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San Diego Chief Deputy City Attorney steps down

Posted on May 06, 2008
A top member of the San Diego City Attorney's Office is leaving for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Mark Blake, the chief deputy city attorney on finance and disclosure in San Diego, will leave...

Securities attorney Allen Sussman leaves MoFo for Reed Smith

Posted on May 06, 2008
Corporate and securities attorney Allen Sussman joined Reed Smith's Los Angeles office as a partner. Sussman was previously a partner at the L.A. office of Morrison & Foerster, representing public and private issuers, banks, broker-dealers and underwriters in securities matters...

Arent Fox adds three partners to its L.A. litigation practice

Posted on May 06, 2008
Arent Fox added two name partners at Hansen & Phillips, Drew Hansen and Mark Phillips to their Los Angeles office. Former Howrey litigation partner Michael Turrill is also joining the office. Hansen focuses on business litigation, including class action defense,...

Corona Del Mar attorney David Scharf convicted of stalking girlfriend

Posted on May 05, 2008
Corona Del Mar defense attorney David Scharf faces up to four years in state prison after being found guilty of violating a restraining order, stalking and harassing an ex-girlfriend, the Orange County Register reported. Scharf is expected back in court...

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Three join Sheppard Mullin's Santa Barbara and Century City offices

Posted on May 05, 2008
Sheppard Mullin added Robin L. Lewis, Eric Klein and Jay Molloy to their Southern California offices. Lewis joined the firm's Santa Barbara office as special counsel. She focuses on business, employment, condemnation and environmental litigation. Lewis was previously a partner...

Lynn Beekman promoted to partner at Wertz McDade

Posted on May 05, 2008
Business and real estate litigator Lynn Beekman was promoted to partner at Wertz McDade in San Diego. Beekman defends business owners against actions by local government agencies, and employees and employers in wrongful termination matters and class actions...

Public Intergrity Unit won't retry the first public official it's taken to court

Posted on May 05, 2008
All the charges were dismissed for the first public official to be taken to court by the San Diego D.A.'s Public Integrity Unit. The D.A.'s Office isn't going to retry Chula Vista councilman Steve Castaneda on perjury charges, the San...

Judge OK's playing secretly recorded conversations in Carona trial

Posted on May 05, 2008
A federal judge ruled that prosecutors can play the secretly recorded conversations between ex-Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona and former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl during Carona's corruption trial, the Los Angeles Times reported. In the conversation, they allegedly discussed how...

Pipe bomb explodes at San Diego federal courthouse

Posted on May 05, 2008
A bomb exploded outside the entrance of the U.S federal courthouse in downtown San Diego early yesterday morning. The explosion destroyed a glass door and damaged the lobby, FBI officials told the Los Angeles Times. No injuries were reported as...

Questioning the significance of DNA matches

Posted on May 05, 2008
The significance of DNA matches in "cold hit" cases are often exaggerated by prosecutors and crime labs across the country, the Los Angeles Times reports. The odds of a coincidental DNA match is often hundreds of thousands of times more...

Former Milberg expert witness pleads guilty to perjury

Posted on May 02, 2008
John B. Torkelsen, a former expert witness in hundreds of shareholder derivative and class action cases for Milberg Weiss, pleaded guilty on Thursday to perjury charges. Torkelsen, who is serving a prison sentence in West Virginia on an unrelated charge,...

Bill expands prosecutors' ability to get damages from gang members

Posted on May 02, 2008
The California State Senate passed a bill that expands the ability for prosecutors to seize gang members' homes, businesses, property and money after suing for civil damages when they create nuisances, the Los Angeles Times reported. If made into law,...

Settlement negotiations start between city over 2007 May Day melee

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund entered settlement negotiations with the city over the 250 claims regarding the violence by police at the 2007 May Day demonstration for immigrant rights, the Associated Press reported. The AP reports that...

Arbitrators can't be disqualified for disclosing unrequired info

Posted on May 02, 2008
Arbitrators can't be disqualified from a case because they gave information about themselves that wasn't necessary to be disclosed anyway, San Diego's 4th District of Appeal ruled. The ruling vindicates arbitrator and retired San Diego Superior Court judge J...

Six private wealth lawyers rejoin Holland & Knight in L.A.

Posted on May 02, 2008
Six private wealth lawyers lead by trusts and estates partner Bruce Ross have rejoined the Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight. All six come from the Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward where several of them joined...

