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As Latham goes, so goes the market

Posted on December 17, 2008
Latham Watkins said Tuesday it will freeze associate salaries in response to challenging economic times, a move that could signal the rest of the industry to follow suit, observers said.?All associates moving to the next class year on January...

Delta restoration decision may result in water shortages and increasing budget gap

Posted on December 17, 2008
Federal biologists on Monday issued new rules that will reduce the amount of water pumped to cities and farms from San Francisco Bay's delta by as much as one-third in some years as part of a court-ordered effort to save...

High court takes up issue of consent as an affirmative defense to a lewd act accomplished by force.

Posted on December 17, 2008
The California Supreme Court agreed last week to review a divided appellate panel decision that overturned three counts against a 19-year-old accused of kissing and fondling a 13-year-old cousin and an 11-year-old neighbor. The 6th District Court of Appeal in...

Record companies really got a hold on USC, but ain't nothing like the Real thing

Posted on December 16, 2008
Representatives of Motown Records, Universal Music Group and BMG are seeking settlement amounts ranging from $4,000 to $4,500 from USC undergraduates in exchange for not being named in a copyright infringement lawsuit currently pending in federal court in Los Angeles...

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New dean at Loyola

Posted on December 16, 2008
Victor J. Gold, a national expert on evidence law, has been named the new dean of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Gold, who has been serving as interim dean of the law school this year, served as associate dean of...

Siino doesn't Yahoo anymore

Posted on December 16, 2008
Yahoo has lost a number of executives this year, its stock continues to slump, and it began the process of laying off 1,500 workers last week. Not among those layoffs but leaving of his own volition is Joseph Siino, the...

Damning evidence found in Los Gatos murder trial

Posted on December 15, 2008
Police testified last Wednesday that a search of Lucio Estrada's apartment turned up more than a dozen bags of evidence, including books on assassinations, an assault rifle, and a hat matching one found at the scene of the crime where...

Apple plays "preferred providers" with outside law firms

Posted on December 15, 2008
Following in the footsteps of other large companies, Apple General Counsel Daniel Cooperman is compiling a list of go-to law firms, or "preferred providers," for particular chunks of legal work, like corporate, IP, or labor and employment. Earlier this fall,...

Dean Again is also Dean Ubiquitous

Posted on December 15, 2008
It took a while, but Dean Chemerinsky finally rebuts Walpin and Kuntz in the Letters section of today's NLJ. You can also read his opinions about the Blagojevich wiretaps and the Renzi charges. And if that's not enough, his name...

Lawyers say litigation to continue despite new law

Posted on December 15, 2008
A new law in California designed to curb thousands of lawsuits filed in recent years against businesses alleging inadequate access to the disabled was signed by the governor two months ago and becomes effective on Jan. 1, 2009. The law...

Gag order to stay in place over weekend

Posted on December 12, 2008
Superior Court Judge Ken Riley, who issued a gag order forbidding the Ventura County Star from publishing sealed contents of search warrant documents in a child murder case, is scheduled to reconsider the matter Monday. Until then, the ban on...

Not enough work for good lawyers, even at smaller firms

Posted on December 12, 2008
Courtesy of NLJ via Above the Law: Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a 75-attorney firm specializing in commercial real estate with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, is laying off eight attorneys and four staff. Leo J. Pircher, founding member, noted...

Mette Kurth is new partner in Arent Fox's Los Angeles office

Posted on December 11, 2008
Arent Fox LLP announced today that Mette H. Kurth has joined the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring group as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Ms. Kurth has extensive experience representing creditors committees, debtors, unsecured creditors, and acquirers of...

Chick to insist Rocky has met his match in ongoing performance audit battle

Posted on December 11, 2008
Los Angeles Controller Laura Chick and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo have been fighting since 2005 over whether or not she has the right to conduct performance audits of city programs, specifically Delgadillo's workers? compensation program and its use of private...

San Francisco white collar crimes head in U.S. attorney's office joins Ropes & Gray

Posted on December 11, 2008
Michael Li-Ming Wong, former head of the white-collar crimes section for the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco, has joined Boston-based Ropes & Gray's government enforcement and complex business litigation practice in the firm's San Francisco office...

