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Judges and Judiciary


Justices Refuse To Consider Judge's Appeal

Mar. 30, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the prosecution of former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ron...


International


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday acknowledged that it faced weighty, difficult questions in deciding whether federal ...


LOS ANGELES - The skeletal remains found in the chimney of an abandoned halfway house in South Los Angeles over the weekend b...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Mercedes calls the S500 "the world's premier luxury sedan." But the Las Vegas woman who found the brakes were...


SANTA ANA - The mother of the man on trial for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was excused from the witnes...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley comes home from a hard day at the office and greets his ...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community saw last week how prosecutors react when one of their own turns himself in, 16 years late...


Criminal


Jury Will Hear Old Charges in Jackson Case

Mar. 30, 2005
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - In a major blow to Michael Jackson's defense, a judge will allow the jury to hear testimony that the pop singer ...


Criminal


HAYWARD - The Oakland Diocese knew that one of its priests was a serial child molester, but church officials shuffled him from...


Public Interest


Returnee Will Expand Manatt's Pro Bono Effort

Mar. 29, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Cristin Zeisler has been both a large-firm corporate attorney and a professional do-gooder. But what she really ...


Litigation


City Loses in Court After Chopping Hedge

Mar. 29, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

After four years of quarreling with local resident Philip J. Feiner Jr.'s "willful defiance" over the height of the hedge in h...


Firm Watch


Even before the mergers that made them part of global megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Esther Lardent says, leaders at th...


Appellate Practice


Court Allows Sargon to Collect Lawyer Fees From USC

Mar. 29, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

Two years after winning a jury verdict in its patent infringement dispute with USC, dental-appliance maker Sargon Lazarof and ...


Litigation


Roberto Moreno had worked 11 years as the finance director for the city of King City when the City Council met in closed sessi...


Firm Watch


In a move that whittles its Southern California office to 10 attorneys, the Los Angeles office of Hancock, Rothert & Bunsh...


Technology & Science


Cybershowca se

Mar. 29, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Column Law - Firm Management - By Sharon Berman - The online marketing world has changed dramatically since the years when peo...


Firm Watch


Queen bees, wannabes and everyone in between showed up for the 5th annual Lantern Awards luncheon and fund-raiser March 16. ...


Firm Watch


As the former director and founder of the Public Health Trust in Oakland, Marice Ashe had pretty lofty goals when interviewing...


Firm Watch


Rick Cohen uses the language of romance to describe his firm's recent merger with eight-attorney Phoenix firm Anderson Brody L...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers involved in pending clergy sex abuse cases offered conflicting views of the significance of the first...


Firm Watch


Sonnenschein Lures Proposition 65 Star

Mar. 29, 2005
By Tina Spee

Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Donnell Shaeffer Mortimer lost a partner this month in a move that gave Sonnenschein Nath &a...


Law Practice


Play On

Mar. 29, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

Once it became apparent that Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger would merge with Phoenix firm Anderson B...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for March 28

Mar. 29, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - Rolling Hills Frito-Lay purchased a 23.5-acre lot in the Agua Mansa Industrial Center from Lowe Enterpr...


Firm Watch


In Good Hands

Mar. 29, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

After detouring past a police sport utility vehicle deployed in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel to park on bustling Sunset Dr...


Firm Watch


A year ago, Emery Mitchell, of-counsel at Shearman & Sterling, and Shane Byrne, chairman of Baker & McKenzie's corpora...


Employee Benefits


Former EBay Workers Sue Over Stock-Option Changes

Mar. 29, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

In the days when computer-powered fortunes jumped and fell seemingly every day, the phrase "stock options" caught the interest...


Real Estate/Development


At some point, the glitz and glamour of Hollywood Boulevard began to wear off, and spray paint and litter took its place. ...


Transactions


Integrated Health Care Buys Orange County Hospitals

Mar. 29, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

Century City health care firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman represented Integrated Health Care Holdings in its acquisition of fo...


Firm Watch


Sen. Sheila Kuehl encouraged the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights to honor Bruce Broillet again in 10 years, saying...


Firm Watch


Energy finance attorney David Spielberg has plugged himself into a new circuit. A former partner with Stoel Rives, Spielberg j...