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Litigation


Security Devices Offer Order in the Court

Nov. 17, 2001
By Columnist

The recent events on the East Coast have brought a tremendous focus on security. Security is designed to make us feel safe and...


Judges and Judiciary


Bar Group Will Track Information on Judges

Nov. 17, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Want to know how many days Los Angeles Superior Court Judge X spent in trial last year or how Judge Y has ruled ...


Large Firms


MoFo Adds Another Ex-DOJ Attorney

Nov. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, continuing to bring more government prosecutors into the fold, has recruited Tony Wes...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Prosecutor May Be Immune for Jailing

Nov. 17, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge indicated Thursday she would probably dismiss a civil false imprisonment complaint again...


Environmental


Auditor Tells Jury of Lab Dangers

Nov. 17, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A 1994 chemical explosion that killed two scientists at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura Coun...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Erwin Supoly's apartment walls were filthy from years of chain-smoking, he didn't wash his clothes and at times ...


Criminal


Stabbing Victim Has Long Record

Nov. 17, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor and the man he stabbed in a fight last week in San Rafael both have criminal histor...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a felony child-endangerment conviction in an unusual case in which the ...


Law Practice


Lawmakers Hope to Appoint New Counsel by January

Nov. 17, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Five people have emerged as potential successors to state Legislative Counsel Bion Gregory, and some legislative ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Ashmann as an asso...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - Catching and prosecuting criminal noncitizens will get easier soon, with the launching this month of an interage...


Large Firms


Brobeck Picks L.A. Lawyer to Lead the Firm

Nov. 17, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Odom, a Los Angeles lawyer who most recently led Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's complex litigation ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis named a longtime city-government and law-enforcement official to the State Bar Board of Governor...


Labor/Employment


Lawyers call recruiters daily, asking them to find them the perfect in-house opportunity, because they are burned out in the p...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Antique Row

Nov. 16, 2001
By Columnist

As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, there has been an increased interest in landowners applying...


On Sept. 11, terrorists attacked a great deal more than our New York skyline. They attacked the United States' way of life. An...


Law Practice


Paying Uncle Sam

Nov. 16, 2001

The much-touted "simplified" tax laws force everyone to plan all the time. It's no different this year for attorneys. Let's lo...


Constitutional Law


Gun Lover Misstates The Case

Nov. 16, 2001
By Columnist

People's views, including those of legal scholars and historians, differ widely about the nature of the right protected by the...


Judges and Judiciary


Race for Bench Intensifies in Eleventh Hour

Nov. 16, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Two State Bar Court judges and a Superior Court commissioner are among the five lawyers who have entered the fig...


Intellectual Property


Fenwick to Expand D.C. Office

Nov. 16, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - David Hayes, a leading lawyer for Napster and Replay/TV in recent online copyright litigation, has agreed to s...


Government


Ethics Panel Will Review Arbitrators

Nov. 16, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of legal experts has been named to review ethical standards for contractual arbitrators in California....


Criminal


Old-School Lawyer Howard Gilbert Dies

Nov. 16, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services will be held today for Howard Gilbert, who in his long legal career earned a reputation as an...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Expects Diligence of Himself, Others

Nov. 16, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse


Law Practice


IOLTA Accounts Not 'Takings,' Circuit Says

Nov. 16, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday by a 7-4 vote upheld the use of interest from client trust accounts for l...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A man who raised another's child as his own will have a chance to prove to the California Supreme Court that h...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors can view about 6,000 client and patient files seized from an attorney-physician couple who...


Law Practice


Bridge-Builder

Nov. 16, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Rongjie Ma couldn't be happier. The gregarious, gentlemanly Chinese lawyer is busy doing what he likes best: m...


Judges and Judiciary


Top Defender Will Help Pick Judges

Nov. 16, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Terry W. Bird, a top white-collar defense and civil litigation lawyer in Los Angeles, was named to a bipartisan ...


Government


Attorney Sues DA After Denial of Promotion

Nov. 16, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was denied a promotion and harassed after telling his bo...


Criminal


Legal Experts Find 'Olson' Case One of a Kind

Nov. 16, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Few lawyers can recall a case in which a defendant successfully withdrew a guilty plea, but then most cases aren...