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Longtime California Judge, Joseph Lodge dies at 76

Posted on May 13, 2008
One of the longest serving judges in California history, Santa Barbara Judge Joseph Lodge died last Monday after a 10 year battle with lymphoma, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 76. Lodge, a Minnesota native, came to California to...

Manatt adds three litigators from MoFo's closed O.C. office

Posted on May 13, 2008
Three Morrison & Foerster litigators joined Manatt Phelp's Orange County office. The move came shortly after MoFo's Orange County office closed, with the head of the office's litigation department and another partner leaving for Manatt. Marilyn D. Martin-Culver and Carole...

Laura Worsinger joins Dykema as of counsel

Posted on May 13, 2008
Laura Worsinger joined Dykema's Los Angeles office as of counsel. Worsinger joins the firm's employment practice group, where she'll help clients in the manufacturing and financial service industries prepare personnel policies as well as strategies and draft employment agreements, consulting...

Bush taps San Diego Judge Michael Anello for federal judgeship

Posted on May 12, 2008
President Bush nominated San Diego Judge Michael Anello to be a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Anello, who was appointed to San Diego Superior Court in 1998 by then Gov. Pete Wilson,...

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FBI releases video of San Diego courthouse bombing

Posted on May 12, 2008
The FBI released a video of the early morning bombing in front of a federal courthouse in San Diego, that fired off 100 nails an shrapnel but didn't injure anyone. The lobby was damaged from the May 4 blast and...

Katten Muchin creates group to protect clients from class actions

Posted on May 12, 2008
Katten Muchin is creating a new practice group that will draw together attorneys focused on protecting clients against consumer class actions. The new group, called the consumer class action practice, will be headed by Stuart Richter, a partner in the...

Corporate partner Craig Andrews leaves Heller Ehrman for DLA Piper

Posted on May 12, 2008
The managing partner of Heller Ehrman's San Diego office left the firm on Friday to join DLA Piper as a partner. Craig Andrews is the fifth corporate partner formerly at Brobeck Phleger to leave Heller Ehrman since April. From late...

IP lawyer Donald McCarthy joins Duane Morris

Posted on May 12, 2008
Donald McCarthy joined Duane Morris' Los Angeles office as a partner in their intellectual property practice. McCarthy has been a trial lawyer for 40 years. He represents manufacturers and distributors of pharmaceuticals, electronics and mechanical parts in patent litigation...

Scott Witlin joins Akin Gump as senior counsel

Posted on May 12, 2008
Scott Witlin joined Akin Gump's Los Angeles office as a senior counsel. Witlin focuses on labor relations and employment law, representing clients in arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations and union organizing campaigns. He also advises clients compliance with guild and union...

Nossaman Guthner adds two to its infrastructure practice

Posted on May 12, 2008
Heather L. DeBlanc and Mitchell Purcell joined Nossaman Guthner's Los Angeles office as associates in the firm's infrastructure practice, The Recorder reported. DeBlanc focuses on project delivery and construction litigation. She was previously at Bergman & Dacey...

L.A. bar association names year's top attorneys and jurists

Posted on May 12, 2008
The criminal justice section of the Los Angeles Bar Association honored it's best on Thursday, the Daily Breeze reported. A career achievement award was given to Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, the first Japanese-American appointed to the federal bench...

Cold hit matches debated at California Supreme Court

Posted on May 09, 2008
California Supreme Court justices all showed little doubt that prosecutors' use of DNA databases to get "cold hit" matches linking defendants old crimes is generally accepted by scientists, The Recorder reported. The questions raised by justices in oral arguments yesterday...

Group sues California over use of lease revenue bonds for prison expansion

Posted on May 09, 2008
A group is suing to block California's $7 billion plan to build 53,000 new jail and prison beds, KPBS reported (LISTEN). The lawsuit was filed by Californians United for a Responsible Budget against Gov. Schwarzenegger, the state treasurer and head...

Loyola Law School launches weekly legal podcasts

Posted on May 09, 2008
On May 5, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles launched a program of free weekly podcasts on legal topics for the general public. The podcasts are disseminated via iTunes U, which distributes course content and other material from colleges and...

Brand-Aide founder heads to Manatt Phelps

Posted on May 09, 2008
Jordan Yospe, founder of the Brand-Aide Entertainment Group, has joined Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Yospe, who previously was general counsel and head of business and legal affairs for Mark Burnett Productions, will join as counsel in the advertising,...

