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Technology & Science


Lawyers See Potential Of Asia at Conference

Dec. 13, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - The appetite for anything Asian was palpable at the Asia America Multitechnology Association's annual conferen...


Litigation


Man's Suit Says Nun Molested Him

Dec. 13, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego lawyer filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that he was sexually molested 60 years ago by a nun, an abuse...


Criminal


Defendant Embraces Conflict

Dec. 13, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A murder defendant facing a death penalty trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court wants to keep his attorney, de...


Criminal


Pellicano Seeks Dismissal

Dec. 13, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano will seek dismissal of one of two federal weapons charges he pleaded guilty t...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's eagerly awaited verdict on the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 200...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - Harold Archuleta is waiting for his day in court. Actually, Archuleta was in court Thursday, but it was not what...


Education


Edley Says He'll Make Boalt 'Powerful'

Dec. 13, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Edley Jr., Boalt Hall's newly appointed dean, hopes to transform the Berkeley law school into a na...


Large Firms


L.A. Firm Will Merge With French Group

Dec. 12, 2003
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has agreed in principle to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde, Greg Nitzkowski...


Government


Justice Delayed

Dec. 12, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - My one-year-old son's grandfather, my dad, served in World War II on a U.S. destroyer i...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 10

Dec. 12, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Janet Neman of Charles Dunn Co. brokered the dual sale of a 139-unit apartment building at 4...


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Amy Oppenheimer - Attorneys bringing and defending workplace-harassment lawsuits should con...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The state Supreme Court has held that a victim's conduct does not prov...


Judges and Judiciary


Five Vie for San Diego Bench Seat

Dec. 12, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - One of the San Diego Superior Court's judicial races in the March 2 primary features five candidates, a number tha...


Judges and Judiciary


Retiree Still Heeds the Court's Call

Dec. 12, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

CLEAR LAKE - For a year, Superior Court Judge John J. Golden delayed construction of Christo's famed "Running Fence" art proje...


Government


WASHINGTON - Members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared hesitant to police a closely watched battle over congressional...


Criminal


Riverside D.A. May Be Grooming Replacement

Dec. 12, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Rod Pacheco, a former state Assemblyman who started his career in the Riverside district attorney's office and ret...


Government


Two Groups Hail Campaign Finance Decision

Dec. 12, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision preserving soft money restrictions in federal campaigns will lessen the corrupt...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating allegations that celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano wiretapped prosecutors in a high-pr...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer ...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles boxer Vitali Klitschko's two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson Saturday night at ...


Appellate Practice


Appellate Court Gets Warm and Fuzzy, Wins Award

Dec. 12, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...


Criminal


From Out of Nowhere

Dec. 12, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...


Intellectual Property


LOS ANGELES - Even as the Motion Picture Association of America prepares an appeal of the federal court ruling that overturned...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 10

Dec. 11, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels sold its 234-room Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport, to Hilba Star LP,...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This year has seen significant case law in the area of c...


Native Americans


Royally Flush

Dec. 11, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The voters want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal that Gray Davis made, includi...


Constitutional Law


'Ford' Targets Same Issues As Three High-Court Cases

Dec. 11, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Allen Ford's case echoes some of the issues in three cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday...


Government


Renne Gets Hospital Its Cash Back

Dec. 11, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne, who won a blockbuster settlement from tobacco companies as San Francisco's city attorney and con...


Criminal


Supervisor Plans Guilty Plea in Corruption Case

Dec. 11, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A high-profile bribery case against an embattled San Bernardino County supervisor is coming to an end with a ...


Criminal


Medical Pot Law Questioned

Dec. 11, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - At least one Sacramento-based state appellate justice says courts ought to be allowed to order medical marijua...