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Luce Forward: SAN DIEGO TEAM HANDLES LANDMARK CAR AGREEMENT
By Staff Writers
DaimlerChrysler de Mxico and Hyundai Motor Co. have reached an agreement that will allow DaimlerChrysler to import a new Hyund...
Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Quinn, a business litigation boutique in San Francisco, has gained five new attorneys. Paul M. Z...
Two local professors Friday attacked Proposition 21, which they called the "demonization of youth" initiative, pointing to tre...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Justice Calls On Lawyers to Give Back
By Don De Benedictis
SAN DIEGO - Bemoaning the recent decline in lawyers' pro bono activities, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George Thursday c...
Patent litigator Edward G. Poplawski, a name partner at Los Angeles-based Pretty Schroeder & Poplawski, has defected to th...
Damian Monroe Williams and Tyrone David Killingsworth pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and robbery charges stemming from th...
Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has signaled their support for state laws that would lower to 12 from...
Government
9th Circuit Dismisses Some City Officials From Suit Over Police Squad
By Susan Mc Rae
Both sides claimed victory Friday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed some city officials from a...
Government
Riordan Reveals Change of Heart On Police Reform Consent Decree
By Chris Ford
Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan did an about-face Friday and signaled his willingness to sign a binding agreement with th...
It was what the hotel trade calls a "dirty room," one for which the occupants paid a full day's charge but then checked out ea...
Judges and Judiciary
Courts' Fear of Feds Slowed Freeing of Lee, Experts Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
If the case against nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee is so flimsy, why did the judicial system take so long to free him? Three fac...
Both sides walked away from a recent mediation in frustration, when John Allen, a victim of child sexual molestation, accepted...
Firm Watch
Cozen & O'Connor: MARITIME LAWYERS PUT OUT SHINGLE FOR BIG PHILLY FIRM
By Staff Writer
Two lawyers from San Francisco's former Booth Banning reaffirmed their breakaway firm heritage by leaving to open the new San ...
Education
School Vouchers Harm the Culture of Private Education
By Contributing Writer
By Marshall Fritz. While tax-funded vouchers introduce sorely needed competition into schooling, they have serious flaws that ...
A federal appeals court on Thursday asked U.S. officials to determine whether the United Kingdom still seeks extradition of t...
By Leonard Novarro. Cases are not won at trial. They're won at preparation, says Philip Harley. Harley, 53, was the lead attor...
RAPE AND THE CULTURE OF THE COURTROOM. By Andrew E. Taslitz. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, $18.00 (PAPERBACK), 210 PAGES ...
By Richard Amerian. "[W]e conclude a liability insurer cannot assert the comparative bad faith of its insured in the underlyin...
By Peter S. Doody. Wilson v. John Crane, 81 Cal.App.4th 847 (2000), is not significant so much for its holding, since it is li...
By Hera S. Arsen. Ask retired Superior Court Judge Bruce Sottile to summarize his philosophy on the role of a judge and he'll ...
The California Supreme Court recently held in two separate cases that under California's unfair competition law, Business and ...
Cases on application of Rule 11 to patent-infringement cases are hard to reconcile. ...
When it comes to the conjunction of Hollywood, lawmakers and kids who spend money on entertainment instead of guns, the Senate...
"Through the Eyes of a Child," an art exhibit to benefit victims of domestic violence, will be on display Sunday, 4-7 p.m. at ...
By Leonard Novarro. James Gilbert can't help being on the right track when it comes to auto defect cases. He races Formula Maz...
By Mark S. Roth. Since its inception 35 years ago in the seminal case of Seely v. White Motor Co. 63 Cal.2d 9 (1965), the "eco...
The Italian-American Lawyers Association will host a debate between District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, Deputy ...
By Leonard Novarro. Verdicts can hinge on inches and even less. If the arm on a newly installed restraint system in a customiz...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join in an amicus curiae brief opposing an effort by the Legal Services Corp. to s...
Thirty-three children will likely be able to attend college some day and their parents will be able to purchase homes as the r...