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Three DLA Piper partners join McDermott Will

Posted on June 09, 2008
Three DLA Piper partners joined McDermott Will's Los Angeles office as partners. All three focus on finance and restructuring work. Gary Rosenbaum works on commercial finance, private equity and mezzanine investments, workouts and restructurings, venture lending and leasing and other...

Dominique Shelton joins Wildman Harrold as a partner

Posted on June 09, 2008
Dominique R. Shelton joined Wildman Harrold's Los Angeles office as a partner. Shelton focuses on complex commercial litigation, particularly focusing on intellectual property litigation, unfair competition and antitrust. Shelton was previously at Kaye Scholer

Veteran patent counselor joins Townsend and Townsend's San Diego office

Posted on June 09, 2008
Intellectual property counselor Katherine White joined Townsend and Townsend's San Diego office as special counsel. White specifically focuses on patent portfolio development, patent prosecution and IP due diligence. She was previously the vice president and senior counsel for intellectual property...

Judge sends lawyer to jail for tardiness

Posted on June 06, 2008
There's an immeasurable difference between late and too late. Defense attorney Stephen Hollingsworth was too late, too often. A Los Angeles judge, frustrated with regular lateness and absences of Hollingsworth, put him in jail for two days after he showed...

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Heller IP litigator goes to Cooley Godward

Posted on June 06, 2008
Jessica Wolff joined the San Diego office of Cooley Godward as a partner. Wolff was previously a shareholder at Heller Ehrman's San Diego office. She'll continue as an intellectual property litigator and patent counselor in the life sciences sector. Wolff...

California Supreme Court denies delay on same-sex marriages

Posted on June 05, 2008
The California Supreme Court denied the petition for a rehearing and a stay their ruling on same-sex until November. Yesterday's order didn't provide information on how the justices reached their decision, just that the three dissenting justices voted to grant...

Appellate court OK's transfer of inmates to other states

Posted on June 05, 2008
The 3rd District Court of Appeal upheld Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to transfer prisoners to other states due to overcrowding, the Sacramento Bee reported. The ruling, which reversed a trial judge's finding that the 2006 plan was illegal and unconstitutional,...

State agrees to settlement providing juvenile parole violators with lawyers and timely hearings

Posted on June 05, 2008
A tentative settlement was reached in a federal class-action lawsuit where juvenile parole violators are claiming prison officials violated their constitutional rights, the Los Angeles Times reported. According the Youth Law Center, who are working on the case, the state...

Calif. bar proposes posting misconduct charges online

Posted on June 05, 2008
Getting the details on attorneys accused of misconduct may become much easier if a controversial proposal by the State Bar of California wins approval. The California bar association is considering a plan to post charges of misconduct against attorneys ?...

Conservative lawyer denied communion for supporting Obama

Posted on June 05, 2008
Pepperdine Law School professor Douglas Kmiec was denied communion at his church, because he supported pro-choice candidate Barack Obama, National Public Radio reported. (LISTEN) Kmiec was previously dean of The Catholic University and constitutional legal counsel in the Office of...

San Diego grand jury calls to clarify job of city attorney's office

Posted on June 05, 2008
The San Diego County grand jury recommended that the job of the city attorney's office be clarified and put to voters, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. They pointed to a city committee's review of the City Charter section on the...

Prosecutors admit to screw-ups that led to woman's death

Posted on June 05, 2008
Los Angeles prosecutors admitted that their mistakes allowed a murder-suicide to take place, the Los Angeles Times reported. After agreeing to a 16 month prison sentence for kidnapping and threatening Monica Thomas-Harris with a stun gun, her husband Curtis Harris...

Long-time L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Gerald Richardson retires

Posted on June 05, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Gerald Richardson retired in May after 20 years of service, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. It's unclear what prompted Richardson's retirement. MetNews found one person who thought Richardson had already retired and was on the East...

Head of Weiland Golden's litigation department joins Allen Matkins in Del Mar Heights

Posted on June 05, 2008
Michael Adele joined Allen Matkins' Del Mar Heights office as senior counsel. Adele was previously the head of Weiland Golden's litigation department and before that he helped found and lead Cooley Godward's San Diego litigation practice. Adele focuses on general...

