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Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The court in In re Marriage of Tydlas...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Sidney Morse - Concern for the American worker must become a top priority to policy-makers, business leaders...


Environmental


Judge Won't Block Whale Sonar Tests

Jan. 14, 2004
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to block new tests off the California coast of a high-frequency sonar system i...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - An 18-page questionnaire aimed at gauging whether potential jurors have been tainted by pretrial publicity in th...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - If you're headed to Department K in the Compton Courthouse, you might consider, first, leaving early enough to a...


Criminal


Veteran San Bernardino Prosecutor Will Retire

Jan. 14, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - David Whitney, a veteran San Bernardino County prosecutor who has secured 105 murder and manslaughter convict...


Workers' Comp.


Stressed Worker Out of Luck

Jan. 14, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Worrying yourself sick about job security in a grim economy does not qualify as a workers' compensation injury...


Government


Open-Government Ballot Measure OK'd

Jan. 14, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature approved an initiative Monday for the November ballot that would give Californians a consti...


Litigation


Landlord Settles With S.F. Tenants

Jan. 14, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime deputy public defender has agreed to settle two lawsuits by tenants who claimed he failed to repair...


Judges and Judiciary


An Improbable Destination

Jan. 14, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - After graduating from Hastings College in 1983, Marie Weiner moved to San Diego with her husband to look...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Finally, we have proof of something that many of us have long suspected. Celebrity trials do in fac...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors returned to work Monday at San Francisco's Hall of Justice with smiles on their faces and a new bo...


Litigation


$2 Billion Trust OK'd For Asbestos Claimants

Jan. 14, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - More than $2 billion will be paid to Northern Californians suffering from asbestos-related harm after a bankru...


Military Law


Vets Push for Project 112 Story

Jan. 13, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Has the government told the whole story on Project 112? In recent years, the Department of Defense has acknowled...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal appeals court decision that allows thousands of Southern Californ...


Constitutional Law


Court Lets U.S. Withhold Names of Detainees

Jan. 13, 2004
By David Pike

WASHINGTON -In a major victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a federal appeals c...


Administrative/Regulatory


Checkmate

Jan. 13, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Daniel Callahan was transfixed by Judge Gregory H. Lewis. Specifically by his mouth, which seeme...


Corporate


EMC Buys Firm For $635 Million

Jan. 13, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Palo Alto software firm VMware Inc. in its acquisition by EMC Corp. VMware's soft...


Firm Watch


Joshua Floum, VISA USA Inc.'s new general counsel, secretary and executive vice president, will advise the U.S. subsidiary of ...


The Association of Business Trial Lawyers welcomed new boards of directors to three of its five chapters in California on Jan...


Technology & Science


New Laptop Hooks Lawyer At Sony's Kiosk in Airport

Jan. 13, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I certainly do seem to be on a techno-binge lately. I go through stages when, fo...


Juvenile


Jurist Puts Education First for Youth

Jan. 13, 2004
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - H. Kirkland Jones doesn't fool around when it comes to education. As a requirement for getting off probation, he...


Firm Watch


Paul Hastings OKs Parisian Merger

Jan. 13, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker plans to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde giving the Los Angeles-based firm 55 lawyers in ...


Litigation


Family Sues School Over Embalmed Head

Jan. 13, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

When cancer victim Osie K. Whitten had his body donated for research at the University of California, Davis, officials at the ...


Litigation


Clients Should Use Their Health Care Coverage First

Jan. 13, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Trial Strategy - By Laurel Kaufer - Attorneys who try to use their clients' existing health care coverage for the tre...


Civil Rights


That the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's star-studded Bill of Rights dinner last month turned into a p...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Neutral Path

Jan. 13, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman And Jeff Kichaven - There are many important considerations that ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Irvine company Edwards Lifesciences Corp. is buying a privately held medical device company in a deal that could lead to more ...


Public Interest


Namedropping

Jan. 13, 2004
By Amy Spees

Last year, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles received three-to-four complaints per week accusing the nonprofit of shoddy...


Litigation


Judge Tosses Suit Over Teaching Islam

Jan. 13, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

Educating 12-year-old students about Islam by requiring them to recite a line from a Muslim prayer and to play a board game th...