For hundreds of movie and computer professionals attending iHollywood Forum's Digital Studio Summit 2004, the mood could be su...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Effective Mediators Must Master 'Physical Grammar'
By Eron Yehuda
"Everybody, uh ... losing, um ... lawyers ... every ..." The room full of mediators broke up into giggling and clapping as Los...
Brian Strange, a partner with Los Angeles' Strange & Carpenter, has reached the peak of his profession with numerous multi...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Mad Engine Inc./Zimbabwe Properties LLC has purchased a 120,022-square-foot industrial building located...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Alex Ricciardulli - There's "tough on crime," there's "soft on crime" - and then there's smart ...
Government
California Lawyer Laments His Failure to Deliver Florida to Kerry
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Forum Column - By William Bennett Turner - The fire ant bites still itch. My nose is peeling. The real discomfort, though, com...
Judges and Judiciary
Republicans' Attacks on Probity of Federal Judiciary Are Un-American
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Forum Column - By Dennis Herrera - For the 48 percent of American voters justifiably concerned about Bush administration claim...
Administrative/Regulatory
Working Stiffs May Get To Sue Police Under Civil RICO
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Finally, some working stiffs may get a shot at police in civil RICO actions because their "...
Appellate Practice
'It's Always Been That Way' Isn't Always the Best Way
By Philip Carrizosa
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - In 1803, the British created a civil service position calling for a man to stand on the Cliffs ...
SAN JOSE - In an early test of the legality of keyword advertising by search engine companies, a federal judge in Alexandria,...
Litigation
District Can't Charge Religious Group Fees
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction banning the Upland Unified School District from discriminatin...
FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Donald Squires brings a worldly view to the bench. Born in San Francisco, the so...
LOS ANGELES - Karen Randall, general counsel and executive vice president at Universal Studios since 2000, will step down from...
SANTA ANA - The last member of the "Cherokee bandits" gang, which terrorized Orange County banks with a string of bank robberi...
EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - If you travel east of downtown Los Angeles along Cesar Chavez Avenue, you'll drive through a...
LOS ANGELES - In what lawyers are calling the first-ever appellate ruling forcing a building material to undergo environmental...
Litigation
4 Will Try to Unseat Board of Santa Clara Attorneys Union
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In the wake of voters' defeat of a binding arbitration proposal backed by the leadership of the Santa Clara County...
LOS ANGELES - A Compton jury awarded $10 million to a man who suffered permanent physical and mental injuries during a Nov. 2,...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sudanese torture victim will get another chance at asylum, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ru...
Government
'Insurmountable Lead' Causes City Attorney to Prepare to Go
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Casey Gwinn is preparing to hand the reins of office to Mike Aguirre, telling him and his runoff opp...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has signaled that a proposed settlement between the defunct Brobeck, Phl...
Law Practice
Post-Secondary School Specialist Leaves Kaye Rose for Duane Morris
By Lorelei Laird
Keith Zakarin has a lot of history with San Diego's Kaye, Rose & Maltzman. Like the firm's name partners, Zakarin was an a...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a recent morning's work, Judge Peggy Hora sifted through a tall stack of mail, searched the Internet, ...
LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell may be a genius at physics, but he was a bumbler at covering his tracks in an arson conspiracy...
Personal Injury & Torts
Appeal Court Seeks Clarity In Prop. 64's Quagmire
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - With trial lawyers scrambling to file paperwork explaining how pending cases should or shouldn't be affected ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Can Give Top Holiday Parties Without Risking Lawsuits
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Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. - With the holidays just around the corner, many law firms and other organization...
Real Estate/Development
Legislature Keeps Busy With Controversial Land-Use Bills
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Todd A. Williams - Affordable housing, density bo...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Measure Protects Big Business From Legitimate Suits
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Forum Column - By Sharon J. Arkin - On Nov. 2, California voters enacted Proposition 64 to add new restrictions on actions fil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco assistant U.S. attorneys - George Bevan Jr., Lewis Davis and Michael Li-Ming Wang - have ...