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Government


Candidates Celebrate, Commiserate at Parties

Apr. 13, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - As Tuesday night's vote tallies scrolled across video screens at election events across Los Angeles, emotions sw...


Energy Law


Energy Legal Battle Hits Two Courtrooms

Apr. 13, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that Houston-based Enron Corp. has potentially caused California schools irreparable harm, a federal ju...


Criminal


'Tarantula' Gunman Convicted Of Murder

Apr. 13, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing that he confessed three times, a San Francisco jury Wednesday convicted a former Mexican police ...


Litigation


Feds File Bias Lawsuit Against Two Landlords

Apr. 13, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the owners of two Riverside apartment complexes, alleging th...


LOS ANGELES - This week's Legal Paramedic Award for best mouth-to-mouth on a moribund case goes to movie director Francis Ford...


Entertainment & Sports


Painful Reality

Apr. 12, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Independent Hollywood producer Les Haber saw the potential of reality television before the popular show "Survivor" and its ma...


Criminal


LAPD Officers Sue L.A. Times for Rampart Libel

Apr. 12, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Police Department officers have sued the Los Angeles Times for libel, saying the newspaper impli...


Litigation


Strides in Mediation

Apr. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Q: Is mediation underutilized in entertainment litigation? A: Generally, the answer is no. Mediation appears to be accepted ab...


Discipline


Lawyer Loyalty

Apr. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The relationship of insurance-defense counsel, the insureds that they are hired to defend and the insurance companies that pay...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Casting Call

Apr. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Perhaps the most important consideration in any arbitration is the selection of the arbitrator. The arbitrator determines the ...


Product Liability


Poker Face

Apr. 12, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Martin Stanley, a sole practitioner in Santa Monica, won $500,000 in a product liability case. Keegan v. Joytech Internatio...


Large Firms


Orrick Installs New London Managers

Apr. 12, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based ...


Criminal


Deputy DA Dies After Completing Benefit Walk

Apr. 12, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John C. Sp...


Large Firms


McCutchen Sheds IP Litigators

Apr. 12, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A pair of high-profile patent litigators, Lynn Pasahow and David Hadden, joined Palo Alto's Fenwick & West...


Entertainment & Sports


Passion for Detail

Apr. 12, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

To call John M. Gatti a perfectionist may be an understatement. As an undergraduate majoring in finance at the University of S...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Solid Support

Apr. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Last fall, the California Supreme Court held that employers could impose a fair and mutual arbitration process on employees as...


Uncle Sam wants your private medical records, and you have only a few days to stop him. Not only does he want your medical dat...


Personal Injury & Torts


Simi Settles With Pursuit Bystander

Apr. 12, 2001
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - In a case that tested police-pursuit policies, a bystander seriously injured as officers were chasing a fleeing vehi...


Judges and Judiciary


Litigator Named to Judicial Panel

Apr. 12, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Marshall B. Grossman, a senior partner and business litigation specialist at Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman S...


Personal Injury & Torts


Another Suit Filed in Mauling Case

Apr. 12, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that ensures Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel will eventually appear in civil court to face liabilit...


Government


LOS ANGELES - No matter who wins the mayoral race, Big Money's influence on politics will continue to be a festering issue in ...


Solo and Small Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - No one's hiding his head in the sand at General Counsel Associates in Palo Alto. Members of the 22-lawyer Sili...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Wanted

Apr. 12, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has not yet worked out a formal system for evaluating judicial nominees, but that has not stop...


International


Ordinary Outlaw

Apr. 11, 2001
By Columnist

What is the "crime of aggression," and why doesn't the United States want the International Criminal Court to punish it? The U...


Labor/Employment


Role of DA's Anger in His Firing Surprises AG Staffers

Apr. 11, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - State attorney general staffers are surprised that an Orange County homicide prosecutor's firing occurred in part ...


Large Firms


S.F. Litigator Peter Ferris, 51

Apr. 11, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - He had been with Foley & Lardner for less than a year, but lawyers there say the loss of Peter Ferris has ...


Employee Benefits


Master Must Repay $200,000

Apr. 11, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto lawyer who was "blinded by greed" has been ordered by a federal judge to repay roughly $200,000 of...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Tag Team

Apr. 11, 2001
By Columnist

Allowing two mediators to work as a team in a mediation can be very beneficial to clients. ...


Large Firms


MoFo Revising Associate Pay Scheme

Apr. 11, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, the last of the Bay Area's biggest firms to announce its salary plans, will be forgoi...


Criminal


Prosecutors Fight SLA Trial Delays

Apr. 11, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors argued Monday against a fifth postponement of the April 30 trial of former Symbionese Liberation Arm...