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Government


LOS ANGELES - In his first major policy speech, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Wednesday reiterated themes from his campaign, ...


Criminal


High Court Sides With Murderer

Sep. 21, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A double murderer on death row who has repeatedly sought to drop his appeals got his wish granted Wednesday by...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Head Offers Help for Attack Recovery

Sep. 21, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California is moving to aid the families of lawyers and other victims lost in the attacks on th...


Environmental


Prop. 65 Reforms To Reduce Lawsuits

Sep. 21, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Though state lawmakers in the waning hours of the legislative session approved the most significant changes to...


Entertainment & Sports


Jury Decides Six Flags Didn't Violate Rights

Sep. 21, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County jury has concluded that Six Flags Magic Mountain did not violate an African-American patron...


Discipline


Most lawyers are aware that the Rules of Professional Conduct say that they cannot "form a partnership with a person who is no...


Insurance


Art of 'War'

Sep. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The exclusion should apply only to a war that involves an attack by sovereign governments or the military forces of sovereign ...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has rejected a claim that a novel lawsuit alleging that journalists' sources are trade s...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Court Takes Co-Counsel Suits

Sep. 21, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify how malpractice laws apply in cases where multiple at...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Ducking for now the highly charged issues of employee privacy and consent, the nation's top federal judges have u...


Large Firms


New York Firms Trying to Take Care of Workers

Sep. 21, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Within moments of last week's terrorist attacks, California's law firms began to confront the tremendous human...


Judges and Judiciary


Pioneering Judge Takes on New Role

Sep. 21, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Some time in the future, Consuelo B. Marshall's portrait will go up on a wall in the federal courthouse in Los A...


Personal Injury & Torts


Whipple Blamed for Own 'Alleged Injury'

Sep. 21, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The two lawyers jailed on criminal charges because their dogs fatally mauled a Pacific Heights neighbor have f...


Nobody wants to be demonized. But there's a whole lot of demonization going on. These words came to me Wednesday morning as I ...


International


Judge Disallows WWII Slave Labor Suits

Sep. 21, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - World War II slave laborers cannot sue the Japanese corporations that forced them to work because a 1999 Calif...


Public Interest


Blocked Passages

Sep. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Harper-Collins Publishing Co. Inc. is reissuing C.S. Lewis' classic children's series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." And who say...


Judges and Judiciary


He Knows the Ropes

Sep. 21, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - While many judges spring from colorful backgrounds, Lassen County Superior Court Judge Stephen D. Bradbury can...


Administrative/Regulatory


Delgadillo Vows To Beat Office's Tech Problem

Sep. 21, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - His predecessor tried to do it but said he was foiled by politics. On Wednesday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Rave Parties Come Under Fire

Sep. 21, 2001
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - Normally, the collision between Cynthia Sikes and another driver near Adelanto in September 1999 would have been...


Litigation


Time Honored Case

Sep. 20, 2001
By Eron Yehuda


Constitutional Law


Liberty at Risk

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

Benjamin Franklin once observed, "They that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve nei...


International


We Made Terrorist Bin Laden

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

There are two big unanswered questions about the monstrous attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The first is tha...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The California State Bar races this year can't be considered a true test of the new election rules that stem from a recent set...


Litigation


Mastering a New Role

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

William A. Masterson , 40-year veteran of the legal scene welcomes the change from law practice to full-time ADR. ...


Litigation


Risk Reward

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

Negotiation impasses are a fact of life, leading mediators and negotiators to keep an ever-vigilant eye out for impasse breake...


Litigation


Let the Sun Shine In

Sep. 20, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

For Randy Sunshine, there's more to the law than winning. Not that the 45-year-old attorney doesn't relish going to trial and ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Appreciates Decorum, Strives for Patient Demeanor

Sep. 20, 2001
By Contributing Writer


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Parallel Lines

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

Critics often argue that private judging undermines the public courts and fosters divided, rich man versus poor man justice. ...


Criminal


Hallinan's Son Booked In Battery

Sep. 20, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Brendan Hallinan, the 26-year-old son of San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, was arrested last w...


Probate


Lightness of Being

Sep. 20, 2001
By Columnist

As science continues to advance, more difficult decisions will be necessary in order to establish a policy in this area. ...