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UC Bekerley and USC law professors join UC-Irvine's new law school

Posted on June 20, 2008
Two California law professors are joining UC-Irvine's new law school, The Recorder reported. Rachel F. Moran, a UC Berkeley law professor and director of their Institute for the Study of Social Change, will head UC-Irvine's Donald Bren School of Law....

Aguirre sues public utility over October wildfires

Posted on June 20, 2008
City Attorney Mike Aguirre sued San Diego Gas & Electric yesterday over damages to city property and firefighting costs from the October wildfires, 10 News reported (READ, WATCH). The lawsuit alleges that the power company failed to prevent downed power...

Goodwin Procter names new director of development for the West Coast

Posted on June 20, 2008
Megan M. Propp has joined Goodwin Procter as the firm's director of business development for the West Coast. Propp was the vice president of business development at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto, Calif. She was responsible for business development...

Sidley Austin promotes 4 to partner

Posted on June 20, 2008
Sidley Austin promoted four attorneys to partner at their Los Angeles office. They include litigators Joshua Anderson and Alycia A. Degen, as well as real estate attorney Mitchell Poole and corporate/securities lawyer Joshua Anderson. Press release

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Calling all drivers, using a cellphone could contribute to jail time

Posted on June 19, 2008
California's ban on using a cellphone while driving includes more than a threat of a $20 fine - perhaps more jail time. In a fatal accident where a driver is breaking a traffic law, additional violations add to the possibility...

Supreme court rejects California union law

Posted on June 19, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a California law that prohibited employers from using state money to negatively influence employees view on unions, today. The justices ruled 7-2 that the state is barred from regulating union-related activities by the National Labor...

High school student faces up to 38 years in prison for cheating

Posted on June 19, 2008
Two Orange County high school students face felony charges for allegedly hacking into their school's computers, changing grades and stealing test to help them get into college, the Los Angeles Times reported. One of the two 18-year old students at...

The challenges for same-sex divorces

Posted on June 19, 2008
As same-sex couples marry, CBS 8 outlines the variety of legal challenges facing same-sex couples that divorce (WATCH).

Luce Forward establishes climate change practice

Posted on June 19, 2008
Luce Forward formed a new climate change and sustainable technology practice to serve California industries on issues related to climate change legislation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction regulation. Suzanne Y. Badawi, at the firm's Los Angeles office, will lead the...

Chief Justice Roberts assigns five Philadelphia judges for Kozinski ethics investigation

Posted on June 18, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts named five Philadelphia judges to handle the ethics investigation of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Justice Alex Kozinski. Kozinski requested that Roberts select a different circuit to investigate the complaint of judicial misconduct,...

Vinson & Elkins to pay $4.35 million to San Diego

Posted on June 18, 2008
Texas-based law firm Vinson & Elkins agreed to pay the city of San Diego $4.35 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged a breach of contract and fiduciary duty as well as professional negligence in its investigation of the city's...

Here, queer and legal

Posted on June 18, 2008
Many lawyers and jurists are got married yesterday - the first day that same-sex couples were able to marry in California, The Recorder reported. Among them was Jennifer Pizer, the senior counsel in the Los Angeles office of Lambda Legal...

Two ex-Milberg partners sue partners convicted in kickback scheme

Posted on June 18, 2008
Two former Milberg partners are suing four of the firm's former leaders, claiming their participation in a scheme that paid kickbacks to class action plaintiffs was a breach of fiduciary duty to their partners, The New York Law Journal reported....

Heller Ehrman partner John Benassi joins Cooley

Posted on June 18, 2008
Intellectual property litigator John Benassi joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office as a partner. (press release) Benassi was previously at a partner at Heller Ehrman's San Diego office. Or as Cal Law's Legal Pad puts it, "Another day; another Heller...

L.A. woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong hurt her eye

Posted on June 18, 2008
A 52-year old Los Angeles traffic officer is suing Victoria's Secret, alleging that a decorative metal piece attached to a thong flew off when she was trying it on and hit her in the eye, The Smoking Gun reported. Macrida...

Kozinski declares mistrial in obscenity case

Posted on June 17, 2008
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski declared a mistrial in an case where a Los Angeles filmmaker is accused of distributing criminally obscene sexual videos, the Los Angeles Times reported. Kozinski removed himself from the case as a...

