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City officials in Detroit and Auburn Hills, Mich., don't have to go very deep to get in touch with their inner totalitarian. D...


LOS ANGELES - Gary Apfel walked away from New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae 13 years ago. Now, he returns to the fi...



Redistricting Debate May Halt Primaries

Nov. 1, 2001
By Amy Koval

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and Irell & Manella argued Wednesday over whether to h...


Depositions Lock Down Witness Testimony

Nov. 1, 2001
By Columnist

Many litigators think of depositions primarily as a discovery tool. It's easy to see why.



Just the Facts

Nov. 1, 2001
By Columnist

Remember Sgt. Joe Friday of the old television series "Dragnet?" When the aging blonde witness at the crime scene would stray ...



New Laws Give Reins To Police

Oct. 31, 2001
By Columnist

Everyone's talking about terrorism these days, but my family and I have experienced terrorism up close and personal. We surviv...


LOS ANGELES - America Online Inc. is finding out it's all or nothing in a $47 million copyright-infringement case in Los Angel...



Stubborn Myths

Oct. 31, 2001
By Columnist

Mediation is a fact of life. Whether ordered by the court, selected by counsel or required by contract, mediation is a process...


LOS ANGELES - Child-support payments must be determined by actual income and cannot be calculated based on the perception of a...



Davis Appoints Two Judges in San Bernardino

Oct. 31, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed attorneys John M. Pacheco and Katrina West to the San Bernardino County ...


Bar Takes Over Attorney's Practice

Oct. 31, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has taken jurisdiction over the practice of a Brentwood trial attorney who is being investigated f...



Metal Band Prevails in Novel Suit

Oct. 31, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN LUIS OBISPO - According to Superior Court Judge E. Jeffrey Burke, recording companies "deliberately" marketed the "repulsi...


Why Sit Ye Here, Vagrant, All the Day Idle?

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in per...



Working Together

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee-participation program that involved all workers in the company's...


Marketing Hurdles

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

I consider myself a classic marketing person. I am high-energy, passionate about my job and have attended time-management clas...



Employment Lawyer Was Mentor to Many

Oct. 30, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - A rosary will be said Friday and a requiem Mass celebrated Saturday for Jerome C. Byrne, a labor-and-employment...


Attorney Represented Real Estate Developers

Oct. 30, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Slivkin, a veteran attorney who represented some of Southern California's largest real estate develop...



On April 5, in a fit of attempted prescience, I wrote a column predicting that Sara Jane Olson would make a plea deal to settl...


Native Angeleno Litigated Cases for 60 Years

Oct. 30, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Jerome W. Shepard, a native Angeleno and civil litigator for more than 60 years, has died. Shepard died of heart...



Horseplay Hazards

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Horseplay, as many parents will attest, is no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. However, it usually can be curtailed wit...


WASHINGTON - For 10 days, the nation's highest court hovered unscathed as the anthrax scare tightened its grip on Capitol Hill...



Survey Reports Lawyers Aren't All Millionaires

Oct. 30, 2001
By Don Debenedictisn

LOS ANGELES - California lawyers are older and more diverse than they were 10 years ago but not, overall, as rich as the publi...


Facing U.S. Government's Deficiencies

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Terrorists succeed when a democratic government turns on its own people or persists in policies that no longer are viable. Thi...



Walking Wounded

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Anger, sorrow and fear hit us instantly when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11. The emotional wound has hit u...


California State University men's sports, after being assaulted by feminist organizations, are instead ignoring the desires of...



VENTURA BAR ASSOCIATION HONORS OXNARD LAWYER

Oct. 30, 2001
By Staff Writer

The Ventura County Bar Association has named William H. Hair, 68, this year's recipient of its Ben E. Nordman Award. Hair, nam...


REAL ESTATE AND THE LAW / Gerald Bryant

Oct. 30, 2001
By Contributing Writer

It is no secret that initiating a lawsuit in court can be time-consuming and costly. Depending on the nature of the dispute, ...



The private organization that assigns Internet domain names has appointed a partner from Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli ...


New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...