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Orrick Office in Seattle Adding More Lawyers

Apr. 8, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is adding several attorneys to its Seattle office and b...


Home Rule

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM In the eyes of the federal judicial system, property owners are one group of citizens who enjoy a sort of second-class c...



Movie-Mad

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

^^ADR PROFILE^^ By Cynthia O'Leary After falling into the practice of entertainment law by chance and with the encouragement o...


A Prosecutor Forgets Duty To Do Justice

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

'The Practice' tackles the question of how far should law enforcement go to get a confession? ...



SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Monday rejected a bid to throw out a lawsuit against the county and a prosecutor file...


SACRAMENTO - The insurance defense bar has moved to pump up its political muscle and legislative presence as it battles cost-...



Prosecutorial Goal: Prison For Pukes

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

"Law & Order" is exciting: The characters are engaging, the story riveting and the photography cutting edge. And that is w...


Mixed Media

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

^^Litigator Profile^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer A practitioner must be creative to practice...



Two Bites

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

The statute of limitations in asbestos cases will be examined by the California Supreme Court. ...


A Cause Without A Rebel?

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM By Sheila James Kuehl Proposition 22, the limit on marriage initiative, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters. ...



Pain From Changes in Court Funding Lingers

Apr. 8, 2000
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - When change is drastic, it can be hard. That seems especially true for hulking bureaucracies. Take, for example,...


Fact Hunting

Apr. 8, 2000
By Columnist

SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR By Jeffrey A. Rich Contractual dispute resolution provisions may not adequately contemplate the need for pr...



Cop Allegedly Caught Lying in Murder Case

Apr. 8, 2000
By Michael Harris

In a case that illustrates that alleged misconduct at the Rampart Station is ongoing despite the glare of various investigatio...


Manatt Phelps Nabs Pillsbury Partner

Apr. 8, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Employee-benefits attorney Donald W. Meaders has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Su...



Two men who claimed they were falsely arrested and violently treated by anti-gang officers from the Los Angeles Police Departm...


WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court is relatively young, the "advanced age" of some of the justices was the topic ...



A Beverly Hills law firm and one of its partners has agreed to pay a former client $3.4 million to settle a legal malpractice ...


A search warrant in a 1999 cocaine possession case signed by Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is raising questions from ...



Smoking on Planes Is Actionable

Apr. 8, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that flight attendants may sue over Northwest Airlines' policy of allow...


Union Sues to Halt Unification Changes

Apr. 8, 2000
By Denise Levin

Vivian Yoshioka, a court clerk in the Los Angeles Superior Court's East District, said she just wants to do the best job she ...



$1 Rights Contract Baffles Woman

Apr. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Irene Gut Opdyke, a woman who sheltered a dozen Jews in the basement of a Nazi officer's home during the Holocaust...


The Real Reason Partners Change Firms

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA When partners change firms, everyone assumes it's because of money. Page 8. By Sandford A. Lechtick Many firms currently...



Commission Upholds Cervantes Firing

Apr. 7, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The Civil Service Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to affirm the termination of district attorney's investig...


Litigious Lawbreakers

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

^^Real Property^^ Litigious Lawbreakers Statute Does Not Protect Felons Injured by Intentional Acts By Michael Paul Thomas A p...



Throwaway Kids

Apr. 7, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

When you ask people why the Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls have inadequate mental health services for children, the...


Defect Damages

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Defect Damages Economic Loss Rule Does Not Bar Recovery of Home Injury By W. Scott Shepard In a recent ruling from the 4th Dis...



Burden of Justice

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA The financial burden of supporting the jury system is the hidden tax imposed upon the business community by the courts. ...


Lethal Law

Apr. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Marjorie Cohn "The deliberate institutionalized taking of human life by the state is the greatest conceivable degradation t...



Mentally Disturbed Kids Warehoused

Apr. 7, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

What to do with mentally ill children incarcerated in juvenile halls has become an issue of serious concern for many lawmakers...


No Appearance of Unfairness, Says Judge

Apr. 7, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- The retrial of David James Genzler in the 1996 slaying of Dustin Harless has been scheduled for May 22, after mon...