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Constitutional Law


Elusive Funds

Jul. 16, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Pammela Quinn - The Supreme Court recently considered the constitutionality of California's Holocaust Victim...


Administrative/Regulatory


Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has noted several times, appli...


Litigation


Burris Gets Unwanted Publicity

Jul. 16, 2003
By Karen Coleman

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Oakland plaintiffs attorney John Burris will pay Hayward $10,000 to settle the city's...


Litigation


New Strategy Guides Ageism Suits

Jul. 16, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's "old" folks aren't ready to be written off just yet. In January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ch...


Judges and Judiciary


Federal Judges' Argumentative Juices Flow

Jul. 16, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - There's nothing like terrorists, race, sodomy and a dose of "kooky" Stephen Yagman to get federal appeals court ...


Judges and Judiciary


No Love Lost Between Defense Bar and Judge

Jul. 16, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN JOSE - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bul...


Litigation


Thrill-Ride Operators Receive Major Setback

Jul. 16, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - In what one lawyer said was a major setback for thrill-ride operators defending injury suits, an appellate court...


Column By Garry Abrams - Afghanistan, source and site of so much conflict, has triggered a Los Angeles lawsuit that alleges tr...


Insurance


Jury Orders 22 Insurers to Pay $383 Million

Jul. 16, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Monday ordered 22 insurance companies to pay $383 million for refusing to in...


Litigation


Commission OKs Lawsuit Against SFO Building Firm

Jul. 16, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a public standoff with City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, the San Francisco Airport Commission on ...


Constitutional Law


Don't Go Outside 'Miranda,' Justices Warn

Jul. 16, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a hard line against deliberate Miranda violations, the California Supreme Court overturned a murder co...


Appellate Practice


Crusader Pushes for Recognition of Vegans

Jul. 16, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Jerold Friedman wanted to sue after he lost out on a job because he refused to take a vaccine made from chicken ...


Constitutional Law


Elusive Funds

Jul. 15, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Frank Kaplan - It's 1939. Imagine that you are a 10-year-old living in Poland and you and your family sudden...


Large Firms


Lawyer Says 'I Do' to Stradling Yocca

Jul. 15, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Sharon Klein, formerly of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton, joined the corporate practice at Newport Beach's Stradling, Yocca, C...


Intellectual Property


Trade Secrets Need to Be Identified to Get Protection

Jul. 15, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark E. Terman - Trade secret cases come with discovery and disclosure issues that are not...


Administrative/Regulatory


Presiding Judge's Effort to Improve Facilities Pays Off

Jul. 15, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge J. Michael "Mike" Welch doesn't rattle easily. That's what makes him so effective as San Bernardino Sup...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


L.A. Judge OKs $3 Million Award To Clothing Firm

Jul. 15, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed a $3 million award June 17 granted to a Van Nuys-based clothing company by a panel...


Litigation


Retiree Ices Airlines in Small-Claims Court

Jul. 15, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

Raymond Erickson, a 73-year-old Santa Cruz retiree who successfully sued American Airlines in small-claims court, is looking f...


Firm Watch


Arter & Hadden Alums Form Law Firm

Jul. 15, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After voting July 15 to dissolve Arter & Hadden, a group of former partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland ha...


Litigation


University Wins Attorney Fees Despite Losing

Jul. 15, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

It turns out the sometimes a win doesn't always mean a win. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager found June 11 that t...


Firm Watch


Miami's Greenberg Traurig has hired patent lawyer Mark Krietzman from Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. Krietzman joined the...


Litigation


Web Sleuthing

Jul. 15, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Expert Witnesses - By Carole Levitt and Jim Robinson - At least once in their careers, most attorneys need to locate ...


Firm Watch


With no technology rebound in sight, Mountain View's Fenwick & West has voted to lay off a significant portion of its Wash...


Public Interest


Waiting for Gore

Jul. 15, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

The Scene walked into the Beverly Hilton on June 25 to find the room brimming with excitement. It was Public Counsel's annual ...


Corporate


Cautious Revival of IPOs May Be at Hand

Jul. 15, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Happier days are here for the world of initial public offerings. Five companies went public in late June and early July, reviv...


Corporate


California Attorney General Bill Lockyer isn't making quite the same splash in tackling securities fraud as his New York count...


Transactions


Vivato Raises $45 Million in Third Round

Jul. 15, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

San Francisco's Vivato Inc., which makes wireless-networking technology, has raised $45 million in a third round of financing....


Firm Watch


Two Corporate Of-Counsel Return to Cooley Godward

Jul. 15, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

Cooley Godward is reaching into its past to shore up its life sciences and technology transactions groups. Diane W. Savage, wh...


Litigation


A 12-year-old boy's trauma caused by watching his Rottweiler shot to death by a policeman has led to a $6 million lawsuit file...


Firm Watch


Van Etten Gains Two Real Estate Partners

Jul. 15, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has hired real estate partner Michael Brill away from Troy & Gould, where B...