro was sentenced to death on Friday coordinating a murder-for-hire plot, the Orange County Register reported. The ruling by Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno is the first death sentence in Orange County since...

Holly Fujie elected president of State Bar of California

Posted on July 14, 2008
Los Angeles attorney Holly J. Fujie was elected president of the State Bar of California. Fujie, a partner at Buchalter Nemer, is the third woman* to hold the post in 81 years. The election was the first time that all...

Orrick adds IP litigator William Wright as partner in L.A.

Posted on July 14, 2008
Intellectual property litigator William Wright joined Orrick Herrington's Los Angeles office as a partner. Wright has worked on litigating patent, copyright and trade secret disputes, counseling in patent infringement and validity matters, developing intellectual property strategies for companies and patent...

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Pamela L.Hemminger elected chair of California Law Review Commission

Posted on July 14, 2008
Los Angeles attorney Pamela L. Hemminger was elected chair of the California Law Review Commission, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Hemminger is a partner at Gibson Dunn, where she focuses on labor and employment law, representing management...

L.A. attorney Amy Goldman named president of California Bankruptcy Forum

Posted on July 14, 2008
Los Angeles attorney Amy Goldman was named the new president of the California Bankruptcy Forum, The Recorder reported. Goldman was previously vice-president of the group and has been on its board of directors for over a decade. She replaces Allen...

L.A. attorney James Aguirre elected to State Bar Board of Governors

Posted on July 14, 2008
Attorney James Aguirre was elected to the State Bar Board of Governors, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Aguirre is the lead attorney at Richardson and Fair's Los Angeles office and house counsel to the Automobile Club of Southern California...

Nudists sue state

Posted on July 11, 2008
People filed a lawsuit against the state for the right to be naked at a San Diego County beach. The Naturist Action Committee filed the lawsuit at Orange County Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming that State Department of Parks and...

State high court will rule on constitutionality of Jessica's Law

Posted on July 11, 2008
The California Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Jessica's Law yesterday, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise. The defendant in People v. McKee was involuntarily committed to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health for an indeterminate term...

Court of Appeal Justice Candace Cooper to retire

Posted on July 11, 2008
After nearly three decades on the bench, Court of Appeal Justice Candace Cooper will retire by the end of the year, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Cooper, who is the presiding justice on this district's Div. Eight, told MetNews that she...

Winston & Strawn private equity head goes to Kaye Scholer

Posted on July 11, 2008
G. Thomas Stromberg joined the Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office as a partner in the corporate and finance department. Stromberg focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, corporate governance issues and general corporate matters...

NLJ editor joins UC-Irvine's law school as director of communications

Posted on July 10, 2008
Rex Bossert, the editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, joined UC-Irvine's new law school as the director of communications. "What truly excites me about joining the UC Irvine School of Law is the prospect of helping [law dean Erwin Chemerinsky]...

Calif. prisoners with Hepatitis C file lawsuit alleging crappy care

Posted on July 09, 2008
California inmates with hepatitis C are filed federal lawsuit in Los Angeles yesterday that claims they aren't getting necessary medical care, the Associated Press reported (here). The filing estimates as many as two in five state prisoners (about 74,000) have...

Judicial candidate Kermit Marsh violated campaign law 26 times

Posted on July 09, 2008
One of the candidates for Orange County judge, facing a November runoff, has violated campaign law 26 times, the Orange County Register's political blog Total Buzz reported. The violations by attorney and Westminster City Councilmember Kermit Marsh happened in his...

Federal appellate judges criticize immigration judges

Posted on July 08, 2008
Federal appellate judges continue to criticize immigration judges and Department of Homeland Security litigation tactics, The National Law Journal reported. The article provides two examples at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In one case, the 9th Circuit ordered a...

Munger Tolles tops The American Lawyer's A-List, first L.A. firm to do so

Posted on July 08, 2008
Munger Tolles took the top spot on The American Lawyer magazine's 6th annual A-List of the nation's elite law firms, the first Los Angeles-based firm to do so. For the past four years New York-based firm Debevoise & Plimpton had...

