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Colorado paralegal charged for alleged bankruptcy services fraud in L.A.

Posted on April 29, 2008
A Colorado-based paralegal Emmanuel Assaf was charged for allegedly advertising and providing legal services that without a licensed attorney's supervision, charging more than $200, the Associated Press reported. Assaf faces is charged with conspiracy, financial elder abuse, grand theft, false...

Civil litigation attorney Robert Chávez dies at 45

Posted on April 29, 2008
Los Angeles attorney and former professional volleyball player Robert Chávez died unexpectedly last Thursday, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Chávez was a civil litigation attorney at Wilkes & McHugh, representing dentists, police officers, lawyers, sheriff deputies and insurance companies...

114 employees file for damages over ICE raids

Posted on April 28, 2008
Over a hundred employees at a print cartridge manufacturer filed for damages against the federal government. They claim they were unlawfully detained in a raid by immigration agents, the Daily News reported. Los Angeles civil rights attorney Peter Schey is...

L.A. judge bars D.A.'s office from appeal of murder case

Posted on April 28, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan removed the entire district attorney's office from an appeal by a survivor of domestic violence, imprisoned for arranging the murder of her abusive boyfriend in 1982, the Los Angeles Times reported. Attorneys for...

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O.C. is a MoFo no more

Posted on April 28, 2008
Morrison & Foerster closed its Orange County office after losing two litigation partners to Manatt Phelps, The Recorder reported. Dean Zipser was head of the MoFo office as well as its litigation department. He was the president of the Orange...

John Scherling joins Sughrue Mion's San Diego office as a partner

Posted on April 28, 2008
John Scherling joined Sughrue Mion's San Diego office as a partner in their litigation practice. Scherling focuses on litigation and resolution of intellectual property disputes. He was previously of counsel to the firm. From 1990 to 2005, he was an....

Holly Roark joins Levene Neale

Posted on April 28, 2008
Holly Roark joined Los Angeles' Levene Neale as an associate in their litigation department. Roark focuses on commercial and business litigation, bankruptcy, prejudgment remedies and the enforcement of judgments. In law school, she was an extern for bankruptcy Judge Vincent...

Riverside County drops more felony cases for lack of judges

Posted on April 25, 2008
Two more felony cases were dismissed by Riverside County Superior Court due to lack of judges. One was an assault case, the other for burglary. They were immediately refiled by prosecutors. Seventeen cases were tossed by the county since January...

California high court trims $200 in punitives from Genentech verdict

Posted on April 25, 2008
The California Supreme Court trimmed the $500 million jury award against biotech giant Genentech Inc. by cutting the $200 million punitive damage award in a breach of contract and fiduciary duties case over a genetic engineering dispute with City of....

Advocates push bill to increase benefits for disabled workers

Posted on April 25, 2008
Injured workers and their advocates are pushing for a bill to increase benefits for permanently disabled workers. ?California workers permanently disabled on the job receive compensation that is among the lowest the nation,? Sue Borg, president of the California Applicants?...

Survey finds California legal system is the worst for businesses

Posted on April 24, 2008
We're #44! The U.S. Chamber of Commerce interviewed lawyers and looked at the results of class action lawsuits and deem California as having one of the worst legal systems for businesses, KPBS news reported. (LISTEN) The survey ranked California at...

Buena Park man compensated for wrongful conviction - but problems remain

Posted on April 24, 2008
The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board recommended giving $31,700 to a 22 year old former Buena Park man who spent 10 months in prison for a carjacking he didn't do, the Los Angeles Times reported. Buena Park, the...

Chula Vista councilman acquitted of perjury charges

Posted on April 24, 2008
The first elected official tried by the San Diego District Attorney's Public Integrity Unit failed yesterday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Steve Casteneda, a member of the Chula Vista City Council, was acquitted on six of the 10 perjury counts...

Lerach gets a (temporary) reprieve from jail

Posted on April 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Securities class action plaintiff's lawyer William Lerach, who was originally scheduled to report to federal prison on Monday, has received an extension until May 19. Lerach, a former partner at Milberg, was sentenced earlier this year to...

Anthony Ching joins Dykema's environmental practice

Posted on April 24, 2008
Anthony Ching joined Dykema's Los Angeles office as of counsel. Ching, previously had his own practice, joins the firm's environmental practice group, who represents automotive and oil manufacturers, pharmaceutical industries as well as lenders, developers, local governmental units and groups...

