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Dreier connection contributes to Mason Miller collapse

Posted on April 28, 2009
Marc Dreier, founder and managing partner of Dreier LLP, was charged in December with securities and wire fraud stemming from an alleged investment fraud that led to $400 million in losses and the collapse of his New York firm. Mason...

Guilford to America's Sheriff: Gonna give you some time, Carona

Posted on April 28, 2009
Despite the ten-page filing, U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford sentenced former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona to 5 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $125,000 fine after being convicted on one count of witness tampering. Federal prosecutors,...

Larson decides Mattel can keep the Bratz

Posted on April 28, 2009
It's been almost a year since Mattel and MGA went to battle over the Bratz dolls and whose property they really were. Last summer a jury decided that Mattel was correct in accusing MGA of stealing the Bratz idea when...

Ex-Heller suit calls partners to come out come out wherever they are

Posted on April 27, 2009
Former employees of Heller Ehrman sued at least 179 former partners on Friday, demanding $32 million for the largest group of creditors in the defunct firm's bankruptcy. The adversary proceeding filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of...

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California luminaries nominated to Obama administration posts

Posted on April 27, 2009
Alejandro Mayorkas, currently a partner at O'Melveny & Myers and the former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, was named last week to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Former California state conservationist Pearlie S. Reed was also named to be...

Qualcomm and Broadcom shake hands, promise no more fighting

Posted on April 27, 2009
Qualcomm has agreed to pay $891 million to Broadcom over four years as part of a settlement to end a bitter dispute over handset-technology patents. According to a joint statement released Sunday, the companies will license each other?s patents and...

Malpractice claim back to haunt Perkins Coie

Posted on April 24, 2009
The 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles reinstated a legal malpractice claim against Perkins Coie in a protracted battle between the law firm and one of its former clients. The lawsuit was brought by In4Network, which hired the...

Lawyers go back to court for their BAR/BRI settlement fees

Posted on April 24, 2009
Law students and others who purchased the BAR/BRI preparation course for state bar exams will get to keep the $49 million settlement they reached with the course makers in 2007. But attorneys who worked on their behalf will now return...

No surprises here

Posted on April 24, 2009
Judge Victoria Chaney dismissed the two pesticide/sterility lawsuits against Dole today on the basis of "widespread fraud."

Delayed sentencing in pot case, with judge suggesting defendant may get off easy

Posted on April 24, 2009
A federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday postponed sentencing until June for Charles Lynch, the former owner of a Central Coast marijuana dispensary. Despite having the blessing of the city's mayor and other public officials, he was charged with violating...

Victorville financial crisis analyzed via grand jury

Posted on April 24, 2009
A recent audit concluded Victorville is facing a financial crisis with hundreds of millions of dollars in deficits, defaults and overstated assets. With an eye to unraveling all that, the San Bernardino County grand jury has questioned several Victorville officials...

Trial begins in body snatcher case

Posted on April 23, 2009
Opening statements were delivered yesterday in the trial of a man accused of trafficking in stolen cadavers. Deputy District Attorney Marisa Zarate said Ernest Nelson took in close to $1.5 million buying and reselling human body parts that were donated...

Cooley-McBee alliance to aid clean energy obtain capital

Posted on April 23, 2009
McBee Strategic Consulting LLC and Cooley Godward Kronish LLP today announced a strategic alliance specifically designed to help clean energy technology companies access public-sector capital. Cooley and McBee started working jointly with clients in 2008 to facilitate the preparation of...

Hennesay and McFadden elected to Allen Matkins partnership

Posted on April 23, 2009
Allen Matkins announced today that attorneys Ken Hennesay and Michael McFadden have been elected to the firm partnership. Hennesay practices in the bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice group in the firm's Orange County office. He specializes in planning and execution...

Oracle's past history portends post-merger trims

Posted on April 23, 2009
There are apparently a lot of unanswered questions regarding the Oracle buyout of Sun Microsystems, but one thing seems certain: job cuts. Case in point: Keith Facer, a commercial transactions lawyer who was working at BEA Systems when it was...

