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Juvenile


San Andreas attorney Kenneth M. Foley will try once again to convince a judge that a law enforcement officer should face poten...


Law Practice


Los Angeles sole practitioner Rachel Roth is a music management attorney with high-profile clients worth millions. But she say...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Inland Empire Bar Groups Select Presidents for 2005

Nov. 30, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

The county bar associations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties recently named new presidents, and both leaders have big ...


Intellectual Property


Biotechnology Patents Meet World of Board Games

Nov. 30, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

San Diego intellectual-property attorney Richard Warburg was on vacation in England in the summer of 2003, watching his family...


Firm Watch


After working at Winston & Strawn for only a year, Chuck Birenbaum, a labor and employment pro, has been named managing pa...


Law Practice


Honors

Nov. 30, 2004
By Kenneth Davis

The California Minority Program honored Santa Monica's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan with its Drucilla Stender Law Firm...


Litigation


Owners of 19 single-family homes in Yucaipa have filed two construction defect lawsuits against Redlands builder Howard Robert...


Administrative/Regulatory


Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Thomas C. Klein - In August 2004, the state Legislature passed the Nonprofit Integrity ...


Civil Rights


Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - May the government punish the Boy Scouts of America for the "offense" of embracing old-fash...


Appellate Practice


Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - History, as they say, is written by winners. One of those on history's winning side is...


Banking


Reliable Witness

Nov. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - When an expert witness takes the stand, the lawyer who called him is banki...


Technology & Science


It sounds like a device straight from an episode of "The Jetsons," but wireless eyewear could be the next big thing in cellula...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Prefers People to Academics

Nov. 30, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Dan O'Malley traveled the world as flight attendant, managed a popular bar and may have had enough talent to b...


Personal Injury & Torts


SACRAMENTO - Personal injury lawyer Roger Dreyer of Sacramento has been named California Trial Lawyer of the Year by the state...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area disability rights proponents celebrated around a unique species of turkey this Thanksgiving as Oaklan...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Relies on No-Nonsense Style, Stamina

Nov. 30, 2004
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bruce F. Marrs, a former Marine company commander who saw combat in Vietnam, ca...


Appellate Practice


Column - By Garry Abrams - Just in time for the holidays, Richard A. Posner, the well-known federal appellate judge, Universit...


Government


Jury Got Fuzzy Picture of 'Fajitagate' Fight

Nov. 27, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - Most of the jurors in the trial of suspended San Francisco police officer Matthew Tonsing concluded he should ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Nov. 26

Nov. 27, 2004
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL BRISBANE - Peking Handcraft signed a lease for 132,700 square feet of warehouse space at the Gilmore Envelope buil...


Tax


LOS ANGELES - State tax officials must disclose to citizens the personal information they have gathered on them, an appellate...


Law Practice


Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Appearing recently on Bill Maher's HBO program, Alan Simpson, the folksy former Repu...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Elise R. Vasquez - As part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget on July 29, 2004, the state Legislatu...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Ruth V. Glick - Adoption of the Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators in...


Criminal


Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - This past spring, Oregon attorney and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfie...


Criminal


Lawyer Says Stress Led Him Astray

Nov. 27, 2004
By Staff Writer

PALO ALTO - Jason Borrevik, the former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati senior associate who was sentenced Wednesday to f...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Found Ways for Youths to Learn

Nov. 27, 2004
By Dan Evans

SANTA ANA - Former Orange Superior Court Judge Floyd H. Schenk has died from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. ...


Criminal


Prosecutor Loved Laughter, Fishing, Poker

Nov. 27, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Tuesday for Thomas A. Romeyn, a Los Angeles County prosecutor who spent 34 y...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - A man incarcerated for sex crimes against minors cannot see his children in prison, even though they were not h...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A violent rapist who is a Vietnamese citizen must be freed from federal custody in the United States, the 9th...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - Former partners of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have resolved a major bone of contention with the bankrupt...