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Former judicial officer: 'No rule against OC judge signing search warrants remotely while abroad'
Retired judge says investigation of Orange County (OC) judicial officer accused of signing warrants remotely while abroad is without merit
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Legal malpractice case won't be reopened because lawyer wasn't licensed
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A lawyer’s failure to be licensed in his state won’t cause his firm to pay more than $5 million to an unhappy client.
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Law firm: Man hired to drum up business was useless
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A personal injury law firm’s recent motion to dismiss reveals the past details of its court fight with a litigation services professional who sued over the proceeds of mass tort litigation.
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San Diego can use private lawyers on contingency fee to sue, court says
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals refused to boot contingency-fee lawyers from a lawsuit by the City of San Diego against Experian, rejecting the company’s argument the private lawyers violated the public prosecutor’s duty of neutrality by working for a share of any money they won in the case.
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Legal malpractice suit against Edwards Wilder revived
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California law firm that became part of Locke Lord might still face liability for its representation of a disgruntled client who tried to sue the London-based Daily Mail.
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Former judge questions whether judicial evaluation commission thoroughly vetted lawmaker-turned-judge
A sitting Assemblyman has been appointed to the judicial bench by Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Former judge reacts to new rules on lawyers requesting courtroom performance feedback
Although former Judge Ladoris Cordell recalls providing feedback to young lawyers who asked about their courtroom performance, she wouldn’t comment today if asked.
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Ninth circuit invokes judicial immunity in denying lawyer's appeal against federal judge who jailed her
A former LA Superior Court Judge candidate who obtained a $1.5 million settlement from the California Highway Patrol lost her appeal against a federal judge who jailed the lawyer for alleged contempt of court
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Woman sues for legal malpractice of former lawyer in wrongful death suit
FRESNO -- A woman claims that her former lawyer is guilty of legal malpractice and breach of contract.
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Orange County judge issues Order to Show Cause after discovering alleged overbilling by class action attorney
An Orange County Superior Court Judge issued an Order to Show Cause after noticing an attorney’s notation in time entries that allegedly indicated overbilling.
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Plaintiff lawyers win again; Court awards fees in dispute over case they dismissed
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A clothing manufacturer’s strategy of suing labor lawyers for malicious prosecution failed badly, as a California appeals court ordered the company to pay them additional legal fees on top of the tens of thousands of dollars they obtained after settling the underlying wage-and-hour lawsuit.
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Four lawyers warring in San Diego federal court over $20 million
SAN DIEGO - Four lawyers and a law firm are tangled in a March 30 lawsuit alleging legal negligence, according to documents filed in San Diego federal court.
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Court delays $1.1 million payment to lawyers until class redeems coupons
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - In a victory for objectors who complain that class-action settlements too often feature cash fees for the lawyers but worthless coupons for their clients, a federal judge has put a law firm’s million-dollar fee on hold until he sees how many coupons consumers actually redeem.
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Costco fights lawsuit by arguing for lawyer's disqualification
LOS ANGELES - Costco is locked in a civil battle with its former Southern California attorney, who is accused of wrongfully using confidential information he had access to when he was the wholesale retailer's lawyer to now pursue a personal injury case against it.
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'Lawyer's lawyer' Jim Krieg has passed; Remembered as 'very, very wise'
One of Jim Kreig’s favorite career memories was deposing the comic Billy Crystal on a breach of contract dispute.That’s according to a lawyer he mentored for 20 years
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State Bar replies to accusations its facial recognition stigmatizes law school students of color during exam
The State Bar responded to the demand that it stop using Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) with a request for more information as to how people of color are disadvantaged when completing the bar exam
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Paraplegic on the lookout for ADA violations loses two of his many lawsuits against hotels
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A serial plaintiff and his lawyers lost a pair of cases that could indicate more defeats to come, as a federal judge in California dismissed claims hotels violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to include detailed descriptions of their ADA-compliant features on internet reservations systems.
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Lawyers get $1.1M for five years of work suing Santa Barbara over jail conditions
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – California attorneys have asked for and received more than $1.1 million for bringing a class action lawsuit over the medical and mental health care in Santa Barbara County jails.
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Calif. court approves attorneys fees 8x more than client recovered
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A Lemon Law defendant will have to pay almost $170,000 to plaintiffs attorney despite the client only recovering $22,000.
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Plaintiffs lawyers spent $50 million on JM Eagle case to win $162K; Company says outcome not worthy of reward
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers who spent 14 years and tens of millions of dollars pursuing a whistleblower case only to win less than $200,000 for their clients shouldn’t be able to collect multiples of that amount from the defendant, pipemaker JM Eagle said in a filing calling the fee request “patently unreasonable.”