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Government


LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California Law School Associate Dean Karen Lash is leaving the post she founded to join W...


Constitutional Law


Berkeley's Sea Scouts Policy Upheld

Dec. 10, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has published its ruling that cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to groups th...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate ruling threatening dozens of oil leases off the California coast hands the companies invo...


Focus Column - Tax Law - By David Brent Jones - For the successful employer with 15 or fewer employees who wants to make maxim...


Judges and Judiciary


No Axes to Grind

Dec. 10, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - When voters revamped the state Commission on Judicial Performance in 1994, they clearly wanted a major change...


Litigation


Alleged Sex Slavery Case Goes to Panel

Dec. 10, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Washington, D.C., federal appellate court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a class action o...


Investments


Mics Raised

Dec. 10, 2002
By Tanya Rothman

Focus Column - Public Relations - By David Silver - Like a relentless avalanche, one corporate scandal after another has tumbl...


Firm Watch


MILWAUKEE - Litigation partner Stephen McFeely practiced at Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May for more than 30 years b...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Thanks to Morrison & Foerster land use attorney Donna Black, the Daughters of Charity Ministries Services ...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - The judges of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California appointed the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...


Large Firms


Family Value

Dec. 10, 2002
By John Ryan

ORANGE COUNTY - A name that people recognize is important for a law firm, which makes tinkering with that name a delicate matt...


LOS ANGELES - The Civil Justice Association of California appointed Laura Borden Riddell as the group's legislative advocate, ...


Large Firms


Visionary Thinkers

Dec. 10, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

NEWPORT BEACH - The story of Nick Yocca shampooing the carpets of his new office is part of legal community folklore - a collo...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass has elevated a pair of lawyers to partner status, effective ...


SANTA BARBARA - Santa Barbara's Hager & Dowling, a civil litigation firm, has promoted associate Lisa Franklin to partner ...


Litigation


'Crazy Drunk' Depicts Celebrity Attorney

Dec. 10, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

LOS ANGELES - Even a century ago, Los Angeles had its celebrity lawyers. Back then, Earl Rogers was known as a virtually unbea...


Transactions


LOS ANGELES - Nearly five months after agreeing to acquire TRW Inc., defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles ...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - The partnership at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher will lift two California lawyers and six others to...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appointed for a second time former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madge Watai as ...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman has lost one of the founding partners of its Los Angeles office to O'Melveny...


Securities


LAS VEGAS - Break out your golf clubs, your appetite and your wallet. A new glitzy casino is opening on the Las Vegas Strip. T...


The trend of U.S. attorneys heading to litigation practices at large firms has caught up with Piper Rudnick. The Washington, ...


Appellate Practice


Panel OKs Assaulted Soccer Player's Suit

Dec. 7, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A man who won a Northridge club soccer game but was assaulted afterward by members of the losing team can sue th...


Education


LOS ANGELES - William S. Hart High School's mock trial team took top honors this week in the senior-high division of the Const...


Law Office Automation


Company Creates New Litigation Resources Provider

Dec. 7, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Bowne & Co.'s business solutions division has acquired DecisionQuest of Torrance for $31 mill...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Activist Wins Seat on Board of Governors

Dec. 7, 2002
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - A committed bar activist boasting strong support from Bay Area lawyers' groups has defeated a prominent State Ba...


Constitutional Law


Reinhardt Throws Down Gauntlet on Gun Control

Dec. 7, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The most liberal judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals used a challenge to California's ban on assau...


Criminal


Jurist Denies Marijuana Co-op's Plea

Dec. 7, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative will not be getting their pot back. In a ruling filed ...


Constitutional Law


False Accusations Against Cops Are Banned

Dec. 7, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it is not unconstitutional to punish people for filing false...


Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Reviews, bonuses, resolutions - yes, the holiday season is quickly approaching. It's ...