Law Advice

In one of the largest misappropriation cases brought by the State Bar of California, an attorney has accepted disbarment for taking $1.1 million from 10 clients who retained him to solve their mortgage problems. Vafa Allan Khoshbin will be placed on inactive status until the state Supreme Court approves his anticipated disbarment. View full post [...]

State attorney general says LAPD impound policy is legalLos Angeles TimesCalifornia's attorney general says a new impound policy adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department earlier this year is legal. The attorney general's opinion issued this week says that a police department can establish guidelines allowing an …and more » View full post on legal – [...]

A Texas jury has returned a $13.7 million verdict in favor of an attorney and his wife who alleged they were wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting the wife of a former legal client and that hundreds of anonymous online posts about the case harmed their reputations and caused emotional trauma. View full post on Law.com [...]

An immigration lawyer has been publicly reprimanded by the Second Circuit because his failure to meet deadlines forced the dismissal of 10 cases. But Lawrence Spivak persuaded the circuit that he should only be reprimanded because of mitigating factors, including that a suspension would devastate his practice. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

A California attorney who was disbarred last year has pleaded not guilty to 17 felony counts of unlawfully taking $7,500 in client fees. Gerard Lionel Garcia-Barron was charged with grand theft of personal property; the unauthorized practice of law; and obtaining money, labor or property by false pretenses. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

An attorney may invoke New York law to pursue claims that she was sexually harassed by a superior while working in Allen & Overy’s Moscow office in 2008 and 2009, a New York judge has ruled. Diedre Holmes Clark alleges that she was terminated after months of refusing further advances and not being given significant [...]

Globe and Mail Warner gets victory in legal fight with Superman heirs' attorneyLos Angeles TimesWarner Bros. has won the rights to use what it believes could be damaging documents in its long-running legal fight to hold on to the rights to Superman. The ruling from three US Court of Appeals judges issued Tuesday came as [...]

Wisconsin voter ID law called 'onerous burden' by attorney challenging it at …Minneapolis Star TribuneAn attorney challenging Wisconsin's new requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls called it "onerous and unreasonable burden" during opening statements in a trial Monday over the law's constitutionality.and more » View full post on law – Google News

Legal briefs: Venable hires former Homeland Security attorney for its …Washington PostIn-house Thales lawyer heads to Fried Frank John Pisa-Relli has left his post as in-house legal adviser at aerospace and defense company Thales to join Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in the District. Pisa-Relli will be corporate special … View full post on [...]

An attorney who is representing 31 criminal defendants in pending cases has been fined $500 by a New York judge for showing up 35 minutes late for the start of a trial. The judge cited what she called the attorney’s “pattern of practice to delay trials.” View full post on Law.com – Newswire