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Countrywide settlement ok'd in L.A.

Posted on August 03, 2010
U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer in Los Angeles gave approval yesterday to an agreement in which Countrywide Financial Corp. will pay $600 million to settle shareholder lawsuits. The settlement would end several class-action lawsuits that claimed Countrywide was loosening loan...

Lead counsel named in Toyota shareholder suit

Posted on August 03, 2010
This past June, U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles consolidated seven class actions against Toyota. But she held off on deciding lead counsel pending the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. The high court....

Cal Supremes set limits on courts' parole decisions

Posted on August 02, 2010
On Thursday the California Supreme Court, in deciding two unrelated cases, unanimously held that courts should not order prisoners released or "place improper limitations" on the type of evidence the state Board of Parole Hearings considers. Michael Prather was sentenced...

New office in Oakland for Burke Williams & Sorenson

Posted on August 02, 2010
Burke Williams & Sorenson LLP will open an office in Oakland with 12 attorneys from the disbanding firm McDonough Holland & Allen P.C. The moves are effective Sept. 1. The 12 attorneys will specialize in public law, which involves counseling...

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New of counsel for Connolly Bove in L.A.

Posted on August 02, 2010
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP has announced that Sanjesh Sharma, previously of Hogan & Hartson LLP, has joined the firm as of counsel at their Los Angeles office in the Intellectual Property Group. Sharma primarily focuses her practice on...

Brouhaha brewing over Ansel Adams negatives' authenticity

Posted on July 29, 2010
Rick Norsigian, a 64-year-old Fresno resident, announced on Tuesday that 60 glass negatives he purchased at a garage sale nearly a decade ago are early works of photographer Ansel Adams. An appraiser has valued the negatives at nearly $200 million....

McClintock joins Glaser Weil in L.A.

Posted on July 29, 2010
Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP, has announced that Greg McClintock has become an Of Counsel member of the Firm. Mr. McClintock has more than 35 years of experience in the field of environmental law, much of it...

Three new partners from Seyfarth Shaw join Sheppard Mullin in L.A.

Posted on July 28, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has announced the addition of three partners to the firm's Labor and Employment practice group. Thomas R. Kaufman, Michael L. Gallion and Gregg A. Fisch. Kaufman, Gallion and Fisch join Sheppard Mullin's Los Angeles/Century...

Titans' suit accuses Kiffin, USC of improper hiring protocol

Posted on July 27, 2010
The Tennessee Titans have filed suit against USC and coach Lane Kiffin over the hiring of Titans assistant Kennedy Pola as offensive coordinator. The Titans accuse both Kiffin and the university of "maliciously" intending to have Pola breach his contract...

Kaye Scholer gets former Dewey partners in Menlo Park

Posted on July 27, 2010
Kaye Scholer LLP has announced that Barbara Caulfield, Michael J. Malecek and Peter Root have joined Kaye Scholer?s Menlo Park office as Partners in its Intellectual Property practice. Caulfield, Malecek and Root were previously Partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf...

City wants Scalzo Trust verdict set aside

Posted on July 27, 2010
The city of San Juan Capistrano has filed two motions in trial court in an attempt to either have a nearly $7 million judgment against the city tossed and a new trial granted in a housing development case, or for...

Closing arguments wrap up DADT trial in Riverside

Posted on July 26, 2010
Closing arguments were given in the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" trial in Riverside on Friday. Last month, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips set forth the standard of proof that both sides had to meet. She based it on the U.S....

Attorneys for retired NFL players sued by their clients

Posted on July 26, 2010
Two plaintiff classes of retired NFL players are claiming that their attorneys failed to adequately represent them in a breach of contract lawsuit against the NFL Players Association. The players allege, in the underlying action, that the NFLPA neglected to...

9th Circuit says Mattel can't beat on the Bratz

Posted on July 26, 2010
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned an order from December 2008 that ordered MGA to stop manufacturing the Bratz dolls after a four-year dispute. The three-judge panel found the remedy far too broad, and in his opinion...

