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Fenwick & West calibrates "excess capacity," lays off 22

Posted on May 06, 2009
Fenwick & West, having avoided cutting any of its lawyers while laying off staff this past winter, laid off 15 associates and seven more staff on Tuesday. The cuts, which the firm said account for just under 10 percent of...

LA Greenberg office adds Presant to real estate funds group

Posted on May 06, 2009
Greenberg Traurig announced today the addition of Sanford C. Presant to their Los Angeles office. Presant joins as shareholder and as Chair of the firm's Real Estate Funds Group. Presant comes to the firm from DLA Piper, where he served...

Litigation boutique dissolves for Steptoe

Posted on May 06, 2009
Three lawyers from Los Angeles litigation boutique McNamara, Spira & Smith, including founder Michael McNamara, have joined Steptoe & Johnson's Century City, Calif., office. McNamara joined Washington-based Steptoe as a partner, while Kirsten Spira joined of counsel and J...

Former Peregrine VP sentenced in financial fraud case

Posted on May 05, 2009
Jeremy Crook, the former vice president for Peregrine Systems sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa, was sentenced to 27 months in custody for his part in a scheme that destroyed the software maker once valued at $4.72 billion. Crook...

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Manatt Phelps partner nominated to UC Board of Regents

Posted on May 05, 2009
George Kieffer has been nominated by Governor Schwarzenegger to the University of California Board of Regents. Both he and former Poway Assemblywoman Charlene Zettel were appointed yesterday to replace former regents Judith Hopkinson and John Hotchkis, whose terms expired in...

Medi-Cal cuts prompt suit

Posted on May 05, 2009
In February, Gov. Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature enacted a budget that eliminated the provision of nine Medi-Cal ?optional benefits,? including adult dental, psychology, chiropractic, acupuncture, speech therapy, incontinence creams and washes, audiology, optometry and podiatry services...

Judge finds one out of 19 classroom comments "hostile to Christian beliefs"

Posted on May 05, 2009
U.S. District Judge James Selna ruled Friday in a lawsuit student Chad Farnan filed in 2007, alleging that teacher James Corbett violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by making repeated comments in class that were hostile to Christian...

Supergraphics stay while case is still live, says Collins

Posted on May 05, 2009
U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins has issued a temporary injunction barring the city of Los Angeles from taking action against SkyTag's supergraphics (multistory images) on at least 18 buildings while the case goes ahead in court. Five of the buildings...

New territory for former Irell partners

Posted on May 05, 2009
Three partners at Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella have left to form their own firm, Kendall Brill & Klieger, which opened on May 4. Richard B. Kendall said that he and his colleagues, Laura W. Brill and Robert N. Klieger,...

Polanski not frantic to return to U.S.

Posted on May 05, 2009
In a filing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, attorneys for Roman Polanski said the filmmaker will not come back to the United States this week to meet a court deadline for his surrender, and nor should he...

SEC hits 144 Opinions for pump-and-dump

Posted on May 05, 2009
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two attorneys, a California company and the company's owner for preparing and issuing fraudulent legal opinions involving unregistered stock that enabled promoters and others to sell shares in a metro Atlanta-based pump-and-dump scheme...

Salary cuts still a certainty at several firms

Posted on May 04, 2009
Associate salaries have been a hot topic in the legal industry for the past few months. It's clear firms are hearing from their consultants that they are paying associates too much, but many firms are reluctant to lower salaries for...

Emissions permits at issue again in court rematch

Posted on May 04, 2009
State Sen. Rod Wright is carrying a bill that would essentially overturn a sweeping court ruling last fall that halted hundreds of modernization and construction projects across Southern California, due to being unable to obtain air emissions permits needed to...

Klein joins Greenberg Traurig in Silicon Valley

Posted on May 04, 2009
Greenberg Traurig announced Friday that Thomas Klein has joined its Silicon Valley office as a shareholder in the Corporate and Securities Practice. His practice will center on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and public company representation...

The potential liability impacts of swine flu

Posted on May 04, 2009
Many offices and factories in Inland Southern California are already doing business with fewer workers because of the dour economic situation. With the swine flu epidemic making headlines, employees have to weigh their fitness to work versus an absence that...

