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Real estate attorney Allan Lowy joins Akerman as a shareholder

Posted on March 03, 2008
Allan Lowy joined Akerman Senterfitt's Los Angeles office as a partner. Lowy, who founded Beverly Hills' Lowy & Associates in 1996, focuses specifically on real estate development and complex real estate financing vehicles, including tax exempt bonds and low-income housing...

Brette Simon joins Jones Day as partner

Posted on March 03, 2008
Transactional attorney Brette S. Simon joins Jones Day's Los Angeles office as a partner. Simon was previously at Sheppard Mullin, representing companies and investors in private equity and venture capital financings, M & A and join venture transactions...

Craig Mordock leaves MoFo for Bingham

Posted on March 03, 2008
Craig Mordock joined Bingham McCutchen's Costa Mesa office. Mordock, formerly with Morrison & Foerster, joins the firm as a corporate, M&A and securities partner. Mordock represented public companies on disclosure and compliance matters under the Securities Act of 1933 and...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Luros to retire

Posted on March 03, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Luros, who was recently hospitalized with complications from diabetes, is retiring this month, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. Lorus was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1981 and elected to the L...

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California has most influential state supreme court in the nation

Posted on February 29, 2008
A new study ranked the California Supreme Court as the most influential state supreme court in the nation, reports The National Law Journal. The study, "'Followed Rates' and Leading State Cases, 1940-2005," ranked states by the opinions most frequently "followed"...

Retired UCLA law dean Murray Schwartz dies at 87

Posted on February 29, 2008
Murray Schwartz, UCLA's third law dean and a professor in criminal law and legal ethics there, died of heart failure on Feb. 15. He was 87. Schwartz started teaching at UCLA in 1958 and served as dean of their law...

Judge refuses to grant dismissal motions in Milberg Weiss case

Posted on February 28, 2008
A federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to grant four out of the five dismissal motions filed by Milberg Weiss in the federal government's kickback case. Prosecutors allege that Milberg Weiss and seven of its partners, including its founding...

O'Melveny transactional co-chair heads to Gibson Dunn

Posted on February 28, 2008
Los Angeles ? The former co-chairman of O?Melveny & Myers? transactional intellectual property practice, Bill Peters, has joined Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner. Peters, who had been a partner at O?Melveny?s Los Angeles office since 2002,...

ACLU sues federal government and L.A. County for deporting U.S. citizen to Mexico

Posted on February 28, 2008
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing federal government and Los Angeles County for wrongfully deporting a Latino U.S. citizen to Mexico (LISTEN). Peter Guzman, a developmentally disabled 30 year old born in L.A., was arrested for trespassing last March...

Patrick Bobko promoted to shareholder at Richards Watson

Posted on February 28, 2008
Patrick Bobko was promoted to shareholder at Richards Watson's Los Angeles office. Bobko represents municipalities and public entities in state and federal courts. He is also a member of the Hermosa Beach City Council and a former U.S. Air Force...

Third BAR/BRI suit filed over prices

Posted on February 27, 2008
Is the third time a charm? Eliot Disner, the lawyer who objected to a $49 million class action settlement last year in an antitrust case he filed against the makers of the BAR/BRI bar review preparatory course, has filed a...

San Diego City Council further restricts sex offenders

Posted on February 27, 2008
The San Diego City Council unanimously approved an ordinance banning sex offenders from coming within 300 feet of places where kids gather, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The ordinance passed yesterday goes beyond Jessica's Law, which bans registered sex offenders...

Dog on death row, and neutering becomes law in L.A.

Posted on February 27, 2008
"Price is Right" host Bob Barker has won. An ordinance was signed yesterday requiring sterilization of most cats and dogs by four months old. Failure to do so means a $500 fine or 40 hours of community service. The idea...

Writers Guild approve new contract

Posted on February 27, 2008
Members of the Writers Guild of America voted overwhelmingly for the new contract with studios, the Associated Press reported. However, only 40% of WGA members voted on the three year deal, which pays writers for media created for the Internet...

LeClairRyan comes to L.A. with merger

Posted on February 27, 2008
LeClairRyan will merge with Wright Robinson, who has two California offices, The Recorder reports. There are only nine attorneys at Wright Robinson's Los Angeles office, but LeClairRyan plans to double its ranks since within the next year or two. Some...

