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Major Developments

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

It's been another year of significant developments in ADR practice. Important court decisions have affected the confidentialit...


Ballot Measures

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

One year ago tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its momentous decision in Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (2000). Al Gor...



Attacks Consign Bush-Gore Decision to History

Dec. 12, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore , some states have moved toward reforming th...


Ex-Brobeck Partner Starts Air Force Post

Dec. 12, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Mary L. Walker, a former partner of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, was to be sworn in today as ...



DAILY DEALS -- Inland Empire

Dec. 12, 2001
By Jack Briggs

CORONA - LaSalle Investment Management Inc., a Chicago-based REIT, has purchased the Country Hills Apartments, a 412-unit com...


President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...



LOS ANGELES - The war against terrorism is generating a cornucopia of legal conundrums. The controversies range from the heate...


Juvenile Court Opens Justice's Eyes

Dec. 12, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

MONTEREY - Once a year, Justice Richard D. Huffman of the 4th District Court of Appeal assigns himself to a trial court "as a ...



Taking Stock

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

In a case likely to become a leading case on support, the court in In re Marriage of Cheriton , 2001 DJDAR 10047 (Cal. ...


Delgadillo's Media Man Will Move On

Dec. 12, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Special Assistant City Attorney Ben Austin will leave his post as communications director for City Attorney Rock...



Baseball Stats Belong to Us All

Dec. 12, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important, a unanimous state appellate court ruled Monday, that public demand for its images, s...


LOS ANGELES - California's wannabe lawyers will have to struggle and sweat through three days of Bar Exam for the foreseeable ...



1st District Puts Baseball Ahead of Its Players

Dec. 12, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important that the public demand for its images, statistics and history outweighs players' righ...


Pillsbury Partner Joins Allen Matkins

Dec. 12, 2001
By Eileen Buckley

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has hired away D. Stanley Rowland, a partn...



Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...


Starting Line

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...



City Attorney Talks to DA in Andrews Case

Dec. 12, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has held conversations with the city attorney's office over the future of d...


Judicial Career Starts Off on Juvenile Bench

Dec. 12, 2001
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Following a varied legal career in Sacramento and the Bay Area, including a brief but controversial stint as U.S....



Judge Relishes Ability to Intervene

Dec. 12, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Patrick Morris was waiting in a hospital cafeteria line just after the birth of his granddaughter last ...


Mass E-Mails to Intel Ruled Trespassing

Dec. 12, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Marking the boundaries between private computer networks and free speech in cyberspace, a state appellate court pan...



On Everyone's Short List

Dec. 12, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking into the highly specialized field of intellectual property litigation used to be like crashing an exc...


Warning: Global Warming

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...



Delgadillo Taps Chaleff as New Senior Adviser

Dec. 12, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Longtime criminal defense attorney and former Los Angeles police commission President Gerald Chaleff - fired ear...


Holiday Celebrations Can Lead to Lawsuits

Dec. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...



12 Percent Will Leave Brobeck

Dec. 12, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty-four associates out of the 130 eligible for the buyout plan at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Ha...


Holiday Celebrations Can Lead to Lawsuits

Dec. 11, 2001
By Columnist

The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...



Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...


President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...



Warning: Global Warming

Dec. 11, 2001
By Columnist

We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...


Starting Line

Dec. 11, 2001
By Columnist

I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...