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Chicago firm quietly opens Beverly Hills office

Posted on October 24, 2008
Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, a Chicago-based firm with 192 attorneys, quietly opened an office in Beverly Hills, Calif., last month after ramping up its team of 10 attorneys there so quickly that it couldn't get an office fast enough...

Workers' compensation lawyer Amy Leung joins Gordon Edelstein

Posted on October 24, 2008
Amy C. Leung joined Los Angeles personal injury and workers? compensation firm Gordon Edelstein as an associate attorney.Leung previously worked in the Law Offices of Michael Sorgen, specializing in plaintiff-side employment discrimination litigation...

Former senior Milberg Weiss partner asks for no prison time in kickback case

Posted on October 22, 2008
David Bershad, a former senior partner at Milberg Weiss, now called Milberg, is asking for no prison time as part of the government's kickback case against the law firm, even though the U.S. Probation Office is recommending 18 months, according...

UC Irvine's law school gets new name, offers full tuition scholarships to first class

Posted on October 22, 2008
The new law school at the University of California, Irvine has dropped its original name, the Donald Bren School of Law, and plans to offer full tuition scholarships to students who enroll in the school's first semester in fall 2009....

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Loyola latest to offer dual degree, with a twist: J.D. and tax LL.M.

Posted on October 22, 2008
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, will provide a joint J.D. and tax LL.M. program next year, the first of its kind in the nation, according to the law school. The joint program, anticipated to start during the fall of 2009,...

Former Heller managing partner joins Gibson

Posted on October 22, 2008
Robert Hubbell, the former managing partner of Heller Ehrman, has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office as a partner. Hubbell had been managing partner of Heller Ehrman since 2002. He joined the firm about 17 years ago. Last...

Three laid off Heller Ehrman employees file class action complaint against the firm

Posted on October 21, 2008
Three laid-off Heller Ehrman staff filed a class action complaint yesterday, alleging the dissolving firm laid-off employees without paying them wages owed under federal and state laws as well as the firms employee contracts. The complaint could potentially cover hundreds...

Judicial Council sees need for 31 new judges San Bernardino and Riverside, 5 in L.A.

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Judicial Council is expected to approve a report that finds California's trial courts need 327 more judges, serving as the basis for an eventual request for an additional 100 judgeships in the state.Five new judges would be requested to...

Softer landings for Heller's IP associates

Posted on October 21, 2008
Associates specializing in intellectual property or patents for now-defunct Heller Ehrman have fared better than most of their former peers in securing new jobs, with three firms in the last week picking up 42 associates in teams of IP and...

Two Heller partners join Luce Forward

Posted on October 21, 2008
Two Heller Ehrman partners, Carl B. Johnson and Dan Titelbaum, have joined the San Francisco office of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps. Johnson will join the San Diego-based firm's real estate practice. He has represented major banks and lenders, developers...

Jeffrey Chine joins Allen Matkins in San Diego

Posted on October 20, 2008
Jeffrey Chine joined Allen Matkins' real estate and land use practice groups as partner in the San Diego office. Chine will focus on land use and environmental matters. Previously, Chine was partner and chairman of the real estate department at...

Patient wins $3.7 million for improper diagnosis

Posted on October 20, 2008
SAN DIEGO ? A jury has awarded $3.7 million to a man who sued a doctor for failing to diagnose the iron-overload disease hemochromatosis. In 2003, Jesse Valentine went to workers' compensation doctor Stuart Kramer, who performed an internal medicine....

Davis Wright Tremaine snags large group, mostly partners, from Heller

Posted on October 20, 2008
As the fallout from Heller Ehrman continues, Davis Wright Tremaine has snagged 20 of its former lawyers, most of whom are joining the Seattle office, including 14 partners and four associates. The group, which focuses on a broad mix of...

Former co-chairman of O'Melveny & Myers joins Venable in L.A.

Posted on October 20, 2008
John "Jack" D. Hardy Jr., the former co-chairman of O'Melveny & Myers's capital markets practice, has joined Venable's Los Angeles office as a partner. Hardy, whose clients include major investment banks, private equity funds and institutional investors, formally retired from...

Kozinski faces misconduct complaint

Posted on October 10, 2008
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, faces a new misconduct complaint that accuses him of illegally disabling court software in 2001 that was intended to detect improper staff Internet downloads of movies and music....

