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Atzen joins Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles

Posted on June 16, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has announced the addition of Jon Atzen to its Los Angeles/Downtown office as a partner in their corporate practice group. He will also be a member of the Emerging Companies practice. Atzen most recently...

Appeals court affirms tourism agency's immunity from price-fixing suit

Posted on June 16, 2010
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling that the California Travel and Tourism Commission is shielded from liability for price-fixing allegations, qualified under the two-prong test established by the United States Supreme Court in California Retail...

Daye joins Klinedinst

Posted on June 16, 2010
Klinedinst PC has announced the addition of employment attorney Anthony B. Daye to the firm. He will be working out of both the Orange County and Los Angeles offices. As part of his practice, Daye has represented clients in cases...

O'Donnell back in the hotseat

Posted on June 15, 2010
The 9th Circuit court has reinstated criminal charges against plaintiffs' attorney Pierce O'Donnell after concluding that the section of the Federal Election Campaign Act on which he was charged applied to conduit, or indirect, campaign contributions, not just to contributions...

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McDermott names new L.A. leader

Posted on June 15, 2010
Eric Gordon has been named head of McDermott Will & Emery's Los Angeles office, succeeding Gordon Green�berg. Gordon is currently partner-in-charge of the firm's California health practice and the national co-chairman of the firm's academic medical center practice.

Family lawyers to the stars leave Nachshin & Langlois

Posted on June 15, 2010
Scott N. Weston and Joel D. Schwartz have joined Fox Rothschild's Los Angeles office, where they will launch a family law practice for the Philadelphia firm. Weston and Schwartz join Fox Rothschild from Nachshin & Langlois, a West Los Angeles...

Pillsbury adds former Reed Smith partner

Posted on June 14, 2010
Mark Litvack joins Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's intellectual property practice as partner in the Los Angeles office. He will focus on copyright and trademark infringement, Internet piracy and entertainment law. Previously, he was a partner at Reed Smith.

Calif. Toyota litigation coordinated in L.A.

Posted on June 11, 2010
Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California's state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. The order issued by Chief Justice Ronald George will please plaintiffs' lawyers, most of whom had argued for Los Angeles...

Lawyers Gone Missing: Munger Tolles bails on Joe Francis

Posted on June 11, 2010
A federal judge has allowed lawyers at Munger, Tolles & Olson to withdraw as counsel to Joe Francis, founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" franchise. The defense team, the latest in a line of attorneys who have come and gone...

9th Circuit settles script ownership dispute

Posted on June 11, 2010
An appellate ruling involving the 2003 Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai clarified for the first time in 40 years how a writer of a finished script with copyrightable elements can successfully bring a contract claim against a studio for...

MOVERS

Posted on June 10, 2010
PROMOTIONS TO PARTNERSHIP Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill: Four associates have been promoted to partnership at the firm. Todd Arnold focuses his practice on bankruptcy litigation, representing corporations and high net-worth individuals in Chapter 11 cases...

Appointment of lead lawyer for Toyota shareholders delayed

Posted on June 08, 2010
A federal judge has delayed appointing the lead plaintiffs' attorneys in the shareholder litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. until U.S. Supreme Court decides whether foreign purchasers of a company's stock have standing to sue in the United States. U...

MOVERS

Posted on June 08, 2010
Lax & Stevens: Jason Suh joins the firm as an associate and will focus his practice on business and commercial litigation, general civil litigation, real estate litigation and judgment enforcement. Prior to joining the firm, Suh was an associate at...

Loan modification misconduct task force claims two more attorneys

Posted on June 07, 2010
Eric Douglas Johnson of the Law Offices of Eric Douglas Johnson in Los Angeles, and Mark Alan Shoemaker of the Law Offices of Mark A. Shoemaker of Long Beach, Calif., are the latest casualties in the State Bar's task force...

Anti-marijuana ordinance goes into effect in L.A. today

Posted on June 07, 2010
Last week Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant cleared the way for the city ordinance to shut down more than 400 marijuana dispensaries that have opened in the past two and a half years. Dispensaries that registered...

