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Criminal


Forum Column By Clay S. Conrad Senator Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and has held elected...


Civil Rights


Looking Beyond the Numbers

Nov. 5, 2003
By Melissa Onstad

Forum Column By Kimberly West-Faulcon The chairman of the University of California board of regents, John J. Moores, recently...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Focus Column Legal Malpractice By Alec H. Boyd Legal-malpractice defense counsel should take note of a recent 2nd District Co...


Litigation


Examiner Misspent Funds, Suit Claims

Nov. 5, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the San Francisco Examiner who worked on the paper's finances are litigating claims o...


Judges and Judiciary


George to CJA: Let's Alter Rules

Nov. 5, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Asserting that court administrators provide "vital input" to the state Judicial Council, Chief Justice Ronald...


Government


WASHINGTON - The Senate today is likely to begin consideration of a popular financial credit-reporting bill that would overri...


Criminal


Some Say Arson Focus Is Off Target

Nov. 5, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - As the great Southern California wildfires of 2003 die out, law enforcement officials are focusing on arson as ...


Appellate Practice


Justices Will Take Lawsuit by HMO Patient

Nov. 5, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a federal law bars a health maintenance organization pati...


Constitutional Law


High Court Rejects Ten Commandments Case

Nov. 5, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined once again to take on the highly contentious issue of displaying the Ten Co...


Criminal


Shooting Stirs Fear, But Few Clients Attack

Nov. 5, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Once a year, criminal defense lawyer Peter Knecht throws a bash in Malibu to celebrate the failure of a client ...


Judges and Judiciary


Program Helps Resolve 360 Cases in 10 Days

Nov. 5, 2003
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and judges who participated in a 10-day effort to settle hundreds of lawsuits crowding the judicial cal...


Law Practice


Column By Garry Abrams As if we needed it, last week was a pointed reminder from the fickle finger of fate that there's somet...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Four new prosecutors will be added to the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California to bolster the prosec...


Corporate


Optimistic Investigator

Nov. 5, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - For a lawyer who has scrutinized the largest case of fraud in U.S. history, Dick Thornburgh remains surprisin...


Transactions


LARKSPUR - Michael Gottleib and Terry Andrews purchased 4,000 square feet of retail space at 549 Magnolia Ave. from Marin Cou...


Firm Watch


O'Neill & Sun Closes; Lawyers Disperse

Nov. 4, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Four months after the speculation over its future began, the fate of Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Neill ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


By Tina Spee The Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California celebrated its 20th anniversary Oct. 16 with its ...


Firm Watch


Pro Hopes to Bag Grocery Strike

Nov. 4, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins The workers picketing outside Southern California grocery stores may be a familiar sight to attorney David Fa...


Corporate


Trusty Guide

Nov. 4, 2003
By Robin Davidson

Column Focus: Corporate Law By Eddie Wang Rodriguez Helping establish a young company can be a tremendously rewarding experie...


Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis Greenberg Traurig has lured Paul Glassman from his Century City bankruptcy boutique Peitzman, Glassman, Weg &...


Corporate


Trade Path

Nov. 4, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Focus: Corporate Law By Tim C. Bruinsma Europe in many ways truly has coalesced into a "union." Most of the primary co...


Litigation


By Gonzalo Solano Associated Press Writer LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador - A Spanish scientist working with plaintiffs in a lawsuit accu...


Public Interest


By Erik Cummins Maria Blanco, the national senior counsel for the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund, will replace E...


Litigation


By Stefanie Knapp Thanks to a Los Angeles Superior Court ruling, a Pasadena neighborhood will have to tolerate large utility ...


Litigation


By Stefanie Knapp Arbitrators awarded Children's Hospital of Los Angeles $3.6 million last month in its breach of contract cl...


Law Practice


Power Partiers

Nov. 4, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

By Stefanie Knapp California's A-list lawyers battled serious Los Angeles traffic to gather in celebration of the Daily Journ...


Large Firms


Market Capitalization

Nov. 4, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Jerome Coben pulled together the 50 members of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's corporate department...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Contestants on the television game show "Wheel of Fortune" are expected to express enthusiasm. But watch o...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda A nasty divorce battle in family court is turning even more bitter with a subsequent civil action. The dis...


Law Practice


Spin Control

Nov. 4, 2003
By Columnist

Column Media Relations By Richard S. Levick Law firms historically have resisted any proactive relationship with the media. T...