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Education


State Bar Question Four

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Question Four - Professional Responsibility - In 1995, Lawyer was hired by the City ("City") as a Deputy City Attorney to hand...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Question One

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Question One - Civil Procedure - Petra, a State W resident, recently patented a new design for a tamper-free bottle cap for so...


Education


State Bar Performance Test A

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Performance Test A - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Jane Kimmel - Re: Morales and Vargas v. Parsons ...


Education


State Bar Performance Test B

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Performance Test B - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Rachel Bergman - Re: Reese v. Kennel Kare, Inc. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Question Six

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Question Six - Community Property - Henry and Wanda married in 1980 when both were students at State X University. State X is ...


Education


New Lawyers Can Benefit From 16-Step Marketing Plan

May 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column by Trey Ryder - As a new lawyer, you need a simple, straightforward approach to marketing. Here are 16 steps to help yo...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Will an admission of nonpaternity overco...


Criminal


Lay It to Rest

May 29, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Stung by mounting evidence that the state's death-penalty system is fatally flawed, prose...


Immigration


Justices Approve Immigration Hearing Policy

May 29, 2003
By Staff Writer


State Bar & Bar Associations


Ferreting Out Law Positions Is Challenging

May 29, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - Keep moving while you wait for the results of the February State Bar Exam, career-services coordinators advise. ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Mud and rumor have begun to fly in the early days of the San Francisco district attorney race. Candidate Kama...


Litigation


Court Will Hear Case on Asthmatic's Death

May 29, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review next term a San Francisco judge's award of $1.4 million to the fami...


Criminal


DA Fires Media-Relations Director

May 29, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas fired his media relations director Tuesday after she objected to w...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe often found himself standing in front of judges arguing cases for clients. But after a ...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday sent the legal dispute over transferring an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to Tenness...


Education


Exam Yields Slightly Higher Pass Rate

May 29, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - California moved a step closer toward admitting a new crop of lawyers this weekend, as 1,564 aspiring attorneys ...


Media


Court Financial Data Can Go Public

May 29, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of a small newspaper in Glenn County will gain access to court financial records after the 3rd ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Beginning this summer, all people who take the State Bar Exam will have the option of using a laptop computer fo...


Litigation


Mother Gets Damages In Teen Son's Suicide

May 29, 2003
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Allison Carr couldn't prevent her 13-year-old son from committing suicide after he ran away from a private sc...


Real Estate/Development


Newhall Ranch Development

May 29, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - The controversial Newhall Ranch project, one of the largest subdivisions ever proposed in California, moved one ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Training logs on drug-sniffing dogs, including previous false alerts, must be turned over to defense lawyers, a ...


Government


State Workers Can Sue If Denied Family Leave

May 29, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - In a departure from its recent expansion of state sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that state...


Criminal


Justices Weigh Peremptories

May 29, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a controversy surrounding a prosecutor's voir-dire dismiss...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court justices expressed concern Tuesday over the legality of the state's closed-door appr...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Acting in a case involving an Oxnard farmworker, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply narrowed the grounds on whi...


Judges and Judiciary


SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...


Firm Watch


Lsan Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has launched an insolvency and bankruptcy practice in its San Diego offic...


Litigation


The end of April brought a summary judgment ruling in the Redlands water contamination saga, but it likely won't be the end of...


Large Firms


Star Litigator

May 28, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Rachel Krevans was afraid the law school she applied to in 1983 would ask her why she wanted to be a lawyer. "I had no idea," ...


Litigation


Group Sues to Stop Use of Kangaroo Skin

May 28, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

An animal-rights group dedicated to protecting kangaroos is hopping mad with Adidas for its use of the marsupial's skin to mak...