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Public Interest


The energy crisis solution approved by Sacramento is focused on the wrong part of the energy chain. A bailout of Pacific Gas &...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro has promoted six attorneys in its Los Angeles office. Five attorneys are now ...


Government


Faith's White House Foothold

Feb. 13, 2001
By Columnist

President George W. Bush's executive order establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has th...


Litigation


Client Sanctioned for Suing Attorney

Feb. 13, 2001
By Contributing Writer

SACRAMENTO - A San Leandro businessman has been ordered to pay more than $936,000 in damages and attorneys' fees after filing ...


After working in New York for 15 years and branching out into Europe, what' s next? For Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, th...


Criminal


Rescue Mission

Feb. 13, 2001
By John Ryan

Nearly 450 U.S. veterans live and receive job training at the veteran's facility in Inglewood. Located in one of the toughest ...


E*Trade Group Inc. will buy LoansDirect Inc. in a confidential stock deal. Menlo Park's E*Trade Group is an online stock broke...


Family


Divorce Book's Focus: It's the Money

Feb. 13, 2001
By Rebecca Kuzins

These days, family law attorney Stephanie Blum is as likely to turn up at a book signing at Borders as she is to appear in cou...


Transactions


Tripwire Inc. has secured $24 million in third-round venture financing led by private-placement group Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown...


Transactions


Eagan, Minn.'s West Group has bought FindLaw Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. West Group, a subsidiary of Can...


Environmental


Regulators, Generators Find Room to Maneuver

Feb. 13, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, with Californians having already gotten their first taste of the electricity shortage, the operat...


Criminal


Malpractice Attorney Gets 22-Year Sentence

Feb. 13, 2001
By Matthew Heller

INDIO - A medical malpractice lawyer convicted of cheating and molesting more than two dozen clients has been sentenced to 22 ...


Criminal


O.C. Man Pleads Guilty to Online Molestation

Feb. 13, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach man accused of seducing young girls over the Internet and "cybermolesting" them pleaded guilty ...


Environmental


Oil Companies Face Contamination Liability

Feb. 13, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Large oil companies can be sued for the release of the controversial fuel additive MTBE into underground water...


SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Maureen Kallins was contumacious, unprofessional and disrespectful to U.S. District Court Judge...


Litigation


Cooley Rescinds Garcetti's Police Database Policy

Feb. 13, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police union attorneys on Friday expressed cautious optimism about District Attorney Steve Cooley's ...


Criminal


Crack Opened In Barrier to Collateral Habeas Pleas

Feb. 13, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel has ruled that a new Supreme Court ru...


Energy Law


Don't Blame the Salamanders

Feb. 13, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - An isolated, 14-acre plot of ground just over a large brown hill from the stressed-out bustle of the capital o...


Government


Governor Favors Former DAs

Feb. 13, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Just after Gov. Gray Davis took office in 1999, a diverse group of lawyers confronted his judicial appointments ...


Government


Parks' Morale Plan Raises Cops' Doubts

Feb. 13, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks reversed his long-standing position Friday that he should b...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - With a federal investigation of the treatment of kids in juvenile detention facilities beginning in Los Angeles ...


Intellectual Property


Napster Ruling Expected

Feb. 13, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal appeals panel that has been pondering Napster Inc.'s future for nearly five months announced Frida...


Bankruptcy


Busy Again

Feb. 13, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

As the economy has cooled, law firms once again are beefing up their bankruptcy departments for the anticipated onslaught of ...


Environmental


Shrinking Waters

Feb. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The Solid Waste case has limited the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers in the area of wetlands protection.


Civil Rights


The link between animal abuse and harm to humans was tragically illustrated by the Jan. 29 death of a 33-year-old woman in San...


Education


Boalt Grads Do Best On State Bar Exam

Feb. 10, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - More Boalt Hall graduates passed the latest California Bar Exam the first time around than any other American Ba...


International


French Fracas

Feb. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The 'Yahoo!' case shall have wide-ranging implications for the exercise of national jurisdiction internationally in the contex...


Labor/Employment


AGE CEILING

Feb. 10, 2001
By Brian Mc Carthy

"Age matters." Paul Haas, a senior vice president at talent agency International Creative Management, made this comment in an ...


Technology & Science


Elusive Profits

Feb. 10, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

Steven Rothschild laughs when he thinks how much money it took to drive Furniture.com into the ground. "After $100 million, th...


Corporate


Qualcomm Seeks Legal Fees From Ex-Workers

Feb. 10, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

Engineer Vincent Malgapo was shocked to arrive at work earlier this week and find that his former employer, Qualcomm, wants to...