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Law Practice


Focus Column - Law Practice - By Carole Sargent - Can lawyers write books about their cases? The question comes up often in my...


Forum Column - By Marc E. Angelucci - In medieval France, if a man was assaulted by his wife, he was forced to ride a donkey b...


Forum Column - By Jeff Steele - Sacramento-based "tax limitation" lobbyist Lew Uhler doesn't much like labor unions. That's ha...


Judges and Judiciary


Former Judge Denies Being Drunk

May 27, 2005
By Tim Willert

FULLERTON - Former Orange County Presiding Judge Theodore Millard testified Wednesday that he consumed four glasses of wine ov...


Family


Family Law Attorney Will Be Commissioner

May 27, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Antelope Valley family law attorney David Bianchi has been elected the newest Los Angeles Superior Court commiss...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed embattled judicial nominee Priscilla Owen on Wednesday, four years after President Bush...


Criminal


'Crawford' Grounds for Reversal in Molest Case

May 27, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The 6th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of molesting his ste...


Column - By Garry Abrams - More than a year ago, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge busted a cap on Winnie the Pooh, abruptly ...


Judges and Judiciary


Commissioner Focuses on Rehab

May 27, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - "Current events!" Los Angeles Delinquency Court Commissioner Robert J. Totten calls out as he takes the bench. ...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - In what appears to be a case of first impression, a federal judge has told Contra Costa County that it may be...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A company that was to have built a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert cannot collect m...


Litigation


Fan Must Pay Lawyer

May 27, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A fan who claimed he was the true owner of slugger Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball struck out Wedne...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - Reporters for two of the state's biggest newspapers may be pressed to cough up anonymous sources by two San F...


Appellate Practice


Charges Dropped

May 27, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - In what lawyers said was a rare move, a Vista Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against a Fallbr...


Probate


Probate Lawyers Assail Deed-Change Measure

May 26, 2005
By Tim Willert

IRVINE - A bill designed to simplify the transfer of real property on death by eliminating probate is unnecessary and confusin...


Criminal


Mojave Man Can Try to Show He's No Menace

May 26, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of trying to scare off would-be neighbors in the Mojave Desert will get another chance to pro...


Litigation


Scandal Defendents Must Pay San Bernardino $10.6 Million

May 26, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Officials and businessmen convicted in a late-1990s fraud-and-bribery scandal must pay San Bernardino County...


Government


LOS ANGELES - David Rosen acknowledged on the witness stand Tuesday that the costs of an extravagant Hollywood gala thrown in ...


Constitutional Law


LOS ANGELES - A group of media companies agreed Tuesday to return sealed documents related to the Roman Catholic sexual-abuse ...


Law Practice


SACRAMENTO - In a little more than two weeks, Alison Daw will trade the familiar comforts of a career in the U.S. attorney's ...


Judges and Judiciary


SACRAMENTO - A group of California judges and lawyers Tuesday denounced the long confirmation process of U.S. Court of Appeals...


Firm Watch


Steefel Departure

May 26, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Lawson, a former managing partner and long-time litigator with Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, has left ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Cooley Wins Outside Counsel

May 26, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a request by District Attorney Steve Cooley and...


LOS ANGELES - The ACLU Tuesday filed a discrimination suit in Los Angeles federal court against Union Bank of California and ...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - When John S. Adams began his write-in candidacy in 2002 to replace a sitting judge, he was told he had two chance...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Coudert Brothers has threatened to take action against Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe over a raid on its ...


Immigration


Case of Visa Irregularities Unfolds

May 26, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - The day should have been a celebration. Accused of being terrorists and locked up for 31/2 years for visa fraud,...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Wednesday May 25

May 26, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL NEWPORT BEACH - Colton Paramount LLC purchased a storage outlet on a 2.75-acre site at 7752 Jackson St. from Stora...


Corporate


Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Louis R. Dienes - In VantagePoint Venture Partners 1996 v. Examen Inc. , 2005 Del. LEXIS 179...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - State Bar dues are soaring again. The bar has a bonanza dues bill moving through the Le...