Amanda Bronstad

January 07, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

California company files $2.2B suit in federal court in L.A. against China's government, two Chinese software makers, and seven major computer manufacturers over distribution of Green Dam Youth Escort, the censorware program used by the Chinese.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

May 31, 2006 | Law.com

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger and Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro recently raised their first-year associate salaries while facing key partner departures and a federal criminal probe into whether their lawyers engaged in illegal wiretapping. Though the raises lag behind other firms' salary boosts this winter, partners say the raises have nothing to do with the wiretapping scandal. "We may be slow, but we're not stupid." says Christensen Glaser partner Patricia Glaser.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

November 04, 2010 | Law.com

Toyota moved to dismiss a complaint in the multidistrict litigation over unintended acceleration, citing plaintiffs' "inability to point to an actual defect" in the cars at issue.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

April 09, 2010 | The Recorder

The U.S. attorney pointed to former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz's allegedly changing story in closing arguments of a stock option backdating case.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

January 25, 2010 | National Law Journal

In tossing the Broadcom backdating case on Dec. 15, the judge blasted the government for multiple missteps by one of its lawyers. Lost in the uproar was what former General Counsel David Dull had to say about Broadcom's options process.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

February 01, 2010 | Law.com

Funk musician Sly Stone has sued his former manager for allegedly bilking him out of as much as $30 million in royalties during the past two decades. Stone filed suit in Los Angeles Co., Calif., Superior Court on Thursday alleging fraud by Jerry Goldstein and several of his associates and companies. According to the lawsuit, Goldstein forced Stone to sign a management contract at a time when the musician was "particularly vulnerable to duress and undue influence" due to drug addiction and other personal problems.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

September 24, 2010 | Law.com

Attorney Terry Christensen and five co-defendants caught up in the scandal surrounding Hollywood celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano argue on appeal that their wiretapping convictions were tainted by prosecutorial and juror misconduct. Christensen, former managing partner of what is now Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, was sentenced in 2008 to three years in federal prison after a jury found that he paid Pellicano more than $100,000 to wiretap the ex-wife of his client, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

June 21, 2010 | National Law Journal

Another attorney has lost his license as part of the State Bar of California's campaign against attorneys engaged in loan modification misconduct.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

March 11, 2010 | Law.com

Longtime entertainment attorney James S. Mulholland and California state legislator Charles M. Calderon have created an alternative dispute resolution organization focused exclusively on the entertainment industry. Employment cases could prove one big source of business, Mulholland says.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

March 08, 2011 | Law.com

Greenberg Glusker's Aaron Moss talks to The National Law Journal about the actress' first libel suit against the publisher of Star Magazine.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read