By Melissa Maleske, InsideCounsel Magazine – August 1, 2008 – David Dunn recalls a classroom scene from his first year of law school. The students were discussing a 1930s case involving a railroad company, and the professor asked them to name the rule of the case. “People came up with all sorts of exotic answers,”...Read More
Clipping Coupons From Inside Counsel Magazine July 2008 Issue By Melissa Maleske July 1,2008 When Ford Motor Co. offered a coupon to settle claims related its Explorer, commentators in the media latched onto the story as another example of unfair coupon settlements. Class members claimed that reports of rollovers had negatively impacted the retail value...Read More
Opinion: Bust-out schemes are a fraud designed to make you go bust By A. Sasha Frid June 06, 2008 Increasing globalization is proving to be a boon for perpetrators of a type of fraud known as a “bust-out scheme.” This kind of fraud, commonplace in the computer and electronics industry, victimizes legitimate manufacturers and retailers....Read More
Los Angeles Business Journal August 20-26, 2007 SPECIAL REPORT: WHO’S WHO IN L.A. LAW THE BEST OF THE BAR Louis (Skip) Miller Firm: Miller Barondess LLP Clients: KB Home, SunCal Companies and Elton John. Reason I’m a Lawyer: I really enjoy courtroom work, especially trying cases and jury work, and helping clients solve problems. Most...Read More
Teed Off: Membership spat lands Connery, Murdock in the rough By Drew Combs July 23, 2007 Sean Connery, the acclaimed actor, has played many roles over his career, including an aging Robin Hood who returns to Sherwood Forest to fight old battles and challenge injustices. Connery, the accomplished amateur golfer, is currently fighting what he believes...Read More
By Kim Christensen, LA Times – July 7, 2006 – Louis “Skip” Miller has started a Century City law firm two months after leaving what is now known as Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro in the wake of partner Terry Christensen’s indictment in the Anthony Pellicano federal wiretap scandal. Miller’s sons Dan Miller and...Read More
Jackson owes $5.3 million Jury returns verdict in favor of concert promoters By Elizabeth Rodriguez Entertainer Michael Jackson reneged on a contract with Marcel Avram and will have to pay the concert promoter $5.3 million for failing to perform at two millennium concerts, a Superior Court jury in Santa Maria decided Thursday. Both sides claimed...Read More
Clash of the Titans A Riverside Police Shooting Pits Johnnie Cochran Against Skip Miller – Finally They are a crash course in contrasts. One is a bombastic media darling, a flamboyant courtroom orator who’s the star of a TV talk show on American justice; the other a deliberative, masterful legal craftsman, called in by major...Read More
