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Criminal


County Will Look at Traffic Court Lease

Dec. 28, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - County officials will consider Jan. 8 whether to renew the Los Angeles city attorney's lease of office space at ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Kern County double-murder conviction and death sentence, hol...


Judges and Judiciary


CJP Probes Judge Over Investment Scam

Dec. 28, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Judge James I. Aaron, of Fresno County Superior Court, is the target of formal charges into alleged li...


Labor/Employment


Investigate and Remedy

Dec. 28, 2001
By Columnist

Employment Law Practitioner Column by Johnny Darnell Griggs - In Swenson v. Potter, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 25902 (9th Cir. ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - In a flurry of holiday appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard D. ...


Family


Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....


Workers' Comp.


Cutting Into Employees' Benefits

Dec. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...


Labor/Employment


Designing Depositions

Dec. 27, 2001
By Columnist

VIEWPOINT By David D. Kadue Donald C. Potter In this second in a three-part series on deposition skills, the authors address ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Though 2001 brought a recession that forced California law firms to fire an unprecedented number of lawyers, the...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - The dragging economy of 2001 did little to slow the flurry of activity among California law firms - and, in many...


Law Practice


Large Firms Respond to Recession

Dec. 27, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Large-firm lawyers took three giant steps back in 2001. "The last three years of growth were recaptured in one y...


Government


Listening In

Dec. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Forum Column by Cary L. Schatz - The Department of Justice's recently enacted regulation allowing the monitoring of conversati...


Criminal


Circus Acquittal A Setback of Sorts

Dec. 27, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Last week's trial of trainer Mark Gebel for alleged elephant abuse provided animal rights activists with a major me...


Criminal


Judges Can't Require Entire Police File

Dec. 27, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The fine balance between an arresting officer's privacy interests and a criminal defendant's right to learn re...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The Charisma Continues

Dec. 27, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been only two months since Teveia Rose Barnes moved into the corner office that her predecessor, Drucilla...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired 'Holly' Keeps Judging

Dec. 27, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - William R. Hollingsworth, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge sitting on assignment in Torrance, has a re...


Government


Huge Leap In Activity For Office of U.S. Attorney

Dec. 27, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The annual report for the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California shows that the number of criminal case...


Banking


New Product

Dec. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Transactional Law Practitioner Column by Robert C. Barnes - As most transactional attorneys know, Article 9 of the Uniform Com...


Large Firms


SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, has named litigator Stephen J. Meyer as its new...


Government


Cooley Begins by Dodging Mines

Dec. 25, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - For the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 2001 was the year of Steve Cooley. The veteran prosecutor...


Education


McGeorge's New Dean Is Familiar With Diplomacy

Dec. 25, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, named Friday as the first female dean of McGeorge School of Law, said international la...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Maintains Brisk Pace

Dec. 25, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Judge Aurelio Munoz is the last of a retiring breed. Of 25 judges selected in 1988 to pioneer the Fast Track pro...


Government


Senate OKs Judgeships in Central District

Dec. 25, 2001
By Martin Bergn

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved five new judgeships sought by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to relieve the beleag...


Litigation


Jury Rejects Slip-and-Fall Victim's Case

Dec. 25, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A downtown jury on Friday rejected a 28-year-old quadriplegic's claim that the city's policy of paying most trip...


Public Interest


OAKLAND - Three East Bay advocacy groups have won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a project tha...


Judges and Judiciary


Local Judges Are Elevated to Appeal Court

Dec. 25, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of year-end appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated four Bay Area judges to the 1st District Co...


Government


DA Objects to Challenger's Mailers

Dec. 25, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Heating up Riverside County's race for top prosecutor, District Attorney Grover Trask is seeking an injunction to ...


Criminal


Roadblock Rights

Dec. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Criminal Law Practitioner Column by Laurie L. Levonson - Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that roadblocks conducted for ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after Steve Cooley took over the district attorney's office last December, he was briefed by prosecuto...


Large Firms


Heller Gets New Managing Partner

Dec. 25, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo...