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Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.

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March 29, 2011 | Law.com

Evidence suppressed in FCPA prosecution

A federal judge has suppressed statements by a key defendant in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution who wasn't warned of his Miranda rights during an FBI raid, but denied motions to dismiss the charges on ground of prosecutorial misconduct.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

October 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Congress, Not Courts, May Have Final Word on DADT

Two federal court rulings dramatically shifted the legal landscape with respect to the military's ban against openly gay service members.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

August 26, 2009 | The Recorder

Firm Heads West for Wage-and-Hour Offensive

Sanford Wittels & Heisler is building an S.F. presence by pursuing claims against UPS, Costco and more.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

February 17, 2011 | The Recorder

Dickstein Shapiro Expands IP Practice, Plans to Open Silicon Valley Office

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

January 25, 2010 | The Recorder

Broadcom's Dull Was 'On the Periphery'

Former GC David Dull, who was investigated for stock option backdating but never charged, maintains that his legal staff had very little to do with the grants process.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

June 08, 2011 | Law.com

Shareholders insist BP is on the hook for assurances about safety

Misleading and false statements made by BP PLC executives before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were material to investors, not just a matter of corporate mismanagement, shareholders argued in court documents filed on June 6 in the securities multidistrict litigation against the company.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

August 07, 2006 | National Law Journal

Luce Moves Forward by Defying Trend

San Diego-based Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has big plans to bolster its trust and estates department, despite a trend among large law firms to drop that practice area. The nearly 200-attorney firm has added 17 lawyers -- 15 from Holland & Knight -- to the renamed family-wealth and exempt-organizations practice area in the past five months. "It's become an all-star team," says Charlotte Ito, a partner in the firm's San Francisco office who joined recently from Steefel, Levitt & Weiss.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

August 25, 2006 | Law.com

Star Power Saves the Day in Copyright Suit

Bert Deixler worried that his client, Jack White of the White Stripes rock band, would scare the suburban jury in a recent copyright case brought by a sound engineer who claimed he was entitled to royalties for albums on which he had worked. Although White showed up with a black bowler hat with a red feather, he won over the jury with a "long, detailed, nonlinear artistic description." Deixler said an unfavorable verdict would have been a "personal disaster for artists."

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

November 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

Lawyers in Dole case attack each other

Lawyers on both sides of the litigation involving former workers on Dole's banana farms in Nicaragua have leveled charges that their opponents engaged in slippery legal tactics.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

February 08, 2011 | National Law Journal

Bingham hires malpractice attorney

Bingham McCutchen, which drafted a 2004 marital agreement found to be invalid in December during the bitter divorce of the couple behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, has retained Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Kevin Rosen.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read