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Solo and Small Firms


Uncivil Counsel

Nov. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Left to their own devices, lawyers sometimes do some pretty mean things to each other. ...


Government


What About the Election Ending Up in Court?

Nov. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about the election ending up in the courts. ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Drug Court Makes Graduation Plans

Nov. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

The West District Coordinated Drug Court Program will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30. The ceremonies will ta...


State Bar & Bar Associations


July 2000 Bar-Passing Rate Escalates to 55.3 Percent

Nov. 22, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

More than 55 percent of the 7,655 would-be lawyers who took the California bar exam in July passed, the State Bar Committee of...


Public Interest


While most of the participants in this month's election drama have carefully refrained from labeling it as a constitutional cr...


Government


Council Seeks Crime-Fighting Ideas

Nov. 22, 2000
By Chris Ford

Because the Los Angeles Police Department can't recruit enough candidates to fill its ranks, the city should spend the savings...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Charles Ruff, the powerful Washington lawyer and former White House counsel who successfully defended President C...


Juvenile


Courts across the country celebrated "National Adoption Day" Saturday as more than 1,000 former foster children became permane...


Personal Injury & Torts


Justices Toss Ruling on Amending Complaint

Nov. 22, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

An elderly, illiterate woman crippled by surgery may substitute a fictitious defendant with a real one - an anesthesiologist -...


Large Firms


MoFo Opens Office in Virginia's High-Tech Hub

Nov. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster plans to open its 18th office just a stone's throw from the Washington, D.C., office i...


Government


Court Launches New Self-Help System

Nov. 22, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Technology can and should benefit the poor, first and foremost. That was the message Friday as the Legal Aid Society of Orange...


Judges and Judiciary


Charles Dobson's relief shone through his calm smile as he stepped up to the makeshift court bench in front of television came...


Technology & Science


Court Orders Yahoo! to Block French Access

Nov. 22, 2000
By Marisa Navarro

In a case that pits U.S. values against European law, a French court ruled Monday that Yahoo! Inc. must block French citizens'...


Judges and Judiciary


9th Circuit Accommodations

Nov. 22, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

One effusive e-mail following Judge Ronald M. Gould's confirmation to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed delight ...


Intellectual Property


Fresh Troops Join Online Music Battles

Nov. 22, 2000
By Staff Writer

The piper must be paid. That is the resounding message sent by the $53.4 million settlement between Universal Music Group and ...


Entertainment & Sports


It's unlikely that English rocker Elton John and Los Angeles rapper Dr. Dre have much in common except fame and wealth. For in...


Health Care & Hospital Law


SACRAMENTO - California is making criminals out of the mentally ill who are repeatedly arrested because mental health and crim...


Labor/Employment


Damage Control

Nov. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Regardless of how diligent an employer is in managing its workforce, most employers will be served with an employment-related ...


Labor/Employment


Prudence Poppink, Fair Employment Lawyer

Nov. 21, 2000
By Staff Writer

Prudence Kay Poppink, a prominent attorney with the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, has died of complicatio...


Marketing


Retainer Riddle

Nov. 21, 2000
By Columnist

The determination of the existence of an implied-in-fact attorney-client relationship requires an analysis of the facts and ci...


Transactions


Double Deal Requires Redoubled Effort

Nov. 21, 2000
By Victoria Newman

You can call it a double whammy of sorts. Horace Nash, securities group chair for Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, recently put...


Law Practice


Freshman Initiation

Nov. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Young lawyers, do you really think having a randomized bar number will magically bestow on you the respect and reverence to wh...


Juvenile


When parents are awarded joint custody, they each gain a new abode and expect the child to shuttle back and forth. ...


While New York firms continue one-upping each other with year-end associate bonuses - and while California firms continue to f...


The Newport Beach outpost of Los Angeles' Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger has recruited three lawyers from Irvine's Paone...


Criminal


Unsilencing the Code

Nov. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Los Angeles jurors no longer assume that all police officers walk the straight line. ...


Firm Watch


LARGE CALIFORNIA FIRMS NAME NEW PARTNERS

Nov. 21, 2000
By Staff Writer

More firms are returning from their year-end meetings with new-partner lists in hand. As the business boom continues, large-fi...


Education


Mr. Turnaround

Nov. 21, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

What has transpired since Richard H. Sheehan Jr. became special counsel to the beleaguered Los Angeles Board of Education has ...


Law Practice


Crisis Defuser

Nov. 21, 2000
By Staff Writer

A senior partner with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Bill Coblentz is considered the Bay Area's best spokesm...


Stayhealthy Inc. has acquired the Center for Health Information from PharMerica Inc., a subsidiary of Bergen Brunswig Corp. Th...