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Front Page


Graham & James Files Financials

May 12, 2001
By Sherri Salzman

By Karen Coleman DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James con...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency ordered the removal of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy...


Front Page


Ratepayer Committee Joins Bankruptcy

May 12, 2001
By Sherri Salzman

By Pamela A. MacLean and Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO - Nine groups representing consumers, agricu...


Government


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Thursday that he will strike key testimony from a double-murder case and...


Front Page


Consumers Plan Intercession

May 12, 2001
By Sherri Salzman

By John Roemer DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - California consumer lawyers reacted swiftly to PG&E's bankrupt...


Front Page


LOS ANGELES - As light bulbs in Northern California flicker, dim and blink off, enveloping millions of energy consumers in st...


Front Page


PG&E: Consumers May Be Party

May 12, 2001
By Sherri Salzman

By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee may be just days away from the s...


Front Page


PG&E Doesn't Want Ratepayer Committee

May 12, 2001
By Sherri Salzman

By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appoin...


Front Page


By Pamela A. MacLean DJC BankruptcyStaff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - An electric cogeneration operator, idled for weeks due to non...


Labor/Employment


Making Advances

May 11, 2001
By Columnist

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has acquired extrasensory perception. No California court has yet addressed the applicat...


Government


Bills on Defects, Mold Advance

May 11, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Four bills that address a range of topics including construction defect litigation, pro-bono work, toxic mold sta...


Law Practice


Irell & Manella Snaps Up Two Partners From Lyon

May 11, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - The Century City office of Irell & Manella has snapped up two former Lyon & Lyon partners. Christopher ...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Opposes Ratepayer Committee

May 11, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are not legally entitled to have a formal committee representing ...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A potential reprieve for cash-strapped legal aid programs arrived Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight has acquired seven attorneys from local probate boutique Ross Sa...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Procedural Secrecy Key Issue

May 11, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - If everything that happens in court-ordered mediation sessions is secret, how is a judge supposed to find out ...


Large Firms


MoFo Wins Hong Kong Practice

May 11, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster announced Wednesday that the Hong Kong Law Society has approved the firm to practice l...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Momentum is gathering for naming San Francisco's 100-year-old federal appeals court building after Judge James...


Criminal


O.J.'s Complaint

May 11, 2001
By Columnist

Everyone has an opinion about whether O.J. did it. And these opinions usually are not anemic. Furthermore, there are many opin...


Criminal


Mauling Defendants File Demurrer

May 11, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel filed a demurrer Wednesday arguing that a mischievous animal st...


Education


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard C. Fildew. Fildew, former p...


Family


Lawyers for Cochran Battle His Ex in Court

May 11, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for celeb attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. returned to a state appellate court this week to shake off pe...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Justice Ramona Godoy Perez is seriously ill and is unlikely to return to the bench in the 2nd District Court of...


Criminal


Man Allegedly Bilks Senior Out of $40,000

May 11, 2001
By Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury has indicted an Oregon man who allegedly coaxed $40,000 out of an elderly Anaheim woman after...


Criminal


DA Testifies About His Alleged Tampering

May 11, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor alleged to have altered a witness's interview statement in a murder cas...


Energy Law


Eisenberg Throws Hat in Ring

May 11, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking the Old Testament, public power advocate Neil Eisenberg gathered his supporters beneath the high-rise...


Intellectual Property


Creative Campaign

May 11, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, studying torts during his first year at McGeorge School of Law in 1993, shared a laugh wi...


Criminal


Olson Ordered Fuses, Expert Says

May 11, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson ordered bomb-making materials allegedly found 26 years...


Front Page


Web Slight

May 11, 2001
By Contributing Writer

By Christian Boone Special to DJC Bankruptcy As a native Northern Californian, Web host Jon Nash is familiar with the kinds o...


Personal Injury & Torts


Lawyers Pressed on Gunmaker Liability

May 11, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - With gunshot victims and the gun industry watching, the California Supreme Court pondered Wednesday whether an...