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Former porn actresses sue industry AIDS clinic for breach of privacy

Posted on June 29, 2010
Diana Grandmason and Bess Garren, two former adult film actresses, are suing the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation for allegedly breaching the privacy of their medical records. AIM, based in Sherman Oaks, is a nonprofit organization that handles STD...

Review granted in Beverly Hilton case

Posted on June 28, 2010
The California Supreme Court has agreed to review an appeal filed by Oasis West Realty LLC, owner of the Beverly Hilton, against Southwest Homeowners Association President Ken Goldman. Goldman represented Oasis for a time when he was with Reed Smith....

Claire E. Shin joins Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff

Posted on June 28, 2010
Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff announced today that Claire E. Shin has joined the firm as an associate in their bankruptcy litigation and Asia practice groups. Formerly with Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Shin specializes in the representation of creditors and debtors in...

Appeals court affirms building owners' negligence in earthquake case

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Second District Court of Appeals last week upheld a decision issued in San Luis Obispo County Court that ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in an appeal in Leroy Myrick v. Mary Mastagni. The case stems from two deaths...

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Five attorneys leave Glaser Weil to form their own firm

Posted on June 25, 2010
Five lawyers from Los Angeles-based Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard & Shapiro have left to form their own litigation boutique firm. All five are business litigators. Eric Early, managing partner of the new firm, Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae,...

Class certification ordered for security guard suit

Posted on June 25, 2010
The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday to partially reverse an order denying class certification in an action against a company that employs security guards throughout Southern California. The suit alleges Boyd & Associates, Inc. failed to pay correct...

USC files appeal with NCAA

Posted on June 25, 2010
USC filed its appeal with the NCAA today, saying it will accept the bowl ban for the upcoming season and certain scholarship penalties, but asks for the two-year postseason ban to be reduced to one. The university is also asking...

MOVERS

Posted on June 24, 2010
DLA Piper announced that Kurt Ramlo has joined the firm?s Restructuring practice as of counsel in the Los Angeles office. Ramlo provides restructuring advice to business organizations facing financial distress. His practice includes guiding organizations through out-of-court and Chapter 11...

Mortgage fraud alleged against Riverside business

Posted on June 24, 2010
A lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles is seeking an injunction to shut down the operations of The Team Realty Group and Nations West Investments, with offices in Riverside, Grand Terrace and La Habra. This...

No more losing control in the curve for students

Posted on June 24, 2010
A recent article in The New York Times says law schools are making their grading systems more lenient. In California, Loyola is retroactively tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. UCLA, USC, and UC Hastings...

Red-light cameras OK'd in L.A., debated in Stanislaus

Posted on June 24, 2010
Unsurprisingly for most, Los Angeles' red-light camera program was temporarily and unanimously exempted yesterday from the city's contracting boycott of Arizona. The multimillion-dollar agreement with Scottsdale-based American Traffic Solutions has been extended in spite of Los Angeles' boycott, prompted by...

Quon and electronic workplace privacy explained by Rutan & Tucker attorneys

Posted on June 24, 2010
Last week an article by Jeffrey Wertheimer and Brandon Sylvia of Rutan & Tucker LLP ran in the OC Register explaining the Supreme Court's recent decision in City of Ontario v. Quon and how it affects workers in private companies....

Former studio head to lead Southwestern Law's entertainment program

Posted on June 22, 2010
Steven Krone, the former president of Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment Inc., has been named director of Southwestern University School of Law's Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. Krone's appointment came eight months after the institute's longtime director, David...

Crackdown on loan-modification fraud claims another lawyer

Posted on June 22, 2010
Another attorney has lost his license as part of the State Bar of California's campaign against attorneys engaged in loan modification misconduct. Brian Colombana of the Law Offices of Brian J. Colombana in Lake Forest, Calif., was placed on involuntary...

Attorney accused of smuggling heroin into jail

Posted on June 22, 2010
Michael Inman, a criminal defense attorney at Inman & Associates in Beverly Hills, was charged on Friday with bringing drugs into a jail in downtown Los Angeles. The L.A. County district attorney's office alleged that Inman intended to sell 14.25...

