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Natural Resources


Watershed Issues

Aug. 13, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - In an extraordinary irony, the fallout from the near-collapse of California's electricity system a few years ...


Litigation


By Stefanie Knapp Dean Hansell didn't have the home-court advantage when he embarked on his first trial in American Samoa in ...


Large Firms


Morale Boost

Aug. 12, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

A lot has happened in the three years since Bob Gunderson made his historic splash in the large law firm market. Everyone know...


Litigation


Early Selection and Hiring Can Save Money and Time

Aug. 12, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Adviser Column Expert Witness By Michael R. Brown You've found the perfect expert for a complex malpractice trial. Now, how d...


Firm Watch


Pennie Plans to Open San Diego Outpost

Aug. 12, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

New York's Pennie & Edmonds will open its San Diego office in early September with the help of an implanted partner and a ...


Labor/Employment


Grounded

Aug. 12, 2003
By John Ryan

By John Ryan Divorced, unemployed and homeless, Harold Archuleta blames his life's misery on American Airlines. The airline f...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy has resigned amid allegations that he sexually abused a woman he supe...


Education


UCLA Law School Gets Interim Dean

Aug. 12, 2003
By Jeff Berg

By Jeff Berg A former UCLA vice chancellor will serve as interim dean of the UCLA School of Law beginning Saturday. Professor...


Litigation


Catch Phrase

Aug. 12, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Litigation Strategies By David Hunter "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Johnnie Cochran uttered those now-famous w...


Government


VENTURA - The briefcase has long since lost the luster of new leather, its surface scuffed and faded by the ravages of 25 yea...


Litigation


By Stefanie Knapp Actor Robert Wagner has presented a new challenge for Charlie's Angels, but it doesn't involve hit men or s...


Litigation


Pregnancy Center Sues State to Become Clinic

Aug. 12, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

By Eron Ben-Yehuda State health officials are interfering with the reproductive rights of women, according to a lawsuit filed...


Public Interest


Santa Monica Attorney Aids Crash Victims

Aug. 12, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Thomas Larmore sat at a folding table, surrounded by other tables stacked with fat, beaming sunflowers...


Public Interest


Into the Night

Aug. 12, 2003
By Karen Coleman

By Karen Coleman Courtroom do-gooders from around the country blew off steam at the end of the Association of Trial Lawyers o...


Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has added another prominent politician and the first Republican, to it...


Firm Watch


Foley & Lardner Starts IP Practice in S.F.

Aug. 12, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Foley & Lardner is the latest national firm to start a Northern California intellectual property practice...


Firm Watch


Trio Forms Environmental Law Boutique

Aug. 12, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...


Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...


Transactions


CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...


Litigation


Paralyzed Exercise Rider Sues Golden Gate Fields

Aug. 12, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...


Judges and Judiciary


Passing Litmus

Aug. 12, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...


Litigation


Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...


Criminal


Man Won't Challenge Citizen's Arrest Law

Aug. 12, 2003
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...


Litigation


Broadcom, Intel, Settle Patent Tiff

Aug. 12, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...


Law Practice


Murder, He Wrote, But He Also Practices Law

Aug. 12, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...


Appellate Practice


State Judge Refuses to Halt Recall Election

Aug. 12, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday turned back another bid to halt Gov. Gray Davis' recall election. ...


Government


WASHINGTON - Beverly Hills civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has quit the NAACP after a dispute with the organization over hi...


Appellate Practice


Justice Brown Hits the Books

Aug. 12, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - It's never too late to go back to school - even for a Supreme Court justice. Which might explain why Janice R...