Amanda Bronstad

September 27, 2011 | National Law Journal

Major League Baseball wants lawyers representing the Los Angeles Dodgers to be disqualified from the team's bankruptcy case, claiming that their actions appear more in line with protecting owner Frank McCourt's finances than improving the bottom line for the baseball team.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

June 16, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Dole Food Co. Inc. has agreed to settle the pesticide claims of more than 5,000 former plantation workers in South and Central America.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

January 26, 2010 | Law.com

Lost in the uproar over prosecutorial conduct in the Broadcom backdating case was what former general counsel David Dull had to say about Broadcom's options process. Testifying during the trial of the company's ex-chief financial officer William Ruehle, Dull said the chip maker had a loose way of making grants -- a situation he tried to help fix as GC. He testified that he and Ruehle "were often the fall guys, if you will, for delivering a message that people didn't want to hear."

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

June 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

Shareholder lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. face several obstacles. A judge has questioned why several motions for lead counsel status were filed on behalf of large groups of investors rather than individual investors. And foreign investors face a potentially adverse Supreme Court ruling.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

January 04, 2010 | National Law Journal

Ten lawyers, including six partners, have left Los Angeles-based Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro to start their own firm, Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside. Founding partner Keith Elkins said that alternative billing structures, which have become more prevalent in the current economic downturn, played a role in the group's decision to start their own firm.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 10, 2010 | The Recorder

The Entertainment Mediation Institute will cater to motion-picture, television, cable, music, sports, stage and literary companies.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

October 07, 2009 | The Recorder

A few players are catching their big break in entertainment law, but for most, there's still no business in show business.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

February 08, 2010 | National Law Journal

A contingent of small firms with expertise in class actions and products liability litigation are behind a legal onslaught against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. following reports of sudden acceleration in many of its most popular vehicle models.

By Amanda Bronstad

10 minute read

February 25, 2011 | Law.com

A federal judge in Los Angeles has approved a $601.5 million class action settlement between Countrywide Financial Corp. and its shareholders — the largest securities agreement to come out of the housing crisis.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

July 14, 2010 | Law.com

The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy excludes open homosexuals from serving in the U.S. military "solely on the basis of status and conduct that is constitutionally protected," a lawyer for a gay Republican group argued before a crowded courtroom as trial opened Tuesday in a case that seeks to bar enforcement of the law. The federal bench trial in California began as debate continued in Washington over legislation to repeal the ban. The case represents the only formal constitutional challenge to the statute.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read