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SAN FRANCISCO - A high-profile 1996 murder case in which a judge disqualified the entire San Francisco district attorney's off...


Justice or Judiciousness

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By Ray Haynes. A good test of a political movement on the wane is the lengths its supporters will go to defend it. When the mo...



Real Estate Expert Defects to Allen Matkins

Aug. 29, 2000
By Tamara Scott

After 20 years with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, senior real estate attorney Lee F. Gotshall-Maxon has defected to t...


Testimony Autonomy

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By Darren O'Leary Aitken. The hearsay objection is a pet peeve of mine. I am not talking hearsay objections made at trial. On ...



The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about full-time casual dress.


Lawyer Pleads to Federal Conspiracy

Aug. 29, 2000
By David Houston

A Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Monday for helping a U.S. Customs agent and...



Ingram Sues Employees for Internet Abuse

Aug. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Computer giant Ingram Micro Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a dozen of its employees, claiming the workers violat...


Judge Unseals Guilty Plea by O.C. Prosecutor

Aug. 29, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - While on the job, a former Orange County prosecutor continued his relationship with a known drug dealer even after...



Justice or Judiciousness

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By Radhika Rao. In Stenberg v. Carhart, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a Nebraska statute making performance of a ...


County Wins Suit Against Vengeful Neighbor

Aug. 29, 2000
By Matthew Heller

SANTA BARBARA - A jury has found a local property owner liable for setting one of Santa Barbara's worst wildfires as an act of...



State Bar Asks for ABA Discipline Review

Aug. 29, 2000
By Don Debenedictisn

SAN FRANCISCO - Under legislative command to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its attorney discipline system, the S...


Court Rules in Favor Of Comic Book Series

Aug. 29, 2000
By Daniel Evans

It may not be nice to imply that someone is the bastard child of a murderous worm with a hankering for sex with dead pigs, but...



San Francisco's Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz, a 16-attorney labor and employment law boutique founded in 1982,...


Despite the fact that defense counsel was excluded from a key trial hearing, the California Supreme Court upheld the death sen...



Split the Art

Aug. 29, 2000
By Columnist

By John M. Genga. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently held that the Copyright Act does not pre-empt state commu...


O'Melveny & Myers managing partner Douglas Kranwinkle surprised both his current and future employers with the career move...



PALO ALTO FIRM RECRUITS ASSOCIATE FROM DELAWARE

Aug. 29, 2000
By Staff Reports

Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser recently recruited Alisha K. Hiner as an associate to its corporate practice...


DMV Hearings Circumvent the Constitution

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By Edwin B. Stegman. Department of Motor Vehicles' driving-under-the-influence license-suspension hearings are a travesty of j...



Number of Women Rises at Boalt Hall

Aug. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

The University of California, Boalt Hall, on Friday released its statistics for the fall 2000 first-year class.


Insatiable Federal Appetite

Aug. 28, 2000
By Columnist

By John C. Eastman. Our nation's founders feared that the consolidation of power in a central government would be dangerous to...



Accident Victim Gets $21 Million

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. On Aug. 17, the...


S.D. Jury Finds Genzler Guilty

Aug. 28, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- David James Genzler walked from the courtroom Friday guilty of involuntary manslaughter but free and likely to re...



Judge Tosses Man's 'Peeping Tom' Charges

Aug. 28, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has dismissed "peeping tom" charges against a man - even though he was caught allegedly vid...


Ex-Kings Owner to Turn Over $750,000

Aug. 28, 2000
By David Houston

An injunction has been entered against former Los Angeles Kings owner Jeffrey P. Sudikoff and two other men accused of lying i...



Attorney Steven H. Spindel, 50, Dies of Cancer

Aug. 28, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Services took place Friday for attorney Steven H. Spindel, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Goldschmid, Silver & Spin...


Mom Sues County Over Son's Death

Aug. 28, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The mother of a man shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after an early morning car chase last year claims in a wrong...



Recall Sponsors Target Marin Judges

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...


Loyola Names David Burcham 15th Dean of the Law School

Aug. 28, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...



Munger Tolles Beats Jones Day to Capture Landau Cup

Aug. 28, 2000
By Contributing Writer

It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...


Family Law Courtroom Venom Rises Rapidly

Aug. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...