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Nixon Peabody details its recent mass hire of ex-Thelen attorneys

Posted on December 05, 2008
Nixon Peabody, which announced last month that it would hire about 80 attorneys from defunct Thelen, has announced the names of 56 of those attorneys, all of whom are joining its offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles....

Court of Appeals to attorney: you should have worried about that wasted time

Posted on December 04, 2008
The First District Court of Appeal imposed a $6,000 sanction on San Francisco attorney Andrew Dimitriou for settling a case nearly a year before oral argument, but neglecting to inform the court. In granting the appellant?s unopposed request for dismissal,...

Mattel tears off MGA's head in doll revolution win

Posted on December 04, 2008
Judge Stephen Larson ultimately put the proverbial coal in MGA's stocking yesterday when he ordered the company to stop manufacturing the Bratz dolls, although he allowed MGA to wait until the end of the holiday season to remove the dolls...

Three ex-Thelen partners land at Reed Smith

Posted on December 04, 2008
Former Thelen partner Rauer Meyer has joined Reed Smith's business and finance group. Mayer, who will be located in Los Angeles, focuses on the development, licensing and commercialization of technology products. He negotiates and drafts outsourcing and Internet transactions and...

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Defunct Islamic charity may get second run at Bush administration for illegal monitoring

Posted on December 03, 2008
A federal judge who earlier rejected Bush administration claims that it was exempt from laws governing domestic surveillance was asked Tuesday to strike down an act of Congress that grants retroactive immunity for illegal wiretapping.In a separate challenge of presidential...

Fenwick & West elects four new partners

Posted on December 03, 2008
Fenwick & West LLP announced yesterday that it has elected four associates to join the Firm's partnership, effective January 1, 2009. The new equity partners are Adam Halpern, Robert Hulse, Jennifer Lloyd-Kelly and Greg Roussel.Adam Halpern is a member of...

Grading curve modification proposed at USC

Posted on December 03, 2008
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law is the latest to consider grade reforms, but don't expect a sea change in Los Angeles. USC Law Dean Robert Rasmussen has proposed modifying the school's grading curve ? a more...

Harbor Commission makes Wise choice for empty seat

Posted on December 03, 2008
Attorney Susan Wise was unanimously approved yesterday to fill a vacant seat on the Long Beach Harbor Commission. She joins a five-member governing panel that helps oversee the nation's second-largest seaport and a major source of air pollution in Southern...

Reed Smith adds IP/Transactional partner in Los Angeles

Posted on December 02, 2008
Reed Smith today announced the addition of former Thelen partner Rauer Meyer to its Business & Finance group. He will be resident in the firm?s Los Angeles office, effective immediately. Mr. Meyer?s practice focuses on the development, protection, licensing, and...

No one ever went broke [in court] etc.

Posted on December 02, 2008
Courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, considered a case brought against the Smack Apparel Company, of Tampa, Fla., by four institutions ? Louisiana State University at Baton...

Jury finds Chevron not liable for villagers' deaths in Nigeria

Posted on December 02, 2008
After years of motion practice and a five-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco took roughly two days to exonerate Chevron Corp. for a decade-old bloody debacle in Nigeria.In 1998, villagers from the Ilaje tribe sailed out to the...

Appeals court rules "world unenforceability" too broad for Qualcomm's patent sins

Posted on December 02, 2008
A federal appeals court on Monday narrowed the penalty against Qualcomm for misleading a standards body and committing misconduct during a trial. A San Diego judge had stripped Qualcomm of its patents after finding that the San Diego wireless company...

Water traveling between city and reservation in the North County, fairly

Posted on December 01, 2008
The Escondido Canal was built with federal approval more than 100 years ago to divert water from the San Luis Rey River and deliver it to Escondido. The Indian tribes downstream lost an important source of water. It appears that...

Gibson Dunn promotes 13 lawyers to partner for 2009

Posted on December 01, 2008
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced today that the firm has elected 13 new partners, effective January 1, 2009. Among those partners are: Sean C. Feller (Executive Comp/Employee Benefits - Los Angeles) - Feller's practice runs the full gamut of...

Federal judges reconvene to decide prison overcrowding issue

Posted on December 01, 2008
A special three-judge panel reconvenes Tuesday and is prepared to decide whether prison crowding has become so bad that inmates cannot receive proper care. If they do, a case rooted in several court challenges dating back more than two decades...