Allen Easley takes reins at University of La Verne law school

Posted on July 08, 2008
Long-time educator Allen Easley joined the University of La Verne as their new law dean. Easley spent the last four years as president, dean and a law professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn. Before that,...

Seyfarth Shaw nabs DLA Piper partner Jon Meer

Posted on July 08, 2008
Jon Meer joined Seyfarth Shaw's Los Angeles office as a partner. Meer was previously at DLA Piper, where he chaired the L.A. labor and employment law practice. Meer represents employers and management, focusing on class action litigation, wage and hour...

Knobbe Martin expands, but aims to keep its culture

Posted on July 07, 2008
Intellectual property boutique Knobbe Martens is expanding for the first time outside of California. The Irvine, Calif.-based firm opened offices in Seatle and Washington, D.C. and is looking at potential offices in Chicago, Boston, London, Tokyo and Munich, Germany...

California lawyers among the advisors for Obama and McCain

Posted on July 07, 2008
Several California lawyers are advising two of the main U.S. presidential candidates on future appointments to the federal judiciary. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumptive Republican nominee, brought on Theodore Olson, a partner at L.A.-based Gibson Dunn and former U...

Lawyers rethinking how they work with private investigators

Posted on July 07, 2008
Lawyers are rethinking how they work with private investigators, as Los Angeles lawyer Terry Christensen goes to trial next Wednesday, charged with paying celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano over $100,000 to illegally wiretap some of his opponents. Regardless of the verdict,...

Two IP litigators join Sheppard Mullin in the O.C.

Posted on July 07, 2008
Intellectual property litigators Jenni fer A. Trusso and Steven Hanle joined Sheppard Mullin's Orange County office as partners. They were both previously partners at Stradling Yocca's Orange County office. Trusso and Hanle focus on patent litigation involving pharmaceuticals and medical...

Corporate attorney Michael Goldstein joins Greenberg Traurig

Posted on July 07, 2008
Corporate restructuring attorney Michael Goldstein joined Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office as a partner. Goldstein was previously a senior shareholder at bankruptcy boutique Stutmen Treister. He has represented debtors in a variety of industries, including chemicals, finance, healthcare, hospitality, high-tech...

Jacobson & Han opens Encino office

Posted on July 03, 2008
Immigration firm Jacobson & Han opened an office in Encino on Tuesday. The office is the firm's fourth and will be lead by the Nikki Mehrpoo Jacobson and Susan S. Han, the firm's founders. It will focus on immigration deportation...

Onus on defense attorneys to block recording of calls with San Diego inmates

Posted on July 03, 2008
San Diego criminal defense attorneys weren't happy to hear that phone calls between defense attorneys and inmate clients were recorded and made easily accessible to prosecutors. The San Diego Sheriff's Department said it was an accident and quickly ceased recording...

Calif. bar proposes new rule cracking down on resignations

Posted on July 03, 2008
A disciplinary committee of the State Bar of California is proposing a new rule that would require attorneys to face perjury charges if, in voluntarily resigning, they fail to state any criminal charges or convictions against them. The new rule,...

UnitedHealth agrees to settle federal class action over backdating with $895M payment

Posted on July 03, 2008
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the Minneapolis-based health care provider that was sued over about $2 billion in unexercised backdated stock options, has agreed to pay $895 million to settle a federal class action. The proposed settlement, crafted by lead counsel Coughlin...

IP litigator Robert Dickerson joins Orrick as partner

Posted on July 03, 2008
Intellectual property litigator Robert Dickerson joined Orrick Herrington's Los Angeles office as a partner. Eight IP lawyers have joined Orrick's Los Angeles and Orange County offices in the past five months. Dickerson was previously the head of the IP group...

Commission gives many recommendations for "dysfunctional" death penalty system

Posted on July 01, 2008
The death penalty system in California is dysfunctional, a state commission found. The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice released its tenth and final report of the administration of the death penalty in California, yesterday...

Riverside judge gives 1,330 year sentence for child molestation

Posted on July 01, 2008
A convicted sex offender was given a 1,330 year prison sentence yesterday for molesting two girls in Hemit, Calif. The 44-year old man was convicted of 11 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, one count of...

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