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Q&A with Sheppard Mullin's Andre Cronthall
Portfolio Media. Inc. | 860 Broadway, 6th Floor | New York, NY 10003 | www.law360.com Phone: +1 646 783 7100 | Fax: +1 646 783 7161 | [email protected] Q&A With Sheppard Mullin's Andre Cronthall Law360, New York (April 10, 2013, 12:27 PM ET) -- Andre Cronthall of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is a trial lawyer specializing in complex commercial litigation and has experience as lead counsel in civil jury trials involving business disputes. He has litigated matters from inception through appeal, with expertise in insurance-related litigation, products liability, commercial contract disputes and professional liability. Cronthall served two terms on the board of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and also serves on the board of Public Counsel. Q: What is the most challenging case you have worked on and what made it challenging? A: My partner Scott Sveslosky and I handled a complex marine insurance coverage case that required extensive travel to several countries that are not signatories to the Hague Convention. It was a supreme challenge to arrange and take the depositions of dozens of third-party and party-affiliated witnesses located halfway around the globe, especially since our adversaries moved to quash all depositions that were potentially adverse. On two occasions, motions to quash and thereby prevent key depositions were brought on the eve of our departure overseas, which created uniquely challenging legal and practical dilemmas. For example, one of the depositions was to occur at an Indonesian prison. After numerous discovery motions and appellate proceedings, we prevailed on these issues and were permitted to use all of the testimony we obtained overseas. -
Otto Kaus and the Crocodile
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review Volume 30 Number 3 Article 11 4-1-1997 Otto Kaus and the Crocodile Gerald F. Uelmen Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Gerald F. Uelmen, Otto Kaus and the Crocodile, 30 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 971 (1997). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol30/iss3/11 This Introduction is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OTTO KAUS AND THE CROCODILE GeraldF Uelmen* Otto Kaus loved lawyers. Not every judge does. Every judge should, though. Once judges stop loving lawyers, they become very sure of themselves. When judges become very sure of them- selves they stop being good judges. Judges who are sure of them- selves have little use for lawyers. Piero Calamandrei, in Eulogy of Judges,' speaks with great eloquence of the relationship between judges and lawyers: There are times in the career of every lawyer when, for- getting the niceties of the codes, the arts of oratory, the technique of debating, unconscious of... robes.., of the judges, he turns to the judges, looking into their eyes as into the eyes of an equal, and speaks to them in the sim- ple words a man uses to convince his fellow man of the truth. -
Spring / Summer 2003 Newsletter
THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT Historical Society_ NEWSLETTER S PRI NG/SU MM E R 200} A Trailblazer: Reflections on the Character and r l fo und Justice Lillie they Career efJu stice Mildred Lillie tended to stay until retire ment. O n e of her fo rmer BY H ON. EARL JOH NSON, JR. judicial attorneys, Ann O ustad, was with her over Legal giant. Legend. Institution. 17'ailblazer. two decades before retiring. These are the words the media - and the sources Linda Beder had been with they quoted - have used to describe Presiding Justice her over sixteen years and Mildred Lillie and her record-setting fifty-five year Pamela McCallum fo r ten career as a judge and forty-four years as a Justice on the when Justice Lillie passed California Court of Appeal. Those superlatives are all away. Connie Sullivan was absolutely accurate and richly deserved. l_ _j h er judicial ass istant for I write from a different perspective, however - as a some eighteen years before retiring and O lga Hayek colleague of Justice Lillie for the entire eighteen years served in that role for over a decade before retiring, she was Presiding Justice of Division Seven. I hope to too. For the many lawyers who saw her only in the provide some sense of what it was like to work with a courtroom, Justice Lillie could be an imposing, even recognized giant, a legend, an institution, a trailblazer. intimidating figure. But within the Division she was Readers will be disappointed if they are expecting neither intimidating nor autocratic. -
Loyola Lawyer Law School Publications