Bar associations across U.S. bulk up pro bono efforts in foreclosure cases

Posted on October 10, 2008
Lawyers across the country are doing their share to help homeowners facing foreclosures stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis. From Massachusetts to California, bar associations have formed task forces and organized pro bono projects offering services such as hotlines and...

Backdating cases trigger feud between law firms

Posted on October 10, 2008
Coughlin Stoia is attempting to derail settlement discussions in two cases involving allegations of stock-options backdating, charging that the defense attorneys clandestinely excluded the firm from agreements that would resolve its lawsuits. Attorneys for the defendants, Maxim Integrated Products Inc...

Lightfoot Vandevelde lawyers join Crowell & Moring to form new L.A. office

Posted on October 10, 2008
The lawyers at the white-collar law firm Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine have joined Washington's Crowell & Moring to form the firm's new Los Angeles office. All seven of the firm's lawyers and its entire staff will help...

Milberg Weiss kickback defendant dealt three-month term

Posted on October 10, 2008
A federal judge sentenced Howard Vogel to three months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release for his receipt of kickbacks in taking on the role of a plaintiff in lawsuits brought by New York-based securities...

Arnold & Porter snags five litigators from Heller

Posted on October 10, 2008
Arnold & Porter has snagged five litigators from Heller Ehrman, all of whom will beef up the firm's business litigation and antitrust groups in Washington and Los Angeles. Arnold & Porter announced the hirings on Tuesday morning. (press release) "We're...

CA gets nation's first law requiring doctors to tell dying patients all their options

Posted on October 02, 2008
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the nation's first law requiring doctors to let terminally ill patients get full disclosure and counseling about all their legal end-of-life care options, supporters of the law told KPBS. (LISTEN)Under the Terminal Patients? Right to...

Atlanta firm takes local SoCal firm as of-counsel

Posted on October 02, 2008
Atlanta law firm Constangy Brooks gained a presence in Southern California with local firm Landegger Baron serving as of-counsel, The Recorder reported. (press release) Landegger Baron, a 10-attorney firm with offices in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, agreed to have...

Proposition 5 proposes more treatment, less jail for non-violent drug offenders

Posted on October 02, 2008
An initiative on the ballot this November seeks to increase treatment for drug offenders and eliminate incarceration for non-violent crimes involving drugs or done to feed their addiction, the Los Angeles Times reported. (here)Under Proposition 5, the proposed Nonviolent Offender...

Calif. gov's sweeping vetoes upsets plaintiffs bar

Posted on October 02, 2008
On Tuesday, the last day on which he could sign or veto legislation for the year, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed more than 100 bills, including several that would have benefited the state's plaintiffs' bar. Key among them was Assembly...

Report on U.S. attorney firings answers questions on Carol Lam's firing

Posted on October 01, 2008
A nearly 400-page government report blames former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, over the controversial removal of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, The National Law Journal reported...

L.A. judge Kenneth Black retires in two weeks

Posted on October 01, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court judge Kenneth Black is retiring in two weeks, after 21 years on the bench, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. (here) After Black's last day on Oct. 17, he plans to move on to do private judging across...

Westcott Griswold dies at 79 after 50 years in real estate law

Posted on October 01, 2008
After over 50 years as a San Diego real estate attorney, Westcott Griswold died on September 18, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. (here) He was 79. Griswold, a graduate of UC Berkeley's law school, spent two years in the army...

Former Heller partner joins WilmerHale's L.A. office

Posted on October 01, 2008
Former Heller Ehrman partner Robert Badal joined WilmerHale's Los Angeles office as a partner. (press release) Badal bring over 35 years of antitrust, intellectual property and complex litigation experience.

Aronzon rejoins Milbank Tweed

Posted on October 01, 2008
Paul Aronzon has rejoined New York's Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy as a partner in the Los Angeles office and co-practice group leader of the financial restructuring group. Aronzon spent 17 years at Milbank before leaving less than three years...

Broadcom's Samueli appeals rejection of plea deal over backdating

Posted on October 01, 2008
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli, whose plea deal in the U.S. government's criminal case involving stock options backdating was rejected earlier this month, has appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Samueli, who is the former...

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