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L.A. Entertainment firm opens NY office

Posted on March 12, 2008
Los Angeles-based entertainment firm Mitchell Silberberg opened an office in New York City yesterday. The office will include four entertainment litigators previously with Sonnenschein Nath. Attorneys Christine Lepera, Paul V. LiCalsi, Jane G. Stevens and Howard H...

Famed O.C. criminal defense attorney Gary Proctor kills himself

Posted on March 11, 2008
Attorney Gary Proctor, who was called "the most prominent criminal defense attorney in Orange County" by news magazine "60 Minutes," shot and killed himself on Sunday, officials told the Orange Count Register. Proctor, 63, had chronic back pain and was...

Two lawyers at Korenberg Abramowitz sentenced for visa fraud

Posted on March 11, 2008
A name partner and an attorney at one of the West Coast's largest immigration law firms were sentenced for filing fraudulent employment visa applications for foreign nationals yesterday, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los...

Local lawyer and deputy D.A. to challenge Cooley in election

Posted on March 11, 2008
Deputy District Attorney Steven Ipsen and local attorney Albert Robles will challenge Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley in this year's election, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Ipsen spent over two decades at the Los Angeles County District Attorney?s office and...

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Eugenia Steele promoted to partner at Gordon Edelstein

Posted on March 11, 2008
Gordon Edelstein promoted Eugenia Steele to partner in their personal injury practice. Steele, who started clerking for the Los Angeles personal injury and workers' compensation firm while in law school, has represented clients hurt in auto or construction accidents, medical...

Manatt nabs two real estate finance lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers

Posted on March 11, 2008
Attorneys Masood Sohali and Lauren Spiegel joined Manatt Phelps as a partner and associate, respectively. Sohaili, a corporate and real estate finance lawyer, joins the firm's Los Angeles office. Sohaili represents financiers and developers of large real estate, public infrastructure...

L.A. Firm seeks $46,000 in attorney fees in case over $40

Posted on March 10, 2008
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last week that there was no justification for the hours billed by Los Angeles' Harris & Ruble. The firm sought $46,000 in attorney fees in a dispute over $44.63 an LAPD officer alleged...

Mullen & Henzell promotes three in Santa Barbara

Posted on March 10, 2008
Mullen & Henzell promoted Jared Katz and Rafael Gonzalez to partner and Christine Roberts to of counsel. Katz represents institutional, business and individual clients as part of the firm's civil litigation group. He also has experience participating in domestic and...

Silver & Freedman adds 8 attorneys from defunct firm

Posted on March 10, 2008
Eight attorneys from a defunct Los Angeles firm joined Silver & Freedman's L.A. office. Attorneys Darin Margules, William Holcomb, Leon Katz and Jeffrey Lee joined the office as partners and Tara Hitchcok, Leah Phillips, Kathryn Tyler and Jonathan Wolf joined...

San Diego health program faces new legal challenge

Posted on March 07, 2008
Lawyers in a three year class-action lawsuit allege that San Diego County's County Medical Services illegally excludes many seriously ill patients, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles and San Diego law...

Appeals court rules home-schooling parents need teaching credentials

Posted on March 07, 2008
A California appellate court ruled that parent's home-school their children without getting teaching credentials, KCRW's "Which Way L.A." reported (LISTEN). The ruling is being appealed to the California Supreme Court and enforcement will likely be put on hold if the...

Former federal prosecutor Sanjay Bhandari joins Sidley Austin

Posted on March 07, 2008
Former federal prosecutor Sanjay Bhandari joined Sidley Austin's Los Angeles office as a partner. Bhandari, who was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of California, will continue to focus on white collar crime, internal investigations and securities enforcement...

Top L.A. lawyers on witness list for Pellicano trial

Posted on March 06, 2008
More than a dozen top Los Angeles lawyers could be called as witnesses in the wiretapping trial against celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, The National Law Journal reports. Among them are: Greenberg Glusker (Los Angeles) - top rainmaker Bertram Fields, litigators...

Reed Smith rises up the ranks

Posted on March 06, 2008
Reed Smith is on a hiring spree in Los Angeles, as the firm grows in its profitability and global geography, The Recorder reported. The 1,600 lawyer firm has about 100 lawyers in Los Angeles and hopes to see the number...

San Diego's Kerry Steigerwalt & Associates merges with Pacific Law Center

Posted on March 06, 2008
San Diego criminal defense lawyer Kerry Steigerwalt took a majority ownership in the 30-lawyer Pacific Law Center yesterday. The new firm will now be called Kerry Steigerwalt's Pacific Law Center and has offices in downtown San Diego, La Jolla, Escondido...

