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California appeals court upholds $941,000 legal malpractice verdict against Wilson Elser

Posted on May 30, 2008
A California appeals court has upheld a $941,000 legal malpractice verdict against Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, but has thrown out $1.7 million of the original award given to the firm's former client. The California Court of Appeal, Second...

Attorney General tells high court to ignore requests to delay same-sex marriage

Posted on May 30, 2008
The state attorney general's office told the California Supreme Court to ignore requests by conservative legal groups to rehear or stay the decision on same-sex marriage until November, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported. The California Attorney General's Office, which argued...

Emily Graham named director of civil central staff at state high court

Posted on May 30, 2008
The state high court named Emily Graham as the director of the court's civil central staff, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. The director oversees 14 attorneys who help the high court, as it decides which cases to take, and prepares memoranda...

Study finds disabled inmates discriminated against by Sheriff's Department

Posted on May 29, 2008
A recent study concludes that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in its treatment of disabled inmates, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 31-page study, commissioned by the ACLU of Southern California and...

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High court appears to side against doctors in lesbian insemination case

Posted on May 29, 2008
The California Supreme Court indicated during oral arguments yesterday that it would find that doctors can't claim their religious beliefs as a reason to deny medical services to gay, bisexual and lesbian people, The Recorder reported. The Los Angeles Times...

Family of man accused in pro-surfer killing sues Pacific Law Center

Posted on May 29, 2008
The Pacific Law Center is being accused of fraud and unlawful business practices by the family of one of the men charged in the death of a professional surfer, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The family's suit claims that the...

Calif. Senate passes pay parity bill for state attorneys

Posted on May 29, 2008
The state Senate passed a bill on that aims to increase the pay for California's 3,400 state-employed attorneys, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported. SB 1718, which passed with a 34-4 vote on Tuesday, requires the Department of Personnel Administration to...

Aguirre plans to sue public utility over wildfires

Posted on May 29, 2008
San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre plans to ask the City Council to sue a San Diego Gas & Electric Co. for up to $20 million in damages for last fall's wildfires, 10 News reported. Meanwhile, the company has a...

Facing sentencing, Weiss downplays bad acts

Posted on May 29, 2008
Melvyn Weiss, the co-founding partner of Milberg Weiss, said his meeting with a representative of a paid plaintiff was "less sinister" than the federal government alleges and that his failure to turn over a subpoenaed fax was bad judgment, not...

Malpractice insurance proposal approved by state bar

Posted on May 28, 2008
The State Bar Board of Governors voted 16-4 to require lawyers without malpractice insurance to share that information with their clients and the state bar, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. The proposed rule, which now goes to the California Supreme Court,...

Former L.A. mayor Hahn under consideration for Superior Court appointment

Posted on May 28, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering former Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn as a possible appointee to Los Angeles Superior Court, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported, citing "a source close to the process." Hahn currently works at the Alternative Resolution Center...

AG Brown agrees to proposed program cuts by state budget committee

Posted on May 28, 2008
Attorney General Jerry Brown agreed to eliminate several programs, including a crime prevention program with ties to his father, as the state tries to fill a $17 billion budget deficit, The Recorder reported. A state Senate budget committee voted to....

Blackwater sues San Diego

Posted on May 28, 2008
Military contractor Blackwater Worldwide filed a lawsuit against the city of San Diego to restore its occupancy permit for a Navy training facility, KPBS reported (LISTEN). City officials issued the permit and then took it back on May 16 after...

Challenges with the child porn crackdown

Posted on May 28, 2008
The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego has increased its number of child pornography prosecutions by about 40 percent, U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt told the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Justice Department filed 27 percent more indictments over child pornography in...

UPDATE: Same-sex marriage ruling

Posted on May 27, 2008
Opponents ask high court to stay ruling until November Opponents of same-sex marriage filed a petition to stay the California Supreme Court's decision that found the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Opponents want the court to wait for the results...

Possibly thousands more inmates in L.A. with draft overcrowding settlement

Posted on May 27, 2008
A proposed federal court settlement to ease overcrowding in California's prisons would have a big impact on Los Angeles, the L.A. Times reported. The settlement would send low-risk offenders into county-level jails, treatment programs or use other alternatives to prison...

