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Tax evasion takes center stage in Hollywood civil suit

Posted on July 22, 2009
Hollywood tax lawyer Matthew Krane is suing his former client, entertainment industry billionaire Haim Saban, over a $36 million fee Krane was paid for referring Saban to an investment fund run by the Quellos Group. The suit charges Saban with...

Nuch working day and night to resolve Jackson memorial taxpayer dilemma

Posted on July 22, 2009
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has been reviewing the procedures that led the city to spend an estimated $1.4 million for police protection and other city services for the star-studded Michael Jackson's memorial at the Staples Center. Investigators have apparently turned...

Real money = less money

Posted on July 22, 2009
A federal judge in Los Angeles, ruling on an issue that had been remanded to his court by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, has granted attorney fees to two law firms that objected to the $49...

Former SEC trial attorney joins Greenberg Traurig

Posted on July 21, 2009
Michael Piazza, a former Regional Trial Counsel for the Los Angeles office of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Greenberg Traurig's securities litigation practice group as head of the Orange County office's practice. Piazza moves to Greenberg...

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Governor gives seal of approval to stay seal removal

Posted on July 21, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that may allow federally protected harbor seals to stay in the Children's Pool at La Jolla beach, despite a judge's earlier order to begin chasing them away. Earlier Monday, a San Diego Superior...

Lawsuit alleges shelters' routine refusal of homeless with service dogs

Posted on July 21, 2009
The Southern California Housing Rights Center and the Disability Rights Legal Center have filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority over what they say are discriminatory practices toward homeless people who rely on service dogs...

Former Broadcom CFO wants "ethical misconduct" finding sustained against I&M

Posted on July 21, 2009
The former chief financial officer of Broadcom Corp. has urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to sustain a lower court that blasted Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella for "ethical misconduct" in a criminal backdating case. In...

Fiscal crisis may yield Chapter 9 work for firms

Posted on July 20, 2009
Despite the dire financial outlook for California's cities, most lawyers don't expect the economic downturn to let loose a flood of municipal bankruptcies. But many are preparing for an uptick in Chapter 9-related work. For instance, while Pacific Grove is...

Korea Law Center established by UC Irvine

Posted on July 20, 2009
UC Irvine School of Law has established a Korea Law Center to promote practical solutions to problems arising at the intersection of U.S. and Korean law. The center, part of a new, multi-continent UC Irvine International Commerce & Law Institute,...

Haven can sue HHS over Medicare cap

Posted on July 20, 2009
A federal judge has tentatively ruled that Los Angeles Haven Hospice Inc. has standing to sue the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services over the validity of a regulation that governs how much a provider may receive in Medicare...

District court judge says we watch o'er the Ramparts et al. no longer

Posted on July 20, 2009
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess lifted the controversial consent decree that for more than eight years had guided an independent monitor overseeing sweeping reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department. The consent decree resulted from the LAPD's...

Crisis yields new partnerships between bankers and law firms

Posted on July 20, 2009
In Los Angeles, the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has joined forces with commercial real estate investment banking firm George Smith Partners to help borrowers restructure their debt. Bank problems with commercial real estate loans led the Manatt...

Released diocese records paint permissive atmosphere for potential abuse in Monterey

Posted on July 20, 2009
Records released by the Diocese of Monterey paint a damning picture of an era that church officials say has since ended, revealing a flawed system that led to the repeated sexual abuse of at least two children, an 11-year-old altar...

Cox to join Bingham

Posted on July 17, 2009
Christopher Cox, the former top U.S. securities markets watchdog when George W. Bush was president, announced today that he will join law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP as a partner in Southern California. Cox, 56, will be part of Bingham's corporate,...

Cal legislature on harassment cases: nothing to see here, move along ...

Posted on July 16, 2009
State Senate officials have secretly approved a $70,000 legal settlement that prohibits a staffer who accused a former colleague of harassment from going public with the charges. The payment, made last month, is the latest in a string of such...

Attorney general Brown & FTC collaborate on Operation Loan Lies

Posted on July 16, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission is sending out a DVD in an effort to curb the calls and mailers that have helped dupe hundreds of thousands of homeowners out of hundreds of millions of dollars in the name of mortgage relief....

