The Massachusetts Superior Court has informed 25 3Ls they will not be hired after all as court clerks. It appears that the decision to rescind the job offers was made last Fall, when the courts instituted a hiring freeze; but those affected are only being informed now. The court says the hirings were always contingent on funding, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 4, 2009
Lewis & Daggett is opening a third office in Statesville, North Carolina, to be run by retiring Superior Court judge Kim Taylor. She will handle personal injury cases. Taylor is an area native, and received her law degree from the University of North Carolina. She was a judge for over 20 years. She was voted Judge of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Essex County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Donald Goldman has ruled that defunct law firm Ravin Sarasohn may sue Lowenstein Sandler over partner defections that killed the firm. The judge rejected Lowenstein Sandler’s argument that a ruling in a related arbitration mandated dismissal of the claim. Ravin Sarasohn, a Roseland, New Jersey firm that had more than [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Henry Har, formerly a public finance attorney with the Los Angeles office of Nixon Peabody, has sued his former firm for sexual and racial discrimination. Har, now an associate with Holland & Knight in San Francisco, alleges he was wrongly terminated from Nixon Peabody in 2008 because of his gender, and because he is Asian-American. The 18-page complaint filed [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 10, 2009
Deaf Dog & The Indictments is the world’s only (almost) all-judge band (the one non-judge is a PhD, so it’s okay). They play the Kennedy Center in NYC on Sunday. Deaf Dog and the Indictments, the world’s only almost-all-judge band, began in 2005 as part of a talent show at a court training conference. …the band [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 26, 2008
A San Francisco landlord for Heller Ehrman won a court ruling earlier this month, that means bankruptcy is now likely for the defunct law firm. The San Francisco Superior Court granted the landlord, 333 Bush Associates, a writ of attachment for $48 million. The move makes the landlord a secured creditor, freezes a portion of Heller’s [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 23, 2008
After defeating a lawsuit backed by powerful Hollywood studios, Sunnyvale’s Kaleidescape has fired its lead trial lawyer and is refusing to pay $400,000 in fees. Kaleidescape, which designs home entertainment systems that allow users to copy and store DVDs, won at trial against the DVD Copy Control Association in California Superior Court in 2007. The Hollywood-backed [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is being sued over an allegedly botched $48.8 million settlement that netted the Los Angeles-based firm $12 million in contingency fees. Former client Todd Kurtin filed the claim earlier this month in Los Angeles Superior Court. Kurtin accuses Quinn Emanuel of negligence for failing to advise him of “the meaning [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
On Heller Highwater blog, a “a support site for the professional support staff of a global law firm in turmoil”: I’m not sure whether this [one] just slipped by us and the rest of the media or what. But back on October 29, 2008, MEPT St. Matthews LLC – the landlord of Heller’s DC office [...]
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