Sue Popik and Merri A. Baldwin write amicus in Perry v. Schwarzenegger
CPW partners Susan M. Popik and Merri A. Baldwin, along with Suzanne Goldberg, a law professor at Columbia University, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation in Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
A copy of the brief may be found here.

CPW Trial Victory in Lira v. California Department of Corrections
Judge Susan Illston, a federal district court judge in San Francisco, has found that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) violated CPW client Mr. Lira's constitutional rights when it improperly validated him as an associate of a prison gang, resulting in eight years of solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay penitentiary. This judgment represents the culmination of over nine years of litigation by Mr. Lira to challenge the improper validation. CPW attorneys Bill Chapman and Mark White represented Mr. Lira at trial.
Read the press release
Review the judgment
Hear about the case on KQED

CPW Welcomes Romanski as Latest Team Member
CPW is happy to announce that David J. Romanski  has  joined  the firm as Senior Counsel.  Romanski will continue his practice representing clients in securities litigation and regulatory matters, as well as business litigation matters.  Romanski previously was a partner in DLA Piper US LLP and Steinhart & Falconer LLP.  He began his legal career with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Sue Popik elected FDCC Secretary/Treasurer
CPW partner Susan M. Popik has been elected the Secretary/Treasurer of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Foundation.

Bill Campbell Appointed to ABA Position
Bill Campbell has been appointed Co-Director of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's Publications, CLE and Programs Division. Bill has held numerous previous leadership positions in the ABA, including co-chairing the Section's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, helping to lead the Section's publication efforts and co-chairing the Aba Annual Meeting.

CPW Partner to Present at PLRB Conference
CPW partner Renée C. Callantine will present a program on Rescission and Reformation of Insurance Policies at the PLRB Claims Conference in San Antonio, Texas, March 22-24, 2010.

CPW Partner to Speak at PLI Conference
CPW partner Merri A. Baldwin will be a panelist for the Privacy and Data Security Law Institute's (Eleventh Annual) Seminar at the Practising Law Institute on May 24-25, 2010.

CPW Partner to Author CEB Chapter
CPW partner Renée C. Callantine has agreed to write a chapter for the book, California Real Property Insurance, published by the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB). Her chapter is tentatively titled, "Noncommercial and Commercial Basic Property Insurance," and the book is expected to be published later this year.

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