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ACLU and Minutemen join forces in San Diego

Posted on February 04, 2008
The San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is backing the San Diego Minutemen, the North County Times reports. This, despite the fact, that the Minutemen list the ACLU on their website as one of the "radical illegal...

UCLA Law gets $1.5 million for chair in music industry law

Posted on February 04, 2008
UCLA School of Law received a $1.5 million commitment for a chair of law, focusing on music, entertainment or intellectual property law. The money comes from The Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation, naming it the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Wendell Mortimer Jr. to retire

Posted on February 04, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Wendell Mortimer Jr. will retire on April 30 and become a private judge, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Mortimer, 70, was appointed to the bench by then-Gov. Pete Wilson in 1995. Prior to that, he was...

Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference comes to L.A.

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Inter-Pacific Bar Association will hold its annual conference in Los Angeles this year. The four-day conference, "Many Borders, One World," will include more than 800 business and commercial lawyers on current developments in business law and practice in the...

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Munger promotes two to partner

Posted on February 01, 2008
Munger Tolles promoted Katherine Forster and Fred Rowley Jr. to partner at their Los Angeles office. Forster represents employers in class actions, wage and hour disputes, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment litigation and appellate matters...

Lerach seeks to seal his sentence

Posted on February 01, 2008
Securities plaintiff's lawyer William Lerach, who plead guilty to one count of federal conspiracy, is attempting to seal court documents related to his upcoming sentencing due to "personal and sensitive information," according to court papers filed on Tuesday...

Yagman delays prison sentence, again

Posted on February 01, 2008
Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman who was convicted last year on tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and money laundering, has appealed a judge's order denying him bail. Yagman's petition, before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, prompted a last-minute stay...

San Diego appeals court rejects county challenge to new election rules

Posted on February 01, 2008
A state appeals court rejected San Diego's challenge to Secretary of State Debra Bowen's change in state election rules, KPBS reports. (LISTEN) Last week, a trial court court rejected the challenge to the Bowen's changes to the recount process -...

Founding partner of Munger Tolles, Roy Tolles, dies at 85

Posted on February 01, 2008
Edwin Leroy "Roy" Tolles, a founding partner of Munger Tolles, died of heart failure on Monday. He was 85. After serving as a pilot in World War II, Tolles went to Harvard Law School and then moved to California. He...

Taxpayer advocate Richard Fine faces disbarment

Posted on January 31, 2008
Tarzana attorney Richard Fine is charged with moral turpitude with a recommendation by California State Bar Court Judge Richard Honn that Fine be disbarred, the Los Angeles Daily News reports (here). Honn alleges in state bar documents that Fine "filed...

O.C. Board is suing to reduce sheriff deputies' pensions

Posted on January 31, 2008
After $500,000 worth of legal preparation by four different firms, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to file a lawsuit to undo part of their pension agreement with sheriff's deputies. Kirkland & Ellis, the most recent...

Coughlin Stoia to form patent group

Posted on January 31, 2008
San Diego's Coughlin Stoia announced the formation of its patent litigation group yesterday. The new group will be headed by Atlanta lawyers John Herman and Ryan Walsh who specialize in intellectual property disputes. It's another sign that the boom in...

Greenberg Traurig promotes three to shareholder, one to of counsel

Posted on January 31, 2008
Greenberg Traurig' promoted Grace Chung, Gregg Bernhard and Lisa M. Nitti as shareholders at their Los Angeles office. Mahsa Aliaskari was promoted to of counsel at the L.A. office as well. Chung focuses on tax, trusts and estates. She represents...

Orrick Herrington names Adam Mindle partner

Posted on January 31, 2008
Real estate attorney Adam Mindle was promoted to partner at Orrick Herrington's Los Angeles office. Mindle focuses on complex joint venture transactions, real property portfolio acquisition and disposition, and real estate secured financing and leasing...

Margaret Gillespie named shareholder at Ogletree Deakins

Posted on January 31, 2008
Ogletree Deakins elected Margaret H. Gillespie shareholder at their Los Angeles office. Gillespie's represented management in employment litigation matters, as well as providing employment advice and counseling to employers. She's defended employers in wage and hour class actions, claims brought...

