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Friess new litigation partner at Allen Matkins

Posted on March 22, 2010
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP has announced the addition of K. Erik ?Rick? Friess as partner in their Orange County office. He joins the firm's litigation practice. Friess was previously a partner with Nossaman LLP, where he...

Tire dealer found liabile for child's death

Posted on March 22, 2010
American Tire Depot, a Southern California tire-store chain, was found negligent by a California jury for installing a 12-year-old tire on a Ford Explorer involved in a crash that killed an 11-year-old boy. The Moreno family's Explorer rolled over on...

New associate at Lax & Stevens

Posted on March 22, 2010
Lax & Stevens, a full service construction law firm in Los Angeles, has announced the addition of Jason Suh as an associate. Mr. Suh has broad experience in the areas of business and commercial litigation, general civil litigation, real estate...

Latest SoCal cemetery case results in nearly $4M settlement

Posted on March 22, 2010
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr, finalizing a preliminary agreement reached last year, has approved a $3.87 million settlement to be distributed in the coming month to class members alleging improper handling of the remains of their deceased...

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Supergraphics crackdown results in removal of two L.A. advertisements

Posted on March 19, 2010
CBS Outdoor is removing two 11-story supergraphic advertisements nearly a week after City Atty. Carmen Trutanich sent a dozen letters regarding signs that his office has identified as illegal. City prosecutors and surrounding neighbors have long viewed the advertisements as...

Ninth Circuit goes before the cameras

Posted on March 19, 2010
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has announced that it will offer remote viewing in Pasadena next week of en banc proceedings in San Francisco. Among others, the 11-judge panel is scheduled to review a decision in a case arising...

Gibson Dunn and former client in fee dispute

Posted on March 19, 2010
Elliott Broidy, a venture capitalist and former client of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the firm over $1.3 million in fees Gibson Dunn seeks for representing him. The firm wants the...

Calfee, after helping develop greenhouse gas emissions guidelines, returns to BB&K

Posted on March 18, 2010
Christoper H. Calfee is returning to his home firm of Best Best & Krieger as an of counsel attorney in their environmental and natural resources practice. Calfee was appointed more than a year ago by Gov. Schwarzenegger as special counsel...

Immigration status threatens deportation for recently paroled Sanchez

Posted on March 18, 2010
Rosie Sanchez was paroled, only to find herself back in jail. According to the Mercury News, Sanchez has been told that she will likely bounce back and forth between prisons before an immigration hearing and eventual deportation. At the time...

OC firm pays $100K to settle Ponzi suit

Posted on March 18, 2010
Paul H. Heckler and his Tustin firm, Yosemite Capital Management, agreed yesterday to ay more than $100,000 to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they placed clients into what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. It...

Menifee council at odds over new city attorney bids suggestion

Posted on March 18, 2010
Menifee Councilwoman Darcy Kuenzi called Tuesday for new bids for a city attorney. The call comes on the heels of a monthlong audit that will review all city contracts, invoices and financial controls. Eight law firms submitted bids to the...

Court rules cyber-gay bashing not protected free speech

Posted on March 17, 2010
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that students at Harvard-Westlake School who posted death threats and antigay messages on the Internet site of a 15-year-old classmate can't claim the constitutional protection of free speech. This upholds an earlier decision...

Judge approves Mattel lead paint settlement

Posted on March 17, 2010
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer of the Central District of California approved a class settlement yesterday that resolves multidistrict litigation involving lead paint in Mattel Inc. toys. The settlement involves millions of toys that were recalled or removed from...

New white collar defense partners at Arent Fox in L.A.

Posted on March 17, 2010
Arent Fox LLP announced today that Terree Bowers and Mary Carter Andrues have joined the firm as partners in Los Angeles. They join the white collar defense practice. Terree Bowers is the former US Attorney for the Central District of...

Gang Tyre has Gold in their hills again

Posted on March 17, 2010
Stanley Gold, the former managing partner of entertainment boutique Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown Inc., has returned to the firm as counsel. Gold was managing partner of Gang Tyre until 1985, when he became president and chief executive officer of...

