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Melvyn Weiss pleads guilty to racketeering charges

Posted on April 03, 2008
As part of his plea deal, class-action attorney Melvyn Weiss plead guilty to racketeering charges yesterday, Reuters reported. Weiss faces between 18 months and 33 months in federal prison and $10 million in fines and forfeiture. That's only if the...

Getting DNA the sneaky way

Posted on April 03, 2008
The New York Times discussed the legality of police using sneaky methods to get DNA from suspects. In the world of, what is called "surreptitious sampling" police steal suspects' cups at a coffee shops or their spit in the street,...

Six attorneys pursue two seats on State Bar Board of Governors

Posted on April 03, 2008
Six local attorneys are running for the two seats on the State Bar Board of Governors, The Recorder reported. District 7 - Los Angeles County - James Aguirre, lead attorney for L.A.'s Richardson & Fair - James Li, heads his...

San Bernardino attorney Kirk Moore dies at 48

Posted on April 03, 2008
San Bernardino attorney Kirk Moore died on March 12 after a long fight with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, The Sun reported. He was 48. Moore started his legal career at San Bernardino's Lubey & Lerner, which focuses on workers' compensation, personal injury....

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Former UCLA Law Dean to lead Ass. American Law Schools

Posted on April 03, 2008
Former UCLA Law School Dean Susan Westerberg Prager was named the executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools. Prager will take over as head of the century-old AALS this fall, replacing Carl Monk who's resigning after...

Entertainment lawyer Robb Klein joins Sheppard Mullin as special counsel

Posted on April 03, 2008
Entertainment lawyers Robb Klein and James Curry joined Sheppard Mullin's Century City office as special counsel and partner, respectively. Klein is previously a partner at the London office of European law firm SJ Berwin. He focuses on film and television...

Milberg's motion to dismiss money laundering count denied

Posted on April 02, 2008
LOS ANGELES ?� A federal judge in Los Angeles has denied the law firm Milberg's motion to dismiss a money laundering count in the government's kickback case. Prosecutors allege that Milberg, which recently changed its name from Milberg Weiss, and...

Carona lawyers ask for delay to public corruption trial

Posted on April 02, 2008
Lawyers for former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona filed a motion to push his public corruption trial from June 10 to Aug. 26 or Oct. 28, the O.C. Register reported. Defense attorney Sylvia Torres-Guillen wrote that they needed more time...

Andra Barmash Greene takes over at Irell & Manella's O.C. office

Posted on April 02, 2008
Andra Barmash Greene was promoted to managing partner of Irell & Manella's Newport Beach office. Greene is a business and intellectual property litigator who's been at the O.C. office since she joined 1986. She was the first female attorney to...

Joshua Sable joins Bryan Cave in Santa Monica

Posted on April 02, 2008
Joshua Sable joined Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office as a partner and head of the employment litigation practice there. Sable focuses on counseling and representing clients before the state and federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Division of...

Appeals court to review decision on Riverside County judicial policy

Posted on April 02, 2008
The state Supreme Court asked an appeals court to review the decision upholding Riverside County's judicial policy of keeping backlogged criminal cases out of family law and probate courts, the Press-Enterprise reported. At issue is whether the panel of judges...

Justice Dept. for Supreme Court review of Navy sonar restriction in California

Posted on April 02, 2008
The Department of Justice filed a petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which limited the Navy's use of sonar off California's coast because of it harm to marine mammals, KPBS...

Dept. of Homeland Security to waive 33 laws for border fence

Posted on April 02, 2008
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security waived 33 laws so it can finish the 267 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, CBS 8 reported. (WATCH) Sidestepping environmental laws and other federal, state and local laws and regulations allows the...

Deputy D.A. Lewis Cope to head San Bernardino County's Public Integrity Unit

Posted on April 02, 2008
Deputy District Attorney Lewis Cope was appointed as the new lead attorney to public integrity unit at San Bernardino County's district attorney's office. Cope has been with the office for 25 years and was the major crimes attorney for the...

SonicBlue calls for criminal charges against Pillsbury partner

Posted on April 02, 2008
Attorneys for SonicBlue filed a motion referring a Pillsbury Winthrop parter to the U.S. Attorney's office for bankruptcy crimes, The Recorder reported. Los Angeles attorney William Freeman is accused of not disclosing money given to the firm that allegedly affected...