New project tries to integrate neuroscience into the legal system

Posted on March 05, 2008
If you want to prove a client's innocence, trying reading their mind. Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience show potential to do just that, finds an article in this month's California Bar Journal. One of the inventions highlighted was Carnegie Mellon University's...

Stephen Yagman denied appeal on bail

Posted on March 05, 2008
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal by convicted civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman to overturn an earlier order denying him bail. With the ruling, Yagman, a partner at Yagman, Yagman & Reichmann, in Venice Beach, Calif.,...

Gibson Dunn names new co-partners in L.A., O.C. and Century City

Posted on March 05, 2008
Gibson Dunn named new co-partners in charge of their Los Angeles, Century City and Orange County offices. Los Angeles and Century City Gibson Dunn named corporate partner Karen E. Bertero the new co-partner-in-charge of their Los Angeles and Century City...

IP lawyer Craig Gelfound joins Arent Fox as a partner

Posted on March 05, 2008
Intellectual property lawyer Craig Gelfound joined Arent Fox's Los Angeles office as a partner. Gelfound has focused on patent, licensing, copyright, trade secrets, technology transactions and trademark/brand protection. Gelfound was previously at McDermott Will's Los Angeles office.

Michael Clark named partner at Fulbright & Jaworski

Posted on March 05, 2008
Michael Clark was named a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski's Los Angeles office. As an associate who joined the firm in 2002, Clark focused on corporate and secutiries matters with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

IP lawyer Alan Friel joins Wildman Harrold as a partner

Posted on March 05, 2008
Intellectual property lawyer Alan Friel joined Wildman Harrold's Los Angeles office as a partner. Friel focuses on intellectual property transactional matters and regulatory compliance, primarily for leading entertainment and new media companies, and national advertisers and advertising and marketing agencies...

California Supreme Court hears same-sex marriage case today

Posted on March 04, 2008
The California Supreme Court will hears arguments on the legality of same-sex marriage today. They stem from lawsuits filed the day after San Francisco's monthlong wedding spree was halted by the court in 2004. The court will hear oral arguments...

Aguirre releases transcripts 2005 meetings over pension suits

Posted on March 04, 2008
The San Diego City Council permitted city attorney Michael Aguirre to pursue a legal battle to overturn certain pension benefits, but only in his own name, a transcript released last week shows. The State Bar of California has sought to...

9th Circuit upholds Navy sonar ruling

Posted on March 04, 2008
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction a federal judge issued last month baring the Navy from using high-powered sonar near the coast and rejecting President Bush's attempt to exempt the Navy from environmental laws, the San...

Rulings change talent managing game

Posted on March 04, 2008
Lawyers who represent the personal managers of actors, musicians and other performers anticipate a drop in client disputes following a pair of recent rulings in the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court that substantially alter the state's Talent...

Pellicano defendant's firm weathers the storm

Posted on March 04, 2008
Christensen Glaser just bagged a new client in one of the most high-profile cases in town: its own managing partner, Terry Christensen. Christensen goes to trial in a couple of months on claims that he allegedly paid celebrity sleuth Anthony...

Fox Rothschild hires three media, entertainment partners

Posted on March 04, 2008
Fox Rothschild hired three new media and entertainment partners, Jeffrey S. Kravitz, Martin D. Fern and Donald S. Urrabazo, to its Los Angeles office. Kravitz and Fern are former partners at Los Angeles-based Silver & Freedman. Urrabazo was counsel at...

Real estate attorney Scott Reynolds joins Gilcrest & Rutter

Posted on March 04, 2008
Scott Reynolds joined Santa-Monica's Gilchrist & Rutter. Reynolds focuses on real estate and corporate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, first mortgage and mezzanine financing, joint ventures, tax-deferred exchanges and leasing...

Naomi Young and Lawrence Gartner join Ballard Spahr as partners

Posted on March 03, 2008
Naomi Young and Lawrence Gartner joined Ballard Spahr's Los Angeles office as partners in their litigation and labor, employment and immigration groups. They both were previously at Kauff McClain. Young defended employers in class action litigation and tried over 20...

Mexican American bar gives Judge Takasugi lifetime achievement award

Posted on March 03, 2008
U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi received the Frank E. Munoz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mexican American Bar Association last month. The award was for his commitment to justice and expanding opportunities for Mexican Americans as well as all minority...

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