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Brief questions authority vs. responsibility in corporate officer case

Posted on February 09, 2009
Attorneys representing the owners of a business who were sued for environmental violations have petitioned the California Supreme Court to overturn a recent appellate decision they claim is an "unprecedented departure" from prior cases because it unfairly broadens an individual's...

Every Nation cannot discriminate at state universities

Posted on February 09, 2009
A federal judge ruled Friday that a nondiscrimination policy at San Diego State and Long Beach State universities required for formal campus recognition does not infringe on the rights of religious groups that demand fidelity to Christian ideals and bar...

WARNing: Thelen blames banks, class action says "copout"

Posted on February 09, 2009
Defunct firm Thelen is telling state and federal courts its hands were tied when it closed shop last year and did not pay its employees accrued vacation or give 60 days' notice of their impending joblessness. The firm filed a...

O.C. law office shut down for illegal practice of law

Posted on February 06, 2009
Prosecutors at the State Bar of California, responding to a tip from the Orange County District Attorney's Office, have shut down an Orange County satellite office of Walter S. Martinez, a solo practitioner in Upland, Calif., on the ground that...

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Antitrust, IP litigation push Gibson Dunn's revenues up 5%

Posted on February 06, 2009
Gibson,Dunn & Crutcher hasn't made it into the billion dollar club just yet, but with a modest uptick in revenue it's getting closer.The firm reports that gross revenue rose 5.4 percent to $957 million, however other financial metrics fell, presenting...

O'Melveny's James Asperger joins Quinn Emanuel

Posted on February 05, 2009
The head of the white-collar crime practice at O'Melveny & Myers, James Asperger, has left for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. Asperger, who was an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993, joins Los Angeles-based Quinn...

Revenue up, but profits way way down at Manatt Phelps

Posted on February 05, 2009
Revenue at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips remained relatively buoyant in 2008 with a 9% increase from 2007. But profits at the Los Angeles-based firm sank by more than 25 %. Manatt?s gross revenue gain, which went from $242 million in...

'Girls Gone Wild' founder blames flu for court no-show

Posted on February 04, 2009
A day after landing in federal custody for failing to appear at his court hearing, Joe Francis, founder of "Girls Gone Wild," was quickly released after he explained his tardiness to the court, according to a release sent out by...

Riding revenue rise, Buchalter Nemer adds five attorneys

Posted on February 04, 2009
Five attorneys, including one shareholder, have joined various practice groups of Los Angeles-based Buchalter Nemer. Steven M. Spector, former counsel to Los Angeles-based Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, is joining the 150-lawyer firm's insolvency and financial solutions practice group as...

Former OC exec pleads guilty to bribery charges

Posted on February 04, 2009
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ? An executive at an Orange County industrial valve manufacturer has pleaded guilty to paying $628,000 in bribes to four foreign utility officials who bought his company's products. Richard Morlok, the former finance director of Control...

Hearing scheduled in Roman Polanski sex case

Posted on February 04, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A hearing for Roman Polanski's bid to have a 31-year-old sex case dismissed has been rescheduled for Feb. 17. The date was announced Tuesday, a day after Polanski's lawyer lost a bid to disqualify all Los...

Securities class action against Broadcom greenlighted

Posted on February 03, 2009
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday reversed his earlier decision and allowed a securities fraud class action to proceed against Broadcom Corp. and its billionaire co-founders, setting up a massive stock options showdown.Last October, U.S. District Judge Manuel...

'Girls Gone Wild' in the slammer

Posted on February 03, 2009
"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis landed in federal custody Monday after missing a court hearing regarding his attorneys' request to withdraw as counsel in his tax evasion case.U.S. District Judge S. James Otero of the Central District of California...

Court rejects Polanski bid to disqualify L.A. judges

Posted on February 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An appeals court has rejected a bid by Roman Polanski's attorneys to disqualify all Los Angeles Superior Court judges from considering a request to dismiss a rape case against the fugitive film director. A three-judge panel...

Lawmaker nixes judges' bid to boost perks

Posted on February 03, 2009
California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg on Friday shelved a plan to sweeten judges' benefits as part of an upcoming budget deal after livid labor groups and social service advocates complained.Critics argued that the extra perks, which would eventually...

