In The News

Law Office of Shawn A. McMillan Gets Recent Two-Fer Awards.      Congratulations go out to Shawn A. McMillan and his colleagues for obtaining two recent nice fee award recoveries, one in state court and one in federal court. Fogarty-Hardwick Orange County Superior Court Case.      We have posted on this one before in our October

It Already Spent $60,000 on Its Own Outside Attorney in Investigation of Ms. Tam.      Here is one that might have some readers cringing given the fiscal woes hitting lots of municipalities.      Alameda City Councilwoman Lena Tam handed officials a $44,000 bill for legal services she incurred while the City was investigating whether she

  Internet Video of Encounter Got A Lot of Exposure.      According to a December 4, 2010 post by John Ellis on the website of The Fresno Bee, the City of Fresno has agreed to pay $75,000 to Glen Beaty, a homeless man, in a federal civil rights lawsuit predicated on a punching by a

Terris/County of Santa Barbara.      As reported in a December 1, 2010 post on the website version of The Santa Barbara Independent, Shawn Terris, a former Santa Barbara County employee, lost her wrongful termination lawsuit against the County and retired CEO Mike Brown. Now, Ms. Terris has been ordered to pay $33,325 to the County

  Former Assistant Says She Cannot Pay, in Pending L.A. Superior Court Proceedings.      As reported in a November 29, 2010 post on the on-line version of the Beverly Hills Courier, Heather Devlin, former assistant of Hollywood agent Todd Shemarya, lost a gender discrimination claim after a jury trial. Agent’s attorneys, claiming the suit was

Efficiency and Alternative Arrangements Are Gaining in Favor.      In the October 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report, the magazine ranks the “best” U.S. law firms (whether big or small), based on certain categories of specializations. That alone is interesting reading. However, the article also has some interesting observations on the trends, short-term