Blawg Review #180

(LawPundit)
... The purpose of the DAJV: "[I]s the advancement of professional and popular education, in particular the professional education of German lawyers and other groups interested in the fields of American law, as well as the advancement of American lawyers and other groups interested in ... , Washington D.C.) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Illuminate Consulting Group, L.L.C. (San Jose, Berlin) Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin) Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) (Berlin) Jü ...
October 6, 2008 12:01 am
... some prominent Bay Area partners, the firm consolidated its Palo Alto and San Jose offices Spring 2003: The firm elected L.A. partner David Huebner ... Piper Rudnick Gray Cary took the bulk of the Brussels office September 2005: A San Francisco landlord sued, anticipating the firm would default on payments for its old Cannery ... and that attorneys had conspired with their successor firms November 2006: The American Lawyer published a detailed post-mortem about the firm's demise Brobeck and Coudert's ...
September 24, 2008 01:38 am
San Jose Bankruptcy Attorney Talks About Changing Chapters Previously we discussed the many Chapters for bankruptcy. While most individuals go through Chapter 7 which is a discharge of debts or a Chapter 13 which is meant to be a repayment plan, the debtors are allowed to move between chapters. While changing chapters is not as easy as flipping pages of a book, it is not as hard as writing a book either. A chapter 13 can request to become a chapter 7 bankruptcy. It is the simplest of ...
September 23, 2008 05:38 pm

Morning Docket 09.23.08

(Above the Law)
* Charges against porn producer stand despite the Alex Kozinski controversy. [San Jose Mercury News] * You get ripped off by some guy. You sue the guy. You're awarded damages. The guy starts paying you back. The guy declares bankruptcy. ... sophomore who hacked Sarah Palin's e-mail account is under FBI investigation and has hired a lawyer. Was it really worth it? The hacker wrote upon posting the e-mails, "there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing ...
September 23, 2008 02:22 pm
Thankfully, the long drawn-out backdating festival is slowly coming to an end. Yesterday, Maxim Integrated Products told a San Jose federal court that it had agreed to settle (.pdf) several derivative lawsuits against its former top brass. The company's ... some money and canceling options. All in all the settlement comes to about $28 million, double what Apple recently settled its backdating derivative cases. Plaintiffs lawyers, of which there are many, will be getting $15 million. - Zusha Elinson
September 18, 2008 10:48 pm
... wonder if anyone has considered the collateral estoppel effect of fee arbitrations on legal malpractice cases. The teaser from Legal Pad is: "San Jose Federal Judge James Ware ruled that the settlement should be enforced and appointed special master George Fisher to do ... 's stock and so got gypped out of big payout. The company tried to back out of the deal and fired its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel, the high-profile L.A. trial firm that advised on the settlement. Then Quinn filed a lien against any ...
September 15, 2008 11:15 am
... Jessica Semega, shows that the median income for males in legal occupations - this includes e.g. lawyers and legal paraprofessionals - is about $105,000 per year, which is twice the national median ... than for women. The median income data for the legal occupations (p. 34 of the report): Lawyers - $120,400 (males), $93,600 (females) Judges, magistrates, and other ... ,000 Market and survey researchers - $77,500 MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME San Jose city, CA - $76,963 Database administrators - $76,900 Civil ...
September 14, 2008 01:00 pm
... in the Facebook-ConnectU case revealed in a court filing that the testy relationship between ConnectU and its former lawyers at Quinn Emanuel has gotten even testier: The ConnectU founders have threatened to sue the firm ... Quinn filed a lien against any money ConnectU would recover from Facebook. John Quinn San Jose Federal Judge James Ware ruled that the settlement should be enforced and appointed special master George Fisher to do the enforcing. In his report, Fisher writes that the "ConnectU ...
September 13, 2008 01:11 am
... information provided by the San Jose Mercury News) Q A few years ago, I served on a jury that ultimately convicted the defendant. The court recently sent me a notice saying the defense lawyer now wants to obtain personal information on each juror, including our name and address. I refused ... serve on a jury knowing their identities won't be protected? --Name withheld by request A Defense lawyers do have the right to ask for such information - but you have the right to refuse. Such ...
September 11, 2008 08:41 pm
Plaintiff lawyers are defending their decision not to go after Wilson Sonsini in a backdating case against Sigma Designs. San Jose U.S. District Judge ... counsel during the backdating era. In court documents (.pdf) filed Friday, plaintiff lawyers from Schiffrin Barroway wrote they were "not aware of any specific documents ... documents from the company's former outside counsel, Wilson Sonsini, and interviewed lawyers there, but concluded the firm wasn't at fault. "The committee found that documentation ...
September 10, 2008 12:24 am