LA Episcopal Diocese goes after Newport Beach church for separation legal fees

Posted on May 04, 2009
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles will try to recover attorneys fees and court costs from the church and some of its members who voted to break away from the Episcopal Church in 2004, resulting in a bitter legal battle...

U.S. government joins Humane Society in slaughterhouse suit

Posted on May 04, 2009
The federal government said Friday it is intervening in the Humane Society of the United States' lawsuit against Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., a Southern California slaughterhouse whose workers were caught on videotape abusing cattle, leading to the nation's biggest beef...

City attorney campaign devolves into Mr. Unpopularity vs. Gun Guy

Posted on May 04, 2009
As the runoff campaign for city attorney candidates hits its closing weeks before the May 19 vote, City Councilman Jack Weiss and attorney Carmen Trutanich have ratcheted up the rhetoric. Weiss has attacked Trutanich for allegedly representing gun owners and...

New Supreme Court vehicle search limits forces Inland police to adapt

Posted on May 04, 2009
In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited officers' ability to search the vehicle of someone they have arrested who poses no threat, Inland police agencies find they may have to revamp some policies. Critics argue...

Duroville to stay open for repairs

Posted on May 01, 2009
U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson ruled yesterday that the Desert Mobile Home Park, also known as Duroville, will remain open until alternative housing can be built. He also urged residents to relocate "with all deliberate speed." Larson appointed Tom Flynn,...

DNA evidence links 72-year-old man to decades' worth of murders

Posted on May 01, 2009
Police in Los Angeles said the DNA of a 72-year-old Los Angeles insurance adjuster has matched evidence found at five murder scenes spanning over two decades. John Floyd Thomas may be connected to around 30 killings and numerous sexual assaults...

Google and Gogol, via Samuelson

Posted on April 30, 2009
"The [Google] Book Search agreement is not really a settlement of a dispute over whether scanning books to index them is fair use. It is a major restructuring of the book industry?s future without meaningful government oversight." Pamela Samuelson, the...

Indictments handed down in Bailey murders

Posted on April 30, 2009
A grand jury yesterday voted to indict Yusuf Ali Bey IV, the scion of the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery, for ordering the killings of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men in 2007. Prosecutors are likely to bring the...

Oakland council finds a real friend in potential medical marijuana revenue

Posted on April 30, 2009
Oakland's City Council last week approved a 1.8% tax on medicinal marijuana sold in the city. Medical-marijuana advocates say if voters pass the proposal in a July election, Oakland would become the nation's first city to directly tax the drug....

Attorney general wants court order to reform Maywood PD

Posted on April 29, 2009
After a 16-month investigation that revealed "gross misconduct and widespread abuse" by the Maywood Police Department, California Attorney Gen. Jerry Brown announced yesterday that he would seek a court order to impose reforms on the troubled force. His comments coincided...

New Los Angeles partner for labor law firm

Posted on April 29, 2009
Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP announced today that Dan M. Forman has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner. Mr. Forman is an AV rated trial lawyer who represents employers throughout California in litigation and provides advice and....

Potential terrorism foiler program a civil rights minefield

Posted on April 29, 2009
A new system to report suspicious activities that officials say could uncover terrorism plots is being embraced by a growing number of law-enforcement agencies, as civil liberties groups focus on the program's potential for violation of individual rights...

Court of Appeal beckons review for former Fisher & Phillips partner

Posted on April 29, 2009
Reversing a trial court, the California 4th District Court of Appeal ruled on April 27 that Robert J. Bekken is entitled to have a state court review a 2006 arbitration award that favored the law firm in a dispute that...

Court of Appeals socks it to Long Beach PTA in airport expansion hearing

Posted on April 28, 2009
The city of Long Beach has tried to expand the Long Beach Airport terminal and build a new parking garage since 2006, only to see its efforts stymied by legal challenges over the findings of a required environmental impact report....

Court of Appeal rules church takeover attempt unlawful

Posted on April 28, 2009
Iglesia Evangelica Latina Church announced that the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, ruled today in the case of Iglesia Evangelica Latina, Inc., et al., vs. Southern Pacific Latin American District of the Assemblies of God, et al...

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