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Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko committed repeated acts of willful misconduct through his ...


Litigation


Many come to the Westin Century Plaza Hotel & Spa and the St. Regis Los Angeles to be doted on while they relax at the swa...


LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court last week ended a simmering legal controversy over Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delga...


Firm Watch


Look Within

Oct. 5, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Keiser - Since Sept. 11 and the dot-com bust, firms have lost significant amounts of ...


Firm Watch


Executive compensation law specialist Philip Koehler has joined the corporate law group at Orange County's Stradling Yocca Car...


Litigation


Hooters Shorted Music Company, Lawsuit Alleges

Oct. 5, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

The Hooters restaurant chain, under fire because of a location manager who sexually harassed 14 women by secretly watching the...


Firm Watch


Fish Gives Management Partner an Assist

Oct. 5, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

San Diego's Fish & Richardson found out that two really is better than one when it comes to firm management. The firm crea...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Tackles Gay Marriage, War on Terrorism

Oct. 5, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

Same-sex marriages, the war on terrorism and, of course, the nuts and bolts of practicing law in California will be leitmotifs...


Administrative/Regulatory


Firm Administrators Help Clothe Shelter Residents

Oct. 5, 2004
By Don De Benedictis

By Don J. DeBenedictis Law-office administrators from around Orange County helped homeless and battered women move forward wit...


Criminal defense attorney William T. Mayo of Chico recently sued to stop two judges from continuing to open court sessions by ...


Litigation


Academic politics are so bitter because the stakes are so small, Henry Kissinger once said. So the level of acrimony is especi...


Litigation


After eight years of litigation and three appeals, an infringement dispute between two Southern California orange-drink compet...


Law Practice


Proving Loss of Profits Is Daunting But Manageable

Oct. 5, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Successfully proving loss of profits at trial, especially before a jury, may be diffic...


Entertainment & Sports


De La Hoya Lands on Ropes of Legal Ring

Oct. 5, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

For boxing's "Golden Boy," Oscar De La Hoya, the last few weeks have wobbled from good news to bad. On Sept. 18, Bernard Hopki...


Firm Watch


Squire Brings in New Corporate Partner

Oct. 5, 2004
By Erik Cummins

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey brought in a new corporate partner to co-chair the firm's private equity and technology practice...


Discipline


Prominent Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion

Oct. 2, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A prominent attorney who specialized in estate and trusts, and who was honored by a local magazine recently as one ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Prosecutor Attacks Lawyer in Fraud Case

Oct. 2, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Thursday drilled into the defense of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Nikolai Tehin, picking...


Administrative/Regulatory


Attorneys Donate More to Kerry

Oct. 2, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - This election cycle, Republicans have done well in amassing campaign contributions from the legal community. The ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Forum Column - By Laurie Beacham - As Congress reconvened this month to deal with pressing matters like Iraq and terrorism, a ...


Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri Brown - Should the subsequent owner of a home containing latent construction defect...


Criminal


Priest Pleads Not Guilty to Abuse

Oct. 2, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest pleaded not guilty at a court arraignment Thursday to charges of sexually abusing three teenag...


Criminal


'Kenny's Law' Gets Governor's Approval

Oct. 2, 2004
By Joy Shaw

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a proposal that seeks to provide hate-crime victims and their families a protec...


Government


Governor Vetoes Homeowner, Disability Bills

Oct. 2, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed measures this week that were intended to protect the rights of homeowners and d...


Large Firms


Maritime Expert Mentored Younger Lawyers

Oct. 2, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - A memorial is planned today for Gordon Kennedy Wright, a former vice president of the State Bar from in 1970-71 ...


Litigation


Firm Must Pay for Copyright Act Misuse

Oct. 2, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In an historic ruling, a federal judge Thursday ordered an Ohio-based maker of electronic voting machines to pay da...


Criminal


Toy Story Had Phony Ending, Prosecutors Say

Oct. 2, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The Real Deal turned out to be anything but in the company's video showing the destruction of toy cars that had be...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - When you ask Orange County attorneys what they think of Justice Raymond J. Ikola, one adjective consistently comes...


Judges and Judiciary


Deconstruction Zone

Oct. 2, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Visitors to Justice Coleman Blease's chambers may notice the same message on both sides of the door: "The sign on...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor accused of wrongly treating patients with alternative therapies got a bum deal when med...


Government


Advocates Praise Law Aimed at Senior Abuse

Oct. 2, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Advocates for the elderly hailed a bill Thursday signed by the governor they hope will encourage lawyers to pursu...