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Bad Fix

Aug. 28, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Arnold H. Gold - A significant piece of news appeared in an unlikely place in the Aug. 7 issue of the Daily ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeffrey Krivis - When Congress decided to include, as gross income, settlem...


Energy Law


SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Navy can test a controversial new sonar system intended to detect quiet enemy submarines but must res...


Judges and Judiciary


Alameda Courts Reduce Bailiffs

Aug. 28, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Financial woes continue to affect security as Alameda County courts decrease their use of bailiffs and weapons...


Judges and Judiciary


Family Law Specialist Was Presiding Judge

Aug. 28, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - William P. Hogoboom, who was presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1977 and a family and j...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Rushes to Fill Bench as Recall Looms

Aug. 28, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

SACRAMENTO - With the recall election only six weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis stepped up his selection of judges Tuesday by nomin...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Didn't Break Phone, Defense Says

Aug. 28, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA BARBARA - Prosecutors say Diana R. Hall flew into a rage and then broke a phone when she tried to keep her girlfriend fr...


Government


Prison Inquest Gets Complex

Aug. 28, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - An internal affairs investigator for California prisons implied Tuesday that union influence may have played a...


Large Firms


Playing the Field, VLG Switches Its Gaze

Aug. 28, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group has removed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe from its list of potential merger partners in ...


Family


Cutting Programs in Pieces

Aug. 27, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Gridlock is a term we commonly use to refer to the condition of traffic on our state's fre...


Appellate Practice


Transit Case Throws Panelists Into Reverse

Aug. 27, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Reversing their earlier ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday Los Angeles transit officials ...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Refutes Ex-Lover's Testimony

Aug. 27, 2003
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA BARBARA - Strongly contradicting testimony of her former live-in girlfriend, Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall told a j...


Discipline


Bill on Confidentiality Advances

Aug. 27, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The Legislature approved a bill Monday that would allow California lawyers to disclose clients' plans to kill or ...


Criminal


Court Unseals Papers in Child's Murder

Aug. 27, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas won agreement from a judge Monday to have some documents unsealed ...


Judges and Judiciary


IRVINE - The wife of Superior Court Judge Gregory Munoz was killed in a car crash Saturday when the Mercedes her husband was d...


Real Estate/Development


New Fees, New Forms Affect Probate Division

Aug. 27, 2003
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The California Judicial Council has issued revised petitions to reflect the courts' changeover from a fixed to a...


Insurance


Focus Column - Employment Law - By C. Matthew Schulz and Reneé S. Schor - Employers are exposed to a wide range of government ...


Criminal


Prison Guards' Bail Still Not Ruled Out

Aug. 27, 2003
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired to solicit assaults on prison inmates will get a seco...


Contracts


Jurist Approves Settlement for Users of DSL

Aug. 27, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge has approved a tentative settlement worth $52 million in cash and services for su...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't racism when a Tulare County prosecutor kicked two Hispanics off a venire and left an all-white jury ...


Government


Column By Garry Abrams - Three gray stone figures jut from the wall above the Grand Avenue entrance to the Los Angeles County ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners and a senior associate are leaving Cooley Godward's credit finance group to join Bingham McCutche...


Constitutional Law


High Court OKs Limited Prior Restraint

Aug. 27, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for trade secrets over free speech, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that bu...


Criminal


Unprotected Witnesses

Aug. 27, 2003
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Kim Boyd, a devout Christian, never expected to fall in love with and marry a hardened criminal serving time i...


Public Interest


Back Lot Party

Aug. 26, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when The Scene entered the back lot of Fox Studios in Century City. The sounds of Bob Desena's...


Firm Watch


The Costa Mesa office of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has landed an admiralty and maritime practice with the addition...


Litigation


Computers bring speed and efficiency to just about any job. But every employee probably has had one of those days where glitch...


Firm Watch


Following the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, Douglas Workman has joined Century City's Stephan, Oringher, Richman...


Firm Watch


After stints at her own corporate boutique and at a large firm, Clara Martin is going it alone. ...


Real Estate/Development


Despite Reimbursement, Tenants Pursue Landlords

Aug. 26, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath fight in a tenant-landlord case against a...