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Mergers & Acquisitions


Attorneys Help Examiner Change Hands

Mar. 16, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

When Pillsbury Winthrop attorneys Nate Cartmell and Brad Kohn helped billionaire Phil Anschutz acquire the San Francisco Exami...


Litigation


Column - Malicious Prosecution - By Susan Page White - When people are sued, they typically are relieved if their insurer pote...


Litigation


Yeda Research Prevails in Suit For Drug Patent

Mar. 16, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. won a summary judgment in federal court recently in a patent infringement case file...


Litigation


Bank of America agreed this month to a $33 million settlement for a class action brought by 2,600 beneficiaries of trust accou...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Brill - The patent statute includes an often misunderstood requirement that a patent sp...


Public Interest


Bush Cuts Food for World's Poor Children

Mar. 16, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The war against world hunger is facing a major battle in this country, as the Bush adminis...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Julia Lapis Blakeslee - Most people assume that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act pr...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager has told lawyers in the massive Southern California clergy sexual ...


Constitutional Law


Lambda Legal Challenges State's Marriage Law

Mar. 16, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took up an invitation from the state Supreme Court Friday and filed a di...


Criminal


Judge Sets Two Brothers' Murder Trials

Mar. 16, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Friday that Justin Helzer, the younger of two brothers charged in a series of gruesome Bay Area ...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - A restraining order issued against a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who allegedly threatened to kill a man he ...


Litigation


Class Dismissed

Mar. 16, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - What surgery is to the patient, litigation is to the client. So says profes...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision last December, n...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marjorie Steinberg admits she's guilty of one bias. In her family law courtroom...


Litigation


PORT WINS VERDICT

Mar. 16, 2004
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A jury has awarded the San Diego Unified Port District $21.3 million in back rent and demolition costs that a form...


Litigation


Forum Column - By Michael L. Mallow and Matthew G. Ball - California courts might finally be bringing fairness to California's...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - In August, Shearman & Sterling, one of the most prominent law firms in the United States, took what many leg...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusual move, attorneys for two of three men charged with assault in the infamous police Fajitagate case...


Criminal


Law Targeting Repeat Felons Does Its Job

Mar. 13, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - Last weekend California marked the 10-year anniversary of its adoption of the toughest ha...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Jeff Kichaven - As mediation becomes a more significant commercial enterprise, more litigatio...


Forum Column - By Joe Domanick - One May morning in 1998 I was riding shotgun with Mike Reynolds as he tooled through downtown...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There is a fine line between appropriate job search follow-up and pestering. Prop...


Litigation


Collection-Law Expert Was Active Republican

Mar. 13, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for LeMoyne "Lee" S. Badger, a longtime general practitioner who at one point was a play...


Litigation


Knowledgeable Lawyer Was 'Walking Witkins'

Mar. 13, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Civil litigator Samuel W. Gordon died March 3 after a brief illness. He was 57. Gordon was known for his brillia...


Administrative/Regulatory


Panel Approves Suit Over Rates

Mar. 13, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a man can pursue his lawsuit alleging Mercury Insurance Co. charged ...


Solo and Small Firms


Stress of Scandal Leads Bar Director to Resign

Mar. 13, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The executive director of the Beverly Hills Bar Association has stepped down, citing undue stress stemming from ...


Criminal


Guilty Plea Causes Quandary

Mar. 13, 2004
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Taylor Helzer, one of two brothers accused in a series of gruesome Bay Area murders, entered a surprise ...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about prosecuting a sex offender twice - once for failing to...


Education


Ex-Dean Was Mentor to Women Law Students

Mar. 13, 2004
By Dan Evans

LOS ANGELES - Marcia Wilbur, a former dean of Western State University College of Law, died Tuesday in Orange after a brief ba...


Appellate Practice


Race Equated With Gender in Assessing Bias at Work

Mar. 13, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Racial hostility at work must be assessed in a courtroom from the point of view of a "reasonable person" belon...