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Large Firms


Paul Hastings, Battle Fowler Combine Forces

Jun. 13, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

On the Move: About 120 lawyers from Battle Fowler's New York office have joined Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's office t...


Firm Watch


TECHNOLOGY BOUTIQUE WILL DIRECT EMERGING PRACTICE

Jun. 13, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

Firm Watch: San Francisco and New York-based Thelen Reid & Priest has acquired San Francisco's Britton Silberman & Cer...


Large Firms


Wilson Sonsini Picks Woman To Lead Firm

Jun. 13, 2000
By Tamara Scott

On the Move: Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has chosen its first female managing partner - corporate and sec...


Personal Injury & Torts


Court: Tobacco Liability Law Is Not Retroactive

Jun. 13, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1998 change in state law that allows personal injury suits against tobacco companies for smoking-related i...


Environmental


Court Harpoons Indian Whaling Plan

Jun. 13, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Reasserting the importance of independent environmental review, a federal appellate court has blocked resumpti...


Government


Rampart's Blame Game

Jun. 13, 2000
By Chris Ford

More than eight months after the Rampart scandal came to light, blame continues to be cast on many in Los Angeles government w...


Law Practice


PRICEY PAGES

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Dicta: By John Hilbert California attorneys may not be aware that rates for official transcripts of courtroom proceedings are ...


Litigation


Exclusivity Rules

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

At Issue: By Deborah Rosenthal In order to curb litigation against employers for on-the-job injuries, California enacted a sys...


Criminal


DA Files New Allegation in Gonzalez Murder

Jun. 10, 2000
By Michael Harris

Seeking to qualify, for a possible death penalty, the 18-year-old reputed gang member charged with murdering the granddaughter...


Environmental


List Litigation

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Environmental Law By William D. Wick A California Court of Appeal last month upheld the state's listing of vario...


Immigration


Ex-Gang Member Steps Closer to Citizenship

Jun. 10, 2000
By Susan Mc Rae

Tony Alvarado, a reformed gang member who faces deportation stemming from a 10-year-old crime he claims he didn't commit, has ...


Public Interest


Event Benefits O.C. Law Center

Jun. 10, 2000
By Jason W. Armstrong

COSTA MESA - Orange County's Public Law Center was awarded a check of $6,000 Wednesday night at the Association of Business Tr...


Corporate


Mediator Maximus

Jun. 10, 2000
By Rebecca Kuzins

ADR Profile: By Rebecca Kuzins Eliot Disner has obtained multi million dollar verdicts in antitrust and business litigation an...


Litigation


Workers Link Corporations

Jun. 10, 2000
By Kelly E. Lee

Keys to Victory: By Kelly E. Lee Dominic Surprenant, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los Angeles, w...


Criminal


Davis Wears Blinders to the Truth About Death Penalty

Jun. 10, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Forum: By Mike Farrell Gov. Gray Davis has turned a deaf ear to Cardinal Roger Mahony. Like Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshi...


Litigation


Driving Force

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal Peter A. Saporito has run the gamut of jobs representing transportation entities in So...


Firm Watch


Milbank Grows With Diamond & Ostrow

Jun. 10, 2000
By Tamara Scott

On the Move: The Los Angeles office of New York-based Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy will get a new West Coast litigation h...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Peaceful Battle

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Opinion: By Steve Cerveris Tired of mediation rhetoric about cooperation, win-win, empathetic listening, non confrontational c...


Civil Rights


Placing a metal detector at the public entrance of a courtroom during a multiple-murder trial is not prejudicial to the defend...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Judges: If you're going to cite attorneys for contempt of court, be sure to warn them first. ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Child Proof

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: Justice For All By Tom Weathered One of the unintended consequences of welfare reform has been an increase in the numbe...


Civil Rights


Two Sue L.A. Over Alleged Framing by Cops

Jun. 10, 2000
By Michael Harris

Two more people convicted because of alleged misconduct by rogue Rampart Division police officers have filed federal civil rig...


Law Practice


Noah Baum Services Set for Sunday

Jun. 10, 2000
By Ed Kimble

Memorial services for Noah Baum will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Berkeley Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St., B...


Family


Rome Killing Stirs Custody Fight

Jun. 10, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Gloria Allred said Thursday she will appeal a ruling giving joint custody of the toddler daughter of an American woman killed ...


Judges and Judiciary


Stalking Charges Against Irate Mom to Be Dropped

Jun. 10, 2000
By Matthew Heller

INDIO - Deborah Sorrells-Klang claimed that an Indio Superior Court commissioner "took my life from me" by awarding custody o...


Entertainment & Sports


Drudge Creates 'Posse' Media Circus

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Memo from Hollywood Libel Lawyers: Re: If you don't want folks to read "The Insane Clown Posse," d...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Four Candidates Vie for Bar Head

Jun. 10, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

When the members of the State Bar Board of Governors sit down Saturday morning to elect the next president of the bar, they wi...


Judges and Judiciary


A Little Raven Told Me

Jun. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Dicta: Court Jesters In In Re Robin E. Love , 61 B.R. 558 (S.D. Fl. 1968), Judge A. Jay Cristol wrote the following for the co...


Criminal


Arraignment Held In Alleged S.D. Plot

Jun. 9, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A man authorities believe is connected to an alleged revenge triple-murder plot against a judge, prosecutor and in...


Labor/Employment


Direct Threat

Jun. 9, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Employment Law By Mark A. Romeo and Barrett K. Green In a watershed case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...