Nossaman promotes Julia Caputo Stift to partner

Posted on March 31, 2008
Nossaman Guthner promoted Julia Caputo Stift to partner at their Los Angeles office. Stift focuses on federal, state and local tax matters and state and sales tax matter for foreign and domestic clients. She also provides councils clients on taxable....

Archer Norris adds three to SoCal offices

Posted on March 31, 2008
Walnut Creek's Archer Norris added one attorney to their Los Angeles office and two attorneys into their new, bigger Newport Beach office. Louis Chao, a construction litigation attorney, joins the firms L.A. office as of counsel. Chao was previous at...

Jeffer Mangels adds two to L.A. office

Posted on March 31, 2008
Jeffer Mangels added of counsel Andra Vaccaro and associates Alex DeGood and Edi Shawn Stiles to their Los Angeles office. Vaccaro focuses on patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. She previously had her own practice in L.A. Degood joined...

Calif. counties pay extra $22 mil each year for death penalty trials, finds ACLU

Posted on March 31, 2008
It's cheaper for California counties to seek life without parole rather than the death penalty, finds a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. The report, released to the state Commission on the Fair Administration of...

Calif. appellate court to reconsider controversial home-schooling case

Posted on March 31, 2008
Justices on a California state Court of Appeal, who kicked up a national controversy last month by holding that parents who home-school their children must have a teaching credential, has agreed to reconsider. The Los Angeles 2nd District Court of...

Judge slams San Diego medical service program for the poor

Posted on March 31, 2008
A San Diego Superior Court judge told the county to rewrite the its medical services program for the poor, saying it lacks legal justification, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Friday's ruling settles a three year dispute over the program between...

Fallout from Calif. suit brings feast for litigators.

Posted on March 31, 2008
Employers are getting pummeled with rest and meal-break class actions this year, fallout from a 2007 California decision they claim has plaintiffs coming out of the woodwork, The National Law Journal reports. The California Supreme Court ruled that payments owed...

Wilkes released during appeal to bribery conviction

Posted on March 31, 2008
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals released former defense contractor Brent Wilkes on bail while he appeals his bribery conviction and 12-year sentence, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Lawyers and law professors told media outlets that it was unusual and...

U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie dies at 79

Posted on March 31, 2008
U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie died of cancer last Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 79. Rafeedie called himself "the only carny to get to the federal courts," the Times reported. After fighting in the Korean War, Rafeedie...

John Condas joins Allen Matkin in Irvine

Posted on March 28, 2008
John Condas joined Allen Matkin's Irvine office has a partner. Condas focuses on obtaining and defending land use and environmental permits. He also works on Multiple Species Habitat Plans and advises clients on the developing climate change and green building...

Bigotry hits the L.A. Superior Court election

Posted on March 28, 2008
A reverend in Carson launched a write-in campaign for six Los Angeles Superior Court seats targeting Latino judges, claiming they would be easier to defeat that white judges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rev. Ronald Tan is specifically trying to...

Mukasey talks about elimination of L.A. public corruption unit

Posted on March 28, 2008
The controversy over the elimination of the L.A.'s public corruption unit is built upon the language used to describe it, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said at a speech in Los Angeles. Mukasey responded to a question from the audience saying...

Starbucks to appeal $100 million California ruling, but more lawsuits coming

Posted on March 28, 2008
The chair of Starbucks told it's employees it won't pay the $100 million ruling against it by San Diego Superior Court and that it's going to appeal. But that hasn't stopped other states from filing suits against the company over...

Court investigator slams OMM & KPMG

Posted on March 28, 2008
A court-appointed investigator told O'Melveny & Myers lawyers it needed to stop meeting witnesses it didn't represent in the probe of failed subprime lender New Century Financial, The Recorder reported. Bankruptcy court examiner Michael Missal criticism of O'Melveny & Myers...

Attorney denies he'll take the Fifth in Pellicano trial

Posted on March 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES ?� The highest profile lawyer in the wiretapping criminal trial against Anthony Pellicano, Bertram Fields, issued a statement on denying recent claims that he would plead the Fifth Amendment if asked to testify about his relationship with the...

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