Sexual Misconduct Hearing for Judge, Silicon Beach’s Evolution, CyberScammers Target Firm: The Morning Minute
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August 05, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Courtroom doors are set to open today in L.A. for one of the most anticipated judicial disciplinary hearings in recent history. Cheryl Miller reports that state appeals court Judge Jeffrey Johnson, a former Manatt Phelps associate, faces a panel of special masters tasked with evaluating claims that he sexually harassed or inappropriately touched more than two dozen colleagues and court employees. Among his accusers is a fellow judge who claims that Johnson, on the appellate bench for a decade, groped her breasts and patted her buttocks at the courthouse.
BEACH BIZ – As more businesses flock to the fast-growing tech community Silicon Beach—the coastal strip from LAX to the Santa Monica Mountains—they’ve brought their lawyers into a legal market traditionally focused on media and entertainment. Xiumei Dong reports on how practices have grown and evolved at five tech-centric law firms—Gunderson Dettmer, Orrick, Cooley, Fenwick & West, and Goodwin Procter—that since 2012 have all planted flags on Silicon Beach.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
BREAKING UP – Hogan Lovells is set to split from its South African arm—Hogan Lovells South Africa, formerly Routledge Modise—which it merged with in 2013. Meganne Tillay reports the firm has decided to restructure its practice into its own fully-integrated law firm. A group of five partners and about 15 lawyers will join the new firm from Hogan Lovells South Africa. Meanwhile, Hogan Lovells South Africa, which currently comprises 26 partners and 65 lawyers, will continue to operate as an independent firm under a new name and will keep 21 partners and 50 other lawyers.
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