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Prop 8 debate at Southwestern on April 13th

Posted on April 07, 2009
The Southwestern Law School will host a debate on Proposition 8 featuring three law school deans. Arguing pro-Prop will be Dean John Eastman of Chapman University and UC Irvine's very own wallflower Dean Erwin Chemerinsky will be arguing con-Prop. Southwestern's...

Nevada judge hits lawyers, their client, and their firm with over $200,000 in sanctions

Posted on April 07, 2009
Last Tuesday U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Cooke of Nevada District Court imposed sanctions amounting in a little over $20,000 against the firm Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstrief & Taylor for the "scorched earth litigation tactics" of two of its...

McIntosh new corporate chair for Allen Matkins

Posted on April 07, 2009
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP announces the addition of Daniel McIntosh as chair of the firm's corporate practice group in the firm's Los Angeles and Century City offices. McIntosh joins the firm as the former co-chair of...

CSC ruling puts final nail in body donation suits

Posted on April 07, 2009
Evelyn Conroy fought for 10 years to hold the regents of UC Irvine responsible for mishandling her deceased husband's body, which he had donated to the university. That fight ended yesterday, when the California Supreme Court unanimously decided to dismiss...

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Phoenix and Los Angeles new stomping grounds for Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP

Posted on April 07, 2009
Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, one of the nation's largest minority-owned law firms, announced today that it continues to expand its nationwide presence with the opening of two offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California. In Los Angeles, Gonzalez...

Law student conference aims to change some "evil ways"

Posted on April 07, 2009
About 50 students from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford and other premier law schools gathered at Stanford Law School over the weekend as part of Building a Better Legal Profession's National Conference of Student Leaders. The two-day event focused on changing...

Reposting of MySpace rant in newspaper not invasion of privacy

Posted on April 06, 2009
Cynthia Moreno posted an unflattering "ode" to her hometown and its inhabitants on her MySpace page while she was a student at UC Berkeley. The posting, meant apparently only for Ms. Moreno's friends, got picked up her hometown newspaper, resulting...

You sign it, you buy it: CA lawmakers approved mandatory supplemental judicial benefits

Posted on April 06, 2009
The Recorder builds on a story we reported on last week, about judges in California not giving up perks like gym memberships and car allowances even in the face of massive layoffs and budget cuts. And as Cheryl Miller's article...

Recession hits GCs, especially outside counsel

Posted on April 06, 2009
Of all the budget issues confronting general counsel -- and there are plenty -- outside counsel fees and their lack of predictability are the two biggest worries, according to a November 2008 survey of 115 general counsel by Altman Weil....

Future of Duroville at stake in trial before a concerned district judge

Posted on April 06, 2009
For more than a year, U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson has rebuffed demands by the U.S. attorney's office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to close the notorious desert shantytown known as Duroville and displace up to 4,000 poor farmworkers....

State workers' salary cap proposal moves to the next level

Posted on April 06, 2009
State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino has introduced a bill that would freeze the pay of state employees making more than $150,000 a year. It was approved unanimously on Wednesday by the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee and goes...

As MA, CT and IA go, will CA?

Posted on April 06, 2009
The Iowa ruling on gay marriage has constitutional law experts and attorneys predicting an influence over California justices, who will rule on the future of Prop 8 in early June. ?This underscores that these are basic constitutional principles that these...

Medi-Cal reduction still blocked

Posted on April 06, 2009
US District Court Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles issued a ruling on April 3 rejecting the State?s motion that the court reconsider a previous order that blocked a 5% reduction for Medi-Cal Pharmacy providers that was scheduled to go...

Immigrants win legal victory against wage and other labor violations

Posted on April 06, 2009
Courts and government agencies are beginning to deal with longstanding allegations of underpaid immigrant workers. Attorney General Jerry Brown's office has a new Underground Economy Unit that investigates businesses for suspected wage abuse, workers' compensation and tax fraud...