Feds say Karatz advice-of-counsel defense isn't believable

Posted on July 22, 2010
In attempting to quash Bruce Karatz's motion for a new trial, federal prosecutors argued that the former KB Home chief executive could not have relied on advice about stock-options backdating from his company's general counsel because he lied during an...

Mortimer and Larris join Sacks Glazier

Posted on July 22, 2010
Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise LLP has announced the addition of two new attorneys to its team: J?lene C. Mortimer and Lindsay K. Larris. Ms. Mortimer was previously a litigation associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. She received...

Court of Appeals will not throw out malpractice case against Lewis Brisbois

Posted on July 22, 2010
The California 2d District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial judge's denial of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith's bid to throw out a $13 million legal malpractice case brought by former client Kmart Corp. The firm had proposed that the...

Lance Armstrong retains Sheppard partner in doping investigation

Posted on July 22, 2010
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that Lance Armstrong has hired Sheppard Mullin's Bryan Daly to represent him in the investigation by federal prosecutors into allegations of doping on Armstrong's cycling teams. Floyd Landis, a former teammate of Armstrong's...

Discovery agreement reached in Toyota MDL

Posted on July 21, 2010
U.S. District Judge James Selna, the judge in the MDL against Toyota Motor Corp., approved a joint discovery plan yesterday, forestalling a fight over access to evidence. The agreement allows Toyota's lawyers to investigate the vehicles at issue and plaintiffs'...

SoCal Edison sued for racial discrimination

Posted on July 21, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging a "racially hostile" work environment at Southern California Edison, where, a group of 11 current and former black employees claim, few blacks are in senior management. The suit also...

Two OC jails will house federal immigration detainees

Posted on July 21, 2010
More than 800 federal immigration detainees will now be housed at the James A. Musick Facility near Irvine and the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, thanks to a contract approved by Orange County supervisors on Tuesday. The move will also...

Governor names Cantil-Sakauye to be next chief justice

Posted on July 21, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger has nominated 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye to be chief justice of the California Supreme Court. This would make her the first Filipina American to lead the state's judiciary and also give the California...

Liberal professors have an edge at law schools, says study

Posted on July 21, 2010
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law have released the first study to focus on the political leanings of law professors. Their conclusion? Law schools hire more openly liberal professors than openly conservatives ones...

Appeals court says Ralphs can regulate pickets on store property

Posted on July 20, 2010
The Third District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that an injunction be issued to block the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8 from picketing a Foods Co. grocery store. The case, Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and...

Three new labor and employment partners for Sidley in L.A.

Posted on July 20, 2010
Sidley Austin LLP announced yesterday that it has added three partners to the firm?s labor and employment practice. Douglas R. Hart, Jennifer B. Zargarof and Geoffrey D. DeBoskey are based in the firm?s Los Angeles office, where they will focus...

Investors sue Deutsche Bank and Nevada Property 1 over late condos

Posted on July 20, 2010
Deutsche Bank and Nevada Property 1, owners of a casino-hotel resort named Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, are being sued by condominium buyers who allege the residential units they bought in 2005 aren't being built after all. The suit claims the...

Court finds Marsch's testimony unreliable in Lennar case

Posted on July 20, 2010
The Superior Court of the State of California in San Diego issued a tentative decision on Friday in a highly publicized legal dispute between partners over alleged losses at the Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe. The court says testimony from...

Attorneys for McInerney seek judge recusal

Posted on July 20, 2010
Brandon McInerney's defense attorneys want Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell to recuse himself before the trial begins. On the heels of the judge denying the defense's request for more time to prepare for trial, McInerney's lawyers claim that...

Baker Hostetler expands Costa Mesa office

Posted on July 20, 2010
Baker Hostetler announced yesterday that Alan J. Kessel and Vikki Vander Woude have joined the firm in their Costa Mesa office. Kessel joins as Partner and Woude joins as Of Counsel, and they will be members of the firm's Litigation...

Pleasanton reaches tentative settlement with Urban Habitat over home cap

Posted on July 19, 2010
Urban Habitat, a regional environmental justice group, filed suit against the city of Pleasanton in 2006 over the city's 29,000-home cap approved by voters in 1996. Attorneys for the group said in the suit that the cap failed to allow...

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