Moving on up...

Today's DJ has a full page of promotions, including some SoCal appellate lawyers, such as David Hackett at GMSR and Kasey Curtis at Reed Smith. (Speaking of Reed Smith, did you know there's something called the California Office of Tax Appeals? Well some RS lawyers explain all about its first year of operations, 2018, in a Law360 article here.)

On the appellate sanctions front, here's an unpub from Friday where sanctions were affirmed for legally frivolous arguments in the trial court (i.e., no abuse of discretion), but not imposed on appeal: "we certainly do not want to punish a lawyer for full-throated advocacy on behalf of his or her client by raising a novel theory or nudging the development of the law." But the court does note that the "frivolousness of the legal claim comes dangerously close to meriting additional sanctions."


Sporting a Star Trek cap, and with phasers on his desk, 9th Circuit Judge John Owens participated in a one-hour MCLE webinar with The Legal Geeks on the Trials of Star Trek, with a focus on ethics.
Catch re-runs here.
Qapla'!


Also see this Law360 article here about moves in the SCOTUS Bar:
In a shakeup of the Washington, D.C., Supreme Court bar, Lisa Blatt is leaving Arnold & Porter to return to Williams & Connolly LLP after its former appellate practice leader, Kannon Shanmugam, moved to Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.