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Personal Injury & Torts


UCLA Wants to Use Willed Bodies

Apr. 15, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for UCLA's troubled willed-body program told a court commissioner Tuesday that the school wants to u...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew P. Bridges, an eminent trademark and copyright law specialist, has left Palo Alto's Wilson, Sonsini, Go...


Civil Rights


Lawyer Advanced Rights of Gays, Lesbians

Apr. 15, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Leroy Stanley Walker, a Los Angeles employment attorney who helped secure key legal protections for gays and les...


Judges and Judiciary


Activist Was Second Black Jurist in San Diego

Apr. 15, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A memorial service for Alpha L. Montgomery, the second black appointed to a Superior Court judgeship in San Diego ...


Government


2 Technical Bills Pass Committee

Apr. 15, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would protect hapless litigants whose complaints ma...


Government


Bustamante to Pay $263,000 Campaign Penalty

Apr. 15, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has agreed to pay $263,000 - the largest penalty ever assessed a candidate by the state'...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Firm Founder's Career Spanned 54 Years

Apr. 15, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - James O. Sullivan, a prominent trial lawyer whose legal career spanned 54 years, died Sunday of congestive heart f...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - A videotape showing three youths allegedly having sex with an unconscious 16-year-old girl can be used at the teen...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - On orders from an appeals court, San Francisco Superior Court Judge John Munter reconsidered the $16 million i...


Government


Payment Overdue

Apr. 15, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The California State Controller's Office has acknowledged that, for years, it has ignored a legal requirement ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has acquired 13 attorneys and two offices in Arizona, giving ...


Government


Well-Liked Judge Insists On Doing Things His Way

Apr. 15, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

HAYWARD - Alameda Superior Court Judge Robert Fairwell has been handling a busy misdemeanor calendar for most of his 38 years ...


Government


Workers' Alien Status Ruled Off-Limits

Apr. 15, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno employer does not have a right to probe the citizenship status of 23 Latina and Southeast Asian women...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 13

Apr. 14, 2004
By Chris Tolles

INDUSTRIAL CARSON - Watson Land Co. has signed AMCO Distribution Services to a five-year lease at a 168,398-square-foot build...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In a case of first impression, Raphael v. Bloomfield


Forum Column - By Joyce Tischler - A new field of law is gaining ground fast, and if you haven't met an attorney who specializ...


Government


Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Twice in a month the California Supreme Court has ruled on cases involving preg...


Discipline


Bar Court Judge Advises Attorney's Disbarment

Apr. 14, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a Riverside immigration attorney be disbarred for "frivolously" filin...


Judges and Judiciary


Scalia Laments Erasure of Tapes

Apr. 14, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a letter made public Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the actions of a federal marshal who confis...


Criminal


Project Head, Cooley Critic Will Stand Trial

Apr. 14, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Project Islamic HOPE founder Najee Ali was ordered Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for felon...


Government


Backers Say 2 Initiatives Are Good to Go

Apr. 14, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Proponents of two major legal initiatives, one dealing with tort reform and the other with DNA testing, announced...


Litigation


Woman Settles Suit Over Limousine Rapist

Apr. 14, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - An alleged sexual-assault victim of John Gordon Jones settled her lawsuit last week with the attorneys she claim...


Public Interest


MALDEF Picks President-Counsel

Apr. 14, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has tapped Ann Marie Tallman to serve as its president a...


Administrative/Regulatory


Schools Choose Civil Rights Pro to Be Counsel

Apr. 14, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Civil rights lawyer Kevin S. Reed will be appointed general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ...


Energy Law


Column By Garry Abrams - Nearly four years after California danced on the brink of massive energy failures, last week's federa...


Criminal


A Disarming Decision

Apr. 14, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her hu...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - John Keker has prepared an aggressive defense for the retrial of Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattr...


Intellectual Property


Microsoft to Pay $440 Million Settlement

Apr. 14, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - A small San Jose software company announced Monday that it won a $440 million settlement in its bitter three-y...


Law Practice


WASHINGTON - A glance around Beth S. Brinkmann's spacious office provides some clues about why she is among the very elite gro...


Firm Watch


McDermott Nabs Fitzpatrick Associates

Apr. 13, 2004
By Tina Spee

McDermott, Will & Emery has nabbed three associates in as many months from the Costa Mesa office of Washington, D.C.-based...