Paul Hastings rising up the L.A. ranks on AM 100

Posted on May 01, 2008
Paul Hastings is rising up the AM Law 100 rankings among Los Angeles firms, The American Lawyer reported. While Latham still leads the pack in the 2008 ranking, Paul Hastings moved past O'Melveny & Myers and Gibson Dunn in profits...

Delgadillo challenges Villaraigosa on reduction of nonlawyers at City Attorney's Office

Posted on May 01, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa thinks the City Attorney's Office is overstaffed, proposing a 5% cut. The ratio of lawyers to non-lawyer staff at the City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office "are greater than Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, O'Melveny & Myers,...

Immigrants seeking legal status struggle with bad lawyers and notaries

Posted on May 01, 2008
Many undocumented immigrants that attempt to legalize their status are victimized by unqualified or dishonest lawyers and notaries, KPCC Public Radio reported yesterday. (LISTEN) On the other end are lawyers who say they are worried about scared that unsatisfied clients...

Federal government admits negligence in immigrant's death from penile cancer

Posted on May 01, 2008
The federal government admitted its negligence in the death of immigrant Francisco Castaneda who died of penile cancer after being denied medical treatment and testing during his year in custody, the Associated Press reported. Last month, a federal judge in...

Spector suit against former lawyer Robert Shapiro to proceed

Posted on May 01, 2008
A Los Angeles judge ruled that Phil Spector's breach-of-contract lawsuit against his former lawyer Robert Shapiro can go forward, the Associated Press reported. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Ferns found that Spector's lawsuit, which seeks a $1 million refund...

Reed Smith continues its talent run on Morgan Lewis

Posted on May 01, 2008
Reed Smith snatched another international insurance recovery specialist from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the sixth attorney to switch from Morgan to Reed in the recent months ? five of those going to the insurance specialty. Cristina Shea joins Reed Smith...

Hell's Angel jacket gets potential juror booted from San Diego court

Posted on April 30, 2008
A Hell's Angel got booted from San Diego Superior Court because of his clothes last week, CBS 8 reported. Timothy Timms was showing up for jury duty, but officials asked him to remove his motorcycle club jacket or leave. Officials...

DA makes $1.1 settlement with three of the nation's biggest insurance firms

Posted on April 30, 2008
A $1.1 million settlement with three of the nation's largest insurance firms accused of paying an insurance broker hundreds of thousands of dollars to send people their way, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. ?These large insurance companies were lining the...

Man sentenced to six years in prison for posing as JAG lawyer

Posted on April 30, 2008
A man was sentenced to six years in state prison for stealing the identify of a U.S. Army lawyer and illegally practicing law in Southern California, the Associated Press reported. Rigoberto Vazquez also must pay $35,900 in restitution for assuming...

State Bar raids Montebello company for alleged legal services without law license

Posted on April 30, 2008
The State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County District Attorney?s office shut down a Montebello company accused of providing immigration legal services without a law license. The raid of RZ Services took place on Monday and the company's...

Carona corruption trial delay until August

Posted on April 30, 2008
The corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona was pushed back by two months to Aug. 26, the Orange County Register reported. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford ruled last week that granting the continuance was necessary to...

Sources say Milberg is in settlement talks

Posted on April 30, 2008
Milberg is in settlement talks with federal prosecutors in its illegal kickback case, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. Prosecutors allege that Milberg, formerly known as Milberg Weiss, and seven of its partners obtained $250 million in attorney fees by paying...

UCLA Law launches $100M endowment for scholarships, faculty, clinical programs

Posted on April 30, 2008
The University of California?Los Angeles School of Law has launched a $100 million endowment campaign to support scholarships, faculty and clinical programs related to public policy. Announced April 29 by UCLA School of Law Dean Michael Schill, the campaign is...

Jerry Brown announces plan to search DNA database for potential relatives of criminals

Posted on April 29, 2008
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a plan to track down more violent criminals by searching its DNA for potential relatives of violent criminals. Police in Britain reported a 10 to 14 percent success rate using these partial DNA matches,...

U.S. Supreme Court OKs state voter ID law - won't affect CA but could affect election

Posted on April 29, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana's law requiring voter's to bring government issued photo ID card, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The ruling could have some effect on the 2008 presidential election in states with strict voter ID laws that....

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