Lewis Brisbois opens Atlanta office

Posted on January 29, 2009
Los Angeles-based Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith quietly opened an Atlanta office this month with eight attorneys pulled from four firms. Atlanta managing partner and litigator Scott Masterson and litigation associate Katherine Barrett both came from Atlanta-based litigation firm Hawkins...

Dreier Stein lawyers jump to Snell & Wilmer, open L.A. office

Posted on January 29, 2009
At least eight lawyers from ailing Dreier, Stein, Kahan, Browne, Woods, George are joining Snell & Wilmer to open the firm's first Los Angeles office. The partners in the group are Marshall Horowitz, Susan Grueneberg, Jason S. Kim and Henry...

Wanna be the next LA U.S. atty? Join the club.

Posted on January 29, 2009
A lengthy list of lawyers are lining up to be the next top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, even though Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is not yet accepting applications for the job.Thus far, seven people confirmed to the Daily Journal...

Lesbians schoolgirls lose suit over explusion

Posted on January 28, 2009
An appeals court in California has decided this week that a private religious school in Riverside County was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating when it expelled...

Broadcom chief wins bid to sever backdating trial

Posted on January 27, 2009
A federal judge has granted a motion by Broadcom Corp.'s co-founder and former chief executive, Henry Nicholas, to sever his upcoming stock options backdating trial from William J. Ruehle, the former chief financial officer of the Irvine, Calif.-based tech company...

Judge tosses seat belt suit

Posted on January 27, 2009
In one of the last class actions pending against seat belt buckle manufacturer Takata Corp., a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has tossed out all of the plaintiffs' claims, which defense attorneys estimated involved damages of about $247 million. The...

Lawyer blows $2.7M settlement in stock market

Posted on January 27, 2009
An Irvine lawyer on Monday withdrew as counsel from a class action in which he served as the lead plaintiffs' lawyer after he apparently admitted squandering nearly all of a $2.7 million settlement that was supposed to be dispersed among...

Trial opens in arson-murder case

Posted on January 26, 2009
The trial of a man accused of setting a series of fires in the San Gorgonio Pass in 2006 that killed five firefighters began on Thursday in Riverside County Superior Court.Opening statements began, along with the testimony of a witness,...

A suicidal woman doesn't buy new shoes, say Specter prosecutors

Posted on January 26, 2009
Prosecutors in the retrial of music producer Phil Spector rested their case with the testimony of the mother of Lana Clarkson, the woman he is accused of murdering.Clarkson, an actress, suffered a fatal bullet wound in the foyer of Spector?s...

Former Mayer Brown lawyer at center of latest Ponzi scheme

Posted on January 26, 2009
A former Mayer Brown lawyer in Los Angeles is scheduled to turn himself in to custody today on charges he was in-house counsel for an elaborate real estate Ponzi scheme in Orange County that conned $52 million from mostly elderly...

Mayer Brown moves to shore up LA office with executive committee

Posted on January 23, 2009
Mayer Brown moved to shore up its Los Angeles office, which saw the departure of four partners this month, by appointing an executive committee to lead the office and announcing that the current managing partner there will shift to the...

Networks agree to pay $4M to settle claims of underpaid employees of reality shows

Posted on January 22, 2009
A group of television production companies and networks, including Fox Broadcasting Co., American Broadcasting Cos. Inc. and CBS Broadcasting Inc., have agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle allegations that they underpaid about 400 employees who worked on...

Ervin Cohen acquires 13-lawyer Moldo Davidson

Posted on January 22, 2009
Ervin, Cohen & Jessup, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., has acquired 13 lawyers from Moldo Davidson Fraioli Seror & Sestanovich, including its bankruptcy practice and name partners, reports the Daily Journal.The combination, which takes effect on Feb. 1, brings the...

'Pressured to acquit,' say Carona jurors

Posted on January 22, 2009
Two jurors in the recent trial of former Orange County, Calif., Sheriff Mike Carona told the judge during deliberations that they felt pressured to acquit the high-profile defendant, according to jurors? notes unsealed on Wednesday. On Friday, the jury acquitted...

No-go for Bratz legal makeover?

Posted on January 21, 2009
A federal judge in Los Angeles has raised concerns about a recent decision by MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of the Bratz doll, to switch lawyers just before the second phase of a trade secrets dispute with Mattel Inc. In an unusual...

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