Loyola Lawyer Law School Publications Winter 1-1-1981 Loyola Lawyer Loyola Law School - Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer Repository Citation Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, "Loyola Lawyer" (1981). Loyola Lawyer. 46. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer/46 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola Lawyer by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • Loyola's Deans in Court • Cable Cars and Canals • 1979-80 Donor Honor Roll FROM THE DEAN Loyola Law School is pleased to join Before we started construction last in honoring the City of Los Angeles on June on our downtown campus, much its Bicentennial Anniversary. In doing consideration was given to moving the so, we are also honoring ourselves, for School to the Loyola Marymount Uni we are indeed a resource of the Los versity grounds in Westchester. The Angeles connnunity. And, we're final analysis and decision clearly proud to be a part of this fine city. affirmed our close association with the Our first Law School class, in 1920, courts, government offices, and major began with a scant eight students. law firms of the city. We decided to Since then, we've graduated more stay here. than 5,000 lawyers, more than half of Enthusiastically, we look forward to whom are actively practicing law. -
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California Appellate Court Legacy Project – Video Interview Transcript: Justice Harry Brauer [Harry Brauer 6060.Doc]
California Appellate Court Legacy Project – Video Interview Transcript: Justice Harry Brauer [Harry_Brauer_6060.doc] David Knight: Name, and give me your title, Justice McAdams. Richard McAdams: It‘s Richard McAdams, M-C-A-D-A-M-S, Associate Justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. David Knight: And Justice Brauer? Harry Brauer: Harry Brauer, Associate Justice, Retired, Sixth District. David Knight: All right, I‘m ready anytime. Richard McAdams: In 2005 we celebrated the Centennial of the California Courts of Appeal; and as a part of this commemoration, the Judicial Council and the Administrative Office of the Courts, under the leadership of the Chief Justice, instituted the California Appellate Court Legacy Project. The purpose of this project is to create an oral history of the appellate courts in our state through the voices and conversations with the retired justices throughout California. My name is Richard McAdams. I‘m an Associate Justice with the Sixth District Court of Appeal situated in San Jose. Today, it is my pleasure to have a conversation with Retired Justice Harry Brauer, retired from the Sixth District Court of Appeal. Harry Brauer: Obviously you don‘t have to introduce yourself to me, as we have both served in Santa Cruz. Richard McAdams: We spent many years together in your courtroom; and then as a colleague, when I was in municipal court, you were in superior court in Santa Cruz, and we have some history together. And today we get a chance to have a great conversation, everything about you: the immigrant experience, to talk about that; your rich educational background; your over 50 years in the legal community; and of course your reputation as an avid hiker and a mountain climber. -
Department of City Planning
DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING RECOMMENDATION REPORT City Planning Commission Case No.: CPC-2008-4604-GPA-ZC- HD-CUB-DB-SPR Date: February 28, 2013 CEQA No.: ENV-2008-3989-EIR Time: After 8:30 A.M. Incidental Cases: VTT 70805-GB Place: Van Nuys City Hall Council Chambers, Second Floor Related Cases: None 14410 Sylvan Street, Council No.: 5 - Hon. Paul Koretz; Room 201, Council Chamber 11- Hon. Bill Rosendahl Van Nuys, CA 91401 Plan Area: West Los Angeles Specific Plan: West Los Angeles Public Hearing December 5, 2012 Transportation Improvement Completed: and Mitigation Specific Plan Appeal Status: Appealable to City Council Certified NC: Westside Expiration Date: March 13, 2013 General Plan: Light Manufacturing and Multiple Approval: General Plan Amendment, Zone Public Facilities Change and Height District, Zone: M2-1-O; PF-1XL Conditional Use for Alcoholic Beverage, Density Bonus, Site Plan Applicant: Casden West LA, LLC and Review Concurrent Processing of Los Angeles County Multiple Approvals pursuant to Metropolitan Transportation 12.36 E. Authority (MTA) Representative: Howard Katz, Casden West LA, LLC PROJECT 11122 W. Pico Boulevard; 2431-2441 S. Sepulveda Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA 90064 LOCATION: ADD AREA: 11240, 11250, 11120, 11160, 11110 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90064 PROPOSED Demolition of an operational concrete plant, a building materials supply store, an d accessory PROJECT: buildings, approximately 7,000 square feet, for the development of a 785,564 square-foot, mixed-use project consisting of 638 dwelling units (71 of which will be set aside for Very Low Income Senior Housing), 160,000 square feet of retail uses, consisting of approximately 110,000 square feet of retail space and a 50,000 square-foot of grocery market, with a total of 1,795 parking spaces provided within six subterranean parking levels. -
Jerry's Judges and the Politics of the Death Penalty
