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Two Akin Gump partners join Hunton Williams in L.A.

Posted on July 01, 2008
Akin Gump partners Roland Juarez and Laura Franze are joining Hunton & Williams' Los Angeles office, The Recorder reported. Franze will also spend some time in Houston and Juarez will commute between L.A. and Dallas. Juarez was previously in Akin...

Nossaman Guthner mergers with D.C. firm

Posted on July 01, 2008
Los Angeles-based Nossaman Guthner merged with Washington, D.C.-based O'Connor & Hannan today, adding 23 more lawyers and lobbyists. The combined firm includes 150 lawyers and lobbyists and eight offices. The firm is changing its name today to Nossaman, except at...

ICE attorney arrested for taking bribes

Posted on June 30, 2008
A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife were arrested on Thursday for allegedly taking thousands of dollars in bribes from documented and undocumented immigrants. Constantine Kallas, ICE Assistant Chief Counsel, and Maria Kallas were arrested...

Yorba Linda attorney charged in $154 million medical scam

Posted on June 30, 2008
Attorney Roy Dickson and his accountant were charged over their alleged role in a $154 million rent-a-patient scam in Orange County. It is the largest medical insurance scam in the country, CBS 2 reported. Dickson, an attorney at now defunct...

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Three litigators join Archer Norris and launch financial services practice

Posted on June 30, 2008
Steven Kester and Francis Quinlan joined Archer Norris in Newport Beach as of counsel. The two attorneys plan to create a financial services and specialty practice group at the firm. They were previously the founding partners of the 22-year old...

L.A. judge Coleman Swart to retire after 26 years

Posted on June 27, 2008
Los Angles Superior Court judge Coleman Swart will retire on Sept.15, after nearly 26 years on the bench, and join ADR Services, Inc. The 68 year old told the Metropolitan News-Enterprise he's making the change to make more money, since...

Senior 9th Circuit judge and civil rights advocate Warren Ferguson dies at 87

Posted on June 27, 2008
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal judge Warren Ferguson died on Wednesday of heart failure, The Recorder reported. He was 87. Ferguson was born in Nevada and moved to Los Angeles in 1946. He settled in Fullerton, went into private practice...

Stefan Boedeker joins Resolution Economics as partner

Posted on June 27, 2008
Stefan Boedeker joined the Los Angeles-based Resolution Economics, a litigation and economic advisory firm, as a partner. Boedeker specializes in using economic, statistical and financial models to solve business issues and complex litigation cases. Boedeker was previously an expert at...

Retired L.A. judge Richard Curtis joins ADR Services

Posted on June 27, 2008
Recently retired Los Angeles judge Richard Curtis joined alternative dispute resolution company, ADR Services. Curtis spent 25 years on the family law bench in Los Angeles County. Before that, he worked as a deputy public defender for 11 years.

Robert Harrison joins Wilson Elser as partner in San Diego

Posted on June 27, 2008
Robert Harrison joined Wilson Elser's San Diego office as a partner. Harrison will focus on civil litigation with an emphasis on defending professional liability for health care workers, lawyers, accountants and brokers. He was previously the Pacific regional director of...

O.C. Judge Kelly MacEachern removed from bench

Posted on June 26, 2008
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly MacEachern was removed from the bench, in a ruling made public today. MacEachern is the first OC judge to ever be removed, according to the O.C. Register. The Commission on Judicial Performance ruling (here)...

Judge tosses lawsuit on LAPD asking immigration status

Posted on June 26, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu tossed a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles resident against a three-decade old order that prohibits police from asking arrestees their immigration status, the Los Angeles Times reported. Yesterday, Treu ruled in favor...

California Supreme Court won't review Spector claim that judge was biased

Posted on June 26, 2008
The California Supreme Court denied the petition to review Phil Spector's claim that the judge in his first murder trial was biased and should be disqualified from his second trial, the Associated Press reported. Lawyers for Spector claimed that Superior...

Calif. AG sues Countrywide, alleging unfair, deceptive practices

Posted on June 26, 2008
Troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. misled borrowers with unfair and deceptive practices that led them to take out risky home loans, according to a lawsuit filed on June 25 by California Attorney General Jerry Brown. The suit came one...

Former San Diego U.S. Attorney challenged why DOJ rejected applicant

Posted on June 26, 2008
Before being fired, former San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam inquired into why the Department of Justice rejected a young attorney, KPBS reported (LISTEN). Lam thought it might be because the attorney clerked for a Clinton appointee and wrote an...