O.C. judge confirmed to federal bench

Posted on June 22, 2010
Josephine Tucker was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Monday as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Tucker began her career at Morrison & Foerster, where she was an associate from 1987 to...

Meet L.A.'s dopest attorney

Posted on June 21, 2010
Allison Margolin, a 2002 Harvard Law School graduate has built a solo practice on defending criminal cases of marijuana possession. She says about 70% of her practice focuses on people who have run afoul of California's medical marijuana laws. Fourteen...

Economic-loss class against Toyota faces challenges ahead

Posted on June 21, 2010
As plaintiffs' lawyers prepare to file their consolidated class action on behalf of Toyota consumers, they face an obstacle that has prevented similar claims from advancing in the past: Class members didn't actually suffer physical injuries. The class members assert...

Jeffer Mangels real estate finance team jumps ship -- again

Posted on June 21, 2010
Four lawyers at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, plus staff, are packing their bags for the second time in 18 months. The real estate finance team last week joined Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders. Martin Taylor, Dan Chambers and Jennifer Irrgang Bojorquez...

Carole Handler leaves Wildman for Lathrop

Posted on June 18, 2010
Copyright expert Carole Handler has jumped to Lathrop & Gage's Los Angeles office after only two years in the Beverly Hills, Calif., office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. Handler, now of counsel at Kansas City, Mo.-based Lathrop & Gage,...

Irvine lawyer sentenced for blowing trust fund in stock market

Posted on June 18, 2010
A Southern California lawyer who lost more than $2 million from a class action settlement by investing client trust funds in the stock market has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Sandeep Baweja of the Baweja Law Group in...

Orange County's first LGBT bar association is established

Posted on June 17, 2010
James Moloney, a partner at Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has helped found Orange County's first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) bar association. The Orange County Lavender Bar Association was launched during a gathering on the rooftop of...

Petillon Hiraide & Loomis and Zagzebski Brothers merge

Posted on June 17, 2010
Petillon Hiraide & Loomis LLP and Zagzebski Brothers LLP have announced the combination of their practices to form Petillon Hiraide Loomis Zagzebski & Zagzebski LLP. The new firm will continue its predecessors' practices in corporate finance on behalf of early...

Oddo joins Robbins Umeda

Posted on June 17, 2010
Robbins Umeda LLP has announced that Stephen J. Oddo joined the firm as partner, effective June 1, 2010. Formerly a partner at Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, LLP (now known as Robbins, Geller, Rudman & Dowd, LLP), Mr. Oddo...

'Food from the Bar' raises over $285,000

Posted on June 17, 2010
The 2nd annual "Food from the Bar" campaign was held this year from April 19 through May 14, inviting the legal community in Los Angeles to raise food and funds for the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. Participating law firms and...

Preliminary settlement reached in L.A. autism case

Posted on June 17, 2010
A preliminary settlement agreement has been approved by the Los Angeles Superior Court in the class action Benito R., et. al. v. Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center, et. al. The suit was filed on behalf of hundreds of children with...

Jeff Rawitz, successful Carona defender, dies

Posted on June 17, 2010
Jeffrey M. Rawitz, the former Jones Day partner who helped defend Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, died Sunday evening from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 46. Known for his bulldog demeanor during the trial, Rawitz consistently...

Berman and Smiles join Seyfarth Shaw's Labor & Employment department

Posted on June 16, 2010
Seyfarth Shaw announced today that Jeffrey A. Berman and Joan E. Smiles have joined the firm in the Los Angeles office. Berman is a partner in the Labor & Employment department, and Smiles is of counsel. Berman?s practice spans traditional...

In NCAA appeals process, USC is really up against it

Posted on June 16, 2010
The NCAA has hit USC with some severe penalties because of what it says was a "lack of institutional control" over its athletic programs and violations with Heisman Trophy running back Reggie Bush and basketball star O.J. Mayo's involvement with...

Lawsuit complicates desal plant plans

Posted on June 16, 2010
The San Diego County Water Authority is considering a subsidy that would help Poseidon Resources Corp. build its proposed desalination plant. But last week the authority decided to sue Metropolitan Water District, alleging that Southern California's main wholesaler was excessively...

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