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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Nov. 14

Nov. 16, 2005
By Jack Briggs

RETAIL OCEANSIDE - Central Purchasing LLC, doing business as Harbor Freight Tools (a hardware store), signed a 60-month lease...


Military Law


Forum Column - By M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks - How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include ab...


Personal Injury & Torts


Focus Column - By David Martinez and Hassan Allen - Subject to certain exceptions, manufacturers, distributors and sellers of ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Water is essential for life, but lawyers become essential when there is too much or too li...


Corporate


Pizza Eaters Will Get Rebate Under Settlement

Nov. 16, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Pizza Hut diners here will get a break on prices, thanks to conditions of the settlement of a lawsuit that claime...


Firm Watch


L.A. Branch? Way-No Way

Nov. 16, 2005
By Drew Combs

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Law firm behemoth Baker & McKenzie recently passed on an opportunity to acquire the "v...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Though two California law firms have announced plans to outsource word processing work, many firms remain hesit...


Firm Watch


Spreading Out in San Diego

Nov. 16, 2005
By Kenneth Davis

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - To accommodate an influx of new attorneys, Latham & Watkins recently took over a secon...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Boom: 'Great Time for Law'

Nov. 16, 2005
By Anne Marie Ruff

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Anyone who has picked up a newspaper knows that the California real estate market is huge,...


Law Practice


The Importance of Being Global

Nov. 16, 2005
By Anne Marie Ruff

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - San Diego attorney Jay Rains is emblematic of just how far globalization in Southern Calif...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County sheriff's oversight body is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 2-year...


Government


Judge Says She Unknowingly Broke Campaign Rule

Nov. 16, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

VENTURA - Diana R. Hall, a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge in the hot seat for allegedly taking improper campaign c...


Firm Watch


Inland Empire Legal Leaps

Nov. 16, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Two decades ago, commuters getting off work could speed down Interstate 215 between Rivers...


Firm Watch


Stroock Finds Its Own Work

Nov. 16, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - When New York-based Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson publicly announced this s...


Litigation


Flush With Cash and Fighting A Battered Image

Nov. 16, 2005
By Cheryl Miller

LOS ANGELES - Television advertisements portraying trial lawyers as noble protectors of the civil justice system are scheduled...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Relishes His Complex-Case Assignment

Nov. 16, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - Mass torts can be some of the most complicated, even confounding, cases in the civil justice system. Dozens, in ...


LOS ANGELES - Contra Costa County prosecutors are trying to do something a lot of others probably would like to do, too. Make ...


Solo and Small Firms


Exhibit Reveals Fate of German Jewish Lawyers

Nov. 16, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ruth Grunfeld celebrated her ninth birthday early in Berlin in 1937, before her family left for what i...


Labor/Employment


Public Lawyers' Union OKs Pension Plan

Nov. 16, 2005
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The union representing state lawyers, administrative law judges and hearing officers voted overwhelmingly to rati...



Additions Bolster Caldwell's Ranks

Nov. 15, 2005
By Erin Park

LOS ANGELES - Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit has boosted its ranks to 17 lawyers by hiring three attorneys. The down...


Environmental


Evolving Strategies for Securing Open Space

Nov. 15, 2005
By Anne Marie Ruff

LOS ANGELES - A 20-year legal battle over 14 acres at the corner of Alameda and 41st streets in South Los Angeles points up ho...


Public Interest


No Criticism of City in L.A.'s Slumlord Fight

Nov. 15, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - Regarding your article "Tenants Sue Landlord After Housing Officials Don't Act" (Nov. 9 Los Angeles Dai...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Jillian Blanchard - This year, the Legislature's primary focus i...


Juvenile


Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Last Tuesday was a red-letter day for a blue state. Proposition 73 simply required p...


Judges and Judiciary


Columnist Mischaracterized Alito's Opinion

Nov. 15, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - I appreciate an editorial page that presents many reasoned views. However, in presenting those views, I...


Judges and Judiciary


Covina Attorney Becomes Court Commissioner

Nov. 15, 2005
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Superior Court judges have elected Covina attorney Rocky Lee Crabb as the court's newest...


Firm Watch


Loeb & Loeb in L.A. Lures Litigator

Nov. 15, 2005
By Drew Combs

LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb announced that Bruce Ishimatsu has joined the litigation department as a partner. Ishimatsu com...


Firm Watch


Holland Beefs Up Real Estate Practice

Nov. 15, 2005
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Brian Aronson said that Holland & Knight's commitment to beefing up its California real estate practice lur...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Robert C. Bonner, a top Department of Homeland Security official who recently resigned, plans to return to Gibs...


Zoning, Planning and Use


LOS ANGELES - In the industrial corridor along Alameda at 41st Street in South Los Angeles is a 14-acre community garden fill...