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Law Practice


Santa Clara DA Says He'll Retire

May 18, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy made it official Monday, announcing that he will retire at the...


Criminal


Woo Unsealed

May 18, 2005
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ordered unsealed an unspecified number of secret documents in the case file of a forme...


Focus Column - Tax Law - By Thomas F. Carlucci and Mark T. Schieble - You're a tax director of a multinational corporate group...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Jamie Lee Curtis and Jacqueline Conner - To get this off the table first, you must understand that both of u...


Admiralty/Maritime


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "I think that the government has successfully proved that any service member has reasonable ...


Government


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can be sued for violations of the federal Ameri...


Litigation


Jury Finds Insurers Liable for Cost of Stringfellow Acid Pits Cleanup

May 18, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury Monday dealt a blow to seven insurance companies that tried to wiggle out of covering damag...


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley denounced legislation that two California congressmen introduc...


Corporate


Ex-Executive Pleads in Price-Fixing Scheme

May 18, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Bayer AG executive has agreed to plead guilty to participating in an international conspiracy to fix...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - A case that started with a basketball foul ended Monday with three justices on the state's highest court accu...


Column - By Garry Abrams - A federal judge has approved the taking of a "preservation deposition" of an imprisoned informant w...


Criminal


Judges Appointed

May 18, 2005
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - A career prosecutor and civil litigator will be added to the Riverside Superior Court bench and a criminal def...


Law Practice


School Alumni Press Officials To Quit Posts

May 18, 2005
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - A group of University of West Los Angeles law school alumni has offered to stand behind a $1-million line of cr...


Litigation


State Bar Elects Riverside Attorney President

May 18, 2005
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - James O. Heiting, a Riverside personal-injury attorney known for his work to help lawyers with substance-abus...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Monday, May 16

May 17, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Kumho Tire USA signed a 12-year, $34.9 million lease for 830,485 square feet of industrial spac...


Firm Watch


Surfer Dude

May 17, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

The Scene - By Draeger Martinez - The Beverly Hills Bar Association recently honored Tom Hansen as its Entertainment Lawyer of...


Firm Watch


Ever since founding Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif in 1996, Stuart Liner has been trying to convince litigator A...


Media


Bruce Anderson, who publishes the Anderson Valley Advertiser, is well known around Mendocino County for his poison pen. One of...


Firm Watch


Equipped with popcorn and candy, Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Fumiko Wasserman, John Wiley and Consuelo Marshall served a...


Firm Watch


Hoping to broaden its exposure to public agency clients in Los Angeles, Vienna, Va.-based Wickwire Gavin snagged partners Nowl...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mediator Handles Disputes in an Even-Handed Way

May 17, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

ADR Profile - Jeffrey Krivis calls a story he penned about a man who sued his employer for wrongful termination "Independence ...


Judges and Judiciary


In Chambers

May 17, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

Los Angeles Judicial Officer Trades Robe for Coveralls in Napa Valley Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Guillermina G. B...


Securities


Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and Caesar's Entertainment Inc. have completed the sale of four casinos to an affiliate of Colony ...


Appellate Practice


A Mexican national spending time in a San Diego jail on drug charges is saying he may not have ended up there if sheriff's dep...


Entertainment & Sports


A drama is unfolding behind the scenes of "Judging Amy," one that's potentially more eye-opening than anything broadcast on th...


Firm Watch


For almost six months, Kenneth Stipanov was a man without a firm. The San Diego real estate lawyer's two-attorney partnership,...


Criminal


In San Bernardino, Judges Become Jugglers

May 17, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Every day, Tara Reilly rides herd. The San Bernardino drug court judge first coaxes the sheriff into lending...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


At a recent conference, the president of the Southern California Mediation Association spoke out from the audience to criticiz...


Environmental


Soka University's recent agreement to sell 588-acres of woodlands in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains was the culminati...


Firm Watch


Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's Los Angeles office began the spring by hiring a young, rising star and a veteran attorney ...