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Winston & Strawn nabs two Thelen Reid partners

Posted on February 20, 2008
Litigation attorneys Gayle Irene Jenkins and David Aronoff joined Winston & Strawn's Los Angeles office as partners. Jenkins litigates complex business and intellectual property disputes over patent infringement and distribution of counterfeit products, as well as claims of trade secret...

L.A. lawyer arrested for intimidating witness in DUI case

Posted on February 18, 2008
Los Angeles attorney Daniel Willsey, accused of killing a Kern County Sheriff's deputy in a car accident, was arrested on Friday for for intimidating a witness in the case, KGET reports (WATCH Eyewitness News Report). Willsey, 46, will go to...

Border agent won't be prosecuted for shooting Mexican teen in the back

Posted on February 18, 2008
The federal government decided not to prosecute a Border Patrol agent who shot a 18 year-old Mexican man in the back, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division wrote the family of Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez,...

Carona attorneys argue wiretapping violated "no contact" rule

Posted on February 18, 2008
Defense attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona filed a brief on Friday to suppress the wiretapped conversations between Carona and former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl. The brief finds claims federal investigators violated a "no contact" rule with Carona...

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Homeless man convicted of Day Fire

Posted on February 18, 2008
A 49 year old homeless man was found guilty of starting the the 2006 Day Fire that burned more than 162,000 acres that injured 18 people and led to over $78 million in fire suppression costs. Steven Emory Butcher was...

Labor arbitrator Thomas Roberts dies at 84

Posted on February 18, 2008
Labor arbitrator Thomas Roberts, best known for his high-profile baseball rulings, died of complications related to old age last Wednesday. He was 84. Roberts remained an active arbitrator since he started in 1958. Roberts went in to the limelight with...

Latham & Watkins to open Middle East offices

Posted on February 18, 2008
Latham & Watkins plans to open three Middle East offices by the end of March. The offices are planned to be in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and in Doha, Qatar. They'll focus on mergers and...

Seyfarth's lead corp. partner joins Reed Smith

Posted on February 18, 2008
Corporate attorney Charles Pak joined Reed Smith's Los Angeles office as a partner. Pak was previously at at Seyfarth Shaw's L.A. office as lead corporate partner and co-chair of their private equity group. Pak represents private equity funds and their...

OC's Legal Aid Society tries to find funds for it's 50th

Posted on February 18, 2008
Legal Aid Society of Orange County is trying to bring in more money to create new services and add more workers for it's 50th birthday, the Orange County Business Journal reports. The group, which offers free legal assistances to over...

L.A. City Council's proposed Britney's law may impact news reporters, too

Posted on February 15, 2008
The Los Angeles City Council is considering a law that that would create a buffer zone between celebrities and the paparazzi, apparently to be named after Britney Spears. Beyond restarting the discussion of pop stars' rights and the culture of...

Civil rights law groups allege ICE blocked attorney consultations

Posted on February 15, 2008
Three civil rights law groups sought a restraining order against immigration officials who allegedly blocked workers at a Van Nuys manufacturing plant from consulting their attorneys, the Los Angeles Times reported. The petition, claiming workers were told they didn't need...

Attorney John Grasberger pleads guilty, resigns from bar, for child porn

Posted on February 15, 2008
La Mesa attorney John Grasberger plead guilty to possessing child pornography yesterday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Grasberger, 60, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for the 10 to 150 images of children engaged in sexual acts,....

Two groups try to move same-sex marriage from courts to the ballot box

Posted on February 15, 2008
While the state Supreme Court will hear arguments next month on same-sex marriage, two groups anti-LGBT marriage groups are trying to get a ban on the state ballot would overrule the court. ProtectMarriage.com and VoteYesMarriage.com tried and failed to limit...

Seyfarth promotes employee benefits attorney Nanette Zamost to partner

Posted on February 15, 2008
Seyfarth B. Shaw promoted employee benefits attorney Nanette Zamost to partner at their Los Angeles office. Zamost focuses on compliance and administration of ERISA pensions and welfare plans, specifically in the multiemployer area. Zamost also advises employers in collective bargaining...

Loeb & Loeb adds entertainment lawyer Scott Edel

Posted on February 15, 2008
Entertainment law attorney Scott Edel joined Loeb & Loeb's Los Angeles office as a partner. Edel will focus on entertainment industry transactions. He represents and consults with major movie studio and independent productions, as well as writers, directors and producers...