LA firms make impressive showing in NLJ's Appellate Hot List

Posted on April 03, 2009
The National Law Journal asked its readers to nominate firms with stellar records in appellate advocacy. Dozens of nominations poured in for firms that really have been shaking things up. Firms that scored at least one significant appellate win since...

Department of Water may have to use city budget money for customer refunds

Posted on April 03, 2009
A Superior Court judge has issued a tentative ruling ordering the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to repay its customers nearly $30 million that city officials had hoped to spend on other services. The ruling said the Department's...

AMPAS not amused by faux Oscar use

Posted on April 03, 2009
Last Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sued Monte Carlo Productions, Chief Executive R. Bruce Nixon and company president John Brown in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. The Academy accused Monte Carlo of copyright and trademark violations...

The fine art of dealing with startup entrepreneurs in a fragile economy

Posted on April 03, 2009
As the recession threatens to take down a whole slew of startups, corporate lawyers are trying to avoid being left with unpaid bills. But in Silicon Valley, attorneys are caught between their law firms' demands for revenue and the need...

ICERS in heat over JPMorgan's securities lending

Posted on April 02, 2009
The Board of Trustees of the Imperial County Employees' Retirement System filed a class action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank on behalf of plans that invested in its securities lending program, which lost most of its value after the collapse...

ACLU sues Immigration over "barbaric" conditions at B-18

Posted on April 02, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement late Wednesday over conditions at a holding facility for immigrant detainees. The suit alleges that up to 200 detainees are at times crammed...

Retired judge vs. AIG over bonus program

Posted on April 02, 2009
A lawsuit filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court accuses AIG of constructing an executive compensation program to guarantee bonuses, even as the company knew it was sliding into insolvency due to its fraudulent activities. AIG has countered that it...

Menden joins Sonnenschein's venture technology group

Posted on April 01, 2009
Craig Menden has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a partner in the firm?s venture technology group. Menden advises technology companies, including those involved with networking, Internet and computer software and hardware. He also works with clients in the...

KPMG sued over New Century audits

Posted on April 01, 2009
Legal firm Thomas, Alexander & Forrester LLP filed two suits today on behalf of a trustee of New Century Financial Corp. The suits allege that the company's auditor, KPMG LLP, assisted in and certified "materially misstated financial statements," and that...

First-year associate salary cuts may no longer be off-limits

Posted on April 01, 2009
Yesterday Allen Matkins cut first-year associate salaries. All first-years at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis are now making $145,000, and those joining in the fall will make that much as well. Some associates at higher levels will also...

Judge rules Coast Guard not responsible for protecting blue whales

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Center for Biological Diversity lost a lawsuit that would have forced the U.S. Coast Guard to better protect blue whales after several were killed by ships in the Santa Barbara Channel off Southern California. The lawsuit was filed after...

Suits against Blackwater keep on rolling in

Posted on April 01, 2009
Following quickly on the heels of an earlier lawsuit, the former Blackwater is again accused of random murder and coverup. According to a lawsuit filed today in California federal court, three security guards for the state-owned and operated Iraqi Media...

Witness-tampering conviction to stay against America's Sheriff

Posted on March 31, 2009
Earlier this month former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona asked a federal judge to have his witness-tampering conviction thrown out. That bid was denied today by U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford, who also denied two other motions aimed at undoing...

CA judges not giving up perks

Posted on March 31, 2009
In the wake of worker furloughs and slashed programs to close a $41 billion budget gap, the state of California still has more than 400 judges in Los Angeles County who each make more than the chief justice of the...

Suit demands recognition and health care for veteran "lab rats"

Posted on March 31, 2009
Six servicemen are suing the CIA and the US Army on behalf of thousands of American soldiers who underwent chemical, biological and drug tests in the 1950s-1970s during the Cold War. The servicemen say they are seeking recognition and health...

Manatt Phelps lays off 17

Posted on March 31, 2009
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, citing continued challenges caused by the recession, has laid off 17 lawyers and eight staff members, according to the law firm. The Los Angeles firm, which has more than 400 lawyers, issued a statement on Monday:...

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