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Civil Rights


On Friday, Father Gregory Boyle, the no-nonsense street priest of East Los Angeles' gang kids, buried his 84th child-victim of...


Criminal


Judge Limits Rampart Witnesses

Oct. 5, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Division officers granted a key de...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Orange County judge who improperly intervened in several cases to help friends and relatives has bee...


Law Practice


Partners from Santa Monica's Belin Rawlings & Badal have closed shop to follow new opportunities. The 10-attorney litigati...


Gil Garcetti promises to get to the bottom of Rampart and put officers on notice that police corruption will result in stiff p...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a woman who has no marriage license cannot pursue a wrongful death acti...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Corporate Right

Oct. 4, 2000
By Columnist

A California appellate court has held that a shareholders' derivative suit for malpractice can be brought against outside coun...


Litigation


Long-Winded Arguments Are Just Hot Air

Oct. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Juror questionnaires show that jurors generally prefer defense counsels' style of arguing over plaintiffs' style. ...


Criminal


A Beverly Hills Afternoon

Oct. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Horns blared, tires screeched, cars stalled and onlookers gaped while a lunatic swung a broomstick at two of Beverly Hills' fi...


Criminal


Judge Gives Genzler Six Years in Prison

Oct. 4, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A year and a half after revelations of alleged prosecutorial misconduct turned the routine retrial of a street sla...


Large Firms


U.S. Attorney Moves to D.C. Private Practice

Oct. 4, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Charles G. La Bella, the former U.S. attorney in San Diego, has joined Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo's San Diego ...


Entertainment & Sports


O'Melveny Associate Follows Her 'Live!' Dream

Oct. 4, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

ANAHEIM - An associate at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers may jump ship and end up an associate of Regis Philbin on his mor...


Judges and Judiciary


Water-Main Break Floods Courthouse

Oct. 4, 2000
By David Houston

A water-main break at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles flooded the basement and parts of the first floor, damaging ...


Law Practice


Governor's Veto Shows Support For Baby Bar

Oct. 4, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a measure that would have eliminated the "baby bar" exam for students in unaccredited law ...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - The battle over the "Cheers" robots finally is going to trial - if it doesn't settle first. The Supreme Court Mon...


SACRAMENTO - Consumer groups Monday extolled legislation signed by the governor over the weekend that will allow Northridge ea...


Government


Shelter Moves Dogs Before Closure

Oct. 4, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Though surprised by the reaction, Burbank city officials said they are not angry Millerwood Animal Rescue Sanctuary officials ...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - Acting on two separate petitions, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected California attorneys' challenges to some o...


Litigation


Judges Drill Attorneys For Recording Industry

Oct. 4, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Monday's highly anticipated federal appellate court confrontation between the recording industry and upstart N...


Attorney Larry P. Schapiro knew something was very, very wrong when the other members of the Yuba Community College District B...


Transactions


Study of Lawyers Leads to Career in Law

Oct. 3, 2000
By John Ryan

For Stephanie Splane, corporate partner in the San Francisco office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the work is all abo...


Firm Watch


Booth, Mitchel & Strange, a 23-attorney firm based in Los Angeles, celebrated its 45th anniversary in September. George Mi...


Three lawyers from the Irvine office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, Alan Freisleben, Todd Picker and Lilly Chow are te...


Bankruptcy


Requisite Tinkering

Oct. 3, 2000
By Columnist

The time and cost required to comply with the noticing requirements of the Bankruptcy Court should also be reduced by the new ...


Law Practice


Attorney Mark Lee Morrison died in a automobile accident Sept. 22. He was 29. The Long Beach resident was alone when he was ki...


Washington, D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo expects Peter Ippolito, Mark Budwig and Steven Owen to lay the foundation for a constru...


Firm Watch


Sarah Griffin, an employment law partner in the Los Angeles office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, has been elected as pres...


Labor/Employment


Being Evenhanded

Oct. 3, 2000
By Columnist

The jury sheets confirm that law firms are certainly not immune from the considerable risks posed by the expansion of employee...


Transactions


David Perry doesn't lift a finger in the summer, but you won't hear his partners at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly complaini...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added two lateral associates. Land use attorneys R.J. Comer and ...