San Diego Police Searching for Escaped Inmate

(San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog)
... 's office says that Tran has been at large for several weeks, and he is believed to still be in the San Diego area. He was serving time for burglary and fraud; however, authorities do not believe that ... 2008 Sheriff's Deputies Hunt Prison Escapee, 10News.com, November 17, 2008 Inmate mistakenly released from San Diego jail, MercuryNews.com, October 31, 2008 If you have been arrested and charged with crimes such as theft, fraud, or drug possession, then contact a San Diego criminal defense attorney.
November 20, 2008 07:14 pm

Economic Bailout: Options & Legal Perspectives

(Lawyer 2 Lawyer - The Legal Talk Network)
... welcomes experts, Professor Eugene F. Fama, the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Attorney Andrew Z. Schwartz,head of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, at Foley Hoag LLP and Attorney Lisa C. Wood, Partner and Co-Chair of Securities and Corporate Disputes Practice,at Foley Hoag LLP, to discuss the economic and legal options and consequences.
November 20, 2008 07:04 pm
... convince the Justice Department to seek a warrant from the FISA court. The NYPD is complaining that the Justice Department "unfairly blocked the city's applications for surveillance warrants, first in June and then in September." [Attorney General] Mukasey said that the Police Department had sought authority ... to eavesdrop on "numerous communications facilities" without providing an adequate basis for their requests. Some officials who have been briefed on the cases said the requests, from ...
November 20, 2008 06:23 pm
I'm at the Education Law Association conference in San Antonio and I just gave a presentation on Education Law Research in a Cyberage (slides below) with Kevin Brady, an education law professor at North Carolina State. I'll ... t afford the hundreds of dollars per month it takes to get access. There are differences in the resource of first choice for professors (textbooks), attorneys (caselaw) and practitioners (google). Anyway, those were some of our findings. We are just beginning this journey on ...
November 20, 2008 05:41 pm
An attorney and former prosecutor was disbarred by the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department as a result of a conviction for rape in the third degree. The case had received a significant amount of publicity, as...
November 20, 2008 05:18 pm

Identical Discipline

(Legal Profession Blog)
The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department ordered reciprocal discipline of a one-year probated suspension based on the identical sanction imposed in Texas. The attorney had taken child-support payments due to his client as fees: Respondent's client...
November 20, 2008 05:00 pm

Have you subscribed to our Estate Planning Blog yet?

(San Diego Estate Planning Lawyer Blog)
... 37%) ∙ More men than women blog. ∙ The majority of bloggers are over the age of 35 and are college educated. At Pinkerton, Doppelt, & Associates, LLP we have blogs dating back to 2002 on estate planning issues such as wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate, conservatorships, guardianships, and long term planning. Please contact us if we can assist you with any of these issues and if you haven't already done so, take the time to subscribe to our blog. It's free and has current information ...
November 20, 2008 04:56 pm

Record Labels’ Bankruptcy Hurts Artists Again and Again

(Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark " Entertainment Law)
by Tamera H. Bennett My good buddy attorney Craig Barker is hard at work in Austin supporting the rights of recording artists. Craig has worked tirelessly to secure royalty payments for the Don Walser family on masters Mr. Walser recorded under contract with Watermelon Records. Here is a very brief history of the Watermelon Records bankruptcy debacle with [...]
November 20, 2008 04:55 pm
... Community Based Alternatives Waiver program operated by DADS. For more information about all three public hearings, follow this link and scroll down to read each entry. The Texas Board of Nursing (BON) requests information from law firms or attorneys interested in representing the BON in occupational license disciplinary hearings before the State Office of Administrative Hearings. For information on the subject matter and where and how to respond, see the relevant section of the Texas Register. ...
November 20, 2008 04:54 pm
... on "Doing Business Internationally." The Complete Lawyer is a web-based magazine focusing on quality of life and career satisfaction for attorneys but with relevance for dispute resolution professionals as well. It features a regular ADR column, "The Human Factor", which explores ADR from the perspective of four attorneys who mediate - me and three colleagues, Stephanie West Allen of Idealawg and Brains on Purpose, Gini Nelson of Engaging Conflicts, and Victoria ...
November 20, 2008 04:47 pm