California Supreme Court Historical Society 2010 Student Writing Competition Second Place Entry “Jerry’s Judges and the Politics of the Death Penalty: 1977-1982” Joseph Makhluf Graduate Student in History California State University, Northridge Jerry’s Judges and the Politics of the Death Penalty: 1977-1982 On February 12, 1977, California Governor Jerry Brown nominated Rose Elizabeth Bird as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, making her the first female member of the Court.1 Along with Bird, Brown appointed Wiley W. Manuel as the first African American to serve on the Court.2 The Los Angeles Times wrote, “They are outstanding persons. They deserve confirmation. They bring the promise of new dimensions, new vitality, new qualities to a court already recognized as among the best.”3 Robert Pack wrote for the Los Angeles Times that with their nominations, “A genuine social revolution is taking place in Sacramento—bloodless, quiet and little discussed.”4 He further claimed, “Governor Edmund Brown Jr., not quite a thousand days in office, is slowly transferring power from the white, male elite groups where it has traditionally resided to the broader citizenry in California.”5 As of August 1, 1977, of 1,862 appointments by Governor Brown, 575 appointments went to women, 182 to Chicanos, 141 to blacks, 53 to Asians, 28 to American Indians, and nine to Filipinos, and he also appointed 65 consumer representatives to various boards and commissions. Jerry Brown‟s appointment of Rose Bird as the first female chief justice was immediately controversial, and she became the target of attacks from conservative groups who criticized her for being soft on crime. -
CSCHS Newsletter Spring/Summer 2016
The Lucas Years 1987–1996 chapter Six | By Bob Egelko* he morning after the November 1986 election, employers, set new standards for Californians’ privacy “it was as if a scythe had cut through the Court,” rights and for discrimination suits by business custom- Trecalled Peter Belton, Justice Stanley Mosk’s ers, placed new limits on local taxing authority under longtime head of chambers and staff attorney. “People Proposition 13, preserved state judges’ power to interpret were walking around looking like they’d been hit by a ton criminal defendants’ constitutional rights, shielded pri- of bricks.” Three months later, the shell-shocked Court vate arbitrators from judicial review, and upheld a leg- gained a new leader when Malcolm M. Lucas became islative term-limits initiative. He charted a new course California’s 26th chief justice, and the first in modern for the Court on the death penalty, leaving the existing times to have been put in office by the people. case law mostly intact but regularly upholding death sen- The 59-year-old former federal judge had been nomi- tences with a broad application of the doctrine of “harm- nated as chief justice in January by Governor George Deu- less error,” all the while struggling to reduce the Court’s kmejian, his former law partner, who had first appointed mounting backlog of capital appeals. him to the Court in 1984. But Lucas owed his elevation In all, Lucas wrote 152 majority opinions as chief to the voters, who had denied new terms in November justice, more than anyone else on the Court during the to Chief Justice Rose same period, and dissented in less than five percent Bird and Justices Cruz of the cases, the lowest rate on the Court. -
December 6, 2012 To: David Martin, Planning Director From: Santa Monica
December 6, 2012 To: David Martin, Planning Director From: Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City Re: Request that City Submit a Comment Letter on the FEIR Objecting to Significant Traffic Impacts of the Casden Sepulveda Project on Santa Monica Dear Mr. Martin: As I mentioned to you last night, the City of Santa Monica has the opportunity and the obligation to comment upon the very serious traffic impacts on Santa Monica of a huge nearby proposed project –- the Casden project at Pico and Sepulveda in Los Angeles. As LUCE makes clear, transportation planning must be regional. Time is running out: Santa Monica has only 2 weeks to be heard. We urge you, on behalf of the City of Santa Monica, to review the Final Environmental Impact Report (“FEIR”) released in November 2012 concerning the significant, unavoidable traffic impacts for the massive Casden project. Our LUCE sets forth the responsibility of Santa Monica to “collaborate with surrounding jurisdictions to seek appropriate mitigation measures to minimize the potential negative impacts on Santa Monica from projects in surrounding jurisdictions.” (Circulation Goal T15.4). This is especially so here, where as discussed below, this project FEIR estimates that the Casden project will generate 12,000 to 14,000 new daily vehicle trips at our doorstep. Our City must take this obligation seriously, as it did when it expressed its deep concerns about the unacceptable traffic impacts of the massive Bundy Village Project at Olympic and Bundy on 15 intersections bordering or within the City of Santa Monica. Santa Monica’s comments indicated where the impacts were too severe and would need mitigation and also required Santa Monica’s agreement on how traffic would be mitigated. -
Streetscape Plan Document FINAL 5.10.2017.Indd
