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The Environmental Practice Group, led by Don Springmeyer, obtained from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit a significant victory for client the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada, confirming a lower court award in favor of the Tribe of 200,000 acre feet of Truckee River water, and adding what will likely be another 150,000 acre feet to the award.
Elsa Horowitz, a Senior Associate in our Los Angeles office, and Ryan Stonerock, an Associate in our Los Angeles office, have been named as two of Southern California's 2010 Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
Oxford University Press recently selected our litigation partner, Charles J. Harder, to edit a new legal practice guide on Entertainment Litigation. Scheduled for release in 2010, the multi-volume set will cover all major topic areas including right of publicity, right of privacy, First Amendment, defamation, anti-SLAPP, profit participation/audit claims, copyright and trademark matters, Talent Agencies Act and guild proceedings, Internet and new media issues, and related topics.
Steven Zidell, a partner in our Los Angeles office, has updated a chapter in Organizing Corporations in California (3rd edition), published by the Continuing Education of the Bar, California. The chapter is entitled "Alter Ego and Adequate Capitalization". It deals with factors courts consider when a creditor or plaintiff seeks to hold the shareholders of a corporation personally liable for debts of the corporation. A similar analysis applies to members of limited liability companies.