ERISA stock drop case dismissed

Posted on July 15, 2009
Earlier this week, a ERISA suit against Computer Sciences Corporation was dismissed on summary judgment by Los Angeles federal district court judge James Otero. The plaintiffs had alleged that the company and its retirement plan committee had breached their fiduciary...

Los Angeles to close courtrooms every third Wednesday

Posted on July 15, 2009
Leaders of the Los Angeles and Mendocino, Calif., superior courts decided they could no longer wait for a coordinated, statewide closure plan to emerge from the mire of legislative budget negotiations. Instead, they'll shutter hundreds of courtrooms today, keeping a...

Tolkien heirs to New Line: And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost ... like our percentage

Posted on July 15, 2009
J.R.R. Tolkien sold movie rights to his ''Lord of the Rings'' novels 40 years ago for 7.5 per cent of future receipts. Three films and $6 billion later, his heirs say they haven't seen a cent from Time Warner. New...

Settlement in kickbacks lawsuit costs defendants over $15M

Posted on July 15, 2009
A total of $5.5 million in refunds are in the mail to more than 50,000 Californians who allegedly overpaid for natural hazard disclosure reports because the real estate brokerages that listed their homes were taking kickbacks from the company producing...

ACLU sues Santa Monica over treatment of the homeless

Posted on July 15, 2009
Yesterday the ACLU sued Santa Monica in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, saying city police routinely violate homeless people's constitutional rights by harassing and arresting them, even as the city fails to provide sufficient shelter beds. The suit is...

New addition at Century City Reed Smith office

Posted on July 14, 2009
Reed Smith announced the addition of James L. Sanders as a partner in the Global Regulatory and Enforcement Group of its Litigation Department. Mr. Sanders is resident in the firm?s Century City office, where his practice focuses on securities litigation,...

Close the old jail, not the new one, says ACLU

Posted on July 14, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday asked a federal judge to bar the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from closing a 1,600-bed jail near Castaic Lake without planning for the detrimental impacts such an action might have on other jails...

As CA goes, so DE should go in Medicaid case, says lawyer

Posted on July 14, 2009
A lawyer representing pharmacy groups suing Delaware for cutting Medicaid drug reimbursement rates believes a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruling stopping California from trimming state Medicaid payments to medical providers strengthens the groups' position in...

CA Supremes won't hear asbestos case

Posted on July 14, 2009
The California Supreme Court has denied a petition to review an asbestos liability case in which a Los Angeles judge blasted the plaintiff's firm, Waters & Kraus, for engaging in a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion." The case involves a...

Plaintiff gives up the Chais

Posted on July 13, 2009
A Los Angeles woman who lost millions of dollars after investing funds through Stanley Chais, alleged to have funneled those funds to Bernard L. Madoff, has voluntarily dismissed her class action against the California investment manager. Daphne Brogdon filed a...

In the wake of Chaney's dismissal, DBCP = Don't Bother Claiming Pesticide (Exposure)

Posted on July 13, 2009
The unraveling of multimillion-dollar Los Angeles cases alleging that Nicaraguan men had been sterilized by pesticide exposure is now threatening to upend hundreds of other claims in U.S. courts, as judges examine charges that plaintiffs' lawyers orchestrated an extraordinary international...

Dole files suit against 'Bananas!' filmmakers

Posted on July 09, 2009
Dole Food Co. has filed a defamation suit in Los Angeles against two Swedish filmmakers whose recently screened documentary chronicles a lawsuit alleging that workers in Nicaragua were rendered sterile after being exposed to the pesticide DBCP on Dole's banana...

Senate bill says lay off lawsuits offering discounts to furloughed workers

Posted on July 09, 2009
Since Governor Schwarzenegger ordered the 235,000 state workers under his authority to start three-day furloughs per month, Sacramento-area businesses have marketed to furloughed workers with targeted discounts on everything from lift tickets to oil changes...

'Larger than life' lawyer back in business

Posted on July 09, 2009
After a nearly year-long fight to clear himself of charges of illegally funneling money to John Edwards' campaign, Pierce O'Donnell found those charges either dismissed or dropped by mutual agreement. And so, as he says, "I have my life back."...

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