Amanda Bronstad

August 25, 2006 | Law.com

Get ready for the next wave of shareholder lawsuits � this time over backdated stock options.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

February 22, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

A U.S. House committee has demanded that Dimitrios Biller turn over internal documents that the former in-house attorney says would substantiate his allegation that Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. routinely destroyed and hid evidence in personal injury cases, Biller's lawyer said on Thursday.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

December 19, 2008 | The Recorder

Most of the firms' unemployed are in San Francisco, New York and Washington.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

June 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has merged with Lewis Fisher Henderson & Claxton to open two new offices, in Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss. A national labor and employment boutique firm with 365 attorneys, Ogletree gains 19 lawyers with the merger, which is effective July 1. The firm has been on a growth spree, opening six offices since early 2005. The new merger gives Ogletree 30 offices total.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

July 29, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

The entertainment groups that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors are seeking more than $1.1 million in attorney fees and expenses from the state.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

July 09, 2008 | Law.com

IP firm Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear is expanding its reach beyond California and looking into international offices, but the 200-plus-attorney firm is maintaining its original strategy of organic growth with a compensation system distinct from most firms. A lot of partners are "used to a formula system where they eat what they kill, and we don't have that," says managing partner Steven Nataupsky. Instead, partners share evenly in their profits, and everyone is an equity partner.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

December 09, 2008 | The Recorder

And can you blame them? Now that the N.Y. attorney faces huge fraud charges, his California firm emphasizes that he was just a name on the door.

By Amanda Royal and Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

July 20, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

The California Supreme Court has denied a petition to review an asbestos liability case in which a Los Angeles judge blasted the plaintiff's firm, Waters & Kraus, for engaging in a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion." The court "reaffirmed that what we did was entirely proper in this case," says Peter Kraus (pictured), Waters & Kraus managing partner.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

May 24, 2011 | The Recorder

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

November 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Toyota and a former staff lawyer ram into each other in court.

By David Hechler and Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read