DA and Sheriff butt heads yet again

Posted on April 23, 2009
In another chapter of what seems to be an ongoing saga of DA vs. Sheriff, last week Susan Kang Schroeder publicly blamed a fizzled criminal case on a law enforcement "code of silence." The prosecution of Christopher Hibbs, an Orange...

Ogletree's Chang now President-Elect of KABA

Posted on April 22, 2009
Ogletree Deakins announced last week that Marrian S. Chang, an associate in the firm?s Los Angeles office, was installed as President-Elect of the Korean-American Bar Association of Southern California (KABA) on April 16 at the KABA?s Twenty-Ninth Annual Installation and...

Homeland Security ordered to reopen immigration cases

Posted on April 22, 2009
U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder has issued a preliminary ruling ordering the Department of Homeland Security to reopen the immigration cases of nearly two dozen people who were denied green cards because their U.S. citizen spouses died during the...

Thousands of cases under review after lab tech admits lying

Posted on April 22, 2009
Lab technician Aaron Layton, according to district attorneys, worked on about 3,700 cases in Riverside County, as many as 4,800 in San Bernardino County and about 3,000 in San Diego County. These cases have been called into question because Layton...

Banana fraud hearings begin

Posted on April 21, 2009
A three-day hearing opens Tuesday to review allegations by the Dole Fresh Fruit Co. that two attorneys have recruited clients to make false claims about a pesticide making them sterile while working on Nicaraguan banana farms. Dole accuses Los Angeles-based...

Judge orders FBI to perform CAIRful search for surveillance files

Posted on April 21, 2009
A federal district court judge yesterday gave the FBI 30 days to make available for review 48 pages of surveillance memos pertaining to Southern California Muslim organizations that had previously been released only in heavily redacted form. ACLU staff attorney...

Brownstein Hyatt expands employment and litigation group with Johnnie James

Posted on April 21, 2009
Johnnie A. James has joined the Los Angeles office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a shareholder in the firm's employment and litigation groups, the firm announced yesterday. With nearly 20 years of experience in employment litigation issues, James? practice...

O'Donnell fights federal indictment as arguments begin in Katrina case

Posted on April 21, 2009
Last month, Pierce O'Donnell filed a motion to dismiss a federal indictment against him that claimed he reimbursed members of his law firm, among others, for contributing to a committee supporting a presidential candidate and influenced the committee's treasurer to...

Hiring freeze thaws at Sheppard Mullin

Posted on April 21, 2009
Yesterday LALP reported that Sheppard Mullin hired Pamela L. Westhoff from DLA Piper. Turns out that's not all the hiring going on in their Los Angeles office. Yesterday the firm also announced the addition of corporate partner Brian D. Weimer...

Carona's attorneys plead for client's freedom during appeal

Posted on April 20, 2009
It took former sheriff Mike Carona's lawyers ten pages to argue why their client should remain free while he appeals a witness tampering conviction. The filing raises several issues that will be argued during the appeal, including U.S. District Court...

Sheppard gains real estate partner in LA office

Posted on April 20, 2009
Pamela L. Westhoff has joined the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group. She joins Sheppard Mullin from DLA Piper in Los Angeles....

Recession hits venture capital funding hard, with some hopeful glimmers

Posted on April 20, 2009
Story in the LA Times today says the recession has pummeled venture capital funding down to pre-dotcom boom levels. This, of course, is no surprise to most California firms. But the article goes on to shed a little positivity on...

Baca, Charlton, O'Malley and Prather named to state posts by guv

Posted on April 20, 2009
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was named by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Corrections Standards Authority on Friday. The governor also announced three attorneys to state posts. Palmdale attorney James Charlton was named to the Lahontan Regional Water Quality...

Seeking the bubble reputation? It's on the 'Net.

Posted on April 20, 2009
California schools make a good showing on the 2009 Reputational Scores from U.S. News Surveys of Academics and Practitioners. Brian Leiter lists the top 40 for both academic and lawyer/judge reputation, with some brief methodological explanations, here: have at it.

DLA Piper welcomes Burns and Brown to Los Angeles

Posted on April 17, 2009
Yesterday DLA Piper announced the expansion of their international tax practice in Los Angeles and New York. Ray Brown joins the firm as a principal economist in the group, and Paul Burns joins as of counsel. Their team will be...

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