Cook County jury awards $16.5 million in drug death case

(Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog)
... than $16.5 million Monday by a Cook County jury. DiCosolo was using a prescribed pain patch which lead to her death on Feb. 15, 2004. Alza Corp. and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, manufactured and distributed the patch. According to her attorney, F. John Cushing, DiCosolo's physician prescribed the patch. DiCosolo was suffering from regional pain syndrome. The patch was supposed to release the medication gradually over a period of three days. Instead, the patch delivered a lethal dose of fentanyl ...
November 20, 2008 04:47 pm

Nine CA lawyers among 30 new partners at Latham & Watkins

(The National Law Journal's L.A. Legal Pad)
... commercial matters. He received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998. Divakar Gupta is a corporate attorney focused on the representation of public and private emerging growth companies and investment banking firms. He ... commercial litigation. He received a JD from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2000. San Francisco Matthew Harrison is a litigator with a focus on securities and professional liability litigation, including accountants' liability, ...
November 20, 2008 04:37 pm
... (Clippinger) for the years at issue. We find that it may not. The third issue is whether petitioner may deduct $54,558 in miscellaneous legal expenses for 1999. We find that petitioner is not entitled to the deduction. The Law Deduct or Capitalize? Attorney's fees that are paid as ordinary and necessary business expenses are currently deductible under IRC §162. However, §263 requires that legal fees that are capital in nature be capitalized. Origin of the Claim In order to determine whether a ...
November 20, 2008 04:34 pm

Class action come lately in eHarmony spat?

(The National Law Journal's L.A. Legal Pad)
... unveiled its same-sex only Web site as a result of a settlement with the New Jersey Attorney General, but a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has certified ... says the New Jersey settlement renders the class action moot, but plaintiffs' attorney Joshua Konecky takes a different view. "There needs to be an injunction that a California court ... eHarmony] from saying, 'Oh, I don't want to do it anymore,'" said Konecky, of San Francisco's Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky. See the full story ...
November 20, 2008 04:31 pm
... "enemy combatant" hearings at Guantanamo Bay before repudiating the process last year; Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell; and Bruce Fein, former associate deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration. "The continued detention of the 17 Uighurs in Guantanamo compromises our principles and undermines our standing in the world," they wrote. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina in October ordered the government to immediately ...
November 20, 2008 04:25 pm
... all recognition a bona fide, good faith offer." The squabble is over a fake letter sent out by Taco Bell Corp. asking 50 Cent to change his name for one day to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent to help publicize its value menu. In return, the company offered to donate $10,000 to the charity of his choice. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has sued for trademark infringement. Jackson's attorney, Peter Raymond, says he wonders why Taco Bell would use his client's name in an ad campaign.
November 20, 2008 04:20 pm
... shots at each of the men. But he also gave conflicting reports of his actions that day. A defense attorney, Benjamin Brewer, has said police overreached in their questioning of the boy, who was not represented by a family member or ... Authorities and the defense attorneys have been unable to answer questions about the case since the court issued a gag order. Attorneys for the media argued Wednesday that the gag order is overly broad and asked that it be lifted. Roca denied that request and placed ...
November 20, 2008 04:11 pm
Though I am still ruminating over the selection of Eric Holder for the next Attorney General (as evidenced here and here and here), the latest political buzz over the ... what he did in his last full day at the Justice Department. The former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, who's now President-elect Barack Obama's reported ... Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive financer Marc Rich.... As deputy attorney general, Holder famously let Rich's last-minute pardon move across ...
November 20, 2008 03:55 pm

Truck Accident Leaves Gas Spill in Swansea

(Boston Car Accident Lawyer Blog)
In Swansea, Massachusetts, cleanup crews worked into the night after a tanker trunk rolled over on Sunday morning on Interstate 195, spilling several thousand gallons of gasoline. According to the fire chief, rescue teams were able to recover about 2,000 gallons of the 12,500 gallons spilled. State police say that the truck rollover occurred at 5:50am a half-mile from Exit 3, the Swansea Mall exit ramp. Kim Kilbreth, 55, who was driving the trucker reportedly lost control of the vehicle, which ...
November 20, 2008 03:47 pm
... her Columbia County home, the state of Georgia has crossed the line from protector to persecutor of its citizens. The state isn't inciting torch-wielding mobs to chase Whitaker from her home 20 miles west of Augusta. But it is using a gaggle of state attorneys and a politically driven, poorly written sex offender law to wreck her life. Twelve years ago, Whitaker engaged in oral sex with a classmate in her sophomore class on high school property. She had just turned 17; the boy was three weeks ...
November 20, 2008 03:43 pm
 
 

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