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Thomas joins Jenner & Block in L.A.

Posted on August 16, 2010
Andrew J. (?A.J.?) Thomas, has joined Jenner & Block as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Mr. Thomas has significant experience in copyright, trademark, misappropriation, theft-of-ideas, First Amendment, and complex business litigation matters. Mr...

Prison time for Greens in entertainment industry FCPA case

Posted on August 13, 2010
U.S. District Judge George Wu has sentenced film producer Gerald Green and his wife Patricia to six months in prison and six months home confinement each for paying $1.8 million in bribes to a high-ranking government official in Thailand in...

McDonough attorneys go to BB&K, among others

Posted on August 13, 2010
Eighteen lawyers from McDonough Holland & Allen PC will be joining Best Best & Krieger on September 1st. The group includes Ed Quinn, McDonough?s chief executive officer, redevelopment attorney T. Brent Hawkins and city attorneys Iris Yang and Harriet Steiner...

New life for Monteilh's suit

Posted on August 13, 2010
On Thursday, federal Judge James V. Selna seemed poised to dismiss a case brought by former FBI informant Craig Monteilh against the federal agency. Monteilh alleged law enforcement agencies violated his civil rights and endangered his life while he was...

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BB&K tangled in Bell scandal

Posted on August 11, 2010
California Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr. has subpoenaed records from Riverside-based firm Best Best & Krieger in an investigation of the pay packages for city officials in Bell, Calif., where a scandal involving high salaries has spiraled into possible civil...

Judge orders something special for plaintiffs in Wells Fargo class action

Posted on August 11, 2010
In a 90-page order filed today, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Wells Fargo will pay close to $203 million in a class action that alleged the bank processed debit card overdrafts in order to maximize fees. The plaintiffs...

Prop 8 appealed by Imperial County

Posted on August 11, 2010
Imperial County has filed an appeal with the 9th Circuit challenging Judge Walker's Prop 8 ruling. According to the LA Times, about 70 percent of voters in Imperial County approved the proposition. The county is being represented by the Christian...

Fight over furloughs continues with new ruling

Posted on August 10, 2010
Last Friday Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven A. Brick sided with the unions suing to stop Governor Schwarzenegger from implementing three monthly furlough days, roughly the equivalent of a 14% pay cut for nearly 150,000 state workers, that would...

Court of Appeals tells Merritt to put up or throw out

Posted on August 10, 2010
Yesterday the California Court of Appeal ordered Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Hilleri G. Merritt to show a compelling reason why the Los Angeles Times should not print photographs taken of Alberd Tersargyan at his arraignment hearing, or else...

To Bill, says judge, with not so much love: no college course for community service

Posted on August 10, 2010
It's safe to say that U.S. District Judge John Walter in Los Angeles is no fan of Bill Lerach. Apart from overseeing the criminal case that federal prosecutors brought against Lerach's former law firm, now called Milberg LLP, and several...

Shareholder settlement approved in wake of New Century collapse

Posted on August 10, 2010
Yesterday U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson granted preliminary approval to a $125 million cash settlement for shareholders of bankrupt New Century Financial Corp., one of the largest lenders to collapse during the subprime mortgage meltdown. The settlement involves three...

Renowned Manatt litigator Robert Zeavin dies

Posted on August 09, 2010
Robert Zeavin, co-chair of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips? national trial practice, died on the evening of Thursday, July 29, in Salt Lake City, following a heart attack. He was 59. Based in Los Angeles, Mr. Zeavin was a highly-regarded litigator,...

Claims of juror misconduct call Skilled Healthcare settlement into question

Posted on August 09, 2010
A motion filed last week in the Skilled Healthcare settlement talks has complicated matters, as defense attorneys call for a mistrial alleging juror misconduct. Defense attorneys claim that a member of the jury lied on court documents about her previous...

The heart of the matter: copyright infringement

Posted on August 09, 2010
In June, Judge James V. Selna of United States District Court in Santa Ana sided with musician Don Henley and his collaborators, Mike Campbell and Danny Kortchmar, in a claim that California Republican Senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore used parodies of...

Alston & Bird's Millar migrates to L.A.