Annuity pays thousands to 'Hannibal Lecter of pedophile Catholic priests'

Posted on June 07, 2010
Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest formerly of the Stockton diocese, has admitted to abusing many children of various ages, boys and girls, and even slept with two mothers to get access to their children. He was convicted of child sexual...

Rachel Moran will be UCLA Law's new dean

Posted on June 07, 2010
Officials have announced that Rachel Moran will be replacing Mike Schill as the dean of UCLA School of Law. Moran has spent the past year on the faculty of the fledgling University of California, Irvine School of Law, and taught...

Screenwriter's Craigslist posts rant and rave him into a defamation suit

Posted on June 07, 2010
A Woodland Hills attorney is probably wishing for a "missed connection." Screenwriter Justin Swingle has been posting hundreds of derogatory messages about lawyer Richard Gibson, allegedly because Gibson went out of his way to get some comments Swingle made about...

New litigation associate for Allen Matkins

Posted on June 04, 2010
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis have announced the addition of Alan D. Hearty to its litigation group as an associate in Century City. Hearty was previously with Alston & Bird for nearly six years, and his practice focuses...

'Chinatown, on steroids'

Posted on June 04, 2010
That's how Bill Jennings, director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, refers to the current water situation in Kern County. A lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court this week seeks to recoup millions of dollars in taxpayer money that, according...

Bergstein attempts to halt forced deposition

Posted on June 04, 2010
On March 17, a group of 14 creditors sought to put five companies controlled by David Bergstein into involuntary bankruptcy. Judge Barry Russell subsequently appointed forensic accountant Ronald Durkin as interim trustee to oversee Bergstein's companies and examine his books,...

New Perkins Coie presence in San Diego

Posted on June 02, 2010
Perkins Coie has opened an office in San Diego with the addition of four intellectual property partners. All four were partners at the San Diego office of their former firms. Thane Bauz joined from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. He...

U.S. Supreme Court declines hearing sludge-dump appeal

Posted on June 02, 2010
Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal the challenged the constitutionality of Measure E, prohibits the spreading of human waste in Kern County farmland. Los Angeles had initially challenged Measure E on the grounds that it violated the...

New appointments to the Judicial Council of California

Posted on June 02, 2010
Chief Justice Ronald M. George has announced the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burt Pines to the Judicial Council of California. Admitted to the State Bar in 1964 after attending USC and law school at New York University,...

Judge says 'don't dismiss' to 'don't ask, don't tell' suit

Posted on June 01, 2010
President Obama is pressing for the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" law, but is also defending it against a suit by the Log Cabin Republicans. The gay rights organization is arguing that "don't ask, don't tell," which prohibits...

New settlement possibilities for Dole workers

Posted on June 01, 2010
After over 20 years, constant litigation may finally have lost its appeal for Dole. According to The Los Angeles Business Journal, attorneys for the produce giant have filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court asking that nearly 1,500 Honduran...

Parents suing construction firm and school officials in rape case

Posted on May 28, 2010
A story in the San Bernardino Sun from earlier this week says a suit has been filed against a Rancho Cucamonga construction company that allegedly assigned a registered sex offender to supervise a project at Cesar Chavez Middle School, where...

Carly Simon's Starbucks suit is coming around again

Posted on May 28, 2010
From THR, Esq.: This past April, Los Angeles District Court Judge George Wu dismissed a suit brought by singer Carly Simon against Starbucks, alleging that the chain misled her by getting out of the music business five days before they...

ACLU suit on behalf of homeless gets tossed in Santa Monica

Posted on May 28, 2010
The ACLU's suit against Santa Monica for its treatment of the homeless has been dismissed, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press. The suit was dismissed "with prejudice" and made "on the basis that the parties have reached an agreement...

Pocklington pleads guilty to perjury

Posted on May 28, 2010
According to USA Today, it turns out Peter Pocklington's pockets weren't as empty as he had originally claimed. The former owner of the Edmonton Oilers pleaded guilty yesterday to perjury a Southern California bankruptcy fraud case. He had been arrested...

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