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Criminal


Grand Jury Will Hear Case of DA In Stabbing

Dec. 1, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of Floyd Andrews, a San Francisco prosecutor arrested earlier this month by San Rafael police for sta...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - John B. Goodrich, one of the handful of attorneys who practiced with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati befo...


Government


LOS ANGELES - While state immunity protected former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez for testifying about his role in t...


Government


LOS ANGELES - In an effort to get more bang for the millions of bucks it spends every year on outside counsel, the city attorn...


Labor/Employment


Employers Strictly Liable for Sex Harassment

Dec. 1, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court on Thursday handed a major victory to employees suing over sexual harassment by their ...


Law Practice


Lawyer's Lament

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

When he went to law school, full of hope and desire, he set lofty goals and strove to climb higher. Jurisprudence and justice ...


Litigation


Anxious Jurors Need Careful Handling

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Although the shock of Sept. 11 has diminished, and Americans are moving on with their lives, some anxiety lingers which contin...


Labor/Employment


While recent events have sent tremors of uncertainty throughout the legal profession, one bright spot is Web-based contract la...


Civil Rights


Weed Slayer

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

On Oct. 25, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided and closed the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center on Santa Monica Bou...


Civil Rights


In 1985, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration made a little-known drug, 3,4 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, or MDMA, illeg...


Bankruptcy


Big Changes

Nov. 30, 2001
By Columnist

On April 23, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and ordered that ...


Sara Jane Olson, the 54-year-old Minnesota doctor's wife charged with attempting to bomb Los Angeles police cars a quarter-cen...


Law Practice


Julian Caplan, Pioneer in Patents

Nov. 30, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Julian Caplan, whose name carried the weight of history for the dwindling ranks of his fellow pioneers of the ...


Government


Landmark Hiring Plan Advances

Nov. 30, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica City Council tentatively has approved a landmark, but possibly unconstitutional, ordinance that...


Judges and Judiciary


Back in the Fire

Nov. 30, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Life is a circle, or so it seems for San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charles F. "Chuck" Haines. Appointed t...


State Bar & Bar Associations


BASF Takes the Lead on Tribunals

Nov. 30, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court's endorsement of secret military trials for World War II saboteurs does not give Presid...


Technology & Science


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to uphold a 1998 law protecting minors from sexually explicit Internet m...


Judges and Judiciary


Moreno Making Adjustments in Decision-Making

Nov. 30, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Newly minted state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, the high court's first Hispanic in 12 years and onl...


Judges and Judiciary


Camera to Roll at High Court

Nov. 30, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare order permitting its proceedings to be televised, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday granted ...


Criminal


Police May Not Sue Accusers, Panel Says

Nov. 30, 2001
By Amy Tatko

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court delivered the second blow Wednesday to state laws that grant police officers the right to fil...


Securities


Securities Lawyer, 56, Was an 'Encyclopedia'

Nov. 30, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Ronald P. Givner, a securities specialist who died unexpectedly two weeks ago. Giv...


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...