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Three charged for federal courthouse bombing in San Diego

Posted on August 07, 2008
Three people were indicted over the bombing of a federal courthouse and a FedEx building in San Diego. (press release) The 17-count indictment alleges Rachelle Carlock, Ella Louise Sanders and Eric Reginald Robinson were responsible for the bombings. The Edward...

9th Circuit rejects government's bid to renege on plea deals

Posted on August 07, 2008
Federal prosecutors in San Diego regretted accepting unconditional guilty pleas from three undocumented aliens charged with illegal return to the United States because the trio were also convicted felons, which could have subjected them to 20 years in prison, rather...

Complaints surface over bar exam disrupted by earthquake

Posted on August 07, 2008
Complaints are beginning to roll in about last week's earthquake disrupting the first day of the California bar exam after hundreds of test takers in a room close to the epicenter were promised an extra five minutes. On July 29,...

Epstein Becker makes another move to build up West Coast litigation group

Posted on August 07, 2008
Henry Shields Jr., a senior litigation partner at Irell & Manella, joined Epstein Becker & Green's Los Angeles office in the latest move to build the firm's litigation practice on the West Coast. (press release) Shields represented major entertainment companies,...

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IP litigator Renata A. Guidry joins Pruetz Law Group

Posted on August 07, 2008
Intellectual property and technology litigator Renata A. Guidry joined El Segundo-based Pruetz Law Group. Guidry works on patent, trademark, copyright and false advertising litigation, business disputes and civil appeals. She was a litigation associate at Akerman Senterfitt.

DOJ indicts 11 for stealing 40 million credit, debit card numbers

Posted on August 06, 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted 11 individuals in federal courts in California, Massachusetts and New York for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from major retailers through sophisticated computer hacking techniques...

Schwarznegger exempts some from pay-cut order, not lawyers

Posted on August 06, 2008
Some government employees, deemed essential to public health and safety, were exempted from Gov. Schwarzenegger's order to pay government employees the federal minimum wage until a state budget is enacted. Lawyers, doctors and engineers were not, the Los Angeles Times...

Legal educators threaten to boycott meeting because of San Diego hotel

Posted on August 06, 2008
Organizations representing thousands of legal educators say they will boycott the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January if it is held at a San Diego hotel owned by a foe of same-sex marriage. The four groups made...

L.A. lawyer Steve Connolly to run new O.C. office monitoring sheriff's department

Posted on August 06, 2008
Los Angeles sheriff's watchdog Steve Connolly will now be monitoring the Orange County's new office monitoring internal affair investigations at the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Times reported (here). Connolly was an attorney at the L...

Morgan Lewis rated best L.A. workplace by midlevel associates

Posted on August 06, 2008
In a survey of 157 law firms by The American Lawyer, midlevel associates rated their firms as workplaces on a scale of 1-5. Among Los Angeles firms, Morgan Lewis took the top spot out of 26 firms. Next in the...

San Diego IP attorney John Benassi dies of heart attack at 59

Posted on August 06, 2008
San Diego intellectual property attorney John Benassi died on Saturday of a probable heart attack. He was 59, The Recorder reported. Benassi left Heller Ehrman to join Cooley Godward as a partner in June (posting on the move). Benassi previously...

Vice-chair of Foley & Lardner's IP practice goes to Wildman Harrold

Posted on August 06, 2008
Intellectual property litigator and transactional attorney James Nguyen joined joined Wildman Harrold?s Los Angeles office. Nguyen was previously at Foley & Lardner?s Century City office, where he was vice-chair of their intellectual property practice and a co-founder of their entertainment...

'Sarah's Law' suffers from a mistaken identity

Posted on August 05, 2008
Opponents of 'Sarah's Law' filed a lawsuit to get 'Sarah's' story removed from the state voter's guide. The problem, they argue, is that the story in Prop. 4 is misleading -- it wouldn't have applied to the 15-year-old girl for...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Leon Kaplan retires

Posted on August 05, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon Kaplan retired yesterday after nearly three decades on the bench, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. With Kaplan's departure from the Van Nuys courthouse, the number of judicial vacancies in the county goes up to 24,...

Amicus groups oppose feds' use of computer fraud act in MySpace case

Posted on August 05, 2008
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen and more than a dozen law professors have filed an amicus brief to dismiss the federal government's criminal case against a Missouri woman who used a false identity...

