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Bankruptcy


Lockyer Energy Suit OK Despite Bankruptcy

Feb. 12, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - An energy crisis lawsuit brought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer could go forward, despite the bankruptcy of...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator William Gaede is leaving Cooley Godward to join McDermott Will & Emery in ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Leonard McSherry was a success story for the New York-based Innocence Project of Cardozo Law School, a convicted...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a $110 million lawsuit Thursday against several companies and ind...


Government


Judge Dumps Some Laundering Claims

Feb. 12, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Thursday threw out charges against six associates of attorney Pierce O'Donnell but agreed th...


Litigation


SANTA ANA - In the second ruling on the issue in as many days, an Orange County-based appellate panel said Thursday that pendi...


Litigation


Prop. 64 Ruling

Feb. 11, 2005
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has ruled that Proposition 64 should apply retroactively to restrict lawsuits file...


Discipline


Judge Defends Rulings, Appearances in Media

Feb. 11, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Facing possible sanctions by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Kevin A. Ross conceded he should face...


Appellate Practice


Judge Lets Her Lighter Side Shine

Feb. 11, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of what you need to know about Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger is found in her pet's n...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Feb. 10

Feb. 11, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - The Koll Co. purchased the 106,782-square-foot Hunter Business Park, a multitenant industrial property ...


Government


Teen Shooting

Feb. 11, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - The FBI has joined the investigation into the police shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown at the end of a car ch...


Construction


Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri R. Brown - Plaintiff contractors sometimes are able to recoup lost profits in breac...


Law Practice


Forum Column - By Christopher Prince - For the nearly two years that I've served on my firm's "firmwide diversity committee," ...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Kenneth C. Hardy - Stephen Williams, a fifth-grade teacher of the Cupertino Union School District in Califor...


Law Practice


City Attorney Helped Zone Mission Valley

Feb. 11, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN DIEGO - Mona Norris Andreen, a pioneering female San Diego deputy city attorney in an era when few female lawyers practic...


Litigation


Class-Action Act Could Get Senate OK Today

Feb. 11, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Legislation to move interstate class action litigation from state to federal court stayed on track for Senate ap...


Criminal


Accuser Testifies About Sex History

Feb. 11, 2005
By Tim Willert

SANTA ANA - The 19-year-old woman at the center of a gang-rape retrial admitted Wednesday to having sex on camera with one of...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Have you ever wondered whether California's celebrity criminal defendants could serve a useful soci...


Large Firms


Pillsbury Winthrop, Shaw Pittman to Merge

Feb. 11, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - After two months of intense negotiations, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.'s Shaw Pittm...


Criminal


VENTURA - Santa Maria is quiet. Again. The Michael Jackson trial in the bucolic Central Coast city went on hiatus Wednesday, ...


Contracts


Unauthorized Use of Photo Nets Millions

Feb. 11, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - A picture is worth a thousand words - or, in Russell Christoff's case, $15.9 million. That's how much a Glendale...


Litigation


Ex-Prosecutor Accuses State Bar of Retaliation

Feb. 10, 2005
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor for the State Bar claims he was wrongfully forced out of his job and defamed by co-worker...


Law Practice


False Counsel

Feb. 10, 2005
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A man who faked being a tax attorney pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud Tuesday during a break in jury s...


Appellate Practice


Panel Orders Removal of Judge in Vioxx Case

Feb. 10, 2005
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ordered Judge Peter D. Lichtman removed as coordinator of Los Angeles Vioxx litigation af...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Feb. 9

Feb. 10, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Irvine Biomedical Inc. signed a seven-year, $2.2 million lease for a 20,160-square-foot industrial buildi...


Judges and Judiciary


9th Circuit, Ten Commandments

Feb. 10, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The highest court in the West suddenly has been drawn into the fray over public displays of the Ten Commandmen...


Government


Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - A republic, wrote John Adams, is "a government of laws, not men." Adams' succinct stat...


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California spends $1.5 billion annually on parolees who mostly fail while they are on paro...


Litigation


Focus Column - Litigation - By Jens B. Koepke - Your client, after losing a contentious trial, has been hit with a $1.5 millio...


Judges and Judiciary


Memorial Service Scheduled

Feb. 10, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A memorial gathering will take place Thursday at Riverside's historic civil courthouse for Riverside Superior Cou...