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Judges and Judiciary


Dove's Diplomacy

Jan. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - As a true judicial insider who has worked with judges for nearly 30 years, Constance Dove has some invaluable ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Unless death row inmate Robert L. Massie has a last-minute and highly unlikely change of heart, a federal judg...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...


Government


DCA Kicks Arbitration Case Upstairs

Jan. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - A constitutional challenge to a new law that extends binding arbitration to labor disputes involving police and f...


Firm Watch


Trio of Lawyers Goes to Crosby Heafey

Jan. 6, 2001
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corpor...


Entertainment & Sports


Flick Limns Terrorist-Hostage Conundrum

Jan. 6, 2001
By Columnist

The law is ill-equipped to deal with terrorism. Although we have strict laws against the terrorists who are caught, current la...


Labor/Employment


SAN JOSE - In Silicon Valley, there is nothing too unusual about an employer going to court to prevent a departing worker from...


Criminal


Man Faces Trial in Two DUI Deaths

Jan. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - An unemployed truck driver charged in two drunken-driving accidents that claimed the lives of two people last ye...


Corporate


Tech-Firm Employees Sold Stocks Just in Time

Jan. 6, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

While the value of many people's stock holdings plunged last year, insiders at technology firms sold their shares at opportune...


Personal Injury & Torts


Open Gates

Jan. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Two recent decisions potentially have opened the floodgates for malicious-prosecution actions arising from contractual arbitra...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Microsoft Attorneys Claim Bias

Jan. 6, 2001
By Contributing Writer

The partisan cries of judicial bias that ripped through the Florida courts since the election have split the nation into two g...


Corporate


Hunting Down the Next Gorilla

Jan. 6, 2001
By Columnist

A favorite topic of conversation in Silicon Valley is trying to figure out which technologies and companies will become the ne...


Civil Rights


Foundation Will Honor Comic Jay Leno's Wife

Jan. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation will honor Mavis Leno at its annual Pathfinder Award Lun...


Personal Injury & Torts


Watermark

Jan. 6, 2001
By Columnist

A recent article in the Daily Journal discusses the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Pacheco v. United States, 22...


Energy Law


In the face of a corporate-manufactured energy crisis, Gov. Gray Davis has abandoned moderate rhetoric for the first time sinc...


Corporate


Online Sweepstakes Hits Profit Jackpot

Jan. 6, 2001
By Andrea Rosas

Luckysurf.com, a top-ranked, free online lottery, is aptly named. The San Francisco-based company has been exceptionally lucky...


Litigation


Never-Ending Story

Jan. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Funny how, if we use large men with guns to obtain money it is extortion, but if we use large men with guns and a badge to obt...


Large Firms


Troop Entertainment Group Finds Home

Jan. 6, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Katten Muchin Zavis has grabbed the entertainment and media practice of Troop Steuber Pasich Reddi...


Large Firms


Bay Area Firms See Spate of Moves

Jan. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms announced several high-profile lateral lawyer additions this week. Three firms, McCutchen D...


Litigation


Mother Sues Burger King Over Alleged Peeping-Tom Incident

Jan. 6, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Denise Rhoads says neither she nor her daughter will ever use a public restroom again - not after what she alleges...


Criminal


Judge Determines Serial Killings Were Connected

Jan. 6, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Moving an important step closer toward allowing California's first megatrial of a suspected serial killer, a ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a drug defendant ordered into a diversion program cannot contes...


Education


Boalt Will Open Death Penalty Clinic

Jan. 6, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - In a first for a law school in California, the University of California, Boalt Hall, will open a clinic to give ...


Investments


E-Stores Endure Shakeout

Jan. 6, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

With the economy giving a hard spanking to dot-coms this past year, e-tailers hearty enough to survive had pegged their hopes,...


Technology & Science


Grid Lock

Jan. 6, 2001
By Daniel Shaw

The extent to which the Internet will continue to affect almost every facet of life in America depends, in part, on how the fe...


Litigation


Set On Broillet

Jan. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Bruce Broillet, who stands 5 feet 2 inches tall, was in seventh grade when he started thinking of trying out for ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court expressed sympathy but offered little hope of relief Thursday for death row inmat...


Workers' Comp.


SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision clarifying the jurisdiction of the state Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, a unanimous state ...


Government


Two Little Deaths Foretold

Jan. 6, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, Breanna and Joan Richards were going to return with all the other children to Menlo Avenue Elementar...


Litigation


AG Accused of 'Brady' Violation

Jan. 6, 2001
By John Roemer

VALLEJO - A stinging sanctions motion by defense lawyer Robert Bloom asserts that prosecutors at an ongoing evidentiary hearin...