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Litigation


Primrose Path

Jun. 23, 2001
By Columnist

The opening statement is the most important part of trial. ...


Probate


Heir Hunter's Work Earns Part of Estate

Jun. 23, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Siblings Margaret and Daniel Draves never knew they had a half-brother - until he died without a will and the...


Constitutional Law


Birth Control Dilemma

Jun. 23, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Outside the broad glass facade of the modern building that houses the 3rd District Court of Appeal, one can gaze ...


Law Practice


Pesky Procedures

Jun. 22, 2001
By Columnist

Each year, 4,000 electronic messages are sent to the State Bar from financial institutions reporting an overdraft or dishonore...


Insurance


Meaningful Multiplier

Jun. 22, 2001
By Columnist

Allowing for attorney fees as costs becomes especially important in contingent-fee cases, where the possibility of a multiplie...


Solo and Small Firms


Firm Seizes Opportunity to Bolster Services

Jun. 22, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Downey- and Irvine-based Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle has united with Long Beach firm Cayer Kilstofte & Cra...


Law Practice


Lewis D'Amato Taps Insurance Litigator

Jun. 22, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Brisgaard, which recently added seven lawyers from boutique Knapp...


Law Practice


Centennial Celebration

Jun. 22, 2001
By Columnist

The University of Southern California Law School graduated its first class 100 years ago. During the century that followed, th...


Insurance


Allowable Costs

Jun. 22, 2001
By Columnist

California courts have recognized that liability insurance carriers are obligated to pay attorney-fee awards that the insured ...


Law Practice


Control Time, Don't Let It Control You

Jun. 22, 2001
By Columnist

Taking control of time is the best way to shorten a workday. ...


Discipline


Brady Review Denied; Ex-Alcoholic Disbarred

Jun. 22, 2001
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday disbarred a Sacramento attorney who in the past year has helped establ...


Environmental


Recognition Policy Overturned

Jun. 22, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A Clinton-era policy, long criticized by environmentalists for enabling federal officials to stall formal rec...


Solo and Small Firms


Small Firms Accused of Stealing Clients

Jun. 22, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - New York megafirm Jacoby & Meyers has claimed that two Northern California lawyers stole clients and trade...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The battle over patients' rights legislation that opened this week in the U.S. Senate could foreshadow the 2004 ...


Intellectual Property


How Microsoft Landed in Xbox

Jun. 22, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Trademark Law 101, Lesson 1: Before you develop a new product and engage in an expensive marketing blitz, bett...


Criminal


Internet Ad Used in Fraud Ruled a Mass Marketing

Jun. 22, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Placing a classified ad on the Internet in order to carry out a fraud constitutes a "mass-marketing" solicita...


Judges and Judiciary


No Word on Who'll Fill Mosk's 'Big Shoes'

Jun. 22, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - California's intermediate courts of appeal are the logical place that Gov. Gray Davis would look for someone t...


Litigation


An Expert Client

Jun. 21, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

David J. Duchrow of Los Angeles' Duchrow & Barker reached a $135,000 settlement in a recent wrongful-termination case, ...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


100 Days

Jun. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Perhaps the most significant step so far was the decision to implement the final regulations on patient privacy protections. ...


Litigation


Modest Man of Steel

Jun. 21, 2001
By Tamara Nowlin

A former steel mill summer employee, now a high-flying state, federal and appellate advocate, Jeffrey Davidson fights for the ...


Juvenile


Santee Teen Challenges Initiative

Jun. 21, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for a 15-year-old boy accused of two murders in the Santee high school shootings are asking appellate jus...


Government


Survival of the Fittest?

Jun. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The distinction between public services and private contracts should not be so easily blurred by cities simply for economic re...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Beyond the Call

Jun. 21, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Steven R. Cerveris is so serious about dispute resolution, he'll play landscape architect, dispense chocolates and do just abo...


Litigation


All on Board

Jun. 21, 2001
By Columnist

How often do most lawyers have dinner with two or three prominent judges? How many times can they say they shared "trade secre...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Retired Pasadena attorney Glenn Edwin Mayfield has died. Mayfield died June 11 of pneumonia and complications of...


Insurance


SAN FRANCISCO - The former insurance commissioner of Alaska claims two big insurance companies ignored California's state-mand...


Solo and Small Firms


Carroll, Burdick Adds Scadden, 5 Associates

Jun. 21, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer James Scadden and five associates have joined Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, the San F...


Litigation


Students' Suit Challenges District's Search Policy

Jun. 21, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - Local high-school students said that a Los Angeles Unified School District policy has turned their school into a...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Stanley Mosk Dies at 88

Jun. 21, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Stanley Mosk, a legal giant who served a record 37 years on the California Supreme Court, died unexpec...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has enlisted former California State Bar President Harvey...