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Firm Watch


Loeb & Loeb Lures Former Deputy Mayor

May 30, 2007
By Max Follmer

Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has snagged Linda Bernhardt, a former deputy mayor of Los Ange...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Eliot G. Disner drew widespread attention for his legal fight against the nation's largest bar-review provider. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Protecting Service Providers

May 30, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Focus Column – By Rachael Samberg and Brian W. Carver – Wielding the hammer of free speech, the 9th Circuit used a case brough...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's intellectually-property practice is growing, ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Less of a Disadvantage

May 30, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Forum Column — By Michael Waterstone — We should applaud the Supreme Court’s ruling letting parents represent their disabled c...


Technology & Science


SACRAMENTO - The idea of imbedding a tiny tracking device beneath the skin was once the stuff of futuristic novels and paranoi...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Almost two decades ago, Steven Brower moved to Orange County to establish a practice in the...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - The family of a boy whose spine was severed in an automobile accident has fired the attorney who won them a $45 ...


The state Supreme Court will consider whether a state law banning imports of goods made from certain exotic animals should be ...


Corporate


Coupon-Based Settlements Get Tougher

May 30, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - Companies who use coupons to settle massive consumer fraud class actions are having to work a little harder thes...


Law Practice


Americans Will Train Sudanese Lawyers

May 30, 2007
By David Houstonn

A group of American attorneys is headed to London this week to train Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the violence in ...


Robert Hull was among the 1,900 people who passed the February bar exam. Just 36.8 percent of the 5,167 successfully took the ...


Judicial Profile


Finding His Fate

May 30, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

Criminal trial work was supposed to be a stepping stone to the big money for Timothy Casserly, but it proved too interesting f...


Law Practice


Disciplinary Actions

May 29, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Probations and Public Reprovals


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

May 29, 2007
By Sarah Mcclure

On the Move


Judicial Profile


Depending on Him

May 29, 2007
By Pat Alston

Dependency Court Commissioner Gary G. Bischoff has proved in two decades that children, parents, lawyers and judges can count ...


Judicial Profile


Great Expectations

May 28, 2007
By Linda Rapattoni

With 27 years’ experience as a civil litigator, Judge Charles David Wachob knows exactly what he wants from lawyers: punctuali...


Criminal


Church, Litigants on the Brink

May 26, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

Superior Court Judge Haley Fromholz’s recent ruling that four people can seek damages against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese o...


Government


LOS ANGELES - County officials have refused to release a series of reports on how the county manages its multimillion-dollar l...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Influencing the Mediator

May 26, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Focus Column – By Robert A. Steinberg – When you enter a mediation, you are negotiating with the mediator, not just the other ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column — By Tammy Fox-Isicoff — Although comprehensive immigration reform is a must, no immigration reform would be bett...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Top Lawyers Exist Outside of L.A., S.F.

May 26, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal is predictably myopic in its assessments of the best of this, and the best of that, o...


Judges and Judiciary


RIVERSIDE - The county's judge without a court is back on the bench.For the past month, Judge Gary Tranbarger has been barred ...


SAN JOSE - Two weeks ago, Morrison & Foerster touted what it characterized as a rare triumph: a decision by plaintiffs' la...


Verdicts


With no experience litigating civil rights suits, four associates from Davis, Wright & Tremaine emerged with a victory whe...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Bad for Business

May 26, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Forum Column — By C. Matthew Schulz — In the debate on immigration reform, little has been said about the danger posed to Amer...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Searching Authority

May 26, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Employment column — By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Mino — A federal ruling approving a warrantless FBI search of an employee’...


Verdicts


Mediation Matches Family Law Expert's Skills

May 26, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

SAN DIEGO - Judge Thomas Ashworth III could be considered a survivor by judicial standards. For 13 of his 16 years on the San ...


Verdicts


SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California high-performance semiconductor company says it has won a significant victory in a patent...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The Homeless Need Assistance, Not Citations

May 26, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

Letter to the Editor - I took offense at the incredible suggestion that the court should somehow be harsher on homeless people...