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Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - As a child, Bonnie Sabraw sat entranced as her grandmother described fascinating lawsuits she worked on as leg...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle ...


Juvenile


L.A., S.F. Rank Near Bottom in Helping Kids

Apr. 20, 2006
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - California stands to lose $60 million in federal funding in 2007 if the state does not improve its care of abuse...


Law Practice


Court Mulls Right to Hire Attorney

Apr. 20, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

WASHINGTON - The plight of a criminal defendant whose Southern California attorney was yanked off his case in a Missouri court...


Litigation


Focus Column - By Don Willenburg - The "next big thing" in California law on expert witnesses will likely be the California Su...


Administrative/Regulatory


Book Review - By Gerald Sato - Albert Camus (1913-1960), the Nobel Prize-winning French author, has a reputation for morality ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Imre S. Szalai - Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sha...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Judge Was Devoted to Justice

Apr. 19, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for James P. Natoli, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge . ...


Constitutional Law


Panel Won't Hear Terrorism Case

Apr. 19, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

SAN FRANCISCO - Five federal appellate judges dissented Monday from a full-court refusal to reconsider a challenge to the cons...


Labor/Employment


What Is Retaliation Under Title VII?

Apr. 19, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

WASHINGTON - Tennessee railroad worker Sheila White, the only woman maintenance employee in her Memphis rail yard, complained ...


Criminal


Director Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI

Apr. 19, 2006
By Leslie Simmonsn

LOS ANGELES - A prominent Hollywood director and producer charged in connection with the long-running probe of former celebrit...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - A long tradition of male domination pervades the rural village in Cameroon, but a young rape victim and a long...


Litigation


Feds May Add Tax Charges Against Lazar

Apr. 19, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are preparing to add tax-related charges to the indictment pending against a former enterta...


Law Practice


Playing the Public Relations Role

Apr. 19, 2006
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - Raised under what she considers "idyllic" circumstances in Charleston, W.Va., attorney Patricia Glaser made her ...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday rejected a Christian student group's claim that Hastings College of the Law must fund t...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel Monday clarified that criminal defendants have the right to replace their privately re...


Discipline


Kerkorian's Ex-Wife Sues Pellicano, AT&T

Apr. 19, 2006
By Ed Boyern

LOS ANGELES - An alleged victim of celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano's illegal electronic eavesdropping filed an invasi...


Criminal


Mahony Must Provide Files on Two Priests

Apr. 19, 2006
By Ed Boyern

LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony must turn over files the archdiocese kept on two priests to Los Angeles prosecutors after ...


Criminal


Button Ruling Merits Review by High Court

Apr. 19, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals went too far in r...


Litigation


Patent Office's Profile Rises With Tech Problems

Apr. 18, 2006
By Lawrence Hurleyn

WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. ...


Law Practice


WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. Fellow pedestrians, stop sign...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 17

Apr. 18, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

SAN DIEGO -The law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP signed a 10-year lease valued at $27 million for 54,187 s...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You could call this column an open letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy. On Jan. 7, 2002, t...


Firm Watch


Meyers Nave Expands Its Environment to L.A.

Apr. 18, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Meyers Nave, an Oakland-based public entity law firm, is expanding into Southern California and recruiting vete...


Insurance


Focus Column - By Kirk A Pasich - Some insurance carriers recently have challenged whether their liability policies provide co...


Environmental


Hearing Is Believing; Seeing is Even Better

Apr. 18, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - There was no shortage of journalists on hand in the Supreme Court two months ago when Justice David H. Souter mad...


Appellate Practice


Casino Worker Must Wear Makeup

Apr. 18, 2006
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Wrestling with the equities of barkeep grooming standards, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 Fri...


Firm Watch


Real Estate Partner Will Seed 'Organic Growth'

Apr. 18, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Rosenthal, a longtime Bay Area real estate attorney, has joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson as a part...


Firm Watch


Labor Litigator Joins Morgan Lewis

Apr. 18, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Morgan Lewis & Bockius recently wrangled litigator Carla Feldman from Loeb & Loeb to join its labor and...


Firm Watch


Land-Use Vet Joins Armbruster

Apr. 18, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Robert "R.J." Comer, a fixture on the Los Angeles political scene as an attorney representing developers, has le...