Jury says Anthem must pay for out-of-state operation

Posted on March 16, 2010
Last month Ephraim Nehme sued Anthem Blue Cross to pay for an out-of-state liver transplant after the insurance giant refused. Blue Cross originally approved for the transplant to take place at UCLA, where Nehme's doctor strongly recommended that the patient...

L.A. courtrooms hit hard by layoffs

Posted on March 16, 2010
Due to the massive shortfall in an $800 million budget, 50 courtrooms are expected to close in Los Angeles by September, laying off nearly 1,000 workers. That's 20 percent of the court system's staff. Among the closures: one courtroom in...

Sanchez paroled after 23 years

Posted on March 15, 2010
In 1985, Rosie Sanchez was convicted of arson for a fire that killed a person sleeping inside a clothing store and sentenced to 25 years to life. Last week, after maintaining her innocence through the 23 years she spent in...

New charges from FL keep CA child molester behind bars a little longer

Posted on March 15, 2010
The release of convicted child molester George Joseph England from prison was thwarted last week by a criminal complaint signed in West Palm Beach, Florida. The new charges include transporting a juvenile from California to Florida with the intent to...

Munger Tolles attorney tapped to L.A. Police Commission seat

Posted on March 15, 2010
Richard Drooyan, a former assistant U.S. attorney, has been nominated by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the Los Angeles Police Commission. He would fill a seat vacated by Andrea Ordin, who stepped down recently to take a post in...

K&L Gates welcomes two new OC partners

Posted on March 12, 2010
K&L Gates LLP has announced the addition of Stephen T. Freeman and Gregory J. Hartker as partners in its tax practice. Both join K&L Gates from Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, where Freeman served as chair of the firm's tax...

Alvarez to represent self in fourth trial

Posted on March 12, 2010
Charged with two counts of attempted murder and in custody for more than five years, Alvarez has been tried unsuccessfully three times. He announced on Thursday an intention to represent himself in his fourth trial, citing his court-appointed attorneys' desire...

Brown goes to bat for farm laborers in new suit

Posted on March 12, 2010
A lawsuit filed in Imperial County Superior Court by State Attorney General Jerry Brown alleges that farm labor contractor Juan Munoz underpaid workers and scheduled them for continuous shifts in "potentially deadly" conditions in the Coachella Valley and other areas...

Orange County sues Toyota

Posted on March 12, 2010
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced today that his office, along with other private attorneys, has filed suit against the U.S. sales arm of Toyota, alleging that the automaker has endangered the public with defective vehicles and engaged in...

Governor changes parole file policy

Posted on March 11, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reversed a longtime policy of shredding sex offenders' parole files, wanting those documents instead to be maintained indefinitely. This policy change comes on the heels of a recent arrest of a paroled sex offender accused of...

Rosendahl joins DLA Piper in NY and LA

Posted on March 11, 2010
DLA Piper announced today that Roger W. Rosendahl has joined the firm?s corporate and finance practices as a partner in the New York and Los Angeles offices. He comes to DLA Piper from Kaye Scholer. Mr. Rosendahl?s practice focuses on...

Suit alleges Korean immigrants targeted in loan modification scam

Posted on March 11, 2010
Attorneys with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center accused Trinity Law Associates Inc., a Los Angeles law firm, of defrauding at least 28 Korean immigrants out of thousands of dollars by falsely promising that their services would prevent foreclosures...

Rabson new partner at Wilson Sonsini

Posted on March 10, 2010
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced today that Michael Rabson has rejoined the firm as a partner. He will be based in the firm's Palo Alto office and serve as a strategic advisor to life sciences and clean technology clients....

Alcala sentenced to death

Posted on March 10, 2010
During his closing remarks on Tuesday, Rodney Alcala asked the jury to forego the death penalty in favor of a life sentence. To do otherwise, he said, would make the jurors become "wannabe killer[s] in waiting." To underscore his point,...

New partners named at Glaser Weil

Posted on March 09, 2010
Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP announced today that litigator Scott Gizer and corporate attorney Lisa Hamilton Klein have been elected to the partnership. Mr. Gizer handles all aspects of business litigation with a specialty in real estate...

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