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Government


Lockyer Says He Will Sue Enron

Jun. 4, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Tuesday he plans to sue Enron Corp. for allegedly manipulating the California ...


Litigation


Panel Tosses Case of Electrocuted Cows

Jun. 4, 2004
By Dan Evans

Were this an episode of "The People's Court," a lawsuit involving electrocuted Utah cows might be called "The Case of the Grou...


Intellectual Property


Patent Expert Changes Firms

Jun. 4, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent attorney Martin Majestic has left Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner's Palo Alto o...


Appellate Practice


Lawyers Appeal Award in Firm-Dissolution Fight

Jun. 4, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a $150,000 judgment awarded because they allege...


Criminal


PRIEST CHARGED

Jun. 4, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - A retired Catholic priest accused of repeatedly fondling an incarcerated teenager in Central Juvenile Hall turne...


Government


Defense Lawyer Known for Barbed Wit

Jun. 4, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - William "Bill" Murphy, a gruff former San Francisco police officer who became a witty and successful criminal ...


Litigation


Verdict Reveals Partial Victory For Flesh Club

Jun. 4, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Capping a long-running legal fight between a nude cabaret and San Bernardino, a Superior Court jury Wednesday...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Jesse Markham, the head of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's antitrust group and one of the Bay Area's most...


Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - It is a strange and troubling time in Los Angeles Lawyerland, the legal theme park wher...


Litigation


A Calculated Decline

Jun. 3, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Explanations for the vanishing trial abound. Judges, lawyers and professors report that state and federal cour...


Personal Injury & Torts


Punitives Plan's Net Estimate Drops

Jun. 3, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to seize a share of punitive damages awards may net as little as $60 million fo...


Law Practice


Focus Column - Litigation - By Phillip R. Maltin and Jerry Balk - The personalities of certain prospective jurors make for esp...


Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - In caring for 30,000 children, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest foster-care ...


Constitutional Law


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $2.25 million jury award to Beverly Hills attorney and businessman Leonar...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Jurors didn't have all the facts when they hit attorney Milton Grimes with a $1.25 million legal malpractice jud...


Constitutional Law


WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police officers don't necessarily have to take into account a ...


Litigation


Court Mulls Secrecy in Mediation

Jun. 3, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

LOS ANGELES - Litigants who submit evidence for mediation may not be able to keep the information secret later unless they pre...


Appellate Practice


SLAPP Rules Apply to Attorneys, Court Rules

Jun. 3, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - In a published opinion, the 2nd District Court of Appeals has ruled that the protections afforded under the Stra...


Appellate Practice


Panel OKs Challenge to Food Labeling

Jun. 3, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest chicken producer will have to defend calling its food "all natural," as a result of a stat...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors leaked information about a grand-jury investigation into civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman's tax af...


Criminal


Church's Accusers Go Before Mock Jury

Jun. 3, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - Several of those who filed sexual abuse lawsuits last year against Los Angeles Archdiocese for child molestation...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Man Eight Years Later

Jun. 3, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - It took eight years, five defense attorneys, three prosecutors and 130 continuances for Anthony Williams to finall...


Large Firms


Prominent IP Lawyer Is Leaving Cooley

Jun. 3, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent patent litigator Jeffrey G. Randall, head of Cooley Godward's intellectual property practice, is lea...


Litigation


REPORTER SUES

Jun. 3, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Times reporter filed suit against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, a Los A...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Depending on the circles in which Kathryn Doi Todd is traveling, she's either a 2nd District Court of Appeal jus...


Discipline


Misconduct on the Bench Haunts Re-Entry to the Bar

Jun. 3, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Column By Philip Carrizosa - When the state Commission on Judicial Performance ordered the removal of San Joaquin Superior Cou...


Large Firms


Latham Picks New Managing Partner in L.A.

Jun. 3, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Martha Jordan, managing partner of Latham & Watkins' Los Angeles headquarters, is handing the reins to tax p...


Government


Legal Services to Grow a Bit

Jun. 3, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's new mayor unveiled his first budget Tuesday, proposing to give the district attorney, public d...


Appellate Practice


Service-Station Owners Can Sue Oil Companies

Jun. 3, 2004
By Claude Walbert

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that service station owners can sue Texaco Inc. and the Shell Oil Co. in an attempt to p...


Government


Judge Blocks Late-Term Abortion Ban

Jun. 3, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco struck down the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 Tuesday, saying the la...