Luce Forward announces partner class of 2009

Posted on December 11, 2008
California law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP today announced it has elected four of the firm?s attorneys, Jeryll Cohen, Jennifer Wood Dienhart, Jeffrey Feasby and Antony Nash as partners, effective Jan. 1, 2009. The firm?s newest partners practice...

Jury says "bitter family dispute" does not encompass retired Orrick partner

Posted on December 11, 2008
A San Francisco jury rejected a $17 million legal malpractice claim against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in an eight-year-old dispute claiming breach of fiduciary duty by retired trusts and estates partner William Hoisington.The verdict on Tuesday came following a six-week...

New Stanford database uncovers unexpected IP trends

Posted on December 10, 2008
Stanford Law School unveiled its Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse Monday night. The clearinghouse is a searchable online database that tracks all patent cases since 2000 and offers hard statistics on trends, from how many suits have been filed to how...

"A born jurist" dies

Posted on December 10, 2008
Herbert Donaldson, the first openly gay man to serve on the San Francisco bench, died Friday afternoon in his home. He was 81. Back in 1983, Judge Donaldson, at the time a well-known criminal defense and neighborhood legal rights attorney,...

Axiom opens offices in Washington and Los Angeles

Posted on December 10, 2008
Axiom, the law firm focused on flexible work hours and lower billing rates, has opened offices in Washington and Los Angeles.The firm opened its Washington office this month and its Los Angeles office on Nov. 1. So far, about a...

Ex-state AG says beware of targeting

Posted on December 09, 2008
On Tuesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing arguments in the appeal of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy, former chief executive of HealthSouth Corp., who were convicted two years ago on charges of bribery,...

Dreier charges send cross country reverberations

Posted on December 09, 2008
On Monday, Marc Dreier, founder and managing partner of Dreier LLP, a law firm in New York, was charged with one count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud, both of which involve a maximum sentence of 20...

Airline Deregulation Act said to pre-empt wage and hour laws in victory for SkyWest

Posted on December 09, 2008
A judge in San Diego has granted a summary judgment motion to SkyWest Airlines Inc. in the first federal ruling to address whether California's strict wage and hour laws are pre-empted by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Tiffany Blackwell,...

Gangs of CA may never die, but new suit says they won't diversify

Posted on December 09, 2008
Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles filed a suit yesterday seeking to seize homes, businesses and other assets of known members of Los Angeles' largest gang to cripple their criminal enterprises. The attorneys are alleging that at least some...

Governor appoints attorney to Housing Board

Posted on December 08, 2008
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Aliso Viejo attorney Ruben Smith to the California Housing Finance Agency Board of Directors on Friday. Established in 1975, the agency was chartered as the state's affordable housing bank to make low interest rate loans through...

Discovery of videotape trove may lead to sex-abuse conviction challenges

Posted on December 08, 2008
Santa Clara County prosecutors have learned of the existence of an estimated 3,000 videotapes of medical examinations in child sex-abuse cases dating to 1991 that never were provided to defense attorneys. In many of the cases, this new evidence could...

"Functioning in the context of a legal economy"

Posted on December 08, 2008
New partner announcements are starting to come in, and things aren't looking so good. Thirteen Am Law 200 firms in California have announced new partners so far, and eight of those firmwide classes are smaller than last year.Industry observers say...

Smog regulators say power shortages possible in wake of judge's pollution ruling

Posted on December 08, 2008
A recent court ruling on air pollution could harm the Southern California economy and prevent new power plants from being built, perhaps even setting the region up for power shortages next summer, the region's smog agency says.The ruling, the South...

Court to wait till next year to rule on clean-trucks program

Posted on December 08, 2008
A federal judge, claiming "a lot of complexity" to the issue, said Friday that he won't rule before next year on a Federal Maritime Commission request to block parts of the clean-trucks program at Southern California?s ports. Instead, U.S. District...

City council may press war crime charges against tenured Berkeley professor

Posted on December 05, 2008
John Yoo, a tenured professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, wrote memos offering legal justification for torture while working as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department?s Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003. A....

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