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Labor/Employment


WARN Watch

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Employers contemplating facility closings or reductions in force as a means of coping with the current business downturn must ...


Labor/Employment


Biological Peril

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

As we are all aware, on Sept. 11, the United States was attacked by terrorists. However, a potentially more harmful attack occ...


Litigation


Key to Settlement Depends on Analysis

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

The ability to negotiate is central to good lawyering. But there are many psychological, cognitive and emotional forces at wor...


Law Practice


Legal Ups, Downs

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Every major recession brings new winners and new losers, a reshuffling of the "have" and "have not" firms. Here are some near ...


Civil Rights


Tug of War

Nov. 29, 2001
By Columnist

U.S. agencies involved in protecting the borders have been criticized because almost all 19 of the suspected hijackers easily ...


Criminal


Senators Seek Role in Deciding Terrorists' Fate

Nov. 29, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded answers from a senior Department of Justice official about P...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - After only two years with Greines Martin Stein & Richland, former Los Angeles County Bar Association Preside...


Litigation


A Bust Gone Bad

Nov. 29, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Police raided a motel suite in Gardena expecting to find a cache of illegal drugs. Instead, a cop shot a 51-year-old man who h...


Litigation


Buy the Hour

Nov. 29, 2001
By Columnist

Carrying a hefty trial caseload and can't find time to work out? Slaving over discovery in a chilly law office, breathing reci...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Up, Up and Away

Nov. 29, 2001
By Lisa Milller

I have been a prosecutor since 1974, and I prosecuted the Richard Allen Davis trial for the kidnap-murder of Polly Klaas. I ha...


Litigation


Winds of Change

Nov. 29, 2001
By Columnist

Business attorneys around the world are moving rapidly into new business structures that include nonattorney partners. Busines...


Civil Rights


Show Business

Nov. 29, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Some litigators are simply frustrated actors. But Southern California attorney James M. Epstein says he's living the Hollywood...


LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline is scheduled to be indicted by a federal grand jury today on cha...


Judges and Judiciary


A Delicate Transplant

Nov. 29, 2001
By John Roemer


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - The insurance industry has dodged a bullet over claims its house counsel practices are illegal, thanks to a Lo...


Law Practice


Donald Tayer, Union Attorney

Nov. 29, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Donald S. Tayer, general counsel for the national office of the A...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has tapped O'Melveny & Myers litigation partner Cheryl White Mason to head hi...


Civil Rights


Guards Abused Disabled Boy, Lawsuit Alleges

Nov. 29, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A developmentally disabled San Bernardino County boy has filed a federal lawsuit against the county's probation de...


Personal Injury & Torts


Fan's Cry: 'I Want My Ball Back'

Nov. 29, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The historic horsehide Barry Bonds smacked into the right-field bleachers to set a new major league home-run ...


Government


Man Throws Book at Library, Cat

Nov. 29, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A disabled man whose service dog was attacked by the Escondido library's pet cat has sued the city for $1.5 millio...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Merger Hindsight

Nov. 28, 2001
By Columnist

Imagine the following nightmare scenario: After months of negotiations and painful due diligence, your client is ready to clos...


Civil Rights


Equal Protection

Nov. 28, 2001
By Columnist

In many ways, committed lesbian and gay relationships used to be invisible to the legal system. Case after case treated same-s...


Military Law


Military Comissions

Nov. 28, 2001
By Columnist

There has been a great uproar ever since President Bush issued his executive order providing that suspected terrorists be trie...


Judges and Judiciary


Card-Carrying Member

Nov. 28, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Two things distinguish the appointment of U.S. Magistrate Edward M. Chen to the Northern District bench: He is...


Government


ELECTIONS

Nov. 28, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Following up on a pledge to run a grass-roots campaign for San Francisco public defender, candidate Jeff Adach...


Labor/Employment


Postings Will Continue 'Forever,' Defendant Vows

Nov. 28, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Superior Court trial of Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day, who are accused by Varian Semicon...


The Mexican Mafia murder and racketeering trial that ended earlier this month in federal district court in Los Angeles was par...


Media


The Fangs Regain Legal Harmony

Nov. 28, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Ted Fang is back in his mother's good graces and will return as publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, his l...


Product Liability


Settlement In Suit Over Blood Meter

Nov. 28, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs attorneys have won a tentative $45 million settlement in a class action against a Johnson & Johnson ...


Government


Election-Fraud Lawsuit Cleaves Compton in Two

Nov. 28, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - During the eight years he was in office, the controversial and charismatic Mayor Omar Bradley was the face of th...