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Building Industry lobbyist joins Allen Matkins in San Diego

Posted on January 29, 2008
Former attorney and lobbyist Jerry Livingston joined Allen Matkins' San Diego office. Livingston joined the business and real estate law firm after serving 11 years as a staff counsel for governmental affairs at the Building Industry Association of San Diego...

Susman Godfrey promotes two to partner

Posted on January 29, 2008
Kathryn P. Hoek and Steven Sklaver were promoted to partner at Susman Godfrey's Los Angeles office. Hoek joined Susman Godfrey in 2005 and previously clerked to Texas District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal. Sklaver also joined in 2005 and previously clerked...

Retired L.A. Superior Court Judge Richard Ibanez dies at 97

Posted on January 29, 2008
Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Ibanez died of cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease on November 30, 2007, the Los Angeles Times reports (here). He was 97. Ibanez specialized in family law and dependency court. He was a...

Disability rights activist/actor to head ACLU's board of directors

Posted on January 25, 2008
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California elected the first disabled person as president of its board of directors. Actor and activist Alan Toy takes over for Southwestern law professor Isabelle Gunning. Toy's advocated for disability rights as a...

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Attorney Jill Cossman elected president of Women's Leadership Council

Posted on January 25, 2008
Greenberg Glusker's Jill Cossman was elected president of the Women's Leadership Council. The Los Angeles-based council aims to bring together female leaders together to network, expand their knowledge through educational and cultural programs and make positive contributions to the next...

Trademark/Internet attorney promoted to parner at Christie Parker

Posted on January 25, 2008
David Steele was promoted to partner at intellectual property law firm Christie Parker's Newport Beach office. Steele focuses on trademark law, Internet law and domain names and teaches on the subjects as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School. He...

Thelen Reid promotes two to partner

Posted on January 25, 2008
Thelen Reid promoted Alexandra Epand and Jennifer L. Golberg to partner at their Los Angeles office. Epand focuses on corporate securities and complex business litigation inlolving SEC, NASD, CFTC, PCAOB investigations and enforcement actions. She's also works on environmental litigation,...

Duane Morris add two partners to their SoCal offices

Posted on January 25, 2008
Philadelphia-based Duane Morris promoted James Sze and J. Robert Renner to partner at the San Diego and Los Angeles offices, respectively. Sze joins the firm's San Diego office to use intellectual property law to promote business growth, specifically for high-tech...

Patent lawyer promoted to partner at Blakely Sokoloff

Posted on January 25, 2008
Intellectual property firm Blakely Sokoloff elected patent attorney Jonathan Miller to partner at their Los Angeles office. Miller focuses on domestic and foreign patent and trademark prosecution. He has a background in digital design, operating systems and computer architecture...

Greenberg Glusker promotes two entertainment lawyers to partner

Posted on January 25, 2008
Greenberg Glusker promoted Richardo Cestero and Matt Galsor to partner at their Los Angeles office. Cestero represents clients in entertainment, real estate and business disputes, with expertise in First Amendment issues and movie and television production and distribution disputes...

Interim Orange County Sheriff faces dress code probe

Posted on January 24, 2008
The state attorney general is looking into whether interim Orange County Sheriff was illegally dressed last fall, the Los Angeles Times reported. A supporter for Lt. Bill Hunt's 2006 election campaign for sheriff alleges interim illegally dressed in uniform while...

UCLA holds climate change symposium tomorrow

Posted on January 24, 2008
UCLA will host a public symposium on climate change law and policy tomorrow to include policymakers, legal scholars and environmental experts. Topics will include domestic litigation after the the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA decision, international law...

Judge rejects challenge to new recount rules

Posted on January 24, 2008
A San Diego judge rejected a lawsuit seeking to overturn the new election recount rules imposed by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, The Press-Enterprise reported. Ruling against a lawsuit brought by San Diego County and joined by Kern, Riverside...

Juror held in contempt for blogging murder trial

Posted on January 24, 2008
A Ventura County jury foreman said he didn't intend to create an appellate issue when he wrote a blog posting the testimony and evidence of an ongoing murder trial, the Ventura County Star reports. Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie told...

Local firms give big to UC-Irvine's new law school

Posted on January 24, 2008
� The University of California, Irvine Donald Bren School of Law has raised $23.5 million from individual donors, which include many local lawyers and law firms. UCI�s law school plans to open its doors by fall 2009. Two dozen donors...

