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  Wells Fargo Advisors LLC Ordered to Pay $948,000 in Fees/Costs to Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc.      Wells Fargo Advisors LLC has been ordered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. arbitration panel to pay $633,000 in attorney’s fees to Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. and $282,000 in fees to Chris Nielsen, a former […]

     In our December 26, 2009 post, we reported on the misfortune of the Silverado-Modjeska Recreation & Park District, which was ordered to pay a prevailing developer about $358,000 in attorney’s fees. Well, there is a follow-up to this brewing saga.      District, which has an annual budget of $222,304, has appealed the $358,000 fee

Ex-Santa Rosa Police Captain Jamie Mitchel Hit With Fee Exposure In His Wrongful Termination Federal Lawsuit.      As reported by Lori A. Carter in her article “Judge rules against ex-Santa Rose police captain” in a May 1, 2010 post on The Press Democrat, California Northern District U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has dismissed a federal

Developer Thinks Enough Is Enough.      As reported by Brittany Levine in the April 25, 2010 edition of The Orange County Register, San Clemente has spent about $490,000 in attorney’s fees fighting a zoning battle over a parcel owned by the Avenida San Juan Partnership on East Avenida San Juan in San Clemente.      Last

Late Summer 2010 Hearing Will Determine.      In our December 20, 2009 post, we discussed the situation of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is stage front and center of alleged Ponzi scheme charges relating to now-defunct, Houston-based Stanford Financial Group. We now have an update.      As reported by Juan A. Lozano in

In Your Face . . .     Last month, an Orange County Superior Court jury decided against the mother of 7-year-old daughter (Kristen Spears) who sued Allergan, maker of Botox, for daughter’s death. The suit alleged that daughter died as a result of therapeutic Botox injections, apparently predicated on negligence and product liability theories.     

      For all of you football fans (or our normal readers—rah!), we can report that the University of California, Berkeley recent settled a four-year legal battle with Panoramic Hill Association over mainly noise issues involving use of the Cal Bear’s Memorial Stadium. (If you have not been there, it is certainly one of a

  Also Mimics Our Mission Statement      In the April 2010 California Lawyer, Anthony J. Oncidi, a partner in the L.A. office of Proskauer Rose and a participant in an Employment Roundtable contained in the April edition, had this to say about a recent decision: “I really like the state Supreme Court’s recent opinion in

       In our February 15, 2010 post, we reported on U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real’s denial of fee recovery to McGuireWoods, class counsel in the BARBRI class action, based on a conflict of interest issue. Because this meant that the firm was denied claimed fees of over $12 million, the stakes were obviously