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Forum Column - By Mike Schmier - The California State Bar should follow the American Bar Association lead and work to eliminat...


Attorney Seeks Billions Against Philip Morris

Oct. 4, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - An attorney Wednesday asked Los Angeles jurors to return a record $6.7 to $20 billion punitive damage award agai...



Family Law Judge Had Caring Temperament

Oct. 4, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Services are planned for Oct. 17 for retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Myron S. Brown. Brown died Monday ...


SAN FRANCISCO - A study released Wednesday by the American Tort Reform Association charges that too many Californians are dodg...



Ex-Trustee Files Appeal Of Sacking

Oct. 4, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, until recently the federal government's chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, sai...


Strange Bedfellows

Oct. 4, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...



Panel Tosses Man's Robbery Convictions

Oct. 4, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday threw out a San Diego man's robbery convictions because jurors were improperly ...


Movie Lawyer Spanks His Way to Romance

Oct. 4, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...



Moving Matters in Custody

Oct. 4, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...


Former City Attorney on the Bench

Oct. 4, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Long before he was a lawyer, Ren Auguste Chouteau kept the company of judges. A fourth-generation San Francisc...



SAN FRANCISCO - Earth First post-trial settlement talks went nowhere this week as opposing counsel disputed a $4.4 million fed...


Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even c...



Keep Emotions in Check

Oct. 4, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...


County Can't Locate 444 Kids in System

Oct. 4, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - The largest foster care system in the nation has racked up another embarrassing statistic: It has lost 444 of th...



Judge Awards Senior $1 Million for MTA Injury

Oct. 4, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has awarded $1.36 million to a 97-year-old Los Angeles woman severely injured when a Red Lin...


Column by Garry Abrams - The country's corporate scandals are beginning to resemble an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Bart...



High Court Steps Into Blake Murder Case

Oct. 4, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an appeal from a Hollywood actor jailed on murder charges, the California Supreme Court ordered Los ...


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...



Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio - Barrad Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court...


Movie Lawyer Spanks His Way to Romance

Oct. 3, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...



Keep Emotions in Check

Oct. 3, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...


Focus Column - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...



Moving Matters in Custody

Oct. 3, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...


Brobeck's Technology Chair Defects

Oct. 3, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Continuing the defection of partners throughout its 11 offices, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harri...



Glaser Wins Award In Honor of Silbert

Oct. 3, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles chapter of American Friends of the Hebrew University has awarded its inaugural Harvey L. Silbert...


Davis Signs Some Not All ADR Bills

Oct. 3, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed several bills that for the first time would regulate alternative dispute resolution pr...



SAN FRANCISCO - Medi-Cal's lack of a refund procedure mandated under federal law, coupled with a Catch-22 under state law, has...


LOS ANGELES - Jury participation in Los Angeles County and other large urban centers of California is in serious trouble becau...



LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have protected lawyers for public agencies who repo...


Kuehl's SLAPP Bill Gets Vetoed

Oct. 3, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Consumers will suffer because Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have barred businesses from filin...