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Law Practice


'Old-School' Litigator Robert C. Packard Dies

Jan. 19, 2001
By Victoria Newman

LOS ANGELES - Services will be conducted Friday for Robert C. Packard, a founder of Los Angeles aviation defense boutique Kirt...


Government


Parks, Leaders Clash Over Reform

Jan. 19, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles leaders locked horns Tuesday night over who is responsible for the Police Department's woes and what...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, will join the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central Distric...


Law Practice


Walter C. Schier Dies at Age 75

Jan. 19, 2001
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for prominent entertainment and communications attorney Walter C. Schier. Schier died ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time since the state's energy crisis began last summer, threats of rolling blackouts came true a...


Criminal


Ventura Sheriffs Agree Not to Rearrest Detainees

Jan. 19, 2001
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department agreed Wednesday to a court order barring jail officials from keeping detain...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Advertise or die. Stripped to its Darwinian core, that's the motivation behind San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleg...


Government


WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee John Ashcroft, responding to intense grilling from Senate Democrats during his confirmat...


Technology & Science


Internet Libert?

Jan. 19, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - You probably care very little, if at all, about the type of belt buckles international shoppers buy on the Int...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Jan. 18, 2001
By David Pike

The justices on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001 announced the following actions:


Law Practice


Lobbying Wins Midyear Meeting

Jan. 18, 2001
By Martin Kruming

SAN DIEGO - Next month, the American Bar Association will hold its annual midyear meeting in San Diego for the first time. Sch...


Constitutional Law


DA Alleges That Dancers Engaged in Lewd Acts

Jan. 18, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - The VIP Room at the Flesh Club in San Bernardino offered more than the usual adult-entertainment fare on seve...


Probate


Helping Hand

Jan. 18, 2001
By Columnist

The person must directly draft the documents, transcribe them or cause them to be transcribed; otherwise, the statute does not...


Litigation


'Serpico' Redux

Jan. 18, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

First, there were the jokes -- demeaning, incendiary. Then, the ridicule. "Idiot" was a mild term. Harassment -- that came wit...


Criminal


Testimony on Drug Trafficking Is Limited

Jan. 18, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday changed the dynamics of future drug trials by ruling that prosecutors canno...


Public Interest


Harmful Haven

Jan. 18, 2001
By Columnist

Imagine being an abused or neglected child. The danger is so severe that county social workers remove you from your home and p...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday reduced bail for a former personal injury lawyer accused of bilking clients of more than $3.5 mi...


Litigation


Father's Son

Jan. 18, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Patrick McNicholas remembers the first time he visited his father's law office. "All I saw was files and paper work. I said, '...


Litigation


S.J. 'SLAPP' Litigants Now Battling Over Fees

Jan. 18, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - The lawyer for a Santa Clara County family court psychologist told a judge Tuesday that the $170,000 in attorneys f...


Criminal


Authorities Bust Drug Agent for Taking Bribes

Jan. 18, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a federal drug agent in Los Angeles on charges of taking bribes from private i...


Litigation


Courting Credibility

Jan. 18, 2001
By Columnist

The credibility counsel portrays in the courtroom is a tool that can affect success in front of a jury, as jurors focus on a n...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that plaintiffs...


LOS ANGELES - Back in the 1950s, when Earl K. Long governed Louisiana like a third-rate banana republic, Daniel J. O'Brien's f...


Criminal


Attorneys Fight For Release of Teen Witnesses

Jan. 18, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age boys whom the district attorney's office wants to call as witnesses in a special-circumstances murd...


Government


Regulation Skeptic

Jan. 18, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - With Lyle's eyes focused unwaveringly on the rubber ball, Karen lobbed it 40 feet down the long hallway of her ho...


Government


Bipartisanship Takes Back Seat at Hearing

Jan. 18, 2001
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - "Welcome to the pit," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told his friend and former colleague John Ashcroft Tuesday as A...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller tapped seven current staffers for promotion Tuesday in a reshuffling of the offic...


Government


LOS ANGELES - A simple note taped to Benjamin Lopez's office door greets him when he arrives for work each day: "The shortest ...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Jan. 17, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2001 by the justices were:


Entertainment & Sports


Marquee Names Fill His Client Roster

Jan. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Any one who thinks that Hollywood actors, writers and directors are invariably flakes should spend some time with Jason Sloane...