DRAFT May 2017 WAS HING T O N BLVD BUNDY DRIVE SEPULVEDA BOULEVARD OLYMPIC BOULEVARD WESTWOOD PICO BOULEVARD M OTOR AVENUE EXPOSITION CORRIDOR STREETSCAPE PLAN A Transit Neighborhood Plans Project EXPOSITION BOULEVARD CASTLE HEIGHTS PALMS BOULEVARD NATIONAL BOULEVARD This project is partially funded by Metro EXPOSITION CORRIDOR STREETSCAPE PLAN A Transit Neighborhood Plans Project Approved by the Cultural Affairs Commission on [date] Approved by the Board of Public Works [or City Engineer] on [date] Approved by the City Planning Commission [or Planning Director] on [date] ii CITY OF LOS ANGELES EXPOSITION CORRIDOR STREETSCAPE PLAN DRAFT MAY 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION …………....…….… 1-1 4 STREETSCAPE TABLES 1.1 Boundaries....................................................... 1-1 ELEMENTS……………………….......…4-1 1. Streetscape Plan Applicability................................ 3-1 2. Department of Public Works Permits..................... 3-2 1.2 What is a Streetscape Plan?................................ 1-2 Streetscape Elements Table............................................ 4-2 3. Streetscape Elements............................................ 4-2 1.3 History................................................................1-3 Street Trees and Landscaping.......................................... 4-6 4. Street Trees Palette............................................... 4-7 1.4 Relevant Plans & Programs.................................. 1-3 Sidewalk Paving............................................................... 4-8 5. Street -
Ucla Law Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” Congratulations to the Ucla School of Law Alumni Named California “Rising Stars” in 2013
FALL PRESORTED FIRST CLASS MAIL 2013 US POSTAGE 405 Hilgard Avenue PAID VOL. UCLA Box 951476 36 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476 NO. 1 CLINICALLY PROVEN Building on UCLA Law’s Leadership in Hands-on Skills Training MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP Grant Establishes Innovative New Program WILLIAms INstItutE GIFT $5.5 Million Gift Will Support the Institute’s Growth 219405_Cover_r2.indd 1 9/14/2013 12:43:31 PM contents FALL 2013 VOL. 36 NO. 1 © 2013 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS BOX 951476 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476 Rachel F. Moran UCLA LAW BOArd OF ADVISORS 52 Dean and Michael J. Connell Nelson Rising ’67, Chair Distinguished Professor of Law Nancy L. Abell ’79 Lauri L. Gavel James D. C. Barrall ’75 Executive Director of Jonathan F. Chait ’75 Communications Melanie K. Cook ’78 David J. Epstein ’64 EDITORS David W. Fleming ’59 Lauri L. Gavel Richard I. Gilchrist ’71 53 54 Executive Director of Arthur N. Greenberg ’52 Communications Bernard A. Greenberg ’58 Antonia Hernandez ’74 WILLIAMS INSTITUTE GIFT FUNDS STUDENT RESNICK PROGRAM Sara Rouche Margarita Paláu Hernández ’85 Communications Officer RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOOD LAW Joseph K. Kornwasser ’72 Stewart C. Kwoh ’74 AND POLICY A $5.5 million gift from Gift from Justice Joan DESIGN Victor B. MacFarlane ’78 Chuck Williams will Dempsey Klein ’54 and First-of-its-kind program Rebekah Albrecht Michael T. Masin ’69 Contributing Graphic Designer Alicia Miñana de Lovelace ’87 support the institute’s Conrad Lee Klein funds established to help Frank Lopez Wendy Munger ’77 growth and leadership. -
Governor Jerry Brown 2.0: Judicial Appointments, Now New and Improved
Governor Jerry Brown 2.0: Judicial Appointments, Now New And Improved In this article we evaluate two points held by today’s conventional wisdom. One posits that Jerry Brown has, in his second stint as governor, been slow to fill judicial vacancies, and that there is an unusually high number of open judicial seats. The other is a suspicion that the judicial appointments by Governor Brown version 2.0 will be in the style of Governor Brown version 1.0. Our evaluation is that both theories are empirically less than true. (Recognizing that the first Governor Brown was Jerry Brown’s father Pat Brown, for convenience we will ignore that fact.) To the first point about vacancies, the available data does support several conclusions. The number of empty Superior Court seats in California began to increase significantly, coinciding with the beginning of the second Brown administration in January 2011. Presently, the average number of Superior Court vacancies since January 2011 is 63.5—compared with seven such vacancies in January 2011, the month the second Brown administration began. After an initial spike, the number of Superior Court vacancies has remained consistent over the course of Brown’s administration. But the available data does not strongly support the conclusion that the average number of vacancies is unusually high. Nor does it conclusively establish that the present Brown administration is slower or faster than other governors in filling vacancies. To the second point about appointee characteristics, there is no question that the justices appointed to the California Supreme Court during the first Brown administration were novel and in some cases controversial.