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Judges and Judiciary


SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Matthew Gary has set his sights high ever since he recognized in grade sc...


Transactions


Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 29

Dec. 30, 2004
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. of America signed a 10-year, $10.65 million lease for 43,519 square feet of research and de...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


LOS ANGELES - Wiseguy, eh? Ruling reversed, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Hartford Insurance Co. eye-poked Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - A female bartender at a Nevada casino who refused to wear makeup on the job cannot pursue her sex discriminat...


Personal Injury & Torts


Blind Child Sues Maker of Drug

Dec. 30, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - In the latest blow to the pharmaceutical industry, a 7-year-old girl sued Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, say...


International


Focus Column - International Law - By John F. McKenzie - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1 et seq.,...


Focus Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Scott Peterson murder trial captivated the nation and received extensive media attenti...


Law Practice


Focus Column - By Greg Lukianoff - For those of you who are concerned about the state of free expression on campus, I would li...


Criminal


Ex-DA's Column 'Reeks of Disingenuousness'

Dec. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - In his letter to the editor ("Ex-DA Teaches 'Miranda' Accurately," Dec. 27 Daily Journal), Richard Chry...


Law Practice


Writer Applies Wink And Nod to 'Miranda'

Dec. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - Richard Chrystie's impassioned defense of the hiring of Devalis Rutledge by the Los Angeles County dist...


Judges and Judiciary


Coal Miner's Grandson

Dec. 30, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Ron Del Pozzo was elected to the Santa Clara County bench a little over two years ago, and he hasn't stopped runnin...


A state Supreme Court ruling that companies who commit fraud can be hit with punitive damages even in the absence of property ...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco writer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stalking a Bingham McCutchen partner by impersonating...


Constitutional Law


Rats Rule Long Beach Courthouse

Dec. 29, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Judge Bradford Andrews didn't think much the first time he found his "Get Out of Jail Free" novelty candy bar o...


Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2004, the state Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendere...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual predators must be treated better than criminal defendants while authorities determine whether they sho...


Law Practice


Playing Offense

Dec. 29, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Sharon Arkin grew up on a chicken ranch in Orange County and somehow wound up a Democrat in that Republican stro...


Judges and Judiciary


Commissioner Brings Compassion to Courtroom

Dec. 29, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...


Media


Times Sues for Papers From Secret Meetings

Dec. 29, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...


Litigation


Worker's Comp Award

Dec. 29, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...


Administrative/Regulatory


The Great Deluge

Dec. 28, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration dominated the agenda for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004, by sheer volume of cases a...


State Bar & Bar Associations


When Dawn Steele moved to Pillsbury Winthrop's Costa Mesa office in 2001, she saw only one thing missing from her new home: la...


Large Firms


This holiday season, the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif have planned so...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - India does, indeed, have a spy agency known as RAW. You can look it up on the Internet. That's apparently what...


Civil Rights


Jury Awards Woman $4.2 Million in Harassment Case

Dec. 28, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

A San Francisco jury dealt a heavy blow to a Bay Area information technology consulting company, awarding former employee Anni...


Firm Watch


Year in Review - By Tina Spee - When the clock strikes midnight this New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest law-firm merge...


Labor/Employment


A 62-year-old former employee of noted advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi finds herself sending out dozens of rsums aft...


Law Practice


Catch-22

Dec. 28, 2004
By Amy Spees

Free Time - By Amy K. Spees - Randall Keen, a senior associate in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Los Angeles office, spends a ...


Construction


The legal principle Thomas Jefferson described as a wall separating church and state may demolish an effort to preserve and re...