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Government


D. Eagleson, High Court Justice, 77

May 28, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired California Associate Justice David Eagleson, who helped usher in a new era of conservatism on the Supr...


Corporate


ABA Panel Rethinks Confidentiality Rules

May 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Lawyers view themselves as trusted counselors to their clients, with the communication between them protected by the sacred at...


Litigation


School District, Church Battle Over Land

May 28, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

A Los Angeles judge soon will decide the fate of a parcel of land in Koreatown that is owned by a church but has been taken ov...


Firm Watch


It isn't often a job like this comes around. Morrison & Foerster had lost its key ERISA partner, Irvine's Ellen Marshall, ...


Firm Watch


Tomlinson Zisko added Heather Meeker, 43, as special counsel to the firm's intellectual property protection and licensing grou...


Law Practice


The Other Side

May 28, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Conjure an image of Oakland, and you're bound to think of an industrial port, a high crime rate, maybe even raucous Raiders fa...


Firm Watch


Alschuler Grossman Adds Partner

May 28, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Ramsey Hanna has left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to become a partner with Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossma...


Firm Watch


Morgan Lewis Attracts Managing Partner

May 28, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

Thomas W. Kellerman, formerly managing partner of the European joint venture of Brobeck Hale and Dorr in London, has joined Mo...


Firm Watch


MoFo Litigator Goes Small at Michelman

May 28, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After 15 years with the Irvine office of Morrison & Foerster, William Grenner has joined the Santa Ana office of Michelman...


Firm Watch


Corporate Star Returns From Web Wars

May 28, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

Fenwick & West Chairman Gordon K. Davidson has high expectations for Mark C. Stevens, who is returning to the firm's corpo...


Litigation


Eye-Catcher

May 28, 2003
By Contributing Writer

In Closing Column - Litigation Technology - By David Hunter - The age of courtroom technology is here to stay, and it's changi...


Firm Watch


Sony Casts Litigation Executive

May 28, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Leonard Venger has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as executive vice president of litigation. Venger was a partner with Los...


Firm Watch


Trial Lawyer Skips to Akin Gump

May 28, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

In the hustle and bustle of the days that followed his firm's collapse, Steven Kaufhold followed a group of 50 Brobeck, Phlege...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Adviser Column - ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - You are a hardworking attorney. Suddenly you receive notice that you are in a ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Purchase Forms Huge Asian-American Bank

May 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Two Los Angeles banks are combining to create the largest Asian-American bank in the United States. Cathay Bancorp Inc. plans ...


Litigation


Attorneys Praise Judge's Legendary Patience

May 28, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local ...


Forum Column - By Gregory R. Smith, Kyhm Penfil and Ornah Medovoi - The Nazi butchery of innocents was about more than the ext...


Forum Column - By John F. Niblock - Over the past several years, California has pursued its own foreign policy by enacting leg...


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - The application of Proposition 36 often means that a defendant will get t...


Law Practice


Will Trevor Case Curb Abuse?

May 28, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The suspension of three Southern California lawyers who were accused of filing frivolous lawsuits to extort mone...


Judges and Judiciary


Judgeships Created

May 28, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has voted to create five new federal district-court judgeships in California. The measure, spons...


Criminal


Grant Averts Santa Clara DA Layoffs

May 28, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - An influx of federal grant money will allow the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office to avoid laying off a...


Criminal


Forgetful Sex Offender Gets Break

May 28, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento state appellate court has ruled that a sex offender who says he forgot to register with police on...


Column By Garry Abrams - For the sake of argument, let's assume that Tony Soprano, the angst-ridden psychiatric patient and Ma...


Government


Doubt Cast On Judicial Discipline

May 28, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, who was removed for his abrasive style on the bench, has a...


Law Practice


Camaraderie Rules Female Firm

May 28, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Virginia Blumenthal has received many compliments since she expanded her criminal-defense firm to include all fema...


Government


Habeas Law In Trouble

May 28, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Susan Deering spent 23 years behind bars for killing her abusive boyfriend, yet jurors never heard a word about b...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - Attorney Melanie Rae Blum and her ex-husband and former law partner Mark Elliot Roseman will stand trial on grand ...


Real Estate/Development


SANTA BARBARA - What's in a street name? An awful lot, according to residents of a Santa Barbara neighborhood who have gone to...


Criminal


Bench Officer Makes Difference

May 24, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Mitchell Block didn't just settle for second best when he gave up his dream of playing center field for the New ...