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MOVERS: Howard joins Hoge Fenton

Posted on December 01, 2009
Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel announced today that David S. Howard, JD, CPA has joined the firm in the Silicon Valley office. Howard, dual licensed as a CPA and attorney for nearly 40 years, recently returned to the practice of...

Hensley letter ruled privileged by Cal Supremes

Posted on December 01, 2009
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that opinion letters sent by outside counsel to a corporate client is protected by the attorney-client privilege, irrespective of the letter?s content. They also said that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H...

Samueli compelled to testify, gets immunity

Posted on December 01, 2009
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli will be compelled to testify in the federal options backdating trial of the Irvine chip manufacturer's former chief financial officer, according to U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney. Carney took the rare step of...

Supreme Court denies Kevin Cooper's appeal

Posted on December 01, 2009
Turns out those professors were right: Kevin Cooper lost his last appeal yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to hear his case. Cooper's lawyers failed to convince the justices that there were still doubts about his being the killer and...

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Supremes deny Ford's appeal in silence

Posted on December 01, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday to reject an appeal by Ford Motor Co. to overturn an $83-million judgment for a San Diego woman who was paralyzed when her Explorer rolled over and crushed her spine. The roof of the...

MOVERS: New partners and counsel at Latham & Watkins

Posted on November 30, 2009
Latham and Watkins announced today that 23 associates have been elected to the partnership, and 13 associates have been elected to the role of counsel, effective January 1, 2010. Attorneys elected to the partnership include: LOS ANGELES Aaron Murphy is...

MOVERS: New managing partner and executive committee at Nordman Cormany

Posted on November 30, 2009
Scott B. Samsky, a partner in Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP, has been named managing partner of the Ventura County firm. He is succeeding Anthony H. Trembley, and is also joined on the executive committee by newly appointed member...

MOVERS: Two reappointments and one new appointment to water boards

Posted on November 25, 2009
Yesterday Governor Schwarzenegger named three attorneys to state posts. Palmdale attorney James W. Charlton of Charlton Weeks LLP and Santa Barbara sole practitioner Jeffrey S. Young were reappointed to posts on their local regional water quality control boards...

Gun possession-related expulsion at local high school garners national attention

Posted on November 25, 2009
Last week's expulsion of Gary Tudesko for storing a pair of unloaded shotguns in his truck off-campus has sparked nationwide interest. Tudesko, a junior at Willows High School, had allegedly been bird hunting and didn't want to be late for...

Council OKs marijuana sales, considers dispensary cap

Posted on November 25, 2009
The Los Angeles City Council decided yesterday that dispensaries will be allowed to continue selling medical marijuana as it also considers an ordinance that would cap the number of shops that sell marijuana between 70 and 200. Both City Atty....

Nguyen's nomination will get debate and vote after Thanksgiving break

Posted on November 24, 2009
Prior to leaving for the Thanksgiving recess on Saturday, the U.S. Senate unanimously agreed to vote on President Obama?s nomination of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen o the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California...

Huebner confirmed as ambassador

Posted on November 24, 2009
The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Obama?s appointment of openly gay California attorney David Huebner as the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, making him the third openly gay ambassador in U.S. history. The nomination was approved subject to...

MOVERS: Governor appoints four lawyers to state positions

Posted on November 23, 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named four attorneys to state posts on Friday. The governor reappointed Newport Beach attorney Ali Jahangiri to the California Law Revision Commission and Coronal Del Mar attorney Francis Quinlan Jr. to the State Compensation Insurance Fund Board...

Jury finds "no smoking gun" in economic espionage case

Posted on November 23, 2009
Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge were charged in 2006 with trade secret theft. Federal prosecutors then bumped up the indictment to include economic espionage, saying the defendants tried to commercialize stolen computer chip data with venture funding from the Chinese...

Kevin Cooper's Supreme Court bid not looking good, law professors say

Posted on November 23, 2009
Kevin Cooper was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1985 for the brutal killings in Chino Hills of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and houseguest Christopher Hughes. The Supreme Court will decide this Tuesday whether or...

AG looking into potential church computer scams

Posted on November 23, 2009
State Attorney General Jerry Brown said last week that California is investigating several companies that may have ripped off as many as 30 Southern California churches by forcing them to to pay up to $45,000 for computer kiosks that were...