Judges rejects request for early release of inmates

Posted on May 27, 2008
A judge rejected the Sheriff's Department's request to release some inmates early to relieve jail overcrowding, the Orange County Register reported. While the Sheriff's Department claimed the emergency order was needed because there could be more inmates than there are...

First taco truck cited by new law

Posted on May 27, 2008
The first taco truck was cited under a new city ordinance law making it a misdemeanor for mobile vendors to stay parked for over an hour. One of the reasons given by supporters of the law claims that restaurants are...

California has 10 of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in America

Posted on May 27, 2008
Ten of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in the country are in California, The National Law Journal reported. The top 50 minority lawyers were selected by NLJ editors after sifting through readers' nominations of candidates who've had a national...

Two attorneys buy up L.A.'s historic downtown buildings

Posted on May 27, 2008
High profile attorneys Brian Kabateck and Mark Geragos are buying up historical buildings in downtown Los Angeles, the L.A. Times reported. They just purchased the Fine Arts Building in downtown L.A. for $23.5 million and already own a nearby former....

Mel Weiss asks judge for leniency in sentencing

Posted on May 27, 2008
Securities plaintiff's lawyer Melvyn Weiss, the convicted co-founding partner of Milberg Weiss, has asked a federal judge to sentence him to a term of 18 months, the minimum term allowable under a plea agreement he reached with federal prosecutors earlier...

Oversight committee: White House influenced on EPA decision on greenhouse gas waiver

Posted on May 23, 2008
A congressional oversight committee alleged that the White House influenced the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny California's tailpipe emissions waiver, the Los Angeles Times reported. Califomia's petition to adopt stricter standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light-duty...

Milberg firm moves to reduce criminal forfeiture

Posted on May 23, 2008
Milberg Weiss has filed a pre-trial motion to chip away at the $251 million in criminal forfeiture being sought by federal prosecutors in the government's kickback case against the New York firm. Prosecutors allege that Milberg Weiss, now known as...

Irvine attorney Mark Alan Wright dies in motorcycle crash at 53

Posted on May 23, 2008
Irvine attorney Mark Alan Wright died in a motorcycle crash on I-395 on Monday night, the Orange County Register reported. He was 53. The motorcycle skidded onto its side, throwing off Wright and Deborah Robinson, a passenger riding on the...

O.C. Judge Pamela Lee Iles retires

Posted on May 23, 2008
Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Lee Iles is retiring, after 25 years on the bench, next month, the Orange County Register reported. Iles started out as a public defender and deputy district attorney in Orange County in the 1970s....

Veteran trusts and estates lawyer joins Luce Forward

Posted on May 23, 2008
Trusts and estates lawyer Barry Fitzpatrick joined Luce Forward's Rancho Santa Fe office as of counsel. Fitzpatrick was previously at Newnham Fitzpatrick, working on estate planning, wills and trusts as well as estate and trust administration. He is the director...

Spector's second murder trial to start in the fall

Posted on May 22, 2008
Phil Spector's second murder trial is set for Sept. 29, the Los Angeles Times reported. L.A. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler set a hearing on motions for July 29. Spector's lawyers are challenging whether Fidler can take the case...

John Yslas joins Foley & Lardner as senior counsel

Posted on May 22, 2008
John Yslas joined Foley & Lardner's Los Angeles office as senior counsel. Yslas represents employers in state and federal claims of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, unequal pay, misappropriation of trade secrets and constitutional rights violations...

Judge rejects motion to move Carona trial over shock jocks

Posted on May 22, 2008
U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford rejected the motion to move the corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona, the Los Angeles Times reported. The motion to move the trial was largely brought on by an AM talk radio...

No write-in campaign against six Latino judges

Posted on May 22, 2008
A write-in campaign that targeted six Los Angeles Superior Court seats, because they were held by Latino men, has failed, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. The launch of the write-in campaign by Rev. Ronald Tan in Carson was reported by the....

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