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Criminal


Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Jose Padilla, an American citizen, had an extensive criminal record when he converted to...


Technology & Science


Focus Column - By Andrew P. Li - The fact that electronic discovery is essential and prevalent in the legal practice has now b...


Law Practice


Expert in Finance Befriended All

Jan. 31, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for business and finance attorney Lawrence H. Greaves. Greaves, managing partner of en...


Law Practice


DAs Refuse to Back Reform of Three-Strikes

Jan. 31, 2006
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's fellow prosecutors have refused to endorse his bid to reform the st...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Starts Taking Over Fake Law Firms

Jan. 31, 2006
By Savannah Blackwell

SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the State Bar was powerless to do anything about the charlatans who pretended to be attorneys - m...


Labor/Employment


Courts Unsympathetic to Injured Officers' Cases

Jan. 31, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO - Last week was rough for California police officers with knee and leg injuries. On Friday, the 3rd District Cou...


Firm Watch


New Partner at Remcho is Former FPPC Chair

Jan. 31, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Karen Getman, former chairwoman of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission, has been named a partner in ...


Education


Coalition Opposes Challenge to Magnet Schools

Jan. 31, 2006
By Bobbi Murrayn

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of parents, teachers and civil rights groups has filed court papers, seeking to oppose lawsuits chal...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Score one for Goliath. Or more precisely, score three for Goliath. That is the number of partners that recently...


Education


LOS ANGELES - UCLA School of Law has a secret admirer. The school received a $1 million gift from an anonymous alumnus to end...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Wandering Senior Finds Way to Courtroom

Jan. 31, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

WESTMINSTER - In the dark, early-morning hours of Nov. 8, 2004, Jacqueline Anderson was found seven miles from the Santa Ana r...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Snowboarders beware: Getting into a snowball fight while speeding down a mountain might just get you sued. The ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES -It's not uncommon for Judge Thomas I. McKnew Jr. to lecture the first potential juror of the day who tries to get...


Family


Briefly

Jan. 30, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

OK FOR DOMESTIC PARTNERS - California's domestic partnership laws do not violate Proposition 22, the voter initiative defining...



On the Move

Jan. 30, 2006
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Carroll, Burdick & McDonough has named Raymond Tittmann and Gregg Adam partners in the firm's San Francisco ...


Judges and Judiciary


With Honors

Jan. 30, 2006
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Long Beach Bar Association recently honored Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard W. Lyman Jr. and...


Firm Watch


Briefly

Jan. 30, 2006
By Staff Writer

New Foley Associates Will Make $135,000 Foley & Lardner on Friday became the latest firm to announce it would boost associ...


Criminal


Looming Battle Over Three-Strikes

Jan. 28, 2006
By Ryan Oliver

PALM SPRINGS - A political battle is looming for Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, and his likely opponents ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN JOSE - After spending his first two years on the bench in the foreign legal territory of misdemeanor criminal and family c...


Personal Injury & Torts


Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Booth - Since 1993, the law governing the liability of a general contractor for injuries to an e...


Education


Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - Every Feb. 1, roughly one-third of California attorneys must certify their compliance with ...


Focus Column - By Gunnar Birgisson - A friend at another law firm told me about a discussion from a recent firm meeting. The i...


Verdicts


Business Wins $265 Million in Patent Settlement

Jan. 28, 2006
By Peter Zuckerman

LOS ANGELES - An Irvine health care products company won $265 million in the settlement of a patent case over equipment used ...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - As a journalist in Alaska, I was dispatched to a small fishing village called Cordova the day after a federal ...


Government


Kenneth Starr Leads Killer's Clemency Fight

Jan. 28, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth W. Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school, planned today to petition Gov. Arnold Schwarzene...


Government


Senator Questions Courthouse Plan

Jan. 28, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - State Sen. Joe Dunn, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had to ask several questions to learn how the S...


Juvenile


Errors Don't Change Juvenile-Offender Ruling

Jan. 28, 2006
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - In what a state appellate panel called "an unfortunate but blessedly rare" occurrence, the justices have affirm...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court criticized Ventura police for conducting a "classic fishing expedition" by searching a...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Scott Douglas never finds his work as a mediator boring. Every day brings an interesting problem to solve, he sa...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN DIEGO - Jay M. Bloom was an experienced appellate attorney in 1986 when he went to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue a deat...