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Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On June 6, the voters of Los Angeles County voted out an incumbent Los Angeles Superior Co...


Firm Watch


Finance Partners Join S.F.'s Chapman and Cutler

Jun. 20, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

SAN FRANCISCO - Finance specialty firm Chapman and Cutler celebrated its two-year anniversary in the California market by gift...


Family


Veteran L.A. Attorney Will Head New Agency

Jun. 20, 2006
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Krekorian, a veteran attorney in the Los Angeles County Dependency Court system, has been chosen to head...


Public Interest


Bay Area Losing Repository of Public-Interest Law

Jun. 20, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

SAN FRANCISCO - Venerable public interest litigator Peter H. Reid is quitting the Bay Area and retiring to the verdant expanse...


Firm Watch


Milberg Weiss Loses Another Partner

Jun. 20, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Adding to a long list of woes, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman lost another partner on Friday when David ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - What's in a name? Judge not, lest ye be judged. These are two of the reactions to Los Angeles Superior Court Ju...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


A Lawyer Lured Into Local Politics

Jun. 20, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - Richards Watson & Gershon associate Patrick K. Bobko comes from a family of public servants. ...


Product Liability


LOS ANGELES - In law, you win a few, you lose a few and sometimes you have to have to wait a few agonizing extra days to see w...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Almost four years after firing an investigator who questioned whether hired-gun lawyers from a politically conne...


Criminal


A Death in Jail Stirs Challenge on Discovery

Jun. 20, 2006
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - After a depressed and ailing Compton auto mechanic was found hanging by a bed sheet in Los Angeles County Jail, ...


Litigation


Courts Keep a Tighter Lid on Punitives

Jun. 20, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years ago, half a dozen women working for Ralphs supermarkets hired the same San Francisco lawyer who had ...


Immigration


With an impeccably tied, color-coordinated turban and a good suit, Navneet Singh Chugh visibly signals that he is proudly and ...


Judicial Profile


Picking Up Speed

Jun. 20, 2006
By Paria Kooklann

With its fluorescent lighting and bare cement floors, Commissioner Anthony B. Drewry's courtroom at the Sylmar Juvenile Courth...


Law Practice


On the Move

Jun. 19, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

Laurence Goldberg joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office.


Law Practice


DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS

Jun. 19, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

DISBARMENTS - Richard Anthony Sbeglia, 53, New York (May 10) - Sbeglia was summarily disbarred after his criminal conviction i...


Judicial Profile


A New Perspective

Jun. 18, 2006
By Donna Dominon

NAPA - After practicing law for nearly a quarter-century in Napa County, Rodney G. Stone was ready for a different perspective...


Administrative/Regulatory


LOS ANGELES - Wags around the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles are quick to point out advantages of the buildin...


Discipline


Forum Column - By Peter R. Jarvis, David J. Elkanich, Rene C. Holmes, and Allison D. Rhodes - Disciplinary Rule 7 of the 1969 ...


Insurance


Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - In recent years, a substantial number of lawsuits have been filed against the directors and of...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Beverly R. Frank - In a breathtaking new ruling, a federal court in New York enjo...


Environmental


Jury's Is Not Final Say for Punitives

Jun. 17, 2006
By Dennis Pfaffn

SAN FRANCISCO - Litigants in an apparently unprecedented water pollution case have charted an aggressive timetable for testing...


Judges and Judiciary


Child Porn Scandal Leads Agency to Ban Ex-Judge

Jun. 17, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday publicly censured former Orange County Superior Court Jud...


Verdicts


SACRAMENTO - Irving Perluss still goes to the office every day. That might be considered unremarkable except for the fact tha...


Litigation


SAN DIEGO - A class action challenging Starbucks' practice of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips won't go to trial ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 percent of the partners at Reed Smith and London-based Richards Butler have approved a union betwee...


Criminal


Protectors Contend With Witnesses' Need for Home

Jun. 17, 2006
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - After a murder witness under her protection was gunned down by masked men last month, San Francisco District A...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - While the overall cost of being a public company decreased in 2005, audit fees and other compliance expenses a...


Criminal


Police Needn't Knock First, Court Rules

Jun. 17, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for police and prosecutors, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judg...


Corporate


SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge this week signed off on $161 million in legal fees to plaintiffs' lawyers who won the record $3....


Government


WASHINGTON - When landlords and tenants fall out, they go to a judge. But what happens when the disgruntled tenant is the jud...