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Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Kristin Linsley Myles - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl is a well-qualified judge who has d...


Environmental


Masry, Brockovich Sue School District

Jun. 11, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ed Masry and his assistant, Erin Brockovich, took their battle over the Beverly Hills High School oil ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Confessed Murderer Goes Free

Jun. 11, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Murder defendant Robin Woods was released Monday from West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga as pro...


Government


It's Amateur Hour in the Legislature

Jun. 11, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

Reporter's Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - Two factors, the declining number of attorneys in the Legislature and the effects of...


Government


County Will Open Second Self-Help Legal Clinic

Jun. 11, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Walking into a courthouse, perhaps for the first time, with a troubling divorce, custody or paternity issue can ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Court Considers Emission-Control Rules

Jun. 11, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Taking on an important air-pollution-control case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to...


Criminal


Former Priest Denies He Molested Teenager

Jun. 11, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges he molested a teenage girl while he was a...


Judges and Judiciary


Officials Break Ground on Child-Centered Facility

Jun. 11, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George and dozens of San Bernardino County judges and officials were on hand Monday f...


Judges and Judiciary


CJP Charges Yuba County Judge

Jun. 11, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko was charged Monday by the state's judicial watchdog agenc...


Criminal


Perjury Doesn't Affect Outcome

Jun. 11, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Anthony Cox, a resident of San Quentin's death row since 1985, will stay there, the state Supreme Cou...


Large Firms


Oppenheimer Going Back To Its Roots

Jun. 11, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly have voted to make the 148-lawyer firm's retrenchment complete ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Three Glendale Officers File Slander Claim

Jun. 11, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers filed a claim Monday accusing an attorney for the city of Glendale of slandering th...


Column By Garry Abrams - Suppose that, a thousand years from now, archeologists dig up the grave of lifestyle guru Martha Stew...


Litigation


Northrup Will Settle Whistle-Blower Suit

Jun. 11, 2003
By Mark Cromer

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $111 million to settle a decade-old whistle-blower la...


Criminal


SAN JOSE - A dozen years ago, Alison Tucher, then a third-year student at Stanford Law School, learned through her mother that...


Government


School Superintendent Fires General Counsel

Jun. 11, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Los Angeles Unified School District General Counsel Hal Kwalwasser has been fired, with a po...


Product Liability


Under the Guns

Jun. 11, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of Costa Mesa gunmaker Bryco Arms would seem to vindicate the gun industry advocates who say l...


Discipline


Ruling Bars Malpractice for Lost Punitives

Jun. 11, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing lawyers for malpractice cannot recover for punitive damages lost because of the lawyer's allege...


Labor/Employment


No Picnic

Jun. 10, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Adviser Column - Employment Law - By Andrew Peterson - Imagine that you are general counsel for a large California corporation...


Litigation


A Los Angeles refuge for wild and exotic animals filed a lawsuit May 19 claiming First Amendment violations. The Wildlife WayS...


Firm Watch


Oakland's Meyers Nave represents 100 Northern California cities, counties and public agencies, many of them in the Bay Area. ...


Litigation


Dumped Law Partner Wins $700,000 Arbitration Award

Jun. 10, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Attorney Esteban Gallegos claimed greedy partners ousted him from a Los Angeles law firm two years ago so they could get a hig...


Bankruptcy


Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks has bought a minority stake in biotechnology company Tularik Inc. in connection with a new agreeme...


Firm Watch


Mountain View Firm GCA Brings in Three Attorneys

Jun. 10, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

GCA Law Partners, the Mountain View firm that offers clients lower prices by employing no associates, has hired two of-counsel...


Firm Watch


Joseph P. Costa, Alan Abrams and Charles M. Coate have formed Costa, Abrams & Coate. The Santa Monica-based entertainment ...


Litigation


Nonverbal Cues Show Bias Jurors May Hide in Voir Dire

Jun. 10, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Adviser Column - Jury Selection - By Andrea Mosmann - During voir dire, a juror must speak in front of a large group of strang...


Litigation


Lawyer's Probe Uncovers Charity Fraud

Jun. 10, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Attorney Anthony Pacheco suspected he was on to something when people started hanging up on him. He was making calls to ask ab...


Corporate


Roxio Will Marry Pressplay With Napster

Jun. 10, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

The recording industry finally has come to accept Napster - or at least, the Napster brand name. Software maker Roxio Inc. of ...


Law Practice


Off the Page

Jun. 10, 2003
By Robin Davidson

In Closing Column - Legal Technology - By Sabina Bhalla and Sharon Jackson - Paperless litigation is slowly being accepted in ...


Corporate


Expanding into a lucrative market, Tellabs Inc. has agreed to buy San Jose network switch maker Vivace Networks Inc. Illinois-...