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Law Practice


Damages Are Minimal in Shapiro's Match

Jun. 14, 2007
By D. Heimpel

LOS ANGELES - In the courtroom, it would have been a hung jury. But on Monday night, superstar litigator Robert Shapiro was co...



Injured and Unaided

Jun. 14, 2007

Forum Column - By Jill A. Singer - Workers' compensation reform has gutted the injureds' ability to take care of themselves. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Balancing Act

Jun. 14, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Roderick Walston - Congressional legislation involving America's waterways would dramatically increase the p...


Judges and Judiciary


Supporter of Small Court Branches Retires

Jun. 14, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge James Henke, a vociferous critic of trial-court unification and advocate for small court bra...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Six months after Broadcom Corp. released the findings of an internal investigation that revealed widespread stoc...


Litigation


The infant daughter of dead starlet Anna Nicole Smith appears more likely to inherit her mother’s legal bills than a multimill...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


WASHINGTON - Members of Congress aren't shy in letting the Supreme Court know when they don't like one of its rulings. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Tosses Petitions Against Project

Jun. 14, 2007
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of a redevelopment plan for the Bayview-Hunters Point area who gathered signatures for a ballot refe...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


WASHINGTON - Reaching a different conclusion than it did three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a private p...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Matter of Trusts

Jun. 13, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Gordon McAuley - Gordon McAuley examines the implications of more-stringent antitrust laws for the trucking ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Justices Take Bias Case on Testimony

Jun. 13, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider an employment-discrimination case to decide whether judges must ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - An attorney who defrauded clients of $293,000 in a variety of investment schemes was sentenced Monday to four ye...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


'Loving’ Decision Advanced Equality

Jun. 13, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Barbara J. Cox - Barbara Cox celebrates the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that legalize...


Deals Column - By Jason Song - Marketing the world's most popular sport in the world's most populous country seems like a natu...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday to force federal officials to help locate ...


Government


Republicans are getting all the heat over firing and hiring of U.S. attorneys, but Democrats are no strangers to finding strat...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Court Agrees to Take Case on Sentencing

Jun. 13, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Wading into the controversy over federal penalties for crack-cocaine offenses, the U.S. Supreme Court announced M...


Law Practice


Angela Bradstreet, a politically active labor attorney who became one of the Bay Area’s first female managing partners, has be...


Judicial Profile


The Enforcer

Jun. 13, 2007
By Anat Rubinn

Ventura Judge Patricia Murphy, who wanted to be a prosecutor since she was 12, has cemented her reputation for preparation an...


Entertainment & Sports


It will be age versus rage tonight when litigator Robert Shapiro, left, boxes disc jockey Danny Bonaduce to raise money for Vi...


Government


Jurors Award $14 Million to Bus Crash Victim

Jun. 12, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority must pay $14 million to a man who was partially par...


Assailants with alleged Taliban ties charged with beating an Afghan expatriate in West Sacramento must stand trial for assault...


Firm Watch


Dickstein Shapiro Hires Thelen Crew

Jun. 12, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Dickstein Shapiro lured business litigation attorneys James Turken and Amy ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Settling With Reservations

Jun. 12, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Jeff Kichaven offers a few suggestions to make insurance mediation a more amicable process. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Frances Rogers - Frances Rogers uncovers the downside of workplace anti-discrimination proposals. ...


Criminal


Man Gets Life in Cocaine Death of Attorney

Jun. 12, 2007
By Don Debenedictisn

SANTA ANA - A man who killed a young South Orange County lawyer by injecting her with a cocaine overdose will spend the rest o...


Firm Watch


McDermott Wins Competition for Litigator

Jun. 12, 2007
By Peter Matuszakn

Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - After finishing his work as second chair to Kenneth Starr, arguing Morse...


Firm Watch


Sonnenschein Nath Snags Biotechnology Specialist

Jun. 12, 2007
By Dan Schechnern

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal expanded its presence in San Francisco's life-sciences-...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - PALO ALTO - Boston-based Goodwin Procter launched its Palo Alto office last week, ...