June 3 Election Results

Posted on June 04, 2008
Cooley wins third term as L.A. Dist. Atty. Incumbent Steve Cooley won a third term as Los Angeles County District Attorney. Cooley took 64% of the vote. Albert Robles took 20% of the vote and Steve Ipsen got 15%. Runoff...

Retired L.A. judge Robert Einstein died at 83

Posted on June 04, 2008
Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Einstein died yesterday, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. He was 83. Einstein, a Chicago native, started a practice in East L.A. in 1953 and in 1981 was appointed to Los Angeles Superior Court by...

Intitiative to ban same-sex marriage will go to November vote

Posted on June 03, 2008
The initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California will go to voters in November. The Secretary of State announced yesterday that the initiative got more than the 694,354 signatures needed to qualify. If passed, it would amend California's constitution to...

Calif. ruling alters statute of limitations in stolen trade secret actions

Posted on June 03, 2008
Trade secret owners in California may have less time to sue for theft of secrets than first appeared and may even lose legal protection if they don't take quick action against suspected theft. A California appeals court in San Jose...

Calif. Supreme Court rules prosecutors don't have right to mental exams

Posted on June 03, 2008
Prosecutors can't make a criminal defendant undergo a mental examination by one of their experts, the California Supreme Court ruled. The high court ruled unanimously yesterday that: 1. "A mental examination is a form of discovery subject to the criminal...

Burke Williams picks up Menlo Park firm

Posted on June 03, 2008
Los Angeles-based Burke Williams picked up the six-attorney Menlo park firm Kay & Stevens, The Recorder reported. At least five of Kay & Stevens' attorneys will lead the Menlo park office. Burke Williams plans for the office to grow to...

More maternity and paternity leave at Heller Ehrman

Posted on June 03, 2008
Heller Ehrman increased its parental leave and changed its part-time policy last month, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported. Paid leave was increased from six weeks to 10 weeks for "primary caregivers" and from six to eight weeks for disability leave...

Melvyn Weiss gets 30 months for role as a "chief architect" in kickback scheme

Posted on June 03, 2008
A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced class-action attorney Melvyn Weiss to 30 months in federal prison for his role as one of the chief architects in a scheme where millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks were given to named...

State bar will have its third woman president next year, but who?

Posted on June 02, 2008
Three female members of the California Bar Association board of governors are running to become president of the state bar, the California Bar Journal reported. Next year's president will be the third woman* to hold the post and be a...

10 Republican Attorneys General ask for stay on same-sex marriage ruling

Posted on June 02, 2008
Ten Republican state attorneys general sent papers asking the California Supreme Court to stay its ruling on same-sex marriage until November. Cal Law's Legal Pad provides the attorney generals' letter to the state high court here. The attorneys general* claimed...

Milberg closed to settling kickback case

Posted on June 02, 2008
Milberg is close to reaching a settlement over its alleged kickback scheme, the Wall Street Journal reported. The class action firm, previously known as Milberg Weiss, would pay around $75 million, the WSJ reported. The WSJ cited "two people familiar...

Prosecutors re-assert Weiss' 'criminal arrogance'

Posted on June 02, 2008
Federal prosecutors in the government's kickback case against Milberg are disputing claims made last week by the firm's co-founder, Melvyn Weiss, who stated that his wrongdoing, while punishable, did not amount to "criminal arrogance," according to court papers filed on...

Associate Justice Laurie Zelon to chair family law task force

Posted on June 02, 2008
Laurie D. Zelon, associate justice at 2nd District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles, will chair a state task force on family law. The Elkins Family Law Task Force "will conduct a comprehensive review of family law proceedings and recommend...

Chula Vista City Attorney Ann Moore to retire

Posted on June 02, 2008
Chula Vista City Attorney Ann Y. Moore is retiring on Thursday and will join San Diego's Norton Moore as a senior partner, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Moore began as an assistant city attorney in 1995 and was appointed city...

Rosalind Tyson to head SEC's L.A. regional office

Posted on May 30, 2008
Rosalind Tyson was named head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Los Angeles regional office, The Recorder reported. The selection of Tyson, who started as acting regional director at the L.A. Regional Office* last summer, shows that the SEC is...

Are viewer contests on reality shows are illegal lotteries?

Posted on May 30, 2008
A pending court decision in California could split with a recent Georgia ruling in determining whether interactive games on reality television shows constitute illegal lotteries, The National Law Journal reported. In California, eight class actions were against producers of reality...

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