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Judicial Embrace

May 21, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Roughly 500 people attended the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s annual luncheon on Tuesday at the Omni Hotel in downtown ...


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LURN-ing to 'Friend-Raise'

May 21, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

The Los Angeles Urban Renewal Network, a coalition of local professionals seeking to revitalize under-served communities, host...



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May 19, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer One night a week criminal defense attorney Mark Daniel Melnick joins his frie...


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May 18, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Bet Tzdek has teamed up with Los Angeles County Superior Court to set aside a special session in probate court to help low-inc...



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May 17, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

The Daily Journal honored California's leading women litigators at a reception Wednesday night in Beverly Hills. The newspaper...


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May 10, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Miriam A. Vogel, retired 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice and senior of counsel at Morrison & Foerster, spoke of her l...



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May 10, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

The attorneys of boutique Cypress welcomed colleagues, clients and art-lovers to a Duo Artists Exhibit on Thursday at their Lo...


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May 5, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer For Richard Hamar, equilibrium is everything. The Los Angeles litigator, wh...



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May 4, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the annual gala dinner of the Southern California chapter of the Associati...


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May 3, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

At the end of its annual Law Week, the San Diego County Bar Association honored attorneys, judges, students and local organiza...



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Apr. 30, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Democratic U.S. Senators, including Charles Schumer (N.Y.) took to enemy territory Thursday when they launched a bill intended...


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Apr. 30, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Public Counsel honored its founder and chief executive officer by dedicating its new Frederick M. Nicholas Garden of Hope in h...



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Apr. 30, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Howard Rice attorneys volunteered their Saturday, April 24, to participate in Rebuilding Together San Francisco's "Rebuilding ...


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Apr. 26, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Members of the Philippine American Bar Association met at the J.W. Marriott at L.A. Live on Thursday for the 2010 PABA Insta...



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Apr. 26, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

The national law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, marked its 45th anniversary with a celebration for nearly 200 partn...


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Apr. 26, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

The Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Eric Weissmann, a partner with Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall, ...



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Apr. 26, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Dozens of Orange County legal luminaries and Jones Day partners from across the country Thursday celebrated prominent Jones Da...


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Apr. 23, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

It was a heady morning at Buchalter Nemer’s downtown Los Angeles office, where nearly 200 attorneys and staff members g...



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Apr. 21, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

More than 700 athletes took to the surf, sand and streets to compete in the 33rd annual Kring & Chung Newport Beach Triath...


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Apr. 16, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Loyola Law School hosted its fourth-annual Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice on Friday. Panels focused on four topics: snit...



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Apr. 16, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Brunwin, left, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League this week, along with a large tea...


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Apr. 15, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Elizabeth Wagner, legal administrator of Kegel, Tobin & Truce, and a cancer survivor, was presented with the Volunteer of ...



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Apr. 14, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

The Daily Journal hosted a reception honoring California’s leading intellectual property litigators on Monday. Judge Jeremy Fo...


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Apr. 14, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Sitting in the chambers of Judge Alfred Margolis during a pre-trial conference, Jim Nichols noticed a photo of Margolis in hea...



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Apr. 12, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

District Attorney Steve Cooley presented three people with courageous citizen awards during a luncheon ceremony Friday at the ...


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Apr. 9, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

UC Davis Professor Emeritus and former State Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, law school Dean Kevin R. Johnson and Assembly...



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Apr. 7, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer Legal professionals had a field day at the Mexican American Bar Association’s ...


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Apr. 5, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

The Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center honored mediator Jeff Kichaven with its Excellence in Mediation Award dur...



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Apr. 2, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Wayne Barsky, a Century City partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, received the Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish ...


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Mar. 30, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

The Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association held its annual officer installation and awards banquet Friday night at a ...