Superior Court judge says bribe offer was a joke

Posted on November 23, 2009
Humboldt County Superior Court Judge W. Bruce Watson, acting as an evidentiary referee, wrote a report filed with the California Supreme Court last month that found former San Francisco deputy attorney general Ronald Bass was indeed joking when he offered...

Compensation ordered for gay couple denied spousal benefits

Posted on November 18, 2009
Today U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt ordered compensation for federal public defender Brad Levenson and his spouse, Tony Sears, who were married during the five-month period in California when same-sex marriage was legal but denied spousal...

King orders arbitration for former Toyota lawyer

Posted on November 18, 2009
U.S. District Judge George H. King of the Central District of California ordered that Dimitrios Biller, former national managing counsel in the legal services group in charge of Toyota's rollover litigation program, must arbitrate claims that the automobile manufacturer hid...

MOVERS: Alston & Bird names two partners in Los Angeles

Posted on November 18, 2009
Alston & Bird has announced that it has named Elizabeth A. Fierman and J. Andrew Howard partners in the firm?s Litigation and Trial Practice and Construction and Government Contracts Groups, respectively. Fierman and Howard are among 18 new partners named...

Harkonen found guilty of wire fraud

Posted on September 30, 2009
Yesterday a jury found former InterMune Inc. CEO W. Scott Harkonen guilty on one felony wire fraud count. The conviction carries a maximum of 20 years in jail. Federal prosecutors accused Harkonen of exaggerating the efficacy of the drug Actimmune....

Cal Bar Foundation presents scholarships and grants Thursday night

Posted on September 30, 2009
The California Bar Foundation said Tuesday that it is awarding $250,000 in scholarships and grants to law students and aspiring public interest lawyers. The nonprofit organization said 23 students from eight California law schools will receive a total of $130,000...

Two new bankruptcy judges appointed by Ninth Circuit

Posted on September 30, 2009
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said on Tuesday that the Circuit's judges have appointed two Los Angeles attorneys to serve as judges of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. Contingent upon approval of background clearances,...

Ryan gets six months in jail, three years formal probation, for Haven hoodwink

Posted on September 30, 2009
Former Haven Humane Society CEO Norman Ray Ryan was convicted by a Shasta County jury in May of five felonies: embezzlement by a public officer, two counts of identity theft and two counts of grand theft. Yesterday he lost his...

Christian Legal Society to challenge appellate 'viewpoint neutral' ruling

Posted on September 29, 2009
The Christian Legal Society's chapter at the University of California Hastings College of Law is challenging a lower appellate court ruling that the law school's open membership rule prohibiting registered students groups from discriminating on the basis of religion or...

MOVERS: Reinhold joins Hopkins & Carey

Posted on September 29, 2009
Last week Hopkins & Carey announced that Karen Reinhold will be joining the firm in San Jose. Karen practices in the firm?s Litigation and Employment Law practice groups focusing on employment-related litigation and advice, including trade secret, harassment, wage-and-hour and...

State Bar to decide on conduct of Toyota 'whistleblower'

Posted on September 28, 2009
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John L. Segal has referred Dimitrios Biller, former national managing counsel in the legal services group in charge of Toyota's rollover litigation program, to the State Bar of California for possibly violating the rules...

CA Court of Appeals leaves med-marijuana decisions to cities

Posted on September 28, 2009
Last Tuesday the California Court of Appeal published an opinion upholding a lower court's injunction stopping a medical marijuana dispensary from operating in Los Angeles County. In that case, the city of Claremont issued a moratorium preventing the issuance of...

MOVERS: Larson to join Girardi & Keese after resigning the bench

Posted on September 28, 2009
Girardi & Keese announced on Friday that U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson will join the firm as a partner when his resignation takes effect in the beginning of November. Larson recently informed his colleagues that he was going to...

MOVERS: Chief Judge Brandenburg joins JAMS in San Diego

Posted on September 28, 2009
Chief Judge Anthony J. Brandenburg has joined JAMS, The Resolution Experts, the nation?s largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services. He will resolve disputes involving contracts, employment, environment, evictions/exclusions, gaming, intertribal, land use, personal injury and various issues in...

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