Morning Docket 09.08.08

(Above the Law)
... White House a delay in turning over documents, which means Harriet Miers can keep avoiding testifying before Congress. [Washington Post] * Judge Elizabeth Halverson underwent surgery this weekend for her husband-and-frying-pan-inflicted skull fractures. [San Jose Mercury News] * A British Muslim lawyer plus an Osama bin Laden joke equals a $1 million dollar payout. [United Press International]
September 8, 2008 02:13 pm
... execs, including Steve Jobs. The company's Directors and Officers insurers will pay the company $14 million to settle the case. Plaintiff lawyers in the federal case -- Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Keller Rohrback; Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins; and Schiffrin Barroway ... Fink; Branstetter Stranch & Jennings; and Barrack Rodos & Bacine -- will get $1.2 million. The motion to approve the settlement will be heard by San Jose federal Judge Jeremy Fogel on Monday. - Zusha Elinson
September 6, 2008 01:44 am
San Jose Bankruptcy Attorney Talks About Bankruptcy Morals Prior to filing for bankruptcy, many debtors agonize if bankruptcy is the proper course of action. Specifically, the debtors believe that since they owe the money, they ... . The first problem is believing that Bankruptcy is easy. Bankruptcy is not easy or else debtors would not need a lawyer to get them through the process. Bankruptcy, a right granted by the Federal government, is so complicated that unrepresented debtors are often given a ...
September 5, 2008 08:31 pm

Morning Docket 09.04.08

(Above the Law)
... trial. [Associated Press] * Pizza delivery man to be tried for the murder of his teacher wife's teenage lover. [CNN] * Emergency budget crisis for courts in England. [The Times] * An argument against lawyers for president. "The problem is that lawyers usually do not run companies, defend the country, lead people, build things, grow food or create capital." [San Jose Mercury News]
September 4, 2008 02:01 pm
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case A couple in Texas is set for trial on termination of parental rights following CPS intervention and removal of the parties' three children. A ... matters, whether they are incident to a divorce, paternity action, dependency or guardianship. We have five Bay Area locations, including San Jose, Fremont, Monterey, Salinas and Redwood City, and we offer a free consultation either in person or over the ...
September 2, 2008 06:05 pm
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case A couple in Texas is set for trial on termination of parental rights following CPS intervention and removal of the parties' three children. A ... matters, whether they are incident to a divorce, paternity action, dependency or guardianship. We have five Bay Area locations, including San Jose, Fremont, Monterey, Salinas and Redwood City, and we offer a free consultation either in person or over the ...
September 2, 2008 06:05 pm
... the users had not seen the requisite ads. The complaint also alleges that the defendants deployed some tricks to cover their tracks, like deliberately not cookie-ing computers in San Jose and Santa Barbara, the homes of eBay and Commission Junction respectively, to keep employees ... the statute is so broadly over-inclusive that everyone violates it routinely. Here, it looks like the lawyers weren't quite sure how to fit cookie stuffing into the statute. Take a look at ...
September 2, 2008 05:23 pm
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August 29, 2008 08:41 pm
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August 27, 2008 05:57 pm
... "A Few Good Men," two Camp Pendleton Marines refused to testify on Friday in the trial of former Sgt. Jose Nazario, the first marine to stand trial in civilian court for crimes said to have occurred while he was serving in Iraq. Here's a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, and ... be valid in any other U.S. judicial arena, including the military courts. To that, Weemer's lawyer, Chris Johnson, said: “He is on trial for his very life. Look at the Purple Heart on this Marine' ...
August 25, 2008 12:42 pm
 
 
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