L.A.attorney arrested on counterfeiting allegations

Posted on February 27, 2008
Los Angeles � Federal immigration authorities have arrested a Los Angeles attorney, charging him with illegally selling hundreds of counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, some of which, if real, would have been worth $500 million. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Dreier Stein adds John Babala as partner in Santa Monica

Posted on February 27, 2008
John Babala joined Dreier Stein's Santa Monica office as a partner in their transactional department. Babala has experience as inside and outside corporate counsel, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, securities and private equity...

Report finds Jessica's Law may increase reoffense

Posted on February 26, 2008
Jessica's Law may make sex offenders more likely to re-offend, finds a report by the state's Sex Offender Management Board. One of the failings of the law is its restriction of sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a...

Wrongly convicted prisoners get poorer compensation than parolees

Posted on February 26, 2008
Wrongly convicted people are poorly compensated and should receive help finding housing, a cash allowance, clothing and employment counseling like parolees, finds a report by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. These reforms aim to increase compensation...

L.A. Federal judge gets no award for escalator fall

Posted on February 26, 2008
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ruled against federal judge George Schiavelli, who sought $21 million for his injuries after an allegedly malfunctioning escalator at a shopping mall. Schiavelli claimed in August 2005 an escalator suddenly stopped, knocking him...

Judge denies request for alleged unaired confession in Haditha massacre trial

Posted on February 25, 2008
A military judge in California threw out an unaired CBS interview with the Marine squad leader charged in the massacre of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Prosecutors say the footage shows Staff Sergant Frank Weuterich confessing that he commanded soldiers...

Less than a third of DAs tell how they decide to seek death penalty

Posted on February 25, 2008
When two Pepperdine law professors surveyed the state's 58 district attorneys about how they decide to seek the death penalty, only 14 responded, KPCC reported.(LISTEN) Los Angeles Dist. Attny. gave a thorough response, but the DAs in San Diego, Riverside...

Delgadillio sues insurer Health Net

Posted on February 25, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney Rock Delgadillo is suing insurer Health Net. Delgadillo alleges the company sells policies using a long, misleading application, and then looks for errors or omission in the application as an excuse to cancel coverage when patients...

Phenix Kiamilev joins Luce Forward

Posted on February 25, 2008
Phenix Quach Kiamilev joined Luce Forward's Carmel Valley/Del Mar office as an associate in their business practice group. Kiamilev focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions,...

Paul Hastings seeks settlement over billboard scam

Posted on February 25, 2008
Paul Hastings has asked a federal judge in Atlanta to approve a settlement alleging the firm's Los Angeles lawyers helped clients sell investments in roving billboards that they should have realized were a scam. According to the investors' complaint, the...

Business picks up at Coughlin Stoia, despite kickback case

Posted on February 25, 2008
It's co-founder William Lerach is headed to prison for two years, but business at Coughlin Stoia has picked up, The National Law Journal reports. Prosecutors allege the San Diego firm, previously known as Milberg Weiss, and its partners gave over...

Representing a horse, of course, of course

Posted on February 22, 2008
Horses might not be the first thing that comes to mind when looking to diversify a law firm's practice areas, but it's apparently an untapped resource. The horse industry pulled in $7 billion in California and nearly half of the...

Prosecutor of Milberg Weiss joins Goodwin Proctor

Posted on February 22, 2008
The lead prosecutor for the US Attorney?s Office in United States v. Milberg Weiss LLP, Robert McGahan, joined Goodwin Procter's Los Angeles office as a partner. He was previously the acting deputy chief for major frauds at the U.S. Attorney's...

Former head of U.S. Office of Insular Affairs joins David Wright

Posted on February 22, 2008
David Cohen, the former head of the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Insular Affairs, joined Davis Wright's Los Angeles office as a partner. At the office of Insular Affairs, Cohen focused on improving the business climates of U.S.-affiliated islands...

State high court to hear case on detaining rape victims

Posted on February 20, 2008
The California Supreme Court agreed to review a rape case that could determine whether sexually assault survivors living out of the state can be forced to return to California to appear in court, The North County Times reported. While rape...

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