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Litigation


Misplaced Humor Nails Lawyers to the Wall

Jan. 26, 2001
By Columnist

With astonishing frequency, I hear this exact remark, made during jury trial, usually when dealing with damages or other impor...


Family


Discordant Divorce

Jan. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Mental health professionals have become an important part of the process of assisting courts in resolving child custody disput...


Entertainment & Sports


Losing Battle

Jan. 26, 2001
By Columnist

The War on Drugs has proved to be one of the most difficult, if not impossible, fights. The current laws, while threatening on...


Environmental


Sweep of Leaking Fuel Tank Ruling Disputed

Jan. 26, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling in a case in which environmentalists sought to impose massive fines for leaks from undergroun...


Judges and Judiciary


Kings County Unifies Trial Courts

Jan. 26, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's last outpost of municipal courts, Kings County, has unanimously approved consolidating its trial c...


Solo and Small Firms


Gutierrez Firm to Join Sideman & Bancroft

Jan. 26, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer Paul Gutierrez has dissolved his award-winning, four-attorney law firm, Gutierrez & A...


Labor/Employment


Labor Update

Jan. 26, 2001
By Columnist

There are many changes in California employment law in 2001. ...


Family


DA Held Payments Too Long, Lawyer Contends

Jan. 26, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office illegally made $1.7 million in interest on parents' child support pay...


Energy Law


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Wednesday temporarily halted the threatened cancellation of contracts that empower Southern ...


Government


WASHINGTON - Citing what she called John Ashcroft's "ultra-right wing" record and his treatment of federal court nominee Ronni...


Law Practice


Chicago Firm Expands Los Angeles Office

Jan. 26, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal will be adding four attorneys to its Los Angeles office Feb. 1. Part...


Government


School Board Revisits Belmont Center Vote

Jan. 26, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - In the end, the vote was the same. But the real effects of the conflict between county prosecutors and the Los A...


Civil Rights


9th Upholds Injunction Against HUD Evictions

Jan. 26, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp rebuke of the federal government's zero tolerance drug policy for pubic housing residents, the 9th ...


Criminal


High Court to Review Crucial Jailhouse Taping

Jan. 26, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review two murder convictions of an Alameda County woman whos...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - Manufacturing and design defects caused a 1996 tire-tread separation accident that left a young woman paralyzed ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - It's too bad Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Murphy can't give guided tours of the inside of his head. ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - When family law attorney Mary C. Morgan was appointed to the San Francisco bench in 1981, she became the natio...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Last August, a year after white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a shooting rampage that left a Filipino...


Criminal


Court Makes Him Sick, Judge Says

Jan. 26, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

RIVERSIDE - People who are terrified of snakes suffer from ophidiophobia. Those fearful of leaving their homes are agoraphobic...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Active Process

Jan. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Litigators encounter many mediators in the course of their practice - some good, some not so good. To increase the chances of ...


Litigation


In Great Demand

Jan. 25, 2001
By Melissa Onstad

BY MELISSA ONSTAD When it comes to ADR, retired U.S. District Judge Eugene F. Lynch has has seen a few seasons come and go. H...


International


Global vs. Local

Jan. 25, 2001
By Columnist

BY RICHARD M. MOSK While the provisions specifically applicable to international arbitrations are codified in Code of Civil P...


Government


Weingart Will Head Complaints Section

Jan. 25, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart has become chief of the complaints section of the U.S. attorney's office, U.S. Attorney Alejand...


Law Practice


Lockyer Installs New Board Officials

Jan. 25, 2001
By Martin Kruming

SAN DIEGO - William Turley became president of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego during the Annual Awards & Installation Din...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - The local branch office of a Los Angeles-based attorney service vendor, Express Network Inc., unexpectedly clo...


Litigation


In the Rough

Jan. 25, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

By Leonard Novarro Luxury has its bounds. Between January 1990 and March 1994, the Sanwa Bank Ltd. loaned $94.5 million to Ja...


Technology & Science


Distress Call

Jan. 25, 2001
By Lisa Milller

Financial distress is a common plague hitting many new dot-com companies struggling for a piece of the high-stakes technology...


International


In 1993, Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia witnessed and survived a military police massacre of street children in Rio de Ja...


Appellate Practice


4th District Will Hold Hearings at Chapman

Jan. 25, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - Chapman University School of Law will host the hearings of the 4th District Court of Appeal today. It is the fir...


Government


In the Dark

Jan. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Government and energy-industry officials scrambling for a solution to California's energy debacle have been struck by the same...