Former Calif. appellate judge joins Morrison & Foerster

Posted on August 05, 2008
Retired California Court of Appeal Justice Miriam A. Vogel joined Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles after 22 years on the trial and appellate bench. (press release) Vogel, 68, stepped down last month as a justice on the 2d District...

Former deputy public defender sentenced to 5 years probation for stalking, harassment

Posted on August 04, 2008
Former Corona del Mar defense attorney David Scharf was sentenced to a one year drug treatment program as part of his five year probation sentence for stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend, the Orange County Register reported (here). Scharf could have...

Fragner Seifert nabs two real estate attorneys from Sonnenschein

Posted on August 04, 2008
Transactional attorneys Pamela K. Prickett and Kathy S. Yoon joined Fragner Seifert's Los Angeles office as a partner and associate, respectively. They both were previously at Sonnenschein Nath's Los Angeles office. Prickett has nearly three decades of experience working on...

Michael McCauley joins Jones Day as L.A. partner

Posted on August 04, 2008
Michael McCauley joined Jones Day's Los Angeles office as a partner. McCauley will focus on class actions, SEC investigations and products liability litigation. He has worked with clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, aerospace, water purification and retail industries...

Chris Nguyen joins Jeffer Mangels as associate

Posted on August 04, 2008
Chris Nguyen joined the Jeffer Mangel's Los Angeles office as an associate. Nguyen focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly patent litigation and prosecution. He was previously at O'Melveny & Myers.

After state high court ruling, more money going to fight against Prop. 8

Posted on August 01, 2008
Since the California Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal in the state, more money has been going to supporters of same-sex marriage than to groups supporting Proposition 8's proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The San Jose Mercury News reports...

Name changes cases gone wild!

Posted on August 01, 2008
The California Court of Appeal has made several contributions to a UCLA law professor's favorite hobby - finding weird name change cases. UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh shared his list of fun name change cases in an article on Slate.com...

UCLA gets $1.5 mil for public interest law chair

Posted on August 01, 2008
UCLA School of Law got a $1.5 million commitment to create the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Public Interest Law. The position involves teaching and writing about the interplay of contracts, consumer rights, class action suits, the economy and/or public...

U.S. prosecutors recommend one year of probation for Milberg kickback defendant

Posted on August 01, 2008
Federal prosecutors in the criminal kickback case against securities firm Milberg are recommending that Richard Purtich, a Los Angeles lawyer who was one of the first to plead guilty in the case, be sentenced to one year of probation, according...

Appeals court rejects challenge to state medical marijuana law

Posted on July 31, 2008
The challenge by San Bernardino and San Diego counties to California's medical marijuana laws was tossed by state appellate court judges in San Diego today, The Press-Enterprise reported (here). The three judges rejected the counties' claim that the state's Medical...

L.A. trial lawyer Lisa Gilford named president-elect of National Association of Women Lawyers

Posted on July 31, 2008
Los Angeles trial lawyer Lisa Gilford was appointed president-elect of the National Association of Women Lawyers on July 16. Gilford, who is currently on NAWL's executive board, will begin as president in July 2009. "As president, my goals will be...

California to sue EPA to limit pollution from ships, planes and agricultural equipment

Posted on July 31, 2008
California Attorney General Jerry Brown plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, planes and industrial equipment used in construction and agriculture. Brown's notice of intent to sue is joined by...

Civil litigator Scott Leviant joins L.A.'s Khorrami Pollard

Posted on July 31, 2008
Civil litigation attorney Scott Leviant joined downtown Los Angeles firm Khorrami Pollard as a senior associate in its class action group. Leviant works on complex commercial litigations, class actions, appellate matters and civil trials. He comments on current class action...

Transactional tax specialist Stuart Simon joins Buchalter Nemer

Posted on July 31, 2008
Transactional tax specialist Stuart Simon joined Buchalter Nemer. Simon focuses on tax, real estate and tax credit transactions. He also works on tax controversies as a lawyer and a CPA.

An obscure 9th Circuit rule may help get more young lawyers into the courtroom

Posted on July 31, 2008
The annual Judicial Conference of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals grappled with ways to get more courtroom training for young lawyers in an era of vanishing trials. In the process, they raised a call for more use of...

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