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Litigation


States of Flux

Jun. 22, 2002
By Staff Writer

On May 7, a panel of experts gathered at Fulbright & Jaworski in Los Angeles to discuss recent developments in antitrust l...


Litigation


Spreading the News

Jun. 22, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

Although mediation has gained popularity in recent years in the United States as a way to avoid litigation, on an internationa...


Litigation


Head of The Class

Jun. 22, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

Not even the threat of terrorism deterred San Francisco attorney Richard M. Heimann from pursuing a recent class action agains...


Litigation


Wrong Moves

Jun. 22, 2002
By Columnist

Column By Robert D. Crockett - Imagine this: attorney Jones defends his corporate client, Acme Industries, against an unfair c...


Litigation


Full Speed Ahead

Jun. 22, 2002
By Columnist

Dr. Robert Briner, 72, has had an incredible career in law and international dispute resolution, and he doesn't appear to be s...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - Most California law firms understand the benefit of conducting background checks on new...


Litigation


E-Business Protection

Jun. 22, 2002
By Columnist

Column by Jay Calkins - Trade secret law is a frequently overlooked and underused form of intellectual property protection. In...


Litigation


Global Crossing

Jun. 22, 2002
By Christina Landers

Attorney Lorraine M. Brennan never imagined that a bachelor's degree in French literature from Cornell University would come i...


Litigation


State Expects Onslaught of New Petitions

Jun. 22, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court ban on executions of individuals with mental retardation creates a murky scenario for the...


Criminal


Court Bans Execution Of Mentally Retarded

Jun. 22, 2002
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - In a historic decision reversing a quarter-century of death penalty jurisprudence, the Supreme Court on Thursday ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - By Daniel A. Olivas - Carl sipped his tall, double-shot, decaf cappuccino as he edited the first draft of a ple...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Servantes, the city's tow truck driver from hell, has two wheels in the ditch thanks to a U.S. Supreme...


Zoning, Planning and Use


San Francisco to Reform Citizen's Arrest Procedure

Jun. 22, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - City officials have agreed to reform San Francisco's citizen's arrest procedures and pay $151,424 to end a lon...


Government


LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appears ready to leverage his contract enforcement powers to ensure that the city...


Criminal


State Exclusion Of Executions Now Probable

Jun. 22, 2002
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - The Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded has suddenly revived hopes of passing a bill in the Le...


Large Firms


Perkins Loses Tech Partner

Jun. 22, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Cindy Hess, a corporate partner who has focused on technology start-ups, joined Fenwick & West in Menlo Pa...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Returning to private law practice but not to his former law firm of Irell & Manella, technology lawyer and e...


Government


Panel OKs Sacramento Man For U.S. District Court Post

Jun. 22, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Morrison Cohen England Jr. was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Commi...


Criminal


DNA Expert Links Westerfield to Van Dam

Jun. 22, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A police DNA analyst testified Thursday that blood from slain 7-year-old Danielle van Dam was on the carpet in Dav...


Government


Veteran Prosecutor Was Devoted to Bruins

Jun. 22, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Margaret A. Barreto-Morehouse, a 22-year-veteran prosecutor who rose to become special assistant to former Distr...


Law Practice


Fraud Charges Provoke Murder Suspicions

Jun. 22, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills attorney accused of embezzling nearly $400,000 in life insurance proceeds from the sons o...


Law Practice


Attorney Faces Extortion Trial In Alleged Plot

Jun. 22, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney and his female co-defendant could stand trial on charges they tried to blackmail a San ...


Civil Rights


Tied to the Past

Jun. 22, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Raymond C. Marshall, Joanne Leah Castella and Kristen A. Palumbo - Ever since the promise of 40 acres and a ...


Civil Rights


Judge OKs Suit Against ADA Lawyer

Jun. 22, 2002
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against noted East Bay disability rights attorney Paul ...


Government


Accused Judge Can Withdraw From Election

Jun. 22, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

LOS ANGELES - Citing unclear law on the matter, a judge has allowed Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline to withdra...


Litigation


Never, Never Ever Argue With a Juror

Jun. 21, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Occasionally during voir dire, you will encounter a juror who loudly states a propositio...


Law Practice


Planning for Disability

Jun. 21, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Is your family's financial security at risk? Most lawyers don't know that their chance of be...


International


Forum Column - By Steven Zak - At the end of World War I, the British and French received "mandates" from the League of Nation...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - Managed care patients in California and 41 other states that have laws protecting their rights celebrated a vict...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - New misconduct charges were filed Wednesday against Alameda Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde for allegedly ...