Amanda Bronstad

June 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

Federal prosecutors who indicted Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman last month are in talks with a Denver lawyer whose testimony could sharpen the investigation's focus toward Melvyn Weiss, according to sources familiar with the probe. At issue is a 2003 meeting between a senior partner at the firm -- thought to be Weiss -- and the Denver lawyer, at which the two agreed that a percentage of attorney fees in two cases would go to an individual who was serving as a plaintiff for the firm.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

September 16, 2009 | Law.com

When plaintiffs attorney Pierce O'Donnell contributed $26,000 to a presidential candidate in 2003 in the names of 13 other people, he violated the Federal Election Campaign Act even though the law does not specifically address "conduit" or "indirect" contributions, federal prosecutors argued in a brief filed on Monday with a federal appeals court. In their brief, federal prosecutors contended before the 9th Circuit that Congress, in drafting Section 441f of the FECA, intended to address O'Donnell's actions.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

March 01, 2010 | Law.com

President Obama says he is determined to repeal the federal law that requires lesbian and gay service members to remain silent about their sexual orientation on pain of discharge. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and some Pentagon brass agree the law should go. Yet when the government's lawyers appeared for a federal court hearing on Feb. 18, it was to defend the so-called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law against a constitutional challenge -- or at least argue for leaving it alone for now.

By Amanda Bronstad

11 minute read

August 30, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has begun taking applications, but plaintiffs lawyers doubt it would significantly forestall litigation. In fact, they said, it could lead to a new wave of lawsuits.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

February 25, 2010 | National Law Journal

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint with the EEOC alleging racial discrimination by Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc. after a manager fired a Muslim employee who refused to remove her hijab, or head scarf.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

January 25, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Describing 'a very informal management environment,' David Dull tells a jury that the company's ex-CEO and ex-chairman decided 'the lion's share' of grants — making most of their decisions while talking in the hall or on the phone.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

May 02, 2007 | The Recorder

Challengers are bulking up and moving onto the turf of the labor and employment powerhouse.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

September 29, 2011 | The Recorder

Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain wrote in a separate concurring opinion that he would have gone farther and reversed Riverside Judge Virginia Phillips' ruling.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

July 13, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

MGA Entertainment Inc., which requested $161 million in attorney fees and costs following its $88.5 million verdict against Mattel Inc., has acquiesced to a discovery master's recommendation that it collect $108 million in attorney fees, according to recently unsealed court documents.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

April 09, 2010 | Law.com

At the close of a month-long trial against former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz, prosecutors argued that Karatz, while at first denying stock options had been backdated at the company, changed his tune only after outside lawyers at Irell & Manella, who were brought in to conduct an investigation, uncovered damning e-mails. Karatz's lawyer responded that the government's case was almost entirely based on Gary Ray, the company's human resources head, who changed his own story after striking a deal with the government.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read