Posted on August 09, 2010
Alston & Bird has announced the relocation of tax partner Ethan Millar from Atlanta to the Los Angeles office. Millar is a nationally recognized leader in the area of multistate and federal taxation, having represented major business entities across the...

No redemption for O.C. tax preparer

Posted on August 09, 2010
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao, a 28-year-old Orange County man, and his Lake Forest-based business Phoenix Financial Management Group from preparing federal tax returns...

Pokladowski joins UC Irvine Extension as director of paralegal and legal programs

Posted on August 06, 2010
University of California, Irvine Extension has announced the appointment of Tom Pokladowski, Esq. as the director for its paralegal and legal programs. As a part of the business, management and legal department?s management team, Pokladowski will oversee the promotion and...

Judge orders L.A. Times photographer to stop taking photos at arraignment, despite prior permission

Posted on August 06, 2010
Alberd Tersargyan was in court for a scheduled arraignment on multiple murder counts in connection with the slayings of four people from 2008 to 2010. Prior to the arraignment, Judge Hilleri G. Merritt approved a written request by Los Angeles...

Lorenzini joins Elkins Kalt

Posted on August 06, 2010
Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP has announced the addition of Eric J. Lorenzini as an Of Counsel litigator. Lorenzini is an attorney with nine years of experience in commercial litigation. He joins the Century City-based firm to grow its...

SEC red-lights alleged fake green energy scheme

Posted on August 06, 2010
Yesterday the SEC charged two alleged Orange County boiler-room operators and four salesmen with conducting a fraudulent green-energy investment scheme. According to the complaint, investors were told their money would fund an environmentally friendly energy business, but out of $11...

Attorney John Kristensen on Toyota and the NHTSA

Posted on August 05, 2010
Among the multitudes of Toyota's woes, the company faces an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a 2005 recall involving steering-related problems in 4Runners, trucks and pickups. NHTSA had been tipped off by John Kristensen, a lawyer...

Councilman and wife indicted for voter fraud

Posted on August 05, 2010
After a 15-month investigation by the district attorney's Public Integrity Division, a grand jury indicted Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife, Flora Montes de Oca, on a total of 24 felony counts. The indictment stems from allegations...

Suit in O.C. claims adulterated olive oils being sold as extra-virgin

Posted on August 05, 2010
A suit filed in Orange County Superior Court this week claims that several retailers and producers of olive oil have been misleading Californians for years about the quality of the olive oil they've been selling and marking up the costs....

New complex commercial litigation partner at McGuireWoods in L.A.

Posted on August 05, 2010
McGuireWoods LLP announced that Brooks Gresham has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner with the Complex Commercial Litigation group. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Gresham served as of counsel to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. He has...

Walker deep-sixes Prop 8, but long road ahead

Posted on August 05, 2010
It may have escaped your notice, but on Wednesday Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8. In his 136-page decision, Walker said that the measure "fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for...

California consumer protections cited in first consolidated Toyota complaint

Posted on August 04, 2010
Lawyers in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. filed their first consolidated complaint on Monday. The MDL involves more than 200 lawsuits filed after Toyota recalled more than 8 million vehicles for defects associated with unintended acceleration ? specifically,...

Former investigator to be tried for filing false reports

Posted on August 04, 2010
Janet Strong, a former Orange County Sheriff's Department investigator, will be tried today on charges of filing false reports and lying that she had contacted victims of crimes. Prosecutors allege that Strong filed five such false reports between September 2006...

New name at Jeffer Mangels

Posted on August 04, 2010
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP has announced it is changing its name to Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP. The name change is effective August 5, 2010 and coincides with the date that Marc Marmaro, one of the firm?s...

Death row inmate challenges new lethal injection procedures

Posted on August 03, 2010
Mitchell Sims, a 50-year-old death row inmate, has claimed in a suit that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has rushed through revising procedures for lethal injection, deliberately kept the public out of the loop, and consequently executions are...

ACLU goes to bat again for mentally disabled immigrants

Posted on August 03, 2010
After having sued successfully for the release of Jose Antonio Franco-Gonzalez, the ACLU of Southern California, along with other civil rights groups, has named him in a new suit among six other plaintiffs. The lawsuit demands that federal officials test...

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