Amanda Bronstad

November 25, 2008 | The Recorder

A small L.A. law firm tries to find its way through the economic crisis.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

November 20, 2007 | Law.com

Over 70 antitrust class actions have been filed against Korean Air Lines since its agreement in August to pay a $300 million fine to the U.S. Justice Department and plead guilty to fixing prices on international passenger and cargo air fares. British Airways entered a similar deal. More than 30 carriers, including Korean Air and British Airways, face class actions alleging price-fixing on air freight shipping. The U.S. government's two-year probe is believed to involve over a dozen airlines.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

April 25, 2011 | National Law Journal

Despite the recession and a municipal client's corruption scandal, Riverside, Calif.'s Best Best & Krieger is growing again.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

February 27, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Senators in nearly a dozen states have recommended or are accepting applications for U.S. attorney positions, even though the Obama administration has asked all 93 of the nation's top federal law enforcement officers to remain in place for now.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

February 06, 2009 | The Recorder

The president's proposal to put limits on executive pay may cause as many problems as it solves.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

January 26, 2011 | National Law Journal

The future of the courts in Los Angeles County "hangs in the balance" since California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed sweeping budget cuts earlier this month, the county's top state judge warned on Wednesday.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 06, 2007 | Law.com

Los Angeles has morphed into a recruiting hotbed in the past nine months as several midsize firms from the East Coast aggressively opened offices. Several of those firms lured large groups of lawyers from well-known local firms in a legal market rife with dissolutions and an unusually high number of defections. "The last six months, particularly on the west side of L.A., have been hot," says Roger Warin, chairman of Steptoe & Johnson, which opened its second Los Angeles office, in Century City, last July.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

August 04, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A jury has acquitted a California state trial judge of attempting to bribe his opponent during a 2008 election, in a rare criminal case that highlighted the uglier side of judicial races.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

July 07, 2010 | National Law Journal

Gregory Evans, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, has left to form his own firm, Integer Law Corporation, citing the "unbearable tension" between big law firm profit structures and the needs of clients who face increasing economic pressures.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

June 09, 2006 | Law.com

Dozens of shareholder suits have been filed, claiming that companies backdated options allowing executives to enhance profits when they exercised their options.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read