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Corporate


Source of Knowledge

Sep. 23, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Two years ago, Catholic Healthcare West signed a $600 million agreement to outsource its informa...


Law Practice


Beat the Crowd

Sep. 23, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Business Development - By Robert A. Potter - When firms lose a request for proposal, they usually blame it on their b...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory is 20 miles closer to its software and real estate companies in North Cou...


Constitutional Law


Planned Parenthood Head Will Lead San Diego ACLU

Sep. 23, 2003
By Claude Walbert

Nancy Sasaki, the former president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, has been named executive ...


Law Practice


Courts' Spanish Web Site Increases Access

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The jury is still out two months after the Judicial Council launched a Spanish version of the California Courts Self-Help Cent...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Preparation by Mediator, Lawyers Boosts Success

Sep. 23, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Kanon Alpert - For a mediation to succeed, the mediator and other principals ...


Litigation


Operator of Gas Station Beats Chevron

Sep. 23, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

A gas-station operator in San Pedro won a victory earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that Chevron improperly termin...


Litigation


Kin of Yosemite Murder Victims Settle Suit

Sep. 23, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

The relatives of a mother and daughter murdered during a 1999 sightseeing trip in Yosemite reached a $1 million settlement in ...


Firm Watch


Prosecutor Will Take a Stab at Private Practice

Sep. 23, 2003
By David Houston

Fresh out of Glendale College of the Law, Albert H. MacKenzie went to work in the district attorney's office because he wanted...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Court Rebukes Advocate for Mediating

Sep. 23, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

An appellate court in August expressed "misgivings" about the way a Santa Rosa attorney tried to mediate a dispute while at th...


Civil Rights


Good Times

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The Scene felt like a movie star strolling down Hollywood Boulevard to take a turn on the red carpet that led into the histori...


Firm Watch


Morrison & Foerster Re-Elects Chairman

Sep. 23, 2003
By Erik Cummins

The news that Keith Wetmore was re-elected chairman of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was a bit anticlimactic, Wetmor...


Firm Watch


Last Klein Lawyer Leaves Shaw Pittman

Sep. 23, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

The last former Klein & Martin lawyer to leave Shaw Pittman's Los Angeles office has found a new firm. Charles Fiedler joi...


Litigation


Woman Claims Store Ordered Her a Magazine

Sep. 23, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Customers who use credit cards at Sam Goody stores may want to read the fine print. A Laguna Hills woman claims that when she ...


Firm Watch


Dykema Gossett Opens Pasadena Office

Sep. 23, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

When Detroit's Feeney Kellett Wienner & Bush closed its doors this summer, crosstown firm Dykema Gossett took advantage of...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - As members of the legal profession wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to res...


Environmental


Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David A. Ossentjuk - The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization ...


Forum Column - By Marc Levin - By postponing the recall election in Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shell...


Judges and Judiciary


Recall Rehearing Panel

Sep. 23, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

These are the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judges who will sit on the en banc panel hearing the California recall case: Ma...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge May Keep Post Despite DUI

Sep. 23, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall probably will resume her job as a jurist even after her conviction on misde...


Law Practice


Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Most baseball fans outside the five boroughs hate the New York Yankees. The team i...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is commonly perceived as a renegade, left-leaning federal appeals court, r...


Government


Recall Now Before 9th's 'Conservatives'

Sep. 23, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The pro-recall advocates have drawn some of the most philosophically conservative judges on the 9th U.S. Circu...


Judges and Judiciary


Pair of Judges Will Play More Forceful Roles

Sep. 23, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - When an 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sits down after today's hearing to consider wha...


Judges and Judiciary


Hugs and Treatment

Sep. 23, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - When he isn't flying off to a conference or lobbying in Sacramento to secure funding for drug and mental-health-tre...


Corporate


Does Outsourcing Make Sense? It Depends

Sep. 23, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Outsourcing may seem like a tantalizing prospect, but it's not for everyone. So what's the best way for a company to determine...


Appellate Practice


Lawyer's Recall Role Raises Ethics Questions

Sep. 22, 2003
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - The role of an O'Melveny & Myers attorney in the legal imbroglio over halting the state recall is drawing fi...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - The 1st District Court of Appeal recently upheld an open-space initiative ...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Wage-and-hour laws can significantly affect firm culture. Some recent developments in th...


Public Interest


Toppling Barriers

Sep. 20, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - "Lack of comprehension is perhaps the greatest single barrier to justice. A failure to ...