Pellicano attorneys ask for new trial

Posted on June 17, 2008
Attorneys for private investigator Anthony Pellicano are claiming juror misconduct and asking for a new trial, the Associated Press reported. Pellicano was convicted on 76 of 77 counts for illegal wiretapping last month. The attorneys are claiming that some of...

Milberg agrees to pay $75 million to settle kickback charges

Posted on June 17, 2008
Milberg has agreed to pay $75 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in the criminal kickback case against the New York securities firm, according to an announcement from Milberg. After an investigation that spanned nearly a...

Judge tosses lawsuit over Latino underrepresentation on juries

Posted on June 12, 2008
San Diego Superior Court Judge David Gill rejected a challenge by two lawyers that the county's system for summoning juries is unconstitutional because Latinos were underrepresented, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The lawyers, who are representing a man facing the...

Experts mixed in reaction to Kozinski's X-rated Web posts

Posted on June 12, 2008
Legal ethics experts disagree about whether Alex Kozinski, presiding judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, should recuse himself from a federal obscenity trial in Los Angeles after acknowledging that he maintained a personal Web site with sexually...

San Diego and San Bernardino challenge medical marijuana ruling

Posted on June 11, 2008
San Diego and San Bernardino are bringing the first challenge by a county to overturn a medical marijuana law, the North County Times reported. Arguments to overturn Prop. 215 began yesterday, with the two counties claiming that it violates federal...

Rights groups tell same-sex couples not to sue for equal rights under federal law

Posted on June 11, 2008
Nine major civil rights groups advised same-sex couples planning to get married in California not to sue over their unequal treatment under federal law or for their right to marry in other states, in a press release issued Monday. In...

Ex-wife's HIV suit goes to trial

Posted on June 10, 2008
A woman's lawsuit against her ex-husband that claims he infecting her with HIV will go to trial, a Los Angeles judge ruled yesterday. Four months after getting married, Bridget B. and John B. were diagnosed as HIV-positive in October 2000....

Proposed amendments to California professional conduct rules draw fire

Posted on June 09, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Lawyers in California are objecting to three proposed amendments to the state's rules of professional conduct, two of which would carve out exceptions for prosecutors. The most controversial amendment would prohibit lawyers from talking, without consent, to...

Broadcom co-founder and CFO charged with stock option backdating

Posted on June 09, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Broadcom Corp.'s co-founder and former chief executive officer, Henry T. Nicholas, and the former chief financial officer, William Reuhle, have been charged with stock option backdating that lead the Irvine, Calif.-based broadband communications company restate more than...

Father of murder victim says D.A. report politically motivated, holds none to account

Posted on June 09, 2008
The father of a murder victim says that a 66-page report by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, that admits that prosecutor mistakes, fails to hold anyone to account. (See earlier posting on the report here) Monica Thomas-Harris was killed...

Jury to watch hard-core porn to determine if it's obscene

Posted on June 09, 2008
Excited about jury duty? This week, jurors at a Los Angeles courtroom will have to watch four videos of hard-core fetish pornography, that includes bestiality and defecation. It is part of the first case to be brought in Southern California...

Three business lawyers join Sanchez & Amador's Los Angeles office

Posted on June 09, 2008
Susan E. Abitanta and Eric Sanders joined Sanchez & Amador's Los Angeles office as partners. Denise Ustariz also joined the office as an associate. Abitanta, who's worked on federal and state court litigation for over 25 years, focuses on litigating....

Debra Albin-Riley joins Arent Fox as a partner

Posted on June 09, 2008
Litigator Debra Albin-Riley joined Arent Fox's Los Angeles office as a partner. Albin-Riley, who was previously at Winston & Strawn, represents manufacturers and distributors of consumer products in complex commercial litigation and class actions. She has also prosecuted and defended...

Environmental lawyer Scott Burton joins Hunton & Williams as partner

Posted on June 09, 2008
Environmental lawyer Scott Burton joined Hunton & Williams as a partner at their Los Angeles office. Burton represents energy, mining, chemicals and other industries. His work includes water, waste and air permitting and transactional due diligence, and defense of numerous...

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