Top legal position at UCLA goes to Kevin Reed

Posted on January 24, 2008
The general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kevin Reed, was appointed to the top legal position at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). During his time at the LAUSD, Reed filed a lawsuit against Los...

Reid Evers joins Outsource Partners International as GC

Posted on January 24, 2008
Reid Evers is the new general counsel at Outsource Partners International, a company that provides finance, accounting and tax business process outsourcing. Evers is based in OPI?s Los Angeles. Evers spent 27 years at life insurance and investment holding company...

Four firms get $500,000 to undo pension deal with O.C. deputies

Posted on January 23, 2008
Orange County has paid over $500,000 to four law firms to help invalidate their pension agreement with the sheriff's deputies, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 2001 pension deal allows deputies to retire at 50 with $70,000 annual pension. The...

Illinois firm stiffs San Diego court reporters

Posted on January 23, 2008
An Illinois firm that provides court reporters is accused of not paying the reporters, translators and videographers it hires in San Diego as well as its employees and the rent for its San Diego office. Eastwood-Stein Deposition Management, also known...

Judge rules religious school can discriminate based on sexual orientation

Posted on January 23, 2008
A Riverside Superior Court judge tossed a discrimination lawsuit against a Lutheran high school that expelled two girls in 2005 when the principal suspected they might be dating. Judge Gloria Trask ruled on Jan. 11 that the Wildomar school did...

Probation officials recommend 60 year sentence for Wilkes

Posted on January 23, 2008
Federal probation officials recommended a 60 year prison sentence for defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who was convicted of 13 counts of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Wilkes sentencing was postponed until Feb...

Judicial committee backs censure of L.A. Judge Manuel Real

Posted on January 23, 2008
A federal Committee on Judicial Conduct ruled in a misconduct case against a Los Angeles Federal Judge Manuel Real that a pattern of "arbitrarily and deliberately" disregarding legal standards may be misconduct - but only if it is clearly shown...

Increase in hate crimes against gay men and Latino people

Posted on January 23, 2008
The California Attorney General's recent report on hate crimes in the state show a 23% increase in San Diego County from 2005 to 2006, while a 0.7% decrease in hate crimes statewide. Hate crimes against gay men also increased by...

Prosecutors challenge judge's impartiality in San Diego pension fraud case

Posted on January 23, 2008
Federal Judge Roger Benitez challenged prosecutors who asked him to step down from a San Diego city pension fraud case last week, KPBS reports. (LISTEN) Prosecutors argued that Benitez should withdraw, questioning his impartiality. Benitez violated the political reform act...

USC professor and Fox News analyst joins Quinn Emanuel

Posted on January 23, 2008
Law professor Susan Estrich joined Quinn Emanuel's Los Angeles office as of counsel. Estrich plans to continue teaching at the University of Southern California and contributing to the Fox News Channel as a legal and political analyst. Estrich was the...

FTC lawyer joins MoFo's antitrust practice as partner

Posted on January 23, 2008
Sean Gates joined Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office as a partner. Gates was previously a deputy assistant director at the Federal Trade Commission, working in their anticompetitive practices division. He'll practice in MoFo's antitrust and competition law group...

Judge issues tentative ruling on recount rules

Posted on January 22, 2008
A judge issued a tentative ruling on Thursday in a suit by San Diego County over Secretary of State Debra Bowen's new recount rules, KPBS reports. (LISTEN) Bowen's new rules would require, in an election won by 0.5% or less,...

Dalton Sprinkle named new GC at renewable energy company

Posted on January 22, 2008
Renewable energy company Open Energy Corporation named Dalton Sprinkle as general counsel and corporate secretary. Sprinkle was on the Solano Beach-based solar technology company's board. He was previously president and CEO of a San Diego-based international dental services company and...

Riverside County judicial policy goes to high court

Posted on January 22, 2008
The California Supreme Court will look at Riverside County's judicial policy that says civil trial courts can be used for criminal cases facing dismissals because of speedy-trial guarantees, The Press-Enterprise reported last week. A three-judge panel at the Orange County...

Sedgwick Detert promotes two to partner

Posted on January 22, 2008
Sedgwick Detert elevated Frederic Grannis and Gary Pancer to partner at their Los Angeles office. Grannis concentrates on defending product liability actions involving earthmoving vehicles, heavy industrial equipment and consumer products. Pancer focuses on general civil, business and health care...

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