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Entertainment & Sports


Thunder Road Tempts Inland Empire Lawyer

Aug. 29, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

SAN BERNARDINO - Bill Shapiro has no intention of ditching his job as a personal-injury and product-liability lawyer. He loves...


Contracts


SAN FRANCISCO - More than 35,000 people are headed to the Nevada desert in the coming week for the counterculture party and so...


Military Law


SAN DIEGO - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $250,000 jury verdict for a former San Diego police officer who cla...


Government


City Attorney Worked Only on Side of Voters

Aug. 29, 2006
By Martin Bergn

Erin Park's recent article (Daily Journal, Aug. 3) mischaracterized the role of the Los Angeles city attorney's office in revi...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius expanded its employee stock ownership plan practice to San Francisco last week wit...


Law Practice


Transactional Lawyer Joins DLA Piper

Aug. 29, 2006
By Robert Iafolla

LOS ANGELES - Transactional attorney Ronen Elad has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary as a partner in its Century City office...


Law Practice


Jackson DeMarco Hires New Zealand Litigator

Aug. 29, 2006
By Rebecca Beyer

LOS ANGELES - From Kansas to Korea, attorney Tymothy MacLeod has litigated his way around the world, landing most recently in...


Securities


FOCUS COLUMN - In 2005, the total value of all federal securities class settlements, excluding those for Enron, WorldCom and C...


Judges and Judiciary


New Math: One of Nine Votes Equals a Majority?

Aug. 29, 2006
By David Minkown

FORUM COLUMN - At last count, there were nine justices on the United States Supreme Court. By any standard arithmetic computat...


Judges and Judiciary


Susanne S. Shaw already has left the Orange County Superior Court, but she hasn't left her troubled career behind her. ...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - The 2006 class of Supreme Court law clerks will be something of a boys club, as just seven of the 36 law clerks-1...


Judges and Judiciary


Democrats Restore 25 Judicial Slots

Aug. 29, 2006
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - The Democratic leadership in the Assembly has restored 25 judicial slots to a pending bill that would increase th...


Law Practice


Buchalter Nemer Gains Tax Partner

Aug. 29, 2006
By Annemarie Ruffn

LOS ANGELES - Tax attorney Chad C. Coombs has joined the tax credit practice group in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Neme...


Judicial Profile


Taming Judicial Butterflies

Aug. 29, 2006
By Claude Walbert

When veteran San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis moved last year from the criminal courts to family law, he worr...


Judicial Profile


Time Out!

Aug. 29, 2006
By Paria Kooklann

VENTURA - Commissioner Bruce A. Young has a technique he uses when the litigants in his family law courtroom get too argumenta...


Large Firms


On the Move

Aug. 28, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

McDermott Will & Emery added James W. Soong as of-counsel to the firm's Silicon Valley office. Soong's practice focuses on...


Family


Panel Rejects Claim From Toddlers' Kin

Aug. 26, 2006
By John Roemer

The parents of two young brothers who died when their foster mother left them locked in a car in Lancaster on a sweltering Jul...


Litigation


July a SLAPP-Happy Month at State High Court

Aug. 26, 2006
By David Minkown

The California Supreme Court issued four opinions late last month dealing with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation...


Media


Bonds Scoop Hits Harder Than Secrecy

Aug. 26, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

If not for journalists, fans at baseball stadiums across America might not have spent the summer booing Barry Bonds. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Neutral Provides 'Reality Check' to His Clients

Aug. 26, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

SAN DIEGO - One spring afternoon in 1992, Thomas Gniatkowski was knee deep in an arbitration when his secretary burst into the...


Labor/Employment


Domestic partnership is a family law issue, right? So what does it have to do with employers? A lot. California's domestic par...


Environmental


Study Provides Inadequate Data on Species

Aug. 26, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

Your Aug. 21 article on the recent report assessing regional Habitat Conservation Plans ("Study Questions Effectiveness of Hab...


Energy Law


Unpredictable and continually increasing energy costs show no signs of relenting. During July, high temperatures and resulting...


Verdicts


After hundreds of investors lost $240 million in a securities scam, a judge ruled that the state agency responsible for protec...


Media


SAN FRANCISCO - Barney, the fictional purple dinosaur known for his songs about love and hugs, could be headed to court. ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Another Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan litigator is leaving to join Steptoe & Johnson's newly minted C...


Public Interest


Police Defend Officers on Skid Row

Aug. 26, 2006
By Anat Rubinn

LOS ANGELES - Defending the actions of police officers on Skid Row, a spokesman for Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Bratto...


Technology & Science


Apple Computer has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a dispute over a patent used in its iPod, the company's popular digita...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys guilty of the worst behavior are a step closer to never practicing law again. ...


LOS ANGELES - Attorney Craig S. Summers turned down an offer to join Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear when he graduated from Lo...