Latinos underrepresented in downtown San Diego juries finds study

Posted on January 30, 2008
Two defense attorneys are arguing that the system of summoning jurors in San Diego is unconstitutional, citing a study that found Latinos underrepresented by 50%, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Attorneys Christopher Plourd and Donald Levine cite the analysis of...

Investigators can use baseball players' drug tests, 9th Circuit rules

Posted on January 30, 2008
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals approved the use of the names and urine samples of about 100 professional baseball players that tested positive for steroids in 2003, the San Jose Mercury News reported last week. This would provide more...

Between Lerach and a hard place

Posted on January 30, 2008
Federal prosecutors say securities plaintiffs' lawyer William Lerach should serve two years in prison in the Milberg Weiss case, contesting a pre-sentencing report's recommendation of 15 months in prison, The National Law Journal reports. Lerach, a former Milberg Weiss partner,...

O.C. attorney nailed in money laundering scheme

Posted on January 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES �? Thomas Burton, an attorney in Newport Beach, Calif., plead guilty to a federal money laundering charge and admitted he laundered $500,000 for a man involved in an international mail fraud scheme. According to the plea agreement, Burton...

Phyllis Cheng appointed director of Department of Fair Employment and Housing

Posted on January 30, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Phyllis Cheng as director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Cheng will leave labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson, where she served as of counsel for the past year, to take the post...

Musick Peeler picks up partner from dissolved shop

Posted on January 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES ?� Peter J. Diedrich, a former shareholder at Beck De Corso joined Los Angeles-based Musick Peeler & Garrett as a partner. Diedrich is a litigator who specializes in health care, real property litigation and labor and employment cases....

Heller real estate co-chair joins Milbank Tweed

Posted on January 30, 2008
Peter Benudiz is leaving Heller Ehrman's Los Angeles office for Milbank Tweed. Benuditz, the co-chair of Heller's real estate and finance practice, is at least the seventh partner to leave the firm in California, The Recorder reports. He was the...

Cox Castle promotes three to partner

Posted on January 30, 2008
Real estate law firm Cox Castle promoted three attorneys to partner in the Southern California offices, The Recorder reports. Los Angeles Caroline Dreyfus represents borrowers and lenders in real estate finance transactions involving office buildings, multi-family properties, retail shopping centers,...

Attorney Seymour Lazar sentenced over Milberg Weiss kickback scheme

Posted on January 29, 2008
Former attorney Seymour Lazar was sentenced yesterday to six months home detention and two years probation for his part in the Milberg Weiss kickback scheme, the Associated Press reports. Lazar, who received $2.6 million to be a professional plaintiff was...

Former Sony Pictures attorney James Jackson sentenced for abusing his maid

Posted on January 29, 2008
The former vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures and his wife were sentenced for enslaving their maid, the Associated Press reports. James Jackson received a sentence of 200 hours community service and a $5,000 fine while his wife,...

UCLA Law gets $10 million for new climate change center

Posted on January 29, 2008
The UCLA School of Law received $10 million to create a center on climate change and the environment. The Emmett Center will be the nation's first law school center focused exclusively on climate change, according to a UCLA press release....

Sheppard Mullin gets eight land use attorneys from Bingham

Posted on January 29, 2008
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has lured eight land use attorneys from Bingham McCutchen and two corporate attorneys who previously served as in-house counsel at separate local companies. Eight attorneys from Bingham McCutchen�s Costa Mesa, Calif...

Schwarzenegger appoints superior court judges in L.A. and San Diego

Posted on January 29, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed four superior court judges in Los Angeles and two in San Diego. They receive an annual salary of $178,789. Los Angeles - Former L.A. deputy district attorney Rogelio Delbage will succeed Judge Haley Fromholz. (Democrat) -...

Orrick Herrington adds IP attorney Mark Wine

Posted on January 29, 2008
Intellectual property attorney Mark Wine joined Orrick Herrington's Orange County office as a partner. For over 30 years, Wine has represented clients in cases involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, proprietary rights and trade secrets in more than 20 states...

Hogan & Hartson promotes entertainment & media litigator to partner

Posted on January 29, 2008
Entertainment and media litigator David Singer was promoted to partner at Hogan & Hartson's Los Angeles office. Singer focuses on intellectual property disputes involving copyrights, licensing, trademarks and trade secrets. He represents movie studios, television production companies and media conglomerates...

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