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Dino Barajas joins Morgan Lewis in L.A. and NY as a partner

Posted on April 21, 2008
Business and finance lawyer Dino Barajas joined Morgan Lewis' Los Angeles and New York offices as a partner. Barajas represents commercial lenders, institutional investors, investment funds, project sponsors and public and private companies in domestic and international project development and...

Prosecutors fed up with quotas at U.S. Attorney's Office

Posted on April 18, 2008
Prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles are fed up with pressure to file small criminal cases to drive up statistics that bring in more federal funding, the Los Angeles Times reported. Disgruntled prosecutors anonymously told the Times...

Heller loses four partners to DLA Piper

Posted on April 18, 2008
Corporate and securities partners Martin Nichols, Michael Kagnoff, Jeffrey Thacker and Ross Burningham are leaving Heller Ehrman for DLA Piper in San Diego, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported. They were all previously at Brobeck Phleger. At least 13 attorneys, nearly...

Real estate attorney Paul Rohrer joined Manatt as senior associate

Posted on April 18, 2008
Real estate and land use attorney Paul Rohrer joined Manatt Phelps' Los Angeles office as a senior associate. Rohrer was previously at Munger Tolles. Rohrer works with public, private and nonprofit clients, specifically on on the ground leasing and development...

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Commissioner Tamila Embrahimi Ipema resigns to take San Diego post

Posted on April 18, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema is resigning to take a similar job at San Diego Superior Court, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Ipema, who works in a family law courtroom, didn't comment on why she's moving. MetNews notes...

L.A. city attorney sues state's biggest healthcare insurer for over $1 billion

Posted on April 17, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney is seeking over $1 billion in fines and restitution from California's largest healthcare insurer, the Associated Press reported. The suit against WellPoint, Inc and two of its subsidiaries, Anthem Blue Cross of California and Anthem Blue...

Carona attorneys ask for trial to be moved away from radio shock jocks

Posted on April 17, 2008
The attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona asked for his corruption trial to be moved out of Southern California because of publicity, the Los Angeles Times reported. The motion to move the trial was brought on largely by...

Screen actors' contract negotiations: lights, camera, action!

Posted on April 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES ?� Two unions representing actors and other performers in the entertainment industry have begun labor negotiations that, if unsuccessful, could lead to another strike not unlike that of the months-long strike by members of the Writer's Guild of...

L.A. supervisors take on taco trucks

Posted on April 17, 2008
Los Angeles County supervisors unanimously passed a law making it a misdemeanor for trucks selling tacos to stay parked for over an hour, the Los Angeles Times reported. Taco trucks were previously fined $60 if they failed to move every...

San Diego tax attorney charged with tax fraud

Posted on April 16, 2008
A federal grand jury indicted San Diego tax attorney David Jacquot with two counts of filing false income tax returns, NBC San Diego reported. Jacquot willfully signed and filed false and fraudulent U.S. corporation income tax returns in 2001 and...

Ethics charges against O.C. Judge Kelly MacEachern slated oral arguments for May

Posted on April 16, 2008
Oral arguments on the ethics charges against Orange Superior Judge Kelly MacEachern will be held on May 21, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. In August 2007, the state Commission on Judicial Performance accused MacEachern of lying in order to get a...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear prosecutor immunity case

Posted on April 16, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that would define the boundaries of prosecutor immunity. Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and others petitioned for the high court to hear a case where an L.A. man, wrongfully convicted...

The beginning of the bankruptcy boom

Posted on April 16, 2008
The number of businesses filing for bankruptcy increased by 44 percent in 2007 and lawyers say it's getting worse by the day, The Recorder reported. "I think we'll be in a full insolvency cycle six months from now, and it...

University of California goes to court against animal rights activists

Posted on April 16, 2008
The University of California system is going to court to stop animal rights activists who protest and threaten what they believe are unethical experiments on animals by science faculty members, National Public Radio reported. (LISTEN) The UC Regents got a...

SEC suit against San Diego officials is a warning to other local governments

Posted on April 16, 2008
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against five former San Diego officials is the first time the commission has sought civil penalties, possible $240,000 each, against municipal employees, KPBS reported. (LISTEN) The suit, over the officials role in understating...

