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Corporate


New Bill Would Affect the Governance of Nonprofits

Mar. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Good Company - By Jill S. Dodd - Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (comm...


Corporate


Firms Settle Long Program-Guide Battle

Mar. 30, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Media and technology company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Cor...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Ten years after taking Interpore International Inc. public, Charles Ruck has guided the company in another milestone. The Cost...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Semiconductor Firm Adds Data Storage

Mar. 30, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Trying to expand its presence in the data-storage market, semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corp. of San Diego has ...


Investments


Clever Cushion

Mar. 30, 2004
By Amy Spees

Some attorneys have found a creative way to plan for retirement, their children's education, or other long-term financial comm...


Firm Watch


Defense Pro Switches to Cooley

Mar. 30, 2004
By Tina Spee

White-collar defense attorney Michael Attanasio has joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office, leaving his post as partner at S...


Firm Watch


Dennis Maio spent 17 years as a senior staff attorney to state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk. When Mosk died in 2001, aft...


Litigation


Digital Sleuths

Mar. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Evidence - By Scott Stevens - By now, most litigators are aware of the increasing importance of digital evidence in d...


Firm Watch


Aon Corp.'s approach to litigation was a bit unconventional, says Shand Stephens, the former chief trial counsel to the insura...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The track record of William G. Myers III as Interior Department solicitor demonstrates that ...


Juvenile


Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We can point with justifiable pride to the many innovations our state ...


Appellate Practice


Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - A case challenging California's protection against racial bias in jury selection will be th...


Appellate Practice


Court Tosses Murder Conviction, Life Term

Mar. 30, 2004
By Dan Evans

LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man's murder conviction must be thrown out because sheriff's deputies failed to advise him of h...


Criminal


Forgiving Legal Wrongs Doesn't Come Easily for Some

Mar. 30, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Notebook - By Phillip Carrizosa - To most lawyers and judges, forgiveness is still a foreign concept within the law. The Ameri...


Judges and Judiciary


Tashima to Take Senior Status

Mar. 30, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge A. Wallace Tashima has announced he will mov...


Criminal


Putting It In Reverse

Mar. 30, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor David Angel has an unusual new assignment. He's not trying to put people behind bars....


Criminal


BAKERSFIELD - When John Stoll was sent to prison in 1985 as a convicted child molester, he chose to remain in the general popu...


Education


Hallowed Halls

Mar. 30, 2004
By Brent Kendall

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Brent Kendall - On a blustery January day uncommonly cold for coastal Virginia, dozens of fir...


Government


Welfare Increase Tied to Vehicle Fee Cut

Mar. 30, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - When he slashed the state's vehicle license fee, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger triggered an obligation to pay an ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Before he ever considered becoming a judge, or a lawyer for that matter, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis...


Litigation


SAN DIEGO - Just weeks after Los Angeles agreed to pay $500,000 for disciplinary letters it placed in its police officers' fil...


Government


Fight Against Late-Term Abortion Ban Opens Today

Mar. 30, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal campaign to strike down a national ban on late-term abortions opens today in three federal courtroom...


Family


Being Dads Is Easy -- Except Staying Awake

Mar. 27, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy and Vietnam-born David Bui fell in love seven years ago...


Large Firms


Heller Sets Up Office In Beijing

Mar. 27, 2004
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe is the latest California law firm to stake out a claim in the capital of t...


Entertainment & Sports


Barristers and Bards

Mar. 27, 2004
By Columnist

Poets have gotten a bad rap. Almost as bad as lawyers. At least there isn't a formal genre of poet jokes. But when times get t...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Lou Mathews - I am not a lawyer but I am married to one, which means that I am occasionally forced to bring ...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - It seems as if copyright infringement claims over the creation of ...


International


Employment Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - When planning to offer equity plan awards to employees...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Philip A. Rafferty - Justice Lewis F. Powell, after retiring from the Supreme Court, admitted to Nina Totenb...


Government


Black-or-White Thinking Imperils Freedom

Mar. 27, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael Benner - In the classic "Man's Search for Meaning," Viktor Frankl describes his experience as a pris...