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Judges and Judiciary


Smooth Moves Outsmart Opposing Counsel

Apr. 28, 2001
By Columnist

Medical malpractice suits usually are prosecuted and defended by seasoned lawyers. And invariably, medical experts will testif...


Corporate


Principal Players

Apr. 28, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

Despite the weakened economy, lawyers continue to trade in Perry Mason ambitions for Bill Gates aspirations. Just ask Glenn We...


Juvenile


For $80,000, You Can Buy a Designer Baby

Apr. 28, 2001
By Columnist

Oops, you weren't paying attention and you woke up on the other side of 35 (the harshly arbitrary cutoff for highest reproduct...


Intellectual Property


Children Argue the Harry Potter IP Case

Apr. 28, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Teams of upstart young legal eagles got to practice intellectual property litigation just like the grown-ups T...


Public Interest


Daily Journal's Collection of Quotes

Apr. 28, 2001
By Columnist

"If there was a way, and I speak only for myself, to have avoided getting involved in that difficult decision ... I would have...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Teen of Killing Daughter

Apr. 28, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - A teen-ager who told police she stabbed her baby moments after giving birth because it would have ruined her ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The endorsement sweepstakes in the Los Angeles city attorney's race continued Thursday, with office-seeker Rocka...


Government


New Charges Plague Officer Acquitted in Scandal

Apr. 28, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Although a jury last year acquitted Los Angeles Police Department Officer Paul Harper of corruption in the Rampa...


Appellate Practice


Court Denies Lawyer's Appeal In Long-Running Murder Case

Apr. 28, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Affirming murder convictions in one of the longest-running criminal cases in California history, an appellate cour...


Government


Insider Lands Post of Crime Division Chief

Apr. 28, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Ronald L. Cheng has been named chief of the U.S. attorney's office criminal division. Cheng, 36, replaces John S...


Immigration


INS Plans New Shelter for Minors

Apr. 28, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - After years of complaints by immigrant advocates, Los Angeles soon will be getting a shelter to house undocument...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has voted to pay $2.6 million to settle a case involving the New Year's Day 1999 sh...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Disapproving an appellate court ruling that a 16-year-girl was an "accomplice" to incest with her father, the ...


Government


Renne Won't Run Again

Apr. 28, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - It took two small children in England to do what tobacco companies, gun makers, corporate bankers, energy baro...


Securities


SAN JOSE - On the eve of the criminal trade-secrets theft trial against Avant Corp., the Fremont-based company has quietly set...


Government


Hopefuls Line Up for Blessing

Apr. 28, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Jonathan V. Holtzman, a longtime chief deputy in Louise Renne's office who is currently Mayor Willie Brown's t...


Judges and Judiciary


Pact Reached on Finding Federal Judges

Apr. 28, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - White House Republicans and California's two Democratic senators have hashed out a power-sharing mechanism thi...


Litigation


Former Chapman Students Sue Law School for Deceit

Apr. 28, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Chapman University began an aggressive effort to establish a law school. Jurors will get a chanc...


Constitutional Law


Open Minds

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

The dawn of the 21st century should not be a time in which we regress so far back in time as to re-establish long-discredited ...


Law Practice


Gender Inequality Pervades Law

Apr. 27, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Gender inequality in the legal profession remains a serious problem despite advances by women in the past 30 yea...


Entertainment & Sports


Killer Connection

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

In the court of public opinion, the media are under increasing pressure to take more responsibility for the products they dist...


Intellectual Property


Beat Goes On

Apr. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Napster may have run afoul of the law but in its place on the Web is Gnutella, a file-sharing network that could be the next a...


Judges and Judiciary


Heavy-Handed Justice Comes Down Hard

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

In Bendheim Brothers & Co. v. Baldwin, 73 Ga. 594 (1884), Justice M.H. Blandford found the following for the court:...


Labor/Employment


Good Genie

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Arbitration as a preferred method for resolving employment-related disputes received a substantial boost recently with the U.S...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - An amended lawsuit that was to be filed today in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that Deputy State Attor...


Government


Police Protective League Endorses Feuer

Apr. 27, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman and city attorney candidate Mike Feuer announced Wednesday that he has added the uni...


Public Interest


Volume Control

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Whether you are a litigator or a transactional attorney, negotiation of disagreements is a part of your everyday business life...


Large Firms


The Big Get Bigger in Lawyerland

Apr. 27, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - After a year of unprecedented growth in which northern California firms outpaced their Southland counterparts, t...


Litigation


Panel OKs Jurisdiction Over Out-of-State Firm

Apr. 27, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The long arm of California law just got longer in legal malpractice cases as a result of a state appellate court...


Family


Custody System Divided

Apr. 27, 2001
By Columnist

The legal standards by which today's custodial arrangements are derived have their roots in law created over 40 years ago. Soc...