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LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge on Friday blocked attorney Stephen Yagman's attempts to depose a Daily Journal report...


Insurance


State on Hook for Costs in Holocaust-Law Case

Mar. 15, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - California's Insurance Commissioner is looking for an angle to appeal a court ruling that leaves California t...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - While teaching U.S. Supreme Court case law to her class of 16-year-old high-school students in Connecticut, Holl...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI need not expedite the release of documents explaining its investigation of hundreds of Muslims and in...


Law Practice


Good Samaritans or Mercenaries?

Mar. 15, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - When attorneys Michael Mendelson and Wayne Lesser tipped off San Francisco officials in 1992 that a major pro...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - The turmoil over federal sentencing guidelines took a new turn late Friday with an announcement by the 9th U.S...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for March 11

Mar. 12, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.1 million lease for 130,200 square feet of warehouse space at 4201...


Real Estate/Development


Jayburgers' Owner Goes to Court

Mar. 12, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Do you want fries with that lawsuit? To the chagrin of late-night snackers, club-goers and other lovers of egg-t...


Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - A prosecutor's job is to represent the people - and to do justice. Doing justice means that the...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Martin L. Pitha - When we last heard about them, a group of people who anonymously posted negative rema...


Litigation


Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - In the unending battle to keep guns out of the hands o...


Law Practice


Estates Lawyer Practiced for Six Decades

Mar. 12, 2005
By Allison Schifani

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for G.G. Baumen, a Los Angeles sole practitioner for six decades. Baumen died of hear...


Criminal


San Bernardino Prosecutor Dies in Head-On Car Collision

Mar. 12, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Jennifer L. Brooks, a San Bernardino deputy district attorney and daughter of an Orange County Superior Cou...


Corporate


Leadership Change Coming at Farella Braun

Mar. 12, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at the helm of Farella Braun & Martel, tax and business attorney William Schlinkert has a...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge will hear arguments today about whether civil-rights attorney Stephen Yagman can ques...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has settled a lawsuit over a lay chaplain's expulsion from county jail by a...


Litigation


Oakland Diocese Could Face Punitive Damages

Mar. 12, 2005
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could be forced to pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse as a ...


Judges and Judiciary


Novice Family Law Commissioner Just Does It

Mar. 12, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - As both trial lawyer and manager at Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster, Maren E. Nelson spent the last dozen y...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Isn't Afraid to Take a Stand

Mar. 12, 2005
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - In two terms on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, Jeff Almquist developed a reputation as an environmentali...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Jesse James Hollywood was "polite, respectful and concerned" following his capture in Brazil and his transfer to...


Discipline


Judge Tosses Suit Against City Attorney

Mar. 12, 2005
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera that accused him of breach...


Criminal


Judge Grants Wider Access to SFPD's Lab

Mar. 12, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan issued a tentative order Thursday providing greater transparenc...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - When the 700 lawyer Pillsbury Winthrop announced it would merge with the 300 lawyer Shaw Pittman, leaders of b...


Solo and Small Firms


Comatose Woman's Spouse Gets $1 Million Offer

Mar. 12, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego entrepreneur and stem-cell supporter on Thursday offered $1 million to a Florida man to keep his bra...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for March 10

Mar. 11, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL MANTECA - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $13.2 million construction loan for Hunsaker Development's Manteca...


Law Practice


Hertzberg's Backers Mull Direction

Mar. 11, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - With attorney Bob Hertzberg's defeat Tuesday in the Los Angeles mayoral race, his many backers in the legal comm...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - Every year when I attend a national conference of administrators for America's colleges and...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A recent newspaper headline caught my attention: "Gifts Accepted by Supreme Court." My fi...


Focus Column - Cyberlaw - By Andrew B. Serwin - California has long been at the forefront of regulating Internet and privacy i...


Litigation


City Council Votes to Remove Cross

Mar. 11, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - After weathering 16 years of legal challenges, a historic cross standing on public land atop a hill in La Jolla wi...