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Solo and Small Firms


San Diego employment boutique Trovillion Inveiss Ponticello & Demakis has branched out with opening of a San Bernardino of...


Law Practice


Dennis Herrera didn't realize what he was creating when he gave Mayor Gavin Newsom the go-ahead to conduct marriages for same-...


Technology & Science


The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a global nonprofit that regulates Internet space and accredits agenci...


International


MoFo Lawyers Will Defend Hamm's Gold

Sep. 28, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - Three lawyers from Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office arrive for a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland, t...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Ronald Gass has caught some bad breaks since 1997, when he lost control of his 1993 Infiniti J30 and rolled it in a single-car...


Law Practice


Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Congratulations. You've won a judgment against a corporation. At some point afterward,...


Firm Watch


Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Steven L. Miller actually enjoys it when someone tells him to go take a flying leap....


Law Practice


Notes From the Cutting Room Floor

Sep. 28, 2004
By Staff Writer

We all know lawyers are enthusiastic attendees of operas, the symphony, the ballet and the thea-tah, but under those dark-suit...


Firm Watch


Entertainment and media litigator Jonathan Anschell takes over today as executive vice president and general counsel of New Yo...


Law Practice


This is not as easy as it looks. As our staff entered hour 1,253 working on this year's list - and through the haze of eating ...


Large Firms


Column By Garry Abrams - Like millions of others who are privileged to live, work and drive in the Los Angeles area, I sometim...


Forum Column - By James M. Mize - How do you make God laugh? Talk about your plans. Dusting off that ancient joke, I am remind...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Timothy J. Dowling, chief counsel of the Washington, D.C.-based Community Rights Counsel...


Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Helen Duncan and Peter H. Mason - When our law firm set out to survey corporate law departmen...


Government


City Attorney Caught In Contract Inquiry

Sep. 28, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - San Jose City Council members want to know why City Attorney Rick Doyle's office's didn't do more to prevent the ci...


Law Practice


Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - The world descended on San Francisco in February. As same-sex couples stood in line for hours to...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled the Los Angeles Archdiocese cannot join an Iowa diocese in challenging the California ...


Education


Law Professor Raised Millions for USC

Sep. 28, 2004
By Claude Walbert

Dr. Carl E. Franklin, law professor emeritus and vice president emeritus for financial affairs at the University of Southern C...


Government


Judge Puts Brakes on Parking-Dispute Appeal

Sep. 28, 2004
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES -What do you do when you get caught red-handed violating a court order by blocking a lawyer's access to his own pa...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge's comment that he would like to see a Los Angeles Times reporter taken out of his courtroom...


Judges and Judiciary


Some Jurists Place Equity Over Procedural Purity

Sep. 28, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Column By Philip Carrizosa - That was some piece of work that Justice David A. Sills produced last week. Writing Wednesday in ...


Litigation


SEC's Power to Freeze Assets Gets Another Look

Sep. 28, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision limiting the Securities and Exchange Commission's power t...


Appellate Practice


Court OKs Fees for 'Catalyst' Lawsuits

Sep. 28, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision may help guarantee a payday to attorneys in environmental disputes, even if...


Criminal


Former Spy Suspect Gets Bad-Conduct Discharge

Sep. 25, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - The former Guantanamo Bay translator who once faced the death penalty on suspicion of spying was handed a bad-...


Government


The Right to Be a Party

Sep. 25, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - In or out? Two conservative religious law firms have been fighting California's same-sex marriages since rough...


Corporate


Employment Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A police officer markets a video of himself, masturbating, on the Internet. Should ...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Patent Law - By Robert P. Taylor - A year ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered supple...


Forum Column - By Vincent Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Recently, the Due Process Clause guarantees afforded by the U.S. Cons...


Law Practice


Judge Denies Milbank's Ex Post Facto Fee Hike

Sep. 25, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A deal's a deal, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali ruled in denying a Los Angeles law firm's request to boo...


Media


Court Keeps Report On Tragedy Sealed

Sep. 25, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for families suing over the Santa Monica Farmer's Market crash cannot release an accident report on th...