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Labor/Employment


Holding Steady

Aug. 31, 2001
By Columnist

If you handle your reduction in force correctly, you can turn your former employees into your best salespeople. ...


Labor/Employment


Black Woman Files Racial-Bias Lawsuit

Aug. 31, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - An African-American switchboard operator has sued the Antelope Valley School District, saying she was subjected ...


Litigation


Culture is a very complex and powerful factor in determining the outcome of many trials. The cultural composition of the jury ...


Criminal


Jury Acquits Teacher Who Euthanized Rabbit

Aug. 31, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A special-education teacher who smothered a rabbit in a plastic bag in front of his pupils was acquitted Tuesday...


Constitutional Law


The California Supreme Court, in Merrill v. Navegar Inc ., has insulated from liability a gun manufacturer that sold wh...


Labor/Employment


Wage Games

Aug. 31, 2001
By Columnist

Determining whether employees are exempt from certain wage-and-hour laws is not easy. Determining when an employer can dock an...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - One is the loneliest number, just ask James Loss. He is the last Riordan & McKinzie partner remaining in Ora...


Criminal


DA Wants Court To Reverse Ruling

Aug. 31, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will ask the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that grand juries cannot indict m...


Criminal


Respirator Shutoff Could Mean Life Sentence

Aug. 31, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A woman charged with attempted murder for shutting off a dying cancer patient's respirator will face additi...


Large Firms


Antitrust Litigator, Labor Lawyer Join Manatt

Aug. 31, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up two new partners, an antitrust litigator and a labor an...


Litigation


Defect Dispute Bill Advances

Aug. 31, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A bill that revamps the process for resolving construction defect disputes has cleared a key legislative committe...


Large Firms


Perkins Raids Wilson Sonsini Again

Aug. 31, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, a Seattle firm with aspirations for prominence in the Silicon Valley, has landed another intelle...


Health Care & Hospital Law


High Court Takes 'Double-Dipping' Case

Aug. 31, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Medi-Cal patients can sue health care provider...


Criminal


Officer Pleads No Contest to Shooting

Aug. 31, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - In the first conviction since the Los Angeles County district attorney reactivated a program that dispatches pro...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - The "sunrise period" designed to give trademark owners a chance to register their names first in the newly int...


LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Wednesday sharply criticized a prosecutor who followed a dismissed juror out of the Roybal Feder...


Government


County Schemed to Pay Women Less, Agency Says

Aug. 31, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A pending lawsuit pitting 139 female attorneys against the county got a boost this week from a federal report th...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual agreement that begins to break a logjam in adding new plants and animals to the nation's catalog of...


Constitutional Law


Court Backs English-Only Classroom Rule

Aug. 31, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Parents can sue California teachers if they refuse to instruct students only in English in violation of the st...


Criminal


Separating Fact From Fiction

Aug. 31, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - When two key witnesses in a capital murder case recant their testimony years after the trial, the search for t...


Law Practice


Great Expectations

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

On my desk in chambers are two hopeful documents. One is a recent book by a Boston lawyer named Ronald B. Shwartz. Shwartz had...


Litigation


The Eyes Have It

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Q: To win cases, must counsel use visual aids or graphics? A: "Show, don't tell" is the cardinal rule when it comes to maintai...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A former Intel Corp. employee pleaded guilty to insider trading for using information he learned while working a...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Layers of Listening

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Neutral L. Therese White, former big-company accountant, is soft-spoken and articulate. A regular churchgoer, she often conduc...


Litigation


Righting Wrongs

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Cathay Bank learned the hard way recently not to underestimate Curtis Jung. In the 40-year-old attorney's opinion, bank offici...


Constitutional Law


Royal Mess

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Developed over centuries, the common-law doctrine of "sovereign immunity" provided that "you can't sue the king." This basic d...


Constitutional Law


City Plans Appeal of Panhandling Order

Aug. 30, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will appeal a federal judge's order barring enforcement of an anti-panhandling ordinance...


Litigation


Survivor Tactics

Aug. 30, 2001
By Columnist

These questions and answers regarding developments in employment law in 2001 were presented at the SHRM 2001 annual conference...


Banking


The Big Freeze

Aug. 30, 2001
By Leonard Novarro


Criminal


Lawyer Pleads Not Guilty to Extortion

Aug. 30, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney and his female co-defendant pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court to...