Caruso, county hit sticking point in Miramar rebate talks
Talks over the Miramar Hotel project in Montecito are stalled for not fiscal but legal reasons, and it doesn’t look like either side is ready to budge.
Amgen loses case before U.S. Supreme Court
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has lost a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that would have made it much more difficult for shareholders of public companies to band together and sue firms when their leaders make false or misleading statements. In Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, the biotech giant sought to tighten the Read More →
Hopkins, Smith leave Sheppard Mullin for Cooley
Thomas Hopkins and Ian Smith, two of the top deal-making attorneys in the Tri-Counties, have left Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton for technology powerhouse Cooley. Hopkins and Smith both joined Sheppard Mullin in 2001 when it acquired Santa Barbara firm Nida & Maloney. They accumulated a roster of billions of dollars of deals with local Read More →
LightGabler takes a team approach to employee law practice
LAW-NEWIt’s been less than three years since three partners, Jon Light, Karen Gabler and Glenn Dickinson, left Oxnard’s Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton form a new firm, LightGabler.
Probe leads Stratus Media to seek $535K from ex-CEO
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Court rejects Central Coast landowners’ appeal in groundwater case
The Sixth Appellate District handed down a decision in a case that originally arose in 1997 as an effort to sort out groundwater rights in the Santa Maria basin
Hollister & Brace recovers millions from Ponzi schemes
Hollister & Brace has quietly become one of the top firms at recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for investors Ponzi schemes arising from so-called 1031 Exchanges.