9/11 turns L.A. lawyer into war crimes expert

Posted on February 14, 2008
KPCC Public Radio did a short interview with former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Barbara Mulvaney yesterday about her move from prosecuting white collar crimes in L.A. to Rwandan military leaders accused of war crimes (LISTEN, Read Transcript)...

Carona attorneys say Feds have no jurisdiction

Posted on February 14, 2008
Attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona asked a judge to dismiss four of the corruption charges against him, claiming federal prosecutors don't have jurisdiction in the case. They claim the U.S. Attorney shouldn't be allowed to prosecute him...

CA Judge Association reacts to performance evaluation idea

Posted on February 14, 2008
The California Judges Association alerted members about a possible effort to make all jurists face retention votes and undergo performance evaluations that would go public before elections, The Recorder reports. The mass e-mail to CJA members was prompted by a...

San Diego City Council President joins city attorney race

Posted on February 14, 2008
City Council President Scott Peters joined the big list of candidates for San Diego City Attorney yesterday, challenging incumbent Mike Aguirre (WATCH). Peters practiced corporate tax and environmental law in San Diego and was city's deputy county counsel, before being...

Loeb & Loeb nabs Mitchell Silberberg entertainment/IP partner

Posted on February 14, 2008
Jeffrey Goldmans is joining Loeb & Loeb's Los Angeles office as a partner in their litigation department. Goldman, previously with Mitchell Silberberg, focuses on copyright, trademark, and entertainment litigation. He's represented all of the major record companies, motion picture studios,...

9th Circuit Judge Joseph Sneed III dies at 87

Posted on February 14, 2008
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed III died at his home last week. He was 87. After a quarter-century as a law school teacher, Sneed was appointed deputy attorney general and then nominated to the appeals court by...

Chicago's Bell Boyd opens San Diego IP office

Posted on February 14, 2008
Chicago's Bell Boyd opened its first office on the West Coast in San Diego. The office will focus on intellectual property law in the life sciences and also general corporate services. Two new partners at the firm, Dr. Stephanie L....

Gary Gans joins Quinn Emanuel as partner

Posted on February 14, 2008
Complex commercial litigator Gary Gans joined Quinn Emanuel's Los Angeles office as a partner. Gans represents entertainment industry clients in litigation involving movie financing, production and distribution, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition...

Ari Brumer joins Greenberg Glusker as partner

Posted on February 14, 2008
Real estate attorney Ari Brumer joins Greenberg Glusker's Los Angeles office as a partner. Brumer focuses on commercial real estate transactions with an emphasis on acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and financing of office, industrial, retail and telecommunications projects.

Writers' strike ends

Posted on February 13, 2008
Members of the Writers Guild of America voted yesterday to return to work. The three month strike is over. But the three-year contract that gives writers a cut of the money earned for movies and television shows put online still...

One fish, two fish, grey fish, pink fish?

Posted on February 13, 2008
Consumers can sue the major grocery chains to label the gray-farmed salmon that's artificially colored pink to look like wild salmon, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The lawsuit was filed by 11 consumers and state Attorney General Jerry...

Cross-border lawyer joins Gibson Dunn

Posted on February 13, 2008
Cross-border corporate lawyer Jai Pathak joined Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles office as a partner. Pathak was previously at Jones Day, where he was head of the corporate practice in L.A. and the mergers and acquisitions practice for their California offices...

Kimberly Talley joins Mitchell Silberberg as partner

Posted on February 13, 2008
Kimberly M. Talley joined Mitchell Silberberg's labor and employment group in Los Angeles as a partner. Talley litigates employment discrimination, wage and hour and wrongful termination claims in state and federal courts and before administration agencies...

Three new partners at Sheppard Mullin

Posted on February 13, 2008
Sheppard Mullin promoted three attorneys to partner in their Santa Barbara and Los Angeles offices. Tony Young works in the Centura City office, representing clients in cases that allege fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, as well...

Reed Smith grabs head of Greenberg Traurig's China practice

Posted on February 12, 2008
Jinshu "John" Zhang joined Reed Smith's Los Angeles office as a partner in their corporate & securities group. Zhang previously launched and led Greenberg Traurig's China practice and was a shareholder at their L.A. office. Reed Smith opened offices in...

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