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Product Liability


Pasta-Machine Maker Isn't Liable, Court Says

Sep. 12, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - An Italian pasta machine manufacturer cannot be held liable for an accident involving one of its kitchen applian...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - A Central Valley lawyer who had a financial stake in a series of bond contracts while serving as a city attorn...


Personal Injury & Torts


Focus Column - By Daniel P. Barer - "Nine-one-one." Long before the Sept. 11 attacks lent those three digits an ironic double ...


Constitutional Law


Carrying On

Sep. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Jan Ting - Since Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a life and death strug...


Civil Rights


Detentions Trouble Experts of All Persuasions

Sep. 11, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...


Litigation


Beware: Redirect Can Get You in Deep

Sep. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner Everybody does redirect examination, but does that mean it is smart? I believe that all co...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Why the California Supreme Court devotes its precious time to reviewing some cases and not others is often a m...


Criminal


Westerfield Jury Continues Deliberations

Sep. 11, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - After a day of deliberating without fresh requests for testimony or exhibits, jurors went home Monday without reac...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as non-sectarian student c...


Criminal


Court Orders Jesus Christ Out of Prayers

Sep. 11, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan

Sep. 11, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...


Public Interest


In Remembrance

Sep. 11, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...


Constitutional Law


Fencing Off the Public Domain

Sep. 11, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...


Constitutional Law


Civil Rights Suit Protests INS Jailing

Sep. 11, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...


Criminal


Career Prosecutor Received His Dying Wish

Sep. 11, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...


Contracts


Firm Sues Ex-NBA Star Over Unpaid Legal Bills

Sep. 11, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...


Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...


Government


Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Eminent Domain Rule Altered

Sep. 11, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...


Law Practice


Firms Pull Together After Terrorist Attacks

Sep. 11, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...


Front Page


PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan

Sep. 11, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...


Public Interest


Person of Interest

Sep. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...


Law Practice


James Frolik, Attorney, 81, Tennis Pro

Sep. 10, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...


Firm Watch


Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...


Transactions


Valley Business Park May Change Hands

Sep. 10, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...


Litigation


Fault Lines

Sep. 10, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...


Firm Watch


Gray Cary Cuts Loose 55 Associates, Staff

Sep. 10, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...


Firm Watch


Orrick Herrington Loses Corporate Leader

Sep. 10, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...


Litigation


June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...


Transactions


Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...