Justice Miriam Vogel to retire next week

Posted on June 26, 2008
After nearly two decades on the 2nd Appellate District Court of Appeal, Justice Miriam A. Vogel is retiring next Thursday, the Metropolitan News Enterprise reported. Vogel's retirement was expected after Gov. Schwarzenegger appointed Justice Robert Mallano as presiding justice for...

Disbarred attorney attacks lawyer in court

Posted on June 25, 2008
Disbarred attorney Darnel Parker was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting a lawyer during a civil proceeding at the Larson Justice Center, KNBC reported. Family law attorney John Gallegos told KNBC that Parker threatened him in court, angry over previous defeats...

Broadcom co-founder enters guilty plea

Posted on June 25, 2008
The co-founder and former chief technical officer of Broadcom Corp., Henry Samueli, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission during an investigation of stock options backdating at the company. Samueli is the latest executive...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Zweiback joins Weston Benshoof

Posted on June 25, 2008
Former assistant U.S Attorney Michael Zweiback joined Weston Benshoof's Los Angeles office as a partner. Zweiback was head of the cyber and intellectual property crimes section at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. He will lead Weston Benshoof's expansion...

Hastings College of Law receives $1M anonymous donation

Posted on June 25, 2008
Administrators at the University of California Hastings College of the Law were delighted to receive an anonymous $1 million contribution to boost financial aid. The contribution is the largest donation for student financial assistance in the 130-year history of the...

Sidley Austin promotes four in L.A. to partner

Posted on June 25, 2008
Sidley Austin promoted four attorneys to partner at their Los Angeles office. Joshua Anderson focuses on appeals and complex, multiparty litigation in state and federal courts. Corporate and securities lawyer Stephen Blevit works on structuring, negotiating and documenting complex business...

Kozinski's authority as chief judge limited until Web site issue is resolved

Posted on June 24, 2008
Prominent Kirkland & Ellis white-collar defense specialist Mark C. Holscher will defend Chief Judge Alex Kozinski in the pending discipline investigation under review at the 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the 9th Circuit has confirmed. Kozinski, who presides over...

U.S. Supreme Court to review case weighing environmental protection and Navy training

Posted on June 24, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court will review a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that limited the Navy's use of sonar off California's coast during training sessions because of its harm to marine mammals, the Los Angeles Times reported. In January,...

Attorney-client calls recorded at San Diego jail

Posted on June 23, 2008
The San Diego Sheriff's Department stopped recording prisoner phone calls last week after it was discovered that conversations between defense attorneys and clients were also being recorded and made easily accessible to prosecutors. Sanford Toyen, an attorney for the Sheriff's...

Same-sex marriage supporters ask high court to block initiative

Posted on June 23, 2008
Supporters of same-sex marriage filed a legal brief asking the California Supreme Court to block a November ballot initiative that would change the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. They argue in the brief that the initiative isn't an amendment,...

Experiment to cut L.A. backlog in traffic cases could be used elsewhere

Posted on June 23, 2008
Six judges managed to hear 2,500 traffic cases last week, volunteering as part of an experiment to clear the backlog in traffic cases at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Courthouse. Presiding Judge Stephen Czuleger told the Metropolitan New-Enterprise that the program...

Angela J. Reddock joins Strategic Counsel as of counsel

Posted on June 23, 2008
Angela J. Reddock joined Strategic Counsel, a Los Angeles-based law, advocacy and communications firm, as of counsel. Reddock was previously a partner at Carroll Burdick, where she co-chaired the employment litigation and counseling group. At Strategic Counsel, she'll advise and...

Jeremy Jung joins Best Best & Kreiger as an associate

Posted on June 23, 2008
Jeremy Jung joined Best Best & Krieger's San Diego office as an associate. Jung was previously a deputy city attorney for the cities of San Diego, Imperial Beach, Solana Beach and Calexico. He'll join the office's schools practice group, working...

Five L.A. judges volunteer to clear backlog of traffic cases

Posted on June 20, 2008
Five judges volunteered this week to try to clear the six-month backlog of traffic cases at Los Angeles Count Metropolitan Courthouse by a month, the Daily News reported.. The judges plan to hear the 2,250 misdemeanor traffic arraignments that have...

Jury selection for man accused of murdering O.C. attorney

Posted on June 20, 2008
Jury selection continues for Michael Anunciation of Palm Springs, who is accused of strangling of O.C. litigator Garvin Shallenberger in 2006, KNBC reported (here). Anunciation faces up to 25 years to life in state prison if convicted on charges of...

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