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The groans were heard all the way to the Windy City. Christine Lagarde, the Paris-based executive committee chair of Chicago's...


Technology litigator Mark Slater recently found his business booming in the wrong direction. He'd just started working at the ...


Entertainment & Sports


Impending Clash

Oct. 24, 2000
By Columnist

A new copyright bill deals with whether sound recordings are "works made for hire." ...


GM Mirage Inc. and Park Place Entertainment Corp. have completed a $650 million financing deal for the construction and operat...


Law Practice


Triple Team

Oct. 24, 2000
By Rebecca Kuzins

Your script doesn't have to be novel. Just take a formula that's worked before and try it again. It was always a success for A...


Lawyers at Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle, an entertainment litigation powerhouse in Century City, recently called it qu...


Government


Judge Rebuffs Olson's Request for Police Files

Oct. 24, 2000
By David Houston

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday refused to allow lawyers for accused Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane ...


Discipline


DA Didn't Have License During Prosecutions

Oct. 24, 2000
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Mateo County prosecutor Allison Dondero was not licensed by the State Bar when she prosecuted a def...


Criminal


Murder Suspect Can't See Records, Judge Says

Oct. 24, 2000
By Daniel Evans

An orderly, suspected of hastening the deaths of 40 to 50 terminal patients at a Glendale hospital between 1989 and 1997 and n...


Law Practice


Local Lawyer Heads Rezulin Legal Group

Oct. 24, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

NEWPORT BEACH - Ramon Rossi Lopez, a partner with Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman, Skikos & Polos in Irvine, has been appoi...


Criminal


Witness Backs Ex-Gangster's Story

Oct. 24, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A young woman testifying Friday in the trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged in the first corruption prosecution t...


Litigation


Families of EgyptAir 990 Passengers Sue Airline

Oct. 24, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - The families of five Orange County passengers who died in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 last year sued in feder...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Foundation Honors Decade Of Philanthropy

Oct. 24, 2000
By Tamara Scott

The Foundation of the State Bar of California celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday with a gala in the grand ballroom of Ce...


Intellectual Property


SAN DIEGO - The tiny mountain town of Julian is celebrating the annual Apple Festival and tourists are flocking there for a ta...


Judges and Judiciary


A Contempt Judgment Opens a Can of Worms

Oct. 24, 2000
By Daniel Evans

An attorney who recently won a reversal of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge's ruling contends that the jurist fabricated a k...


Law Practice


SAN BERNARDINO - After spending the night in a Fontana hospital room recovering from ankle surgery, Stephen Solomon awoke to a...


Exodus Communications Inc. has acquired the Web-hosting business GlobalCenter from rival Global Crossing Ltd. The stock deal i...


Litigation


Contract Sport

Oct. 24, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

A dispute between USA and Viacom over the rights to World Wrestling Federation programming comes as close to a rumble as many ...


Intellectual Property


Safe and Secure

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Protection against corporate espionage involves a combination of physical security resources and legal strategies. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Heart of the Matter

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers look at human conflict in terms of rights, obligations and remedies. Although facts are important, client problems are...


Insurance


Insurance Adjusters Prevent Personal Injury Settlements

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The favoritism shown to insurance companies is a very serious problem with the California legal system. I am a paralegal and l...


Environmental


Undeserved Burden

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

In a decision with far-reaching consequences, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that mere passive migration of ha...


Intellectual Property


A Shielding Method

Oct. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Prior inventors have a new defense against patent infringement. ...


Litigation


Above and Beyond

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

No one can ever say that John B. Marcin doesn't prepare for his cases. While representing the widow of a driver who was killed...


Law Practice


Workshop Planned By Lawyers for Arts

Oct. 21, 2000
By Staff Reports

California Lawyers for the Arts will present a workshop in Santa Monica Nov. 1 on "Freedom of Expression." ...


Litigation


First, Do No Harm

Oct. 21, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Medical malpractice attorney proves anesthesiologist had much less experience in pediatric surgery than he admitted during fir...


Litigation


Bookends

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

He's a bear of a man who looks as if he could play tackle for the Green Bay Packers. She's petite and demure in her designer o...


Litigation


All in a Day's Work

Oct. 21, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

Sometimes it seems as if small-firm lawyers are being papered to death. Time is never on their side as opposing attorneys try ...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Reappoints Two Judges to Bar Panel

Oct. 21, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

Two State Bar Court judges have been reappointed by the California Supreme Court. The high court named Ronald Stovitz of San F...


Entertainment & Sports


'Double' Trouble Showdown Nears

Oct. 21, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The Eye caught up with Bert Fields on Thursday, and the all-star litigator has this message for all the folks still chomping o...