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Graham & James Loses 9 Lawyers To Oppenheimer

Aug. 19, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has lost nine litigation attorneys from its Palo Alto office to Oppenheimer Wolff & Do...


ACLU Settlement Changes UC Speech Policy

Aug. 19, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO -- When Ben Shapiro taped together four 81/2-by-11 sheets of paper for his four-word message, he expected no proble...



Silicon Valley Firm Opens in Massachusetts

Aug. 19, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is opening a third office, this...


Law Students Get the Mediation Experience

Aug. 19, 1999
By Martin Kruming

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ For almost two years, students from three San Diego law schools have been teaming up as ...



Doctor's Labor

Aug. 19, 1999
By Columnist

^^Health Care Law^^ Doctor's Labor Definition of 'Employee' Makes Physician Unionization Difficult A close look at the legal ...


Outsider Likely To Replace Boalt Dean

Aug. 19, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall, one of the nation's premier law schools, is likely to have an outsider as dean next year, the fir...



Supervisors to Move on Gun Sale Ban

Aug. 19, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

With at least two Los Angeles County supervisors calling for the end of gun shows on county property, the Board of Supervisor...


Judge Unseals Auto Club Fraud Complaint

Aug. 19, 1999
By Denise Levin

Holding up a newspaper with an article giving detailed allegations from a sealed insurance fraud lawsuit as well as the names...



Security Measures Lead to Dogged Avoidance by Some

Aug. 19, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - It's 8:30 a.m., and the scene at the Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana is a bit chaotic as jurors scurry for ...


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court provided help Tuesday to a mental patient who dangled for eight years in a Missouri f...



HMO Review Is Focus of Lawmakers' Battle

Aug. 19, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - As California policy-makers craft a law to let patients seek review by independent experts when health plans den...


Services Pending for Boalt Hall Professor

Aug. 19, 1999
By Jeanna Steele

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard W. Jennings, emeritus professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an internationa...



Court Approves Contracts That Are Union Only

Aug. 18, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost to organized labor, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that local governments m...


Marshall Law

Aug. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am overjoyed to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award, but I value this occasion most, as I think ever...



Immunization Booster

Aug. 18, 1999

^^Constitutional Law^^ Immunization Booster Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for States' Rights Constitutional historians will re...


Judge Rules Police Coerced Witness for Cop-Killing Trial

Aug. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that false statements by a witness in the case of slain Garden...



Object Lesson

Aug. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Christopher Tayback In a recent trial, I raised several persistent objections to the court's jury-selection procedure. The...


Hate Crimes Have Shown Slight Drop

Aug. 18, 1999
By Martin Bergn

California law enforcement authorities reported 1,750 hate crimes last year, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Monday....



Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...


Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...



Perjury Charges Sought Against O.J.

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...


A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...



Robbery-String Defendant Enters Insanity Plea

Aug. 18, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...


Yaroslavsky Seeks Ban on Gun Shows at Fairgrounds

Aug. 18, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...



Woman of The Left Bank

Aug. 18, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...


Jurist Promotes Patience, Fairness

Aug. 18, 1999
By Rebecca Kuzins

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...



Prior Restraint Order Against Paper Is Lifted

Aug. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...


Probe of Death Row Label Keeps Spinning

Aug. 18, 1999
By Garry Abrams

A 3-year-old federal grand jury criminal investigation into Death Row Records that once appeared dormant is ongoing and is ex...



In what First Amendment experts are calling an unconstitutional prior restraint, the Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered t...


Cigarette Distributors Fuming

Aug. 17, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett.

A group of discount cigarette distributors has sued the 46 states and major tobacco companies involved in a global settlement...