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Litigation


Supreme Court Puts Limits on Class Certification

Jun. 28, 2000
By Pamela A. Mac Lean

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that trial courts may not use the class action certification process to weed out meritles...


Law Practice


Career Advancement

Jun. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Dicta: Recruiting Roundtable By Valerie A. Fontaine A major concern for attorneys is producing prodigious quantities of billab...


Criminal


Retired trial attorney Richard Bernard Goethals Sr. died Monday in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach following a lengthy illness...


After handling hundreds of deals in her career, attorney Van Dang never wants to handle another one. Not only that, she wants...


Civil Rights


Graham Just Latest Victim of Bush's Texas Killing Fields

Jun. 28, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Forum: By Mike Farrell The smirk strikes again. Self-styled "compassionate conservative" presidential candidate George W. Bush...


Judges and Judiciary


Commission Publicly Admonishes Judge Shaw

Jun. 28, 2000
By Jason W. Armstrong

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Susanne S. Shaw was publicly admonished Monday by the Commission on Judicial Pe...


Criminal


No Action Needed Against Burt, DA told

Jun. 28, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An internal report commissioned by District Attorney Paul Pfingst has concluded that a prosecutor, earlier found i...


Large Firms


Obituary: Tax and corporate attorney Lawrence E. Irell, co-founder of Irell & Manella, has died. Irell died Thursday in Ra...


Government


Cop Suit May Determine Gunmaker Liability

Jun. 28, 2000
By Daniel Evans

In a case likely to determine the extent gunmakers are liable for the damage their products cause, a Los Angeles police office...


Criminal


Court Rules Viewing Constitutional

Jun. 28, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Sending a man's hope of beating a drug rap up in smoke, a state appellate court ruled a Sheriff's deputy's observation of mari...


Education


LSAT Biased Against Minorities, Study Finds

Jun. 28, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

Minority students with the same grade point average as their white counterparts are less likely to be admitted to U.S. law sch...


Judges and Judiciary


California Chief Justice Ronald M. George is heading a delegation of 39 judges from throughout the state on a working jaunt to...


Government


Board of Rights Judges Refuse To Back Down

Jun. 28, 2000
By Michael Harris

Threatened with possible recusal for expressing doubts about the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael A. Perez...


Criminal


Miranda as American as Apple Pie, Baseball

Jun. 28, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The right that fans of any cop show know as well as police officers - the right to remain silent- remains sacrosanct after the...


Appellate Practice


Court, 7-2, Reaffirms Miranda

Jun. 28, 2000
By David F. Pike

WASHINGTON - In an historic decision the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld the Miranda ruling as a constitutional right that is...


The Supreme Court's rejection of a white supremacist's appeal of Illinois' refusal to admit him to the bar should not be seen ...


Criminal


Plea Entered In Case of Chief's Kin

Jun. 27, 2000
By Michael D. Harris

Plea Entered In Case of Chief's Kin A reputed gang member pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he fatally shot Los Angeles Pol...


Firm Watch


Well-known entertainment litigation attorney George T. Caplan has joined the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kaye Scholer...


Law Office Automation


British Bytes

Jun. 27, 2000
By Columnist

BOTTOM LINE: By Gary S. Wong During the past 20 years, the various LegalTech events held throughout the country have grown to ...


Firm Watch: By Tamara Scott San Francisco's Landels Ripley & Diamond filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy June 16 as part of a ...


Law Practice


TRUE BLUE

Jun. 27, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

Not everyone is leaving law partnerships to cash in on California's gold. Some of the biggest rainmakers are loyal to their fi...


Immigration


INS Won't Budge In Woman's Case

Jun. 27, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

INS Won't Budge In Woman's Case The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has filed a legal brief reiterating its positi...


Juvenile


The System: 'Tough Time To Be a Kid'

Jun. 27, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

The fresh faces seemed hopeful, full of promise. With the exception of one boy who said he was proud of his gang involvement, ...


After 28 years at O'Melveny & Myers, energy and telecommunications attorney Joseph M. Malkin has joined San Francisco's Or...


Large Firms


THE GREAT ESCAPE

Jun. 27, 2000
By Meredith Alexander


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals: Fremont-based Credence Systems Corp. has acquired Sunnyvale's TMT Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $80 mi...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals: Molecular Devices Corp. and LJL BioSystems Inc., both based in Sunnyvale, have agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock tra...


Each year more than 18,000 children are incarcerated in the county's three juvenile halls. While many of these kids are event...


Government


Panel Calls for Safer City for Women and Girls

Jun. 27, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

"Is Los Angeles a safe place for women and girls?" asked speakers for the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women on Fri...


Public Interest


SWEAT EQUITY

Jun. 27, 2000
By Marissa Navarro

Public Interest: By Marissa Navarro From 1988 to 1995 an apartment building in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte was home to ...