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Litigation


Shooting Victims Sue Gun Makers

Aug. 12, 2000
By From Staff Reporters

Manufacturers of the guns white supremacist Buford Furrow allegedly used during an Aug. 10, 1999, rampage at the North Valley ...


Judges and Judiciary


Courts to Curtail Hours During DNC

Aug. 12, 2000
By David Houston

The clerk's office of the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles will be open during its regular hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., ...


Criminal


Blythe Lawyer Closes Practice During Inquiry

Aug. 12, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

BLYTHE - What do you call one fewer lawyer in Blythe? Jeffrey J. Hegberg, apparently. One of only six private attorneys in thi...


Criminal


Coach Pleads Guilty to Sex With Student, 15

Aug. 12, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

WESTMINSTER - A 33-year-old Los Alamitos High School basketball coach pleaded guilty Thursday to having sex with a 15-year-old...


Product Liability


Delay in Recalling Tires Could Cost Firestone

Aug. 12, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Personal injury experts say that Bridgestone-Firestone tire manufacturers are tempting fate and fat legal losses if harm comes...


Government


Lawyers Accuse City Attorney of Judge-Shopping

Aug. 12, 2000
By David Houston

A proposal to consolidate as many as 275 federal lawsuits among a few judges for consistency in rulings and logistical reasons...


Criminal


Volunteer Program Clothes Victims, Witnesses for Court

Aug. 12, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Olivia Valdez was five months pregnant when her live-in boyfriend, Jose Santos, came home in a rage one night last...


Government


Nearly two dozen civil rights lawyers today will deliver a message to Los Angeles city and police officials: Messing with prot...


Large Firms


Dems' Catch Phrase: Party On

Aug. 12, 2000
By Tamara Scott

California lawyers and high level business professionals will wine, dine and entertain many of the 35,000 delegates and visito...


Firm Watch


Brown Raysman Adds Three to L.A. Office

Aug. 11, 2000
By Victoria Newman

New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner has added three attorneys to its Los Angeles office. Robert Kovelman, ...


Family


Court Upholds Delayed Award

Aug. 11, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Twenty-eight years after the original order was entered, a San Bernardino County woman sued and won a judgment against her ex-...


Insurance


By Robert Fink. Back in June, State Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Montebello, did consumers a great service by making public confiden...


Labor/Employment


Regarded As

Aug. 11, 2000
By Columnist

By Joseph Posner. There was a genuine issue of material fact on whether United regarded Deppe as disabled that required the re...


Law Practice


Hot and Bothered

Aug. 11, 2000
By Columnist

By Leigh Datzker. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to put a 98.6-degree human being in a wool suit on a 100-degree day. ...


Criminal


Enough Blowing Legal Smoke

Aug. 11, 2000
By Columnist

By Marsha N. Cohen. Marijuana has been back in the news recently, with Hawaii joining five other states that have enacted medi...


Labor/Employment


Dial It In

Aug. 11, 2000
By Columnist

By Karen M. Clemes. The traditional workplace is being redefined as employers and employees opt for flexible work arrangements...


Law Practice


SEC's Noran Camp Joins Gibson Dunn

Aug. 11, 2000
By Staff Writer

By Karen Coleman. Leading corporate transactions firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has landed another high-profile senior attorn...


Criminal


Council Condemns Site for New Station

Aug. 11, 2000
By Chris Ford

The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved the condemnation by eminent domain of a San Fernando Valley property for a new...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Now, four judges are on the recall list in Marin County. Verna A. Adams, who was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis ...


The case of a man imprisoned for 22 months on allegedly false charges made by officers involved in the Rampart police corrupti...


Government


Council Reappoints Commissioner

Aug. 11, 2000
By Chris Ford

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to reappoint a member of the Board of Police Commissioners to a second term, but ...


Labor/Employment


The Mondrian hotel may have to take to heart the adage "pretty is as pretty does." The chic Sunset Strip establishment, home o...


The Los Angeles Paranoia Index [LAPI] has gone through the roof, thanks to next week's Democratic National Convention. Fear of...


Government


Protesters Can't Deliver 'Demands'

Aug. 11, 2000
By Chris Ford

A group planning protests during next week's Democratic National Convention attempted Wednesday to deliver a dozen "demands" t...


Criminal


Patrick J. Naughton, a darling of the dot-com scene until he was caught trying to have sex with an undercover government agent...


Constitutional Law


A state court of appeal ruling has granted new life to a battle waged by the owners of a historic San Francisco hotel against ...


It's T minus three days until the Democratic National Convention, and rumors are flying about protests that specifically targe...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Reaching Results

Aug. 10, 2000
By Columnist

By Alexander S. Polsky. Poor results in arbitration occur when attorneys do not prepare and when counsel convey an air of disi...


Public Interest


Napster Is The Tip of An Iceberg

Aug. 10, 2000
By Contributing Writer

By Paul Krugman. Napster's big mistake, clearly, was basing itself in California. It should have operated out of Jersey. Not t...


Firm Watch


Ballon, Maire Jump Aboard Manatt Phelps

Aug. 10, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Entertainment and new-media specialist Ian C. Ballon and corporate and securities attorney Richard J. Maire Jr. have joined th...