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Discipline


Firm Hires Former Partner for Its Defense

Jun. 16, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has hired a former partner to defend the firm against malpractice accusations. ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Regulating Insurance

Jun. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner:Insurance Law By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich California law currently allows insurers and HMOs to include arbitration c...


Criminal


Court Dismisses Appeal of Sentence

Jun. 16, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The Ventura County division of the 2nd District Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal Wednesday brought by a man who argued for ...


Litigation


Laguna Beach Mayor Sues Festival's Board

Jun. 16, 2000
By Jason W. Armstrong

LAGUNA BEACH - The mayor of Laguna Beach has filed suit against the board of directors of the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach...


Insurance


Uncertain Certificate

Jun. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich Insurance is a key component of conducting business. Often, when business is con...


Litigation


Legal Battle Between O.C. Titans Heats Up

Jun. 16, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

NEWPORT BEACH - A legal battle that began last month over a business deal between two Orange County mainstays has escalated. ...


Public Interest


Cyber-Pets

Jun. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Dicta: By Paul O'Brien The computer - love it or hate it - is likely the most genuine reflection of our age. This comes from o...


Intellectual Property


Online-Porn Piracy Case Allowed to Proceed

Jun. 16, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A legal battle involving alleged piracy of online pornography did not make the list of cases approved for revi...


Criminal


Judge Keeps Reporter Out of Jail

Jun. 16, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An hour after an appellate court denied a writ seeking to keep a Union-Tribune reporter out of jail, a Superior Co...


Litigation


Jury Awards $15M To Paralyzed Man

Jun. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury Wednesday awarded $15 million to a Covina couple - nearly $12 million to the husband,...


Judges and Judiciary


Asians are underrepresented and blacks are over represented on the new Los Angeles County civil grand jury selected at random ...


Criminal


A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who came under fire in 1998 for zapping an unruly defendant with a 50,000-volt stun belt wa...


Criminal


Lawyer Faces Charges of Sex With Minor

Jun. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A former attorney with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges faces charges that he had sex last summer with a 15-year-old...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - Saying the CEO and founder of Aptix Corp. was "caught red-handed " fabricating entries in his inventor's noteb...


Law Practice


N.Y. Firm Moves Lawyers to Bay Area

Jun. 15, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York firm Shearman & Sterling has announced that it plans to increase the size of its Bay area off...


Family


Asian Legal Center Opens New Facility

Jun. 15, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center has opened its new center at 1145 Wilshire Blvd. in downtown Los Angeles. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Hall of Famers

Jun. 15, 2000
By Martin Kruming

San Diego Watch: Consumer Attorneys of San Diego has inducted two prominent San Diego litigators into its h all of fame during...


Product Liability


Unfair Share

Jun. 15, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Rod Eshelman On June 3, 1999, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New Yor...


Discipline


SAN JOSE - Former Santa Cruz County District Attorney Peter Chang, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor earlier this year after...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Tardy Party

Jun. 15, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick There is a temptation when a party is sued in a case where th...


Large Firms


Caplan Heads Kaye Scholer Litigation Practice

Jun. 15, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Well-known litigator and rainmaker George T. Caplan - head of Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey's litiga...


Government


The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department should increase resources and its supervision of deputies in order to avoid a Ramp...


Criminal


Did 'Rampart-Mania' Snag Another Cop?

Jun. 15, 2000
By Michael Harris

Bringing to 93 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, the convicti...


Law Practice


O'Melveny Hands Out Christopher Scholarships

Jun. 15, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Continuing a tradition of philanthropy, O'Melveny & Myers held its seventh annual Warren Christopher Scholarship Program o...


Litigation


The Los Angeles City Council could be released from liability in all Rampart-related lawsuits, a deputy city attorney said Tue...


Law Practice


Ex-Secretary Sues Latham & Watkins

Jun. 15, 2000
By Ed Kimble

A legal secretary has sued Latham & Watkins, claiming HIV disability discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination....


Education


Sounding the only discordant notes in the concert of praise and congratulations at USC Law School's recent 100th Anniversary G...


Judges and Judiciary


Celebratory Centennial

Jun. 15, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The University of Southern California's "fabled network in the law" celebrated its centennial anniversary Saturday night with ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A woman is convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband. Years later, her conviction ...


BERKELEY - Like many other students, Colorado native Rick Young had a hard time finding housing when he started law school at ...