Ramos to expand cold case unit despite lean times

Posted on December 01, 2008
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos announced a hiring freeze three weeks ago, but is determined to increase his Cold Case unit by reassigning prosecutors from other units. Ramos says local police departments are focusing their efforts on unsolved...

Drew draws misdemeanor charges in MySpace trial

Posted on November 26, 2008
Lori Drew, the 49-year-old mother who impersonated a 16-year-old boy on MySpace in order to cultivate an online relationship with a 13-year-old girl that resulted in the girl's suicide, was convicted by a Los Angeles jury today of three misdemeanor...

Half a dozen lawyers and 15 staff members let go from Newport Beach firm

Posted on November 26, 2008
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, a California law firm with a sizeable corporate and securities practice, has cut about a half dozen lawyers and up to 15 staff members in recent weeks, according to sources familiar with the situation.The firm,...

New real estate partner in Sonnenschein LA office

Posted on November 26, 2008
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP announced yesterday that David N. Fong has joined the law firm as a partner in the Real Estate Practice. He comes to Sonnenschein from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and will reside in the...

New litigation counsel at LA office of Latham & Watkins

Posted on November 25, 2008
EXPERIENCED IP LITIGATOR JOINS LATHAM & WATKINS IN LOS ANGELES Latham & Watkins LLP announced today that Franklin D. Kang has joined the firm as counsel in the Litigation Department in the Los Angeles office. Kang?s practice focuses primarily on...

A year of firm implosions makes candidates more cautious and inquisitive

Posted on November 25, 2008
In good times, potential lateral partner candidates tended to focus more on practice fit and compensation. Now, hiring partners and recruiters say they are being asked more specific questions about the financial history, equity levels, borrowing habits and financing plans...

Judge says no remorse, no excuse, and no home confinement for Christensen

Posted on November 25, 2008
Despite a plea earlier last week to soften an "excessive" and "draconian" sentence, Terry Christensen received three years in federal prison for wiretapping his opponent in a child support case. U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer of the Central District of...

Appellate court keeps lethal injection on back burner

Posted on November 24, 2008
Death penalty opponents and the attorneys for two condemned men at San Quentin won another round in their quest to delay executions in California when a state appeals court on Friday held that newly revised rules for administering lethal injections...

In latest move against development, environmental groups hope the CCC trumps the Cal Supremes

Posted on November 24, 2008
Claiming the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors violated numerous environmental protection laws in their approval of developer Matt Osgood?s plan to build along the coastline a few miles north of Isla Vista, the Naples Coalition, in cooperation with the...

Layoffs cut deeper at firms "not large enough to be emotionally detached"

Posted on November 24, 2008
In the past several months, numerous law firms have laid off lawyers and staff members as the financial crisis dips into their bottom line. At some of the nation's largest law firms, such as White & Case and Orrick, Herrington...

Kansas City to take a train or a plane to LA: Lathrop to merge with Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow

Posted on November 21, 2008
In a deal scheduled to close January 1, Lathrop & Gage LC will combine with litigation and intellectual property firm Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP, a seven-lawyer boutique firm whose clients include NBC Universal, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc...

Former San Francisco Supervisor among prominent gays in Obama's transition panels

Posted on November 21, 2008
Former San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg was named this week to head the Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance board, and Interagency Council on Homelessness Review Team for Barack Obama's transition project. She served as assistant secretary...

Former Heller partner joins Proskauer's Los Angeles office

Posted on November 21, 2008
Proskauer Rose LLP announced yesterday that Steven O. Weise, a former Heller Ehrman partner specializing in finance and commercial law, has joined their Los Angeles office. Mr. Weise is the latest partner to join Proskauer's Los Angeles office, which recently...

Nine CA lawyers among 30 new partners at Latham & Watkins

Posted on November 20, 2008
Latham & Watkins LLP announced yesterday that 28 associates and two counsel, representing all of the firm?s departments, have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2009. Among those attorneys are:Press Release: LATHAM & WATKINS ELECTS 30 NEW PARTNERSLos...

Class action come lately in eHarmony spat?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Online dating service eHarmony may have thought its troubles over once it unveiled its same-sex only Web site as a result of a settlement with the New Jersey Attorney General, but a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has certified...

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