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Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Most lawyers, at some point in their career, consider relocating either to another s...


Government


Forum Column - By Kenneth Theisen - On Dec. 29, 2003, the General Accounting Office released a report titled "Department of En...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Presided in Alphabet Bomber Case

Feb. 14, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Nancy Belcher Watson. Watson died...


Personal Injury & Torts


Jury Awards Trucker $13 Million

Feb. 14, 2004
By Joy Shaw

LOS ANGELES - A truck driver and his wife won a jury verdict of $13 million for a 1999 forklift accident that left him partial...


Criminal


Deputy DAs Re-Elect Controversial Leader

Feb. 14, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutor Steven J. Ipsen, who ran into trouble this year with a public attack on two Los Angeles Superior Cour...


Criminal


Attorneys Find Detainee Meetings Unacceptable

Feb. 14, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Two weeks ago, federal public defender Frank Dunham traveled from his office in Northern Virginia to a Navy base ...


Law Practice


Arthur Kinoy Was Proudly Boisterous Fighter

Feb. 14, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - It was 1966, and the House Un-American Activities Committee was grilling student anti-war protesters during a ...


Litigation


SAN DIEGO -In one of the first settlements of its kind in the nation, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has reached an agree...


Civil Rights


S.F. Enters Same-Sex Marriage Fray

Feb. 14, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - "The contract of marriage is serious," San Francisco Assessor Mabel Teng said Thursday. "It is not to be taken...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - California thrust itself into the national debate over gay marriage Thursday when San Francisco became the first...


Judges and Judiciary


Juvenile Humor

Feb. 14, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

OAKLAND - As the bailiff asked the courtroom to come to order and please remain seated, Alameda County Juvenile Court Commissi...


Government


Veterans of Youth Camps Endorse Them

Feb. 13, 2004
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - It took a couple of tries, but juvenile camp helped turn Alfonso Visvet's life around, he said. "The camps are l...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Thirty years ago, a "personnel expert" would have done little more tha...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - Inglewood voters will probably decide in April whether they want a Wal-Mart Supercenter buil...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Forum Column - By Don T. Hibner Jr. - It is appalling that Attorney General Bill Lockyer has made a determination to file a fe...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gary Nadler has spent his career jumping into the deep end. He started practic...


Judges and Judiciary


Newspaper Seller Became L.A. City Attorney

Feb. 13, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Roger Arnebergh, Los Angeles city attorney from 1953 through 1973, has died. Arnebergh died Jan. 25 of natural c...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday agreed to pay $116,000 in attorney fees to settle a law...


Communications


After Decade on Case, Jurist Gets Another Shot

Feb. 13, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - In 1994, four years before U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff became chief judge in the Southern District, she began...


Insurance


Court Favors Keeping Sales Data Open

Feb. 13, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of an auto insurer's attempt to deny public access to ind...


Criminal


Court Criticizes Refusal to Trim Man's Sentence

Feb. 13, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Three years ago, while on work assignment at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Ronnie Young perform...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - Chairman Michael Eisner's reported rejection of Comcast's bid for the Walt Disney Co. this week will ...


Commercial Law


LOS ANGELES - A Koreatown supermarket that has been embroiled in labor disputes for the past two years has been hit with new c...


Judges and Judiciary


Attorney Challenges Ticket-Fixing Indictment

Feb. 13, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - An attorney representing the former Los Gatos police detective accused of conspiring with Santa Clara County Superi...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By David Benjamin Oppenheimer - Trial lawyers and social scientists look at jury verdicts from very different v...


Labor/Employment


Whodunit Reveals Criminal-Justice System

Feb. 12, 2004
By Columnist

Book Review - Rebecca Forster, "Hostile Witness" (Signet 2004) - By Laurie L. Levenson - Only one thing complicates the practi...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By William J. Rose When an established partnership, family business or other c...


Law Practice


Entertainment Attorney Co-Founded Firm

Feb. 12, 2004
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held this afternoon for Bruce Vann, a West Los Angeles entertainment attorney who helped struct...


Criminal


Lawyers for Riders Lash Out

Feb. 12, 2004
By Robert Selna

OAKLAND - Defense attorneys for three former Oakland police officers known as the Riders railed against Oakland officials Tues...


Large Firms


Townsend Acquires 12-Lawyer Boutique

Feb. 12, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew, a San Francisco firm best known for its intellectual property and antitrust pr...