Firm linked to Pellicano wiretapping case rests easy as trial ends

Posted on May 08, 2008
As jury deliberations began this month in the federal government's illegal wiretapping case against celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, lawyers at Los Angeles' Greenberg Glusker breathed a sigh of relief. Two current lawyers and one former lawyer at the firm testified...

All candidates deemed 'not qualified' for L.A. Superior Court seat

Posted on May 08, 2008
All of the candidates for an open seat on Los Angeles Superior Court were deemed "not qualified" by the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. This was the first time in at least 18 years where no...

Legal Aid Foundation moves out of South L.A. office

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles is moving from its South Los Angeles office to 254 W. 70th Street, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. The old office will close at the end of the month and the new office will...

O.C. begin first death penalty cases in a year

Posted on May 08, 2008
Today began the first two death penalty trials in Orange County in a year, reported "The Crime Scene," a blog by the Orange County Register. A second penalty trial begins for Michael Lamb, a white supremacist hit man convicted for...

CA high court dismisses death sentence, finds DAs withheld evidence

Posted on May 07, 2008
The California Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a death sentence on Monday after finding that prosecutors withheld evidence, The Recorder reported. (In re Miranda) The prosecutors in the 1982 case include L.A. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, O.C. Superior Court Judge...

Unregistered domestic partners can be putative spouses, appeals court rules

Posted on May 07, 2008
Californians who incorrectly believe they are in a registered domestic partnership are entitled to the rights and responsibilities given to registered partners, an appellate court ruled yesterday. (In re the Domestic Partnership of Darrin Ellis and David James Arriaga) The...

State Senate proposes $5 billion to fix California courthouses

Posted on May 07, 2008
The state Senate's top Democrat says that courthouses in California are overcrowded and unsafe. Legislation being pushed by State Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata would provide $5 billion in bonds to fix the worst 40 court buildings, KPBS News reported...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Patricia L. Collins retires, joins ADR Services

Posted on May 07, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia L. Collins retired from the bench on Monday and joined ADR Services, where she'll handle mediations, arbitrations, private trials, and discovery. Collins had been a Superior Court judge for 16 years and was a...

O'Melveny real estate partner Tom Muller joins Manatt

Posted on May 07, 2008
Real estate attorney Tom Muller joined Manatt Phelps' Los Angeles office as a partner. Muller represents public-held and private companies and financial institutions in commercial real estate transactions. Muller is the third partner at O'Melveny & Myers to move to...

Bankruptcy lawyer Rebecca Winthrop joins Ballard Spahr in L.A.

Posted on May 07, 2008
Bankruptcy lawyer Rebecca J. Winthrop joined Ballard Spahr's Los Angeles office as of counsel. Winthrop represents financial institutions in commercial lending transactions, workouts and bankruptcies. She also works on documenting and closing complex loan transactions.

Healthcare providers sue state over Medi-Cal cuts

Posted on May 06, 2008
A coalition of the California's most powerful health care providers is suing the state to block the $1.3 billion cut in payments to them for treating people covered by Medi-Cal, the Wall Street Journal reported. The cut will keep pharmacists...

ABA President issues statement on San Diego bombing

Posted on May 06, 2008
The bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse on Sunday demonstrated the need to tighten security at all courthouses, American Bar Association President William Neukom said in a press release. Courts serve as "a neutral, safe place to resolve dispute...

Man wins right to take his wife's last name

Posted on May 06, 2008
A Marina Del Rey man won a three year legal battle claiming sex discrimination in the issuance of marriage and driver's licenses, CBS 2 reports. (WATCH) Michael Buday wanted to take the last name of his wife, Diana Bijon. While...

Appeal Court overturns sexual assault conviction because strength of DNA evidence overestimated

Posted on May 06, 2008
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a man sentenced to life in prison must be freed or retried because the strength of the DNA evidence against him was overestimated by a prosecution expert, the Los Angeles Times...

Two high-ranking Republicans call for Milberg Weiss-related hearings in Congress

Posted on May 06, 2008
Referring to the kickback issue at the heart of the federal government's case against Milberg Weiss as "a cancerous growth" and an "economic threat" that threatens American jobs, two high-ranking Republican Congressmen have called on House Judiciary Committee Chairman John...

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