Amanda Bronstad

August 16, 2010 | National Law Journal

The city of San Diego won $21.2 million in a legal battle over transient occupancy taxes allegedly owed by the online travel booking companies that own Expedia Inc., Orbitz Worldwide Inc., Priceline.com Inc. and Travelocity.com L.P. Laura Baughman of Baron & Budd talks about the decision.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

August 26, 2009 | Law.com

Sanford Wittels & Heisler has filed its fourth wage-and-hour class action in California in the past three months after expanding a San Francisco office. On Aug. 19, the firm filed a $100 million class action against United Parcel Service on behalf of at least 5,000 account managers nationwide who allege routine denial of overtime compensation. The firm has filed similar class actions valued at between $50 million and $200 million against Costco Wholesale, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and Valero Energy.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 10, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Katie Holmes filed a $50 million libel lawsuit on March 1 against American Media Inc., the publisher of Star Magazine, after the tabloid published an article in its Jan. 31 issue insinuating that she had a drug addiction.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

June 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

An appellate ruling involving a 2003 Tom Cruise movie clarified for the first time in 40 years how a writer of a finished script with copyrightable elements can successfully bring a contract claim against a studio for stealing his or her idea.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

November 06, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Now that the recent wildfires in Southern California have died down, their aftermath could spark hundreds of lawsuits from homeowners.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

October 15, 2010 | Law.com

Entertainment litigator Miles Feldman has left Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor to join the Raines Law Group, which will relaunch as Raines Feldman, a boutique in Beverly Hills, Calif. The firm had focused on real estate, private equity and hospitality clients, but now will add entertainment and intellectual property litigation to its practice areas. "The reason I'm doing this is because I think this is the next phase: Smaller, very nimble firms that offer extremely high value," says Feldman.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

March 16, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

States across the nation, struggling with the demoralizing impact of lagging pay for state judges, are proposing the first pay hikes for their jurists in years.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

July 09, 2010 | Law.com

Gregory Evans, a litigation partner in Milbank's Los Angeles office, has left to form his own firm, Integer Law Corp., citing the "unbearable tension" between big law firm profit structures and the needs of clients who face increasing economic pressures. "When companies have been cutting so many employees and budgets, which include legal budgets, I have seen -- not just Milbank, but across the industry -- reluctance to adapt to what should be a new model of representing the legal interests of businesses," Evans said.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

December 10, 2009 | National Law Journal

A federal judge is considering dismissing the federal government's stock options backdating case against a former Broadcom Corp. executive following numerous allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

July 21, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Meet the man in the middle of all of those juicy shareholder suits against banks that issued mortgage-backed securities. Steven Toll, managing partner of Washington?s Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, talks about several cases in which his firm has been appointed lead counsel or co-lead counsel.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read