• May 28, 2004 | Daily Business Review

    Mogul's Holdings Still Shielded in Divorce

    A judge in Florida has granted German billionaire Alexander Otto's motion to remove more than two dozen companies as third parties from Otto's high-stakes divorce case. But there is a

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  • March 9, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Cruise Ship-Shaped Federal Courthouse Short on Meals

    When Miami criminal defense attorney Milton Hirsch published a novel five years ago, a key plot twist was set in a courthouse coffee shop. "Any accurate depiction of the criminal justice m

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  • October 12, 2009 | The Recorder

    Heller Creditors Target Accountants

    Heller's creditors may sue accounting firm Ernst & Young for failing to raise red flags on its audit of the firm's 2007 financials, according to a bankruptcy liquidation plan and disclosure fil

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  • November 15, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Anti-Terrorism Measure Makes Bankers Happy

    Nontraditional financial institutions, particularly securities brokers and dealers, are about to face costly new legal responsibilities arising from the federal government's war on terrorism.

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  • Harris v. City of Santa Monica

    Publication Date: 2013-02-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-02-07
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The deRubertis Law Firm, David M. deRubertis, Michael H. Leb, Kimberly Y. Higgins; Kokozian & Nourmand, The Nourmand Law Firm, Michael Nourmand; Pine & Pine, Norman Pine and Beverly Pine for Plaintiff and Respondent. Joseph Grodin, Denise Hulett, Claudia Center, Sharon Terman and Tamika Butler for Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties, California Women's Law Center, Disability Rights Advocates, Disability Rights California, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc., Disability Rights Legal Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Impact Fund, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Women's Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent. Charlotte E. Fishman; Law Office of David J. Duchrow and David Duchrow for California Employment Lawyers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney, Joseph Lawrence, Assistant City Attorney, Barbara C. Greenstein, Carol Ann Rohr, Jeanette Schachtner, Anthony P. Serritella and Meishya Yang, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Appellant. Law Offices of Steven Drapkin, Steven Drapkin; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Paul W. Cane, Jr., Katherine C. Huibonhoa and Elizabeth MacGregor for California Employment Law Council and Employers Group as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant. Melanie Poturica and Morin I. Jacob for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. S181004

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S.1516WYNONA HARRIS, Plaintiff and Respondent,v.CITY OF SANTA MONICA, Defendant and Appe

  • October 17, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    DLA Piper Acquires Coudert's Singapore, Tokyo Offices Further increasing its haul of lawyers from crumbling Coudert Brothers, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has added nearly

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  • December 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Don't Know Which Fork to Use? Listen Up!

    Each February, Michelle Mitchell plans a booby-trapped dinner for the 80 or so law students who may know plenty about the Rule Against Perpetuities but zilch about a fish fork. As associate dire

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  • November 1, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Kaye Scholer Begins Return to Offices Damaged in Fire Kaye Scholer was expected to return to its offices at 425 Park Avenue this morning. The law firm was displaced by an

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  • October 18, 2005 | The Recorder

    DLA's Plan? To Seize Opportunities

    In the 10 months since DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary was formed from a three-way merger, the firm has opened six new offices � stateside in Raleigh, N.C., and internationally in Frankfurt, Germa

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    The SOX Dilemma

    As more dollars flow into Asia, businesses in that region continue to find favor among U.S. investors. Direct investments from the United States have been climbing, most sharply in Japan, whic

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