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Alternative Dispute Resolution


No Free Ride

Dec. 12, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Linda Meyer's $7,000-a-day mediation fees are not typical. Turning pro bono experience into professional prestige takes initia...


Law Practice


George H. Norton, 70, Family Law Specialist

Dec. 12, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today for George Hillman Norton, a well-known family law attorney and long-tim...


The San Diego office of Washington, D.C.-based firm, McKenna & Cuneo, added another pair of lawyers from its shrinking nei...


Transactions


NetFuel Inc. has secured $3 million in financing. The 6-month-old company raised $2.5 million from Chicago's Citadel Investmen...


Judges and Judiciary


One of the main purposes of the recently passed Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, SB2140, is to provide ci...


Law Practice


The Outsiders

Dec. 12, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

In San Diego, it really is 72 degrees all the time - ask anyone. "I'm looking out my window at a 72 degree day," says Neil Dym...


Government


State FPPC Simplifies Conflict Rules

Dec. 12, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission has ended its two-year review of arcane conflict-of-interest regul...


Public Interest


Second Chance

Dec. 12, 2000
By Staff Writer

Successful lawyer Neil Carrey has expanded his community service by fund-raising for pediatric cancer research and treatment, ...


Labor/Employment


Holiday Harassment

Dec. 12, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Employers need to take steps to combat the heightened danger of sexual harassment during workplace festivities. ...


Transactions


Obagi Medical Products Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Los Angeles' Obagi Medical Product...


Government


Political Law Needs Quick Study

Dec. 12, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - An undercurrent of panic is spreading among political law attorneys and county election workers as they try to f...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for former longtime Los Angeles attorney Frederick I. Marr. Marr, a member of the f...


Criminal


Judge Sentences Law Student to Jail

Dec. 12, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Friday sentenced a teacher-turned-law student to 4 1/2 years in jail for roughing up a live...


Government


Community Mourns U.S. Rep. Dixon

Dec. 12, 2000
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Friends and colleagues described U.S. Rep. Julian C. Dixon, who died Friday of an apparent heart attack, as a le...


Personal Injury & Torts


Justices Nix Indemnity Claim of Assignee

Dec. 12, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - Companies that acquired a silicone breast implant manufacturer whose insurers went bankrupt cannot seek indemnit...


Large Firms


Borkowski Takes Leave From Mitchell Silberberg

Dec. 12, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner George Borkowski has taken a leave from the firm to se...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Friday that a woman who told a grand jury that she saw O.J. Simpson drive away from the...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision that paves the way for a county worker to sue his employer also clarifies a long-sta...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The families of two men killed earlier this year by horror film director Eric Red's runaway jeep when it crashed...


Public Interest


SAN FRANCISCO - Don't be surprised if the next homeless man you see is wearing an Armani suit. If he lives in San Francisco, ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Road Kill

Dec. 12, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Remember the Ford Pinto, the egg-shaped economy ride that sometimes exploded when struck from behind? Mark Robinson does. He a...


Law Practice


Ex-Mail Clerk's Bias Suit Leads to a Career in Law

Dec. 12, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

COSTA MESA - While K.D. Hughes toiled away as a mail clerk, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Then she went postal - in a lega...


Criminal


SAN JOSE - In an apparently unprecedented effort to avert conflict of interest problems that could derail a major multidefenda...


LOS ANGELES - The right to masturbate in public suffered a serious blow in federal court last week. At least that's how civil ...


Government


Downtown Downtrodden Get a Break

Dec. 12, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Leave 'em alone. That's the message sent by U.S. District Judge Lourdes Baird on Tuesday when she issued a tempo...


Law Practice


Troop Steuber Firm Will Close Its Doors Jan.1

Dec. 12, 2000
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - After a 20-year reign as one of Los Angeles' premier entertainment firms, Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tob...


Criminal


Life, Without Parole

Dec. 12, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County District Attorney's office has put 43 killers on death row since California restored capita...


Litigation


Dueling Experts

Dec. 9, 2000
By Columnist

One popular criticism of arbitration is that the process is becoming more like court litigation and is not a cost-efficient an...


Employee Benefits


True Gladiator

Dec. 9, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

After 35 years, David Greenberg sees himself as a gladiator with a dash of anxiety. "Someone who can't fight his own fight has...


Constitutional Law


Religious Bias Suit Involving 401(k) Is Settled

Dec. 9, 2000
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Mountain View man has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit he brought against his former employer charging ...