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George G. Strong Jr. has become general counsel and managing director of Cornerstone Research Inc.'s new Los Angeles office. S...


Tenants' Winning Lawyer Did Not Go to Law School

Oct. 8, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

Landlords beware. Marilyn Kalman may never have attended law school, but she is a dedicated and seemingly successful attorney ...



Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in a company that is developing a San Diego toll ...


Funky Fungi

Oct. 8, 2002
By Columnist

Adviser Column - By Michael Solender - With the Aas decision decreeing that consequential damages to other construction elemen...



A rare lawsuit borne of an embryo mix-up at a San Francisco fertility clinic is about to face its first court challenge, with ...


Schmooze Fests

Oct. 8, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

An ultra-hip West Hollywood club and an upscale, yet trendy, restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District were the meeting p...



Changing the Subject

Oct. 8, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Veteran Bay Area lawyers often express surprise when told that San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is no long...


Financial Whiz Represented Dodgers, Lakers

Oct. 8, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Services took place Friday and Saturday for Fullerton estate and tax attorney Allen Courtenay Clarke. Clarke, know...



Don't Tread On Us

Oct. 8, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisoner James H. Edwards, who walked with the aid of a prosthetic leg, begged prison guards not to put ...


For three quarters of a century, the State Bar has gathered its members at an annual meeting to attend seminars, see old frien...



SAN FRANCISCO - Is John Larson calling on an old friend to rescue Brobeck Phleger & Harrison? Brobeck is in parallel merge...


Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....



Civil Libertarian

Oct. 8, 2002
By Don De Benedictis

James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers ...


Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson and Georgia M. Linkletter - California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to...



Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...


And Now!! Live!! The Justices!!

Oct. 8, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...



LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son t...


Paxil Case Explores Drug's Darker Side

Oct. 8, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Once we were the "Prozac Nation," lining up to be saved by a revolutionary group of antidepressants that was sai...



Convicted Killer Claims DNA Test Was Tainted

Oct. 8, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a famil...


Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The allocation of attorney fees in antitrust cases is of considerable interest to the ...



Abortion Provision Handcuffs Legislation

Oct. 7, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....


LOS ANGELES - They're lawyers, they're in Century City, and their names sound exactly the same. A single "c" separates the two...



Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Voir dire can present many challenges. For instance, what do you do when, either right a...


Richard Dole, S.F. Lawyer, 71

Oct. 5, 2002
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Richard F. Dole has died at his Telegraph Hill home, ending a 45-year real estate and finance career....



Bratton Makes Vow to 'Take Back Streets'

Oct. 5, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Police Department "has had a couple of tough years," the city's new top cop said Thursday as he p...


U.S. Antitrust Leader Heads For Chevron

Oct. 5, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, the assistant U.S. attorney general who settled the government's antitrust case against Microso...



Focus Column - By Mark Milstein and Alexander S. Polsky - Construction-defect lawsuits have been among the hottest political i...


SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, the assistant U.S. attorney general who settled the government's antitrust case against Microso...



Taking Care

Oct. 5, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - On Sept. 23, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 authorizing paid family leave for California...


Panel Rejects Ex-Player's Racial Bias Suit

Oct. 5, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A former basketball player for Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University who lost her scholarship and place on th...