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  • City of Los Angeles v. County of Kern

    Publication Date: 2013-03-13
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-13
    Court: C.A. 5th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carmen A. Trutanich, City Attorney, Valerie Flores, Managing Assistant City Attorney, Edward M. Jordan, Assistant City Attorney; Beveridge & Diamond, Gary J. Smith, Zachary M. Norris, James B. Slaughter, for Plaintiffs and Respondents City of Los Angeles, Responsible Biosolids Management, Inc., R&G Fanucchi, Inc., and Sierra Transport, Inc. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Daniel V. Hyde and Paul J. Beck for Plaintiff and Respondent County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County. Woodruff Spradlin & Smart, Bradley R. Hogin for Plaintiff and Respondent Orange County Sanitation District. Law Offices of Michael J. Lampe, Michael J. Lampe for Plaintiffs and Respondents Shaen Magan, Honey Bucket Farms, Tule Ranch/Magan Farms, and Western Express, Inc. Somach Simmons & Dunn, Robert L. Larson for Plaintiff and Respondent California Association of Sanitation Agencies. Freeman Freeman Smiley, Christopher M. Westhoff; National Association of Clean Water Agencies, Nathan Gardner-Andrews for National Association of Clean Water Agencies as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents. Barg Coffin Lewis & Trap, Marc A. Zeppetello for Water Environment Federation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    for defendant: Arnold & Porter, Jerome B. Falk, Steven L. Mayer, Sara J. Eisenberg; Theresa A. Goldner, County Counsel, Mark L. Nations, Deputy County Counsel; Hogan Guiney Dick, Michael M. Hogan; Hogan Law, Michael M. Hogan, for Defendants and Appellants.
    Case Number: No. F063381

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 2697CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,v.COUNTY OF KERN et al., De

  • Cooke v. Solis

    Publication Date: 2010-06-07
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Satris (argued), Law Office of Michael Satris, Bolinas, California; Amy F. Morton, Morton & Russo, Vallejo, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jessica Nicole Blonien (argued), Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, California; Elizabeth S. Kim, Office of the California Attorney General, Oakland, California, for Respondents-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 07-16112

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 6994 RICHARD LEE POLLARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., Erroneously S

  • Pollard v. The CEO Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-07
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Preis, University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, and Charles Francis Carbone, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Kenneth Johnson, Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Wackenhut-The GEO Group, Inc., Margaret Minneci, Robert Spack, Bob D. Steifer, and Becky Maness. David J. Wilson, Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Jonathan E. Akanno.
    Case Number: No. 07-16112

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 7000 RICHARD LEE POLLARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., Erroneously S

  • November 5, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Unlocking the Mystery

    You could call it the last black box. For more than three decades, The American Lawyer has ranked profits per partner at Am Law 200 firms. Parsing and comparing those equi

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  • June 27, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Sidley's Big Gamble

    If bigger is better, then Sidley Austin Brown & Wood is very good indeed. The firm, formed May 1 by the merger of Chicago's 900-lawyer Sidley & Austin and New York's 425-lawyer Brown & W

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  • February 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Legal community rallied for Lerach

    Of the more than 150 letters requesting that a federal judge grant leniency to securities plaintiff's lawyer William S. Lerach this week, the vast majority come from some of the na

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  • April 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge (Second Edition)

    By Gerald Gunther, Oxford University Press, 704 pages, $95 This new edition of a work first published in 1994 acquaints, or reacquaints, readers with a giant of our jurispru

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  • June 16, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms offering college coaching

    Law firms credit family-friendly benefits like daycare with drawing the best and the brightest to their firms, and now they're offering college-admissions consulting to help lawyers and staff

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  • January 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Bankruptcy Files: Europe, Energy, and Beyond Oblivion

    As negotiations aimed at addressing the Greek debt crisis begin anew, many turnaround professionals are eyeing Europe for the next wave of corporate restructurings.The New York Times

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  • March 12, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Supreme Court to State: No Waiver, No Suit Against City

    The state cannot sue a city for monetary damages unless the Texas Legislature waives the city's governmental immunity, a divided Texas Supreme Court has held in a case of first impression.

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