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Employment Litigation Associate
 
The Irvine office of Fisher & Phillips LLP seeks an associate with 4+years of employment litigation experience.  The ideal candidate will be a case handling attorney with wage and hour experience.  Class action experience is preferred.  Excellent academic credentials as well as strong research, writing and analytical skills are required.  Must be admitted in California.  To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume online at http://www.laborlawyers.com/Open-Positions.
 
Junior Labor and Employment Associate
 
The Irvine office of Fisher & Phillips LLP seeks a junior associate with 2+years of employment litigation experience.  Candidates must possess excellent academic credentials as well as strong research, writing and analytical skills.  Must be admitted in California.  To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume online at http://www.laborlawyers.com/Open-Positions.
 
Fisher & Phillips is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, assignment, re-assignment, promotion, transfer, and compensation. Equal Employment Opportunity principles also apply to discipline and termination. Our Firm prohibits discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy); sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information; citizenship status; military service obligations; or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Eight (8) new proposals to amend the California Rules of Court and Judicial Council forms have been posted to the California Courts web site, at http://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-invitationstocomment.htm.
 
The attached list provides a summary of the proposals and contains direct links to each individual proposal. You are welcome to distribute this to any other interested parties. The deadline for comment is 5:00 p.m., Friday, January 23, 2015.

OCWLA congratulates Betty Shu and Jessi Castro on passing the California Bar Exam!  Betty and Jessi were both recipients of the Orange County Women Lawyers Association Bar Stipend Awards.  The Bar Stipend Awards are awarded semi-annually to new graduates who are sitting for the bar exam and have exemplified a commitment to scholarship, community service, and the advancement of women, diversity, and women’s issues in Orange County.  When you see Betty and Jessi, be sure to welcome them to the profession and congratulate them on this achievement.
-Michelle Philo, Director

Beginning December 1, 2014, attorneys filing new civil actions will be required by amended Local Rule 3-2 to file their case-initiating document(s) electronically, using the Court’s Case Management/Electronic Case Filing System (CM/ECF), unless exempted from electronic filing by amended Local Rule 5-4.2. (The amended local rules effective December 1, 2014, will be available on the Court’s website at http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/court-procedures/local-rules; amended Local Rule 3-2 may be previewed at http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/news/changes-local-rules-proposed-become-effective-december-1-2014.)  All other documents required to be filed concurrently with the case-initiating document, including the Civil Cover Sheet (Form CV-71), and Notice of Interested Parties, must also be filed electronically.  Any filing fee that is required must be paid online at the time the case-initiating document is filed, unless a request to proceed in forma pauperis is filed concurrently.

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Changes to Local Rules Proposed to Become Effective December 1, 2014

The Court has preliminarily approved the new and amended Local Civil and Criminal Rules that accompany this notice. The proposed effective date for these rules is December 1, 2014.  The proposed new and amended rules are posted on the Court’s website, and include the following:

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Vehicle Code section 40500(b) authorizes the Judicial Council to prescribe the form of a Notice to Appear that is issued when a person is arrested for misdemeanor or infraction violations of the Vehicle Code. Penal Code section 853.9 further authorizes the council to approve Notice to Appear forms for nontraffic offenses. Penal Code section 959.1(d) permits a Notice to Appear issued on a form approved by the Judicial Council to be received and filed by a court in electronic form. In response to issues courts have reported with electronic citation forms and procedures and to improve uniformity of the content of Notice to Appear forms used for electronic citations issued by arresting officers, the Traffic Advisory Committee recommends amendments of the California Rules of Court and forms as specified effective April 1, 2015. The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 1, 2014.

This proposal would adopt amendments to the Judicial Council Conflict of Interest Code and bring the Code up to date with its current organization that after a recent consolidation now includes the former Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). In accordance with Government Code sections 87303 and 87306, the Code must be updated "when change is necessitated by changed circumstances" (id., § 87306). The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m., Monday, November 3, 2014.

IRVINE, CA, September 11, 2014 --- Jennifer Keller has again been named to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal's list of "The Top 100 Lawyers in California." This is Keller's seventh appearance on the list.  There are over 220,000 attorneys in California, making Keller’s achievement that much more remarkable.

The award, one of the legal profession's most coveted, is given by the editors of the statewide lawyers' newspaper to honor those whose superior achievement and stellar results place them in a super- elite category.
 
Keller is a nationally renowned trial attorney and name partner in Irvine's Keller Rackauckas LLP, the area's premier boutique law firm for trials of business and white collar criminal cases.  The firm’s client list includes Standard & Poor's and MGA Entertainment, among others.
 
Keller and her partner Kay Rackauckas were also recently again selected for inclusion in the publications The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. Rackauckas was named Orange County Lawyer of the Year in Criminal Defense by Best Lawyers.
 
ABOUT KELLER RACKAUCKAS LLP
We’re a different kind of law firm. Elite. Efficient. And we win. We’re bet-the-company trial lawyers with a record second to none, and local, statewide and national recognition of our success.  Keller Rackauckas attorneys have won over $680 million in judgments in just the last five years, and successfully defended many other clients.  The name partners of Keller Rackauckas LLP have tried over 250 jury trials between them, with an unparalleled record of success.  We handle cases involving class actions, intellectual property, breach of contract, trade secrets, bad faith, white collar criminal defense, real estate, business torts and the entire gamut of commercial litigation.  Keller Rackauckas LLP is rated Tier One by U.S. News and World Report, an honor generally reserved for much larger law firms.

Contact:   Danielle Frederick
Keller Rackauckas LLP
18300 Von Karman Ave., Suite 930
Irvine, California 92612-1057
Ph. 949.476.8700
Fax 949.476.0900
jkeller@krlawllp.com
www.krlawllp.com

Three (3) new proposals to amend the California Rules of Court have been posted to the California Courts web site, at http://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-invitationstocomment.htm.
 
SP14-06: Judicial Administration: Rule for Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee
This proposal would amend California Rules of Court, rule 10.64, the rule for the Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee, to make a change to the membership category for presiding judges. It would provide that “presiding judge,” as used in the rule, means a current presiding judge or an immediate past presiding judge.
The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m., Friday, September 19, 2014.
 
SP14-07:  Judicial Administration: Rules for Advisory Groups
This proposal would adopt California Rules of Court for three Judicial Council advisory committees and amend three rules: two for advisory committees and one that addresses concurrent membership on the council and a council advisory committee.
The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2014.
 
SP14-08: Criminal Justice Realignment: Imposition of Mandatory Supervision
The Criminal Law Advisory Committee proposes amendments to rules 4.411 and 4.411.5 of the California Rules of Court and adoption of a new rule to govern the imposition of mandatory supervision under Penal Code section 1170(h)(5), including criteria for court consideration and contents and requirements for related probation reports. The proposal was developed in response to recent legislation that requires the Judicial Council to adopt these rules by January 1, 2015.
The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m., Friday, September 19, 2014.