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DaimlerChrysler de Mxico and Hyundai Motor Co. have reached an agreement that will allow DaimlerChrysler to import a new Hyund...


Firm Watch


Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Quinn, a business litigation boutique in San Francisco, has gained five new attorneys. Paul M. Z...


Government


Proposition 21 'Demonizes' Youth

Sep. 19, 2000
By Chris Ford

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

Sep. 19, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

SAN DIEGO - Bemoaning the recent decline in lawyers' pro bono activities, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George Thursday c...


Law Practice


Patent Litigator Defects to Sidley & Austin

Sep. 19, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Patent litigator Edward G. Poplawski, a name partner at Los Angeles-based Pretty Schroeder & Poplawski, has defected to th...


Criminal


Damian Williams Pleads Not Guilty

Sep. 19, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Damian Monroe Williams and Tyrone David Killingsworth pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and robbery charges stemming from th...


Government


Commission Supports Proposed Juvenile Laws

Sep. 19, 2000
By Chris Ford

Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has signaled their support for state laws that would lower to 12 from...


Both sides claimed victory Friday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed some city officials from a...


Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan did an about-face Friday and signaled his willingness to sign a binding agreement with th...


Juvenile


In Room 207

Sep. 19, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

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


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...


Litigation


GODS AND MONSTERS

Sep. 19, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Both sides walked away from a recent mediation in frustration, when John Allen, a victim of child sexual molestation, accepted...


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

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

By Marshall Fritz. While tax-funded vouchers introduce sorely needed competition into schooling, they have serious flaws that ...


Appellate Practice


INTERNATIONAL LAW

Sep. 16, 2000
By Sherri Salzman

A federal appeals court on Thursday asked U.S. officials to determine whether the United Kingdom still seeks extradition of t...


Litigation


Gloved Over

Sep. 16, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

By Leonard Novarro. Cases are not won at trial. They're won at preparation, says Philip Harley. Harley, 53, was the lead attor...


Litigation


RAPE AND THE CULTURE OF THE COURTROOM. By Andrew E. Taslitz. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, $18.00 (PAPERBACK), 210 PAGES ...


Litigation


Carrier Barrier

Sep. 16, 2000
By Columnist

By Richard Amerian. "[W]e conclude a liability insurer cannot assert the comparative bad faith of its insured in the underlyin...


Product Liability


Fair Share

Sep. 16, 2000
By Columnist

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...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Socratic Ear

Sep. 16, 2000
By Hera Arsen

By Hera S. Arsen. Ask retired Superior Court Judge Bruce Sottile to summarize his philosophy on the role of a judge and he'll ...


Litigation


Mixed Manna

Sep. 16, 2000
By Columnist

The California Supreme Court recently held in two separate cases that under California's unfair competition law, Business and ...


Intellectual Property


Necessary Inquiry

Sep. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Cases on application of Rule 11 to patent-infringement cases are hard to reconcile. ...


Entertainment & Sports


Flick Exec Shaye Knows His Kids

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

When it comes to the conjunction of Hollywood, lawmakers and kids who spend money on entertainment instead of guns, the Senate...


Juvenile


Art Exhibit Benefits Victims of Violence

Sep. 16, 2000
By Staff Reports

"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 ...


Litigation


Formula Won

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

By Leonard Novarro. James Gilbert can't help being on the right track when it comes to auto defect cases. He races Formula Maz...


Litigation


Economic Squeeze

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

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...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyers' Group to Host DA Debate

Sep. 16, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Italian-American Lawyers Association will host a debate between District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, Deputy ...


Product Liability


If Only

Sep. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

By Leonard Novarro. Verdicts can hinge on inches and even less. If the arm on a newly installed restraint system in a customiz...


Law Practice


County Bar Opposes Action by Legal Services

Sep. 16, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join in an amicus curiae brief opposing an effort by the Legal Services Corp. to s...


Environmental


Settlement Achieved in Slum-Housing Case

Sep. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Thirty-three children will likely be able to attend college some day and their parents will be able to purchase homes as the r...