Online Database Uncovers Secrets, Fast
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Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...
Raising Revenue at Owners' Expense
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...
Smoker Won't Let Ruling Stand in Way
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...
Lyon & Lyon Lawyers Move to Perkins Coie
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES -Seven Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon attorneys, including patent prosecution partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and M...
Tabloids Face Rapidly Developing Cottage Industry of Libel Litigation
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...
Panel Allows Trial Judges to EstimateDrugs For Sentences
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday approved federal prosecutors' ability to increase a drug dealer's prison senten...
Unlike Cops, PD Listened to Client
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his ...
Discussion of 'Occupation' Of Israel Has Serious Flaws
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Forum Column - By Gary R. White - Ira L. Shafiroff's article entitled "Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank," ...
Raising Revenue at Owners' Expense
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...
Chief Investigator Wins Wrongful Termination Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Paula Jones, former chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office who was fired amid allegat...
Man Faces Charges In Additional Killings
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES -A man facing trial in a 2000 killing was charged Monday with two more murders after investigators reported findin...
A Good Story Lies Right Under Scandal Sheets' Noses
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...
Deliberative Process Privilege Shields Agencies' Deliberations
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Focus Column - By Jeremy J. Osher and Evy Wild - In the wake of the Enron collapse and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, many...
Court Endorses Estimates for Drug Amounts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has approved of federal prosecutors' authority to greatly increase a drug dealer's pri...
Breaking the Bank
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Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...
Attorney Pleads Not Guilty to Embezzlement
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arraigned Monday on embezzlement charges for allegedly taking money out of client trust a...
Probate Expert Provided Big Comfort Zone at Courthouse
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court probate attorney George Olafson has died. He was 70. Olafson died Aug. 9 in Arcadia, ...
Breaking the Bank
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Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...
Smoker Won't Let Ruling Stand in Way
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...
Online Database Uncovers Secrets, Fast
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Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...
When Crime Victims Sue
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BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for third-party cri...
Weil Gotshal Gains Patent Pro
By Erik Cummins
With more work than partners can handle, Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office has hired patent litigator Vernon W...
Stars Are Music To John Branca's Legal Practice
By Katherine Gaidos
John Branca is a superstar music attorney today, but his law practice wasn't always so glamorous. The man who represents Micha...
Who's Who?
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Column by Julie Campinini - The biggest mistake counsel make in voir dire is to rely on demographics to drive the strike proce...
Counting the Days
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BY REX HIME The California State Assembly continues to struggle in finding ways to reach agreement on a state budget. The late...
First-Years Avoid Axe at Wilson Sonsini, for Now
By Joel Rosenblatt
The next two weeks at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should be interesting thanks to last Wednesday's firmwi...
Ode to the Broker Poet
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor At lunchtime today, Ed Rosenthal, a vice president in Grubb & Ellis ' investmen...
Days of Learning, Nights of Merrymaking
By Staff Writer
More than 1,600 members of Southern California's consumer bar will descend on Las Vegas this week for four days of continuing ...
Superior Court Jurists Prepare To Vote for Commissioner Post
By Staff Writer
Ballots for the runoff election of one open Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner seat are due Aug. 15. The seat was left va...
A Chance to Gamble and Get Together
By Christina Landers
From doll collectors to advocates for human rights, organizations of nearly every stripe hold some type of annual convention. ...