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Judges and Judiciary


Persnickety Indio Bench Officer Carefully Considers Each Case

Jan. 20, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

INDIO - He describes himself as persnickety. Lawyers who have appeared before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas N. ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for an allegedly corrupt prosecutor has subpoenaed the San Francisco District Attorney's Office a...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - There's an old legal maxim that says, If you stack lawsuit money high enough, they will come ... even after the ...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group may be dead, but the legacy of its abuse of the state's Unfair Competition Law lingered Wednesd...


Law Practice


Young Lawyer on a Winning Streak

Jan. 19, 2006
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - Criminal defendants rarely request a public defender by name. One would think this maxim would be especially tru...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo - This week, the slumlords who own the Morrison Hotel will be brought to answer for crimes ...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Legendary labor organizer Clinton Jencks, who led mineworkers in New Mexico in a strike depi...


International


Focus Column - By Jennifer George - All countries in the European Union and the European Economic Area were required to implem...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why'; I dream of things that never were and ...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and local prosecutors have reached a $25 million settlement with AT&T resolv...


Corporate


High Court Scrutinizes Oil Giants' Joint Venture

Jan. 19, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Corporations planning a joint venture may have to think twice before signing on the dotted line. At least that'...


Criminal


Sexual-Abuse Trial Begins for Former Priest

Jan. 19, 2006
By Sandra Hernandez And Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Jury selection began Tuesday in the Los Angeles trial of a former priest accused of sexually abusing a boy for f...


Litigation


Suit Against Vatican Bank Advances

Jan. 19, 2006
By Brent Kendall

LOS ANGELES - A group of Holocaust survivors can proceed with a war-profiteering lawsuit against the Vatican Bank and a Cathol...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - When two seriously ill women asked permission in San Francisco federal court to smoke and grow marijuana witho...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - State labor unions won a rematch Tuesday. California's legislative effort to prevent businesses from spending ...


Education


School Officials Nix Intelligent Design Class

Jan. 19, 2006
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Hours before a federal judge was set to decide whether a rural California high school could teach intelligent de...


Administrative/Regulatory


State Likely to Pay Man for Years as Inmate

Jan. 19, 2006
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man is in line to receive the largest payment in state history to compensate him for spending 21 year...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Paul A. Turner knew in the third grade that he wanted to be a lawyer and pursued that dream throughout high scho...


Construction


Briefly

Jan. 18, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

WIRELESS TOWERS OK'd - A city may not deny a telecommunications company a permit to construct and install a wireless antenna b...


Energy Law


Boutique Bests Energy Goliath

Jan. 18, 2006
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A small Southern California law firm turned out to be a big player in this month's billion-dollar settlement of a...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 17

Jan. 18, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

MULTIFAMILY CORONA - Hammer Ventures purchased The Crossing, a 296-unit apartment complex at 2125 High Point Drive, for $53.9...


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Bush administration refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to reduce global warming, cla...


Administrative/Regulatory


Daily Journal Fills Pair of Key Editing Posts

Jan. 18, 2006
By Daily Journal Staff

LOS ANGELES - Two veteran journalists have been named to key editing positions at the Los Angeles Daily Journal. David Houston...


Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - It has been said that in life nothing is certain othe...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Merger activity remained strong in 2005 with 49 completed mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. law firms, ...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - The lawyer who won a record-setting jury verdict in a patent case is joining Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver &...


SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate attorney Jacob Schwarz, formerly of Palo Alto's Thoits, Love, Hershberger & McLean, has joined ...


Judges and Judiciary


Ex-Pension-Fund Trustees Will Go to Trial

Jan. 18, 2006
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Sam Diego County Superior Court judge on Friday bound over for trial six former trustees of the beleaguered mun...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - An Imperial County judge got himself disqualified from a false arrest case by discussing a pending case with ano...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, an East Coast-based intellectual property law firm that counts pharmaceutical b...