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Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Voters handed defeats to two favorites in Los Angeles and Alameda judicial contests, while races remained too cl...


Appellate Practice


Growing up with Spanish-speaking parents is no excuse to miss a deadline for filing court papers while locked up in a Californ...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Nine attorneys at Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles have moved up and out. The lawyers, who formed the nucleus o...


Criminal


Judge Pulls Milberg From Committee

Jun. 9, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - For the first time since the firm's indictment, a federal judge in Minnesota has removed Milberg, Weiss, Bershad...


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court took up a closely watched case Wednesday that pits the news media against law enf...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Does L.A.'s Moratorium Have Teeth?

Jun. 8, 2006
By Anat Rubinn

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced a lawsuit in March to stop a downtown residential hotel own...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Politicians have for years enthusiastically accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions f...


Environmental


Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - In a 1998 lecture called "The Interdependence of Science and Law," U.S. Supreme Court J...


International


Focus Column - By Cynthia L. Jackson - In the quest to be globally "ethical," companies may be ironically violating employment...


Law Practice


Public Defender Was Tenacious Advocate

Jun. 8, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Saturday for Deputy Public Defender Michael Fischman, a 17-year veteran of th...


Law Practice


Lawyer Is Shot Outside His Home in L.A.

Jun. 8, 2006
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - A Century City attorney was shot several times outside his South Los Angeles home late Monday and left in critic...


SACRAMENTO - Gene Livingston has evolved from a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s to a lobbyist for the insurance and chemical ...


Judges and Judiciary


Rehnquist's Thesis Gets Public Airing

Jun. 8, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The new issue of the Stanford Law Review, published this week, offers a gift to die-hard fans of former Chief Jus...


Immigration


Judicial Picks Get Immigration Pass

Jun. 8, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - With Congress once again overhauling the nation's immigration laws, the courts will have plenty of work in the...


Litigation


Tech Executives Go to Court Over a Fence

Jun. 8, 2006
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - In the hills of Palo Alto, current and former chief executives of Silicon Valley technology companies are engaged i...


Criminal


Many Files of Pellicano's Remain Coded

Jun. 8, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Federal investigators have not cracked all the sophisticated codes indicted private detective Anthony Pellicano ...


Securities


SAN FRANCISCO - The number of private securities class actions filed in the United States dropped to the lowest level in nine ...


LOS ANGELES - Thirty-seven years ago, Ralph Nader came to Beverly Hills and scolded the lawyers. It made quite an impact on at...


Judicial Profile


SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos was a federal prosecutor, she sized up judge...


Entertainment & Sports


'Not Your Usual Santa Monica Garden'

Jun. 7, 2006
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - The day 350 urban gardeners were scheduled for eviction, Joan Baez showed up with her guitar to serenade the cro...


Real Estate/Development


Forum Column - By Todd J. Wenzel - In yet another move to limit people's constitutional right to life, liberty and property, t...


Litigation


Focus Column - By Martin N. Buchanan - In criminal and civil cases, the usual purpose of motions in limine is to obtain a ruli...


Technology & Science


Forum Column - By Micheline Wilcoxen - The telecommunication revolution is ushering in a brave new world. The convergence of ...


Law Practice


Mondale Asserts Bush Abuses Federal Laws

Jun. 7, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO - Most Americans might remember Walter F. Mondale as Jimmy Carter's second in command or the unsuccessful presid...


Firm Watch


Turning Law Firms Into Art Galleries

Jun. 7, 2006
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln

LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles offices of Fulbright & Jaworski moved to larger digs last year, partner Michael G. Smoo...


Boris Gorbis seems to take life with a sense of humor. His office is in the Flynt Building, as in Larry Flynt, the publisher o...


Education


The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday jumped back into the divisive issue of race-based school admissions, agreeing to consider a c...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick Remer, running for a hotly contested seat on the Alameda County Superior Court, spent Friday night o...


Criminal


A man accused of dangling his 2-year-old daughter off a balcony, beating up his wife and decapitating her cat will not be let ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's entire office should be disqualified from a fraud case against on...