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Law Practice


Romance Heats Up Over The Grill at McDonald's

Dec. 3, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Put together two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and you have yourself ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Judge Rejects Future Grandchildren Theory

Dec. 3, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

In a wrongful-death action, are the parents of the deceased entitled to recover damages based on their loss of future grandchi...


Firm Watch


Jones Day Taps New Managing Partner

Dec. 3, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue managing partner Patrick F. McCartan has tapped Stephan J. Brogan to be his successor as managi...


Law Practice


Clockwork

Dec. 3, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Management Column By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Law firms often struggle with hiring decisions. When a firm generates new bu...


Litigation


Following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner was confirmed to th...


After facing two runoffs in the last six months, Guillermina Byrne has been elected by the Los Angeles Superior Court judges t...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...


Government


County OKs Observer During Riverside Autopsy in Shooting

Dec. 3, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Heading off a legal showdown, coroner officials in Riverside County last week allowed a private pathologist to obs...


Intellectual Property


SAN JOSE - Even though no one faces any jail time, the stakes are high as the first trial under a 1998 federal law intended t...


Judges and Judiciary


Leading with the Right

Dec. 3, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

The jury is out on whether junkets for judges are out of order. The hotel, meals and plane ticket are paid for, luring judges ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Tort Law - By L. Amy Blum and Kevin O. Schwartz - Although many business owners fear that Schlage destro...


Personal Injury & Torts


Lockheed Keeps Bar Busy

Dec. 3, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Lockheed Corporation pulled out of the state, but the world's largest defense cont...


Securities


After the Deluge

Dec. 3, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been six months since Tower Snow Jr. carved up Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's prized securities litiga...


Public Interest


Ivory Tower Walls Tumble Down

Dec. 3, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Su was one year out of law school when she became a champion of Thai immigrant sweatshop laborers, even...


Real Estate/Development


Tax-Grab Game Undercuts Fairness

Dec. 3, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By George Lefcoe - In this season between elections and the holidays, consider a reverse Robin Hood program the...


Criminal


Panel Wants Plea Bargaining Kept

Dec. 3, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Saying prosecutors breached their plea agreement with a convicted drug smuggler, a federal appellate panel has r...


Criminal


Death of Fetus Not Murder

Dec. 3, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend cannot also be held liable for the killing of her first-trimes...


Criminal


Suspect's Past May Prove Double-Edged Sword

Dec. 2, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...


Judges and Judiciary


Making Connection With Others

Nov. 30, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

POMONA - When Judge Robert M. Martinez recalls the numerous murder trials he's presided over during the past few years, he thi...


Constitutional Law


Rightful Mind

Nov. 30, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Heidi Lypps - On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Dr. Charles Thomas Sell, a dentis...


Large Firms


Attorney Enjoyed Challenge of Difficult Case

Nov. 30, 2002
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Services took place for David Greenberg, a founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg & Panish, who di...


Education


Boalt Dean Quits After Harassment Charge

Nov. 30, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law has resigned after a former student accused him of sexual harassment....


Constitutional Law


Constitutional Breaches Don't Get Damages

Nov. 30, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has prohibited plaintiffs from seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of...


Criminal


Jurist Grants Celebrity Sleuth Bail

Nov. 30, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who has stood by embattled clients ranging from entertainer Michael Jackson ...


Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in the...


Government


Injunction Bars Slashing of City Clerk's Salary

Nov. 30, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's action "retaliatory and punitive," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday issued a prel...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...


Energy Law


Slick Campaign

Nov. 28, 2002
By Karen Coleman

MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...