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Alternative Dispute Resolution


'Med-Arb' Is a 'Dog Who Will Not Hunt'

Aug. 17, 2006
By David Minkown

Letter to the Editor - I refer to Victoria Fine's article reviewing med-arb, "Hybrid 'Med-Arb' Receives Mixed Reviews," (Los A...


Criminal


Ruling Might Bar Testimony in Murder Case

Aug. 17, 2006
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - A 2-year-old landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting hearsay in criminal prosecutions has cast a local hig...


Ruling in favor of a widow who had been denied benefits from her husband's life insurance plan, a federal appeals court Tuesda...


International


LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard's announcement late last month that it would acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., an enterprise so...


A November ballot initiative that would raise tobacco taxes to fund hospital emergency services and other health programs cont...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Is Admonished for Putting Baseball First

Aug. 17, 2006
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - A Riverside County judge has struck out with a judicial watchdog agency for waiting to take a verdict in a dou...


Large Firms


Pillsbury Winthrop Loses Two L.A. Partners

Aug. 17, 2006
By Drew Combsn

Kent B. Goss and Valerie M. Goo, Los Angeles-based partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, have departed the firm to join...


Four Morgan, Lewis & Bockius summer associates returned to law school last week not just having gained legal experience bu...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Forum Column - For the first time in perhaps more than a decade, Institutional Shareholder Services, the most prominent adviso...


Natural Resources


Focus Column - 'Please, sir, I want some more." For his modest request in seeking another bowl of gruel, the protagonist in Ch...


Environmental


Los Angeles officials hope a federal judge flushes a voter-approved Kern County measure that the city says discriminates again...


Criminal


Judge Limits Evidence in Gang Case--

Aug. 17, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - Taking a recent Supreme Court precedent into new territory, a federal judge has sharply limited the evidence prose...


Appellate Practice


A former "shock jock" at a college radio station can sue the school and its general counsel for defamation after he drew fire ...


Judicial Profile


Taking a Chance on Kids

Aug. 17, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Charles J. Koosed doesn't like to rush young offenders through his juvenile delinquency calendar for ...


Contracts


Unions and Hotels Gird for NLRB Battle

Aug. 16, 2006
By David Houstonn

LOS ANGELES - Workers at five Los Angeles nonunion hotels are embroiled in contentious organizing drives just as the areas hos...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Michael Halley - The Supreme Court's decisions about which cases it accepts to review are crucial for the ad...


Judges and Judiciary


San Francisco Judge to Retire After 20 Years

Aug. 16, 2006
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado, a veteran of two decades on the bench, is retiring Wednesday. ...


Letter to the Editor - Thank you for providing a well-balanced, broad brush stroke of workers' compensation practice. "How Has...


Entertainment & Sports


LOS ANGELES - After spending three and a half years as in-house counsel for NBC Universal, Camilo Echavarria has joined Davis ...


Insurance


Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - California Civil Code Section 2860 addresses an insurance carrier's duty to provide and pay...


If police departments want to investigate whether officers are making traffic stops based on the race of the driver, they don'...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, the idea of an individual's right to counsel in civil cases was endorsed by few people outside the...


Criminal


Panel Tosses Conviction of Carjacker

Aug. 16, 2006
By John Roemer

Los Angeles prosecutors failed to hand over evidence favorable to an armed-robbery defendant, leading a state appellate panel ...


Education



Criminal



Education


Forum Column - Our life experience colors our perspectives of various issues. I was a 33-year-old wife, mother and teacher whe...


Corporate


Deals

Aug. 15, 2006
By Victoria Fine

Deals - Myspace Will Welcome Google to Help Visitors


Government


WASHINGTON - Federal appellate Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld may be best known for writing a decision that was music to the ears o...


Judges and Judiciary


Governor Boosts Two Judges-Elect to Bench

Aug. 15, 2006
By Victoria Fine

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed two recently elected Superior Court judges to immediate judgeships. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - In Lockheed Litigation Cases, No. S132167, the state Supreme Court is poised to decide a legal issue that could...