Retired Court of Appeal Justice Douglas McDaniel dies at 87

Posted on April 24, 2008
Retired Court of Appeal Justice F. Douglas McDaniel died on April 17, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. He was 87. McDaniel was a World War II Marine pilot who joined the California State Bar in 1949. He became deputy district attorney...

San Diego says no charges for police in death of bicyclist

Posted on April 23, 2008
San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said three police officers shouldn't face criminal charged in the 2005 death of a man who resisted arrest when police stopped him for riding a bicycle without a light, KPBS reported. (LISTEN) The 21...

Corporate attorney Angelee J. Harris rejoins Manatt as partner

Posted on April 23, 2008
Angelee J. Harris rejoined Manatt Phelps' Orange County office as a partner in their corporate and finance practice group. Harris joined the firm in 1999 and then left it in 2005 - moving to Placer Sierra Bancshares, a Northern California-based...

Retired L.A. Judge J. Kimball Walker dies at 83

Posted on April 23, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J. Kimball Walker died last Thursday of a heart attack, the Metropolitan New-Enterprise reported. He was 83. Walker was born in Casper, Wyoming and came to California as a Justice Department lawyer and became chief...

Trial lawyers and business agree on bill to curb ADA lawsuits

Posted on April 22, 2008
Trial lawyers and business groups compromised on a bill aimed at curbing the few plaintiffs who file hundreds of American Disability Act lawsuits, The Recorder reported. Judge would have to grant a 90 day stay of any ADA claim against...

9th Circuit says searching laptop files at border isn't unreasonable

Posted on April 22, 2008
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that it wasn't an unreasonable for border control agents to search the contents of a traveler's laptop, The Recorder reported. The court's opinion was that reasonable suspicion wasn't needed for searching personal...

Thousands got fake subpoena from "O'Melevy & Myers"

Posted on April 22, 2008
Nearly two thousand executive got a fake subpoena via e-mail last week, purporting to be a federal court subpoena issued by a Los Angeles firm, the New Jersey Law Journal reported. The hoax was apparently an attempt at "phishing," where...

San Diego ACLU partners with Mexican non-profit on challenging border policy

Posted on April 22, 2008
The San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Mexico's Commission on Human Rights announced they are teaming up in June to challenge the U.S. government's border enforcement policy, Operation Gatekeeper. Under the 1994 policy, more border fencing...

Antitrust litigator John Gibson joins Winston & Strawn

Posted on April 22, 2008
Antitrust litigator John Gibson joined Winston & Strawn's Los Angeles office as a partner. Gibson was previously a partner at Paul Hastings and chaired the firm's real estate litigation group. He represents Fortune 500 companies in complex civil litigation, including...

Former BBC Worldwide in-house counsel joins Sheppard Mullin

Posted on April 22, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Philip Daniels, a former in-house counsel at BBC Worldwide, has joined Los Angeles-based Sheppard Mullin as a member in the firm's entertainment & media transactional practice group. Daniels, who will be in the firm's Century City, Calif...

Two Fish & Richardson patent litigators join Mintz Levin

Posted on April 22, 2008
Patent litigators Matthew Bernstein and John Giust joined Mintz Levin's San Diego office as members. Bernstein and Giust were both previously at Fish & Richardson. In addition to patent litigation, Bernstein counsels clients on trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret...

State commission recommends changes in indigent defense

Posted on April 21, 2008
Two-thirds of judges surveyed by the state Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice say that their counties don't provide enough resources for public defenders. "Public defender offices and defense services sometimes take second fiddle to D.A...

As price of oil rises, firms find it's easy being green

Posted on April 21, 2008
Law firms are increasingly starting clean technology practices, as rising fuel costs have brought more money into the renewable energy movement, the San Diego Business Journal reported. The San Diego offices of Cooley Godward, Foley & Lardner, Heller Ehrman, Latham...

Aguirre appeals pension benefits ruling

Posted on April 21, 2008
San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre filed an 111 page appeal in the city's pension benefits lawsuit, a press release announced Friday. Last August, a Superior Court decision tossed the city's lawsuit. "We return to court because justice has not...

Crime defense attorney Alan Rubin elected as commissioner

Posted on April 21, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court judges elected attorney Alan Rubin as the court's commissioner, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Rubin, a criminal defense attorney with a two decade old practice in Los Angeles, fills the gap since Commissioner Ronald Slick retired...

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