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Litigation


A Shell Game

Sep. 13, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Business partners must trust each other in order to work together for their mutual benefit. A recent $1.2 million bench decisi...


Litigation


Powerful Weapon

Sep. 13, 2001
By Columnist

The role of the expert witness in civil litigation is changing. The question is whether advocates will be prepared for the cha...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Law firms around the country shut down Tuesday as people mourned their losses and counted their blessings follow...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Barbara K. Olson, wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and a well-known lawyer in her own right, die...


Government


WASHINGTON - I saw the face of terror for the first time in my life today, and it was from my car on Washington Boulevard in A...


Solo and Small Firms


Shock Waves Reach S.F. Legal Scene

Sep. 13, 2001
By Philip Hager

SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific, four-pronged attack by terrorists on the nation's governmental and commercial institutions struc...


Government Contracts


9th U.S. Circuit Upholds S.F. Partners Rule

Sep. 13, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A groundbreaking local ordinance, requiring businesses to offer domestic partner benefits to unmarried workers...


Criminal


In an Emergency, Prosecutors Lend a Hand

Sep. 13, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice in San Francisco was temporarily suspended Tuesday. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the E...


Front Page


Arab-American Citizen Groups Fear Persecution

Sep. 13, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Security concerns in the wake of the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history could trigger retaliatory attacks ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The terrorist acts that rocked the country's economic and political centers Tuesday set the stage for unpreceden...


Government


Shock Waves of Terror Ripple Through L.A.

Sep. 13, 2001
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles became a ghost town Tuesday morning, a sign that the world we thought we knew is gone forev...


Large Firms


Most Firms Either Close or Are Evacuated

Sep. 13, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the nation's worst terrorist assault, most California law firms simply closed their doors Tuesd...


Law Practice


It'll 'Never Be the Same'

Sep. 13, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The jolt of Tuesday's catastrophic news spun Jon B. Eisenberg's mind to the aftermath of the 1963 Kennedy assa...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Has 'Real World' Experience

Sep. 12, 2001
By Paul Wilborn


Litigation


Suit Targets Re/Max for False Advertisements

Sep. 12, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

SANTA ANA - Re/Max, a consumer financing company in Orange County, dupes its customers with false advertising and inadequate d...


Marketing


Tightfisted

Sep. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Dear Anne: I am the marketing partner at my firm. Recently, my colleagues have been suggesting that spending money on marketin...


International


The U.S. government's walkout at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intoleranc...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Who Had Two Heart Transplants Dies

Sep. 12, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

INDIO - Retired Riverside Superior Court Judge Jerome E. Stevenson, who sat in Indio and traveled on assignment for two decade...


Large Firms


Latham & Watkins Nabs Corporate Lawyer

Sep. 12, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Craig Andrews has joined the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, a move that industry a...


Law Practice


As human cloning technology develops, so does the debate on whether it should continue or be banned. While scientists, medical...


Large Firms


Akins Gump Practice Head Defects to Rival

Sep. 12, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Dallas' Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer & Feld is nursing its wounds after the chairman of its West Coast health c...


Family


Partners Bill Wins OK in State Senate

Sep. 12, 2001
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would grant new legal rights to registered domestic partners, including the ability to sue for wrongf...


Government


FPPC Vote On Funds Draws Fire

Sep. 12, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission adopted regulations Monday allowing incumbent legislators to raise ...


Education


O'Melveny Denies Conflict in Schools Suit

Sep. 12, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - There were no questions from the bench Monday about bullying of school kids, but Los Angeles power firm O'Melv...


Law Practice


Bar Groups Move Toward Healing at Meeting

Sep. 12, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

ANAHEIM - Old wounds inflicted by the State Bar's financial crisis showed up again last week during the bar's annual meeting a...


Criminal


Judge Defends 'One-Trial Jury'

Sep. 12, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

Defense attorneys say they plan to grill Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki tonight on the effects they fear the cour...


Constitutional Law


Justice Pursues 'Civics-Book' Ideals

Sep. 12, 2001
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - "The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, righ...


Onanism. Artificial insemination. Life in prison. Last week's unprecedented 2-1 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Panel to Rule on Site Monitoring

Sep. 12, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel will decide today whether to continue tracking Internet sites visited by federal cour...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - With clients like these, who needs opposing counsel? In 1999, the Walnut Creek firm of Bowles & Verna secu...