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Probate


Veteran Probate Lawyer Handled Big Cases

Dec. 30, 2003
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled for today for Arne Lindgren, a partner at Latham & Watkins specializing in ta...


Law Practice


Attorneys Lead Master Chorale

Dec. 30, 2003
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - For Ted McAniff, it all comes back to the voices: the soaring swell of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its membe...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Judge Malcolm H. Mackey loves being on the fast track. Having done "just about everything in the court system," ...


Judges and Judiciary


The Eye of the Legal Storm

Dec. 30, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Other federal circuit courts have their five minutes of fame, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is nev...


Intellectual Property


Rogan Ends Short Reign at Patent Office

Dec. 30, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...


Government


Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - SACRAMENTO - First it's there. Then it's gone. Then it's back. But not for long. So goes the sa...


Bankruptcy


'We Tried' Might Be Epitaph for Plan Foes

Dec. 30, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Loretta Lynch sat glumly in the courtroom of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali last week, trying to orchest...


Firm Watch


Manatt Creates 62-Lawyer New York Outpost in 2003

Dec. 30, 2003
By Draeger Martinez

When 2003 began, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had no lawyers in New York City, arguably the co-capital of A...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 26

Dec. 27, 2003
By Angela Gottula

KINGS COUNTY HANFORD - Just in time to reap the benefits of the holiday bounty, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. has acquir...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column Employment Law By Dominick C. Capozzola A state Court of Appeal recently upheld the termination of a sales manag...


Criminal


Unjust System

Dec. 27, 2003
By Columnist

FORUM A study in the Santa Clara Law Review concludes that California's system is seriously flawed and dangerously unjust. Pa...


Law Practice


Firms Sued by Staff Lawyers Need Outside Counsel

Dec. 27, 2003
By Sandra Corrales

By J. Kevin Lilly Lawyers are a lot like other people. When you fire them, they often get angry and frequently sue for wrongf...


Environmental


Martinez OK'd to Sue Texaco Over Oil Spill

Dec. 27, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arrived like Santa on Christmas Eve for the city of Martinez. In a unan...


Judges and Judiciary


'Good Luck Gomes'

Dec. 27, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

FRESNO - An album cover of "Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong" adorns the windowsill in the chambers of Co...


Solo and Small Firms


Steinhart to Merge With Piper Rudnick

Dec. 27, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...


Appellate Practice


Lawyer Previews His High-Court Cases

Dec. 26, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...


Corporate


Wal-Mart Takes on Inglewood for Store

Dec. 25, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 24

Dec. 25, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...


Environmental


MTBE Settlement

Dec. 25, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...


Litigation


Jury Deadlocks in Handgun Design Case

Dec. 25, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...


Government


On or Off, Controller Calls Car Tax Legal

Dec. 25, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - One month California's car tax is tripled. Five months later the incre...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Steven B. Katz - The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has pulled the rug out from under practitioners...


Constitutional Law


Federal Haze

Dec. 25, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal laws again...


Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The Nov. 7 decision in Estate of Stone , T.C. Memo. 2003-309 (Nov. 7, 2003), confir...


Judges and Judiciary


Nearing Retirement, Judge Looks to Youth

Dec. 25, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...


Judges and Judiciary


Boren Will Lead Court of Appeal

Dec. 25, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES-Presiding Justice Roger W. Boren will take over as new administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court ...


Law Practice


Partner Led Heller Ehrman to Silicon Valley

Dec. 25, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES-Funeral services were held Monday for Michael J. Cullen, a former Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe partner cred...


Personal Injury & Torts


Liberty Mutual Settles Quadriplegic's Lawsuit

Dec. 25, 2003
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - A bitter battle over collecting a $12.8 million insurance judgment awarded to a 28-year-old quadriplegic and his...


Litigation


Oakland Police Miss Reform Deadlines

Dec. 25, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A group monitoring the Oakland Police Department as part of the Riders civil settlement reported Tuesday that ...


Judges and Judiciary


While the state budget crisis has forced courts throughout California to close periodically and send their employees home on u...