State Assembly considers having two grand juries in San Diego

Posted on April 15, 2008
Los Angeles County is the only place in California allowed to have more than one grand jury. But San Diego might be next. A State Assembly committee unanimously approved a bill that would allow San Diego Superior Court officials to...

Former California Assistant U.S. Attorney joins Venable

Posted on April 15, 2008
Former U.S. Attorney David Kettel joined Venable's SEC and white-collar practice in Los Angeles as a partner, The Recorder reported. Kettel was a prosecutor in the Central District of California, focusing on bank and bankruptcy fraud, bulk cash smuggling, narcotics...

Olga May joins Fish & Richardson as an associate

Posted on April 15, 2008
Olga May joined Fish & Richardson's San Diego office as a associate. May focuses on business litigation. She previously clerked for the U.S. District Judges Roger T. Benitez (2004-2005, 2007-2008) and Cathy Ann Bencivengo (2005-2007).

Juan Basombrio named partner-in-charge of Dorsey & Whitney Irvine office

Posted on April 15, 2008
Dorsey & Whitney named Juan Basombrio as partner-in-charge of their Irvine office. Basombrio has been at the firm since 1995, representing clients complex business litigation and arbitration in the U.S. and abroad.

Three new associates at Dreier Stein's Santa Monica office

Posted on April 15, 2008
Toni Y. Long, Mansi K. Shah and Susan Leader joined Dreier Stein's Santa Monica office as associates. Long focuses on corporate and securities cases, including mergers, acquisitions, real estate and corporate governance. She also provides general corporate counseling to public...

William Morehead joins Grodsky & Olecki as associate

Posted on April 15, 2008
William Morehead joined Grodsky & Olecki's Santa Monica office as an associate. Morehead was previously an associate at Quinn Emanuel, litigating intellectual unfair competition, and employment actions in federal and state courts. Before that, he was a summer associate at...

Supreme Court asked to block Calif. lawsuit challenging prosecutor immunity

Posted on April 14, 2008
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office is trying to block a lawsuit of a man wrongly convicted of murder, saying it could undermine the absolute immunity afforded to prosecutors, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Los Angeles District Attorney Steve...

More grads go to NLJ 250 firms

Posted on April 14, 2008
A bigger percentage of students graduating from top law schools in 2007 took jobs at NLJ 250 law firms than those graduating in 2006, The National Law Journal reported. While Columbia Law School took the top spot again, with nearly...

Milberg Weiss case yields small recovery

Posted on April 14, 2008
More than $32 million was paid by the defendants who plead guilty in the Milberg Weiss case ? a far cry from the $251 million in attorney fees that federal prosecutors allege the firm and itst lawyers obtained by paying...

Spector's attempt to remove judge denied by appellate panel

Posted on April 14, 2008
A state appellate panel denied Phil Spector's attempt to remove Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler from his murder retrial, the Associated Press reported. Spector claims Fidler was biased in the first trial. Fidler rejected a defense motion last month to...

O.C. pension case may go to L.A.

Posted on April 14, 2008
Orange County's deputies pension case may go to Los Angeles, with the judge in the case issuing a tentative ruling, the Orange County Register reported. A written order will be release this week. The Orange County Employee Retirement System sought...

S.D. judge rules Pacific Law Center provided inadequate counsel

Posted on April 14, 2008
A San Diego Superior Court judge ruled that a man who plead guilty to shooting two people was poorly represented by San Diego's Pacific Law Center and could withdraw his plea, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

L.A. prosecutors to study domestic violence in the LGBT community

Posted on April 14, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced a plan to train prosecutors on issues related to domestic violence in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, according to a press release. A 2006 report on twelve major cities found 3,534...

Jaramillo disbarred

Posted on April 14, 2008
Former Orange County assistant sheriff George Jaramillo was was disbarred, the Orange County Register reported. The state Supreme Court denied the Jaramillo the option to resign. In 2007, he completed a one year sentence for perjury and misuse of public...

Prosecution drops 28 charges against Pellicano, 35 still to go

Posted on April 10, 2008
Prosecutors dropped 28 charges against former P.I. to the stars Anthony Pellicano and co-defendant Mark Arneson today, the Associated Press reported. Pellicano, who is accused of illegally wiretapping opponents of his powerful clients, originally faced 107 federal charges with four...

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