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Construction


Subcontractors Seek Shield From Full Liability

Apr. 27, 2005
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Tommy Conner, like many other subcontractors who increasingly struggle to find insurance, is developing new stra...


Litigation


Legal Victory Thwarts More Asbestos Suits

Apr. 27, 2005
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Dow Chemical and its subsidiary, Union Carbide, a former seller of asbestos fibers, are among the supporters of ...


Immigration


Gay Mexican Gets 2nd Chance at Asylum

Apr. 27, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A gay immigrant who was once beaten unconscious by police outside a gay bar in his native Mexico deserves a s...


Firm Watch


Litigation partner Nancy L. Stagg found herself in a very big pond in January when the north San Diego County office of Gray C...


Firm Watch


Not satisfied with the challenges of an established practice, business litigator Eric Riezman has always wanted to help build ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


As the sun set on Michael Marcus' six-year term as a State Bar Court Judge, he thought his next career horizon might be a judi...


Litigation


Cochran Firm Arranges Equity-Partner Deal

Apr. 26, 2005
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Perhaps the secret was out the moment that Browne Greene rose when members of the Cochran Firm were asked to st...


Litigation


Hospitals Can't Make Claims Against Patient Awards

Apr. 26, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

In a decision that could affect hundreds of lawsuits across California, the state Supreme Court recently ruled that hospitals ...


Law Practice


Marking Time

Apr. 26, 2005
By Contributing Writer

EXTRA Column - Technology - By Bill Makinney - Managing liability is a major issue for every law firm, whether it's a huge mul...


Firm Watch


For construction and real estate defense litigator Thomas Tarkoff's clients, his small, three-partner firm wasn't enough. Rath...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against JAMS

Apr. 26, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS Inc. is immune from suit even though one of its arbitrators incorrectly issued an...


Litigation


Slumbuster

Apr. 26, 2005
By Adrianna Khoo

Eric Castelblanco says he prides himself in "always taking the road less traveled," even if it's a road that's steered him fro...


Firm Watch


After 10 years at the legal wheel for auto paint chain Earl Scheib Inc., David Sunkin jump-started a career in private practic...


Litigation


When Occidental College student Jason Antebi hosted his own talk show on the campus radio station, he offended students with a...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 25

Apr. 26, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

HOSPITALITY CORONADO ISLAND - SCP Coronado LLC purchased the 41,700-square-foot Coronado Plaza at 1330 Orange Ave. from G&...


Corporate


Virtual Data Rooms Make File Management Easier

Apr. 26, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

When Larry Braun began his career as a corporate attorney, the Internet didn't exist. As a result, neither did e-mail or virtu...


Litigation


Thomas Holman claims that his employers gave him a dangerous painting job after he complained of racial discrimination. He fel...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Criminal trials are not a spectator sport. As recently noted by the 9th ...


Entertainment & Sports


Moonlighting Lawyer Article Wastes Space

Apr. 26, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - (Regarding "Attorney Doubles as Porn Star," April 20 Los Angeles Daily Journal; "Lawyer Keeps Clients W...


Family


Stop The Yammering, Wake Up And Smell The Democracy

Apr. 26, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - I am sick to death of reading the seemingly endless hooey streaming from the word processors of fools a...


Firm Watch


What really impresses corporate attorney Richard Grant about Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket is that it packs q...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Here's a pop quiz for all the true patriots in the group: How many times does the word ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - I have a dream. That one day Roe v. Wade , as dreadful a decision as Dred Scott , wi...


Firm Watch


Tax Lawyer Scurries Back to Heller Ehrman

Apr. 26, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Windfeld-Hansen realized almost immediately that he made the wrong decision when he left Heller, Ehrman,...


Criminal


Defender Suggests Instructions Confused Jury

Apr. 26, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury may have been confused about a judge's instructions when they convicted a Brinks security gu...


Law Practice


It's no 9 to 5

Apr. 26, 2005
By Stefanie Knapp

EXTRA Feature - Editors' note: Daily Journal EXTRA recently assembled a group of high-ranking in-house counsel who are women t...


Litigation


Staffers Share $24 Million Overtime-Pay Accord

Apr. 26, 2005
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - About 30,000 employees at an El Segundo technology company will share $24 million under an overtime-pay settlem...


Intellectual Property


Medtronic OKs $1.35 Billion Payout

Apr. 26, 2005
By Tim Willert

SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles surgeon who sued medical giant Medtronic Inc. over the use of his inventions and won has agreed to ...


Government


Schwarzenegger Picks General Counsel of VA

Apr. 26, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Robert David Wilson, a state deputy attorney general in Los Angeles and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been appo...


Judges and Judiciary


Christian Telecast Criticizing Judges Concerns Attorneys

Apr. 26, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Christian telecast set for broadcast Sunday to criticize judges as out-of-control liberal activists has caused ...