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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Tarnished Halo

Jun. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Legal Malpractice Law By Alec H. Boyd In Wiley v. County of San Diego, 14 Cal.4th 532 (1998), the California Sup...


Appellate Practice


Noncitizens Lose Bid for Plea Reversals

Jun. 7, 2000
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of guilty and no-contest pleas carrying the possibility of permanent exclusion from the United States...


Investments


Man Says That His Investment Laid Egg

Jun. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County ostrich investor is suing the Tehachapi ostrich ranch at which he boards his 18 birds, alleging t...


Criminal


Former DA Takes Fifth 15 Times

Jun. 7, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A former high-ranking deputy district attorney accused of prosecutorial misconduct in a murder case claimed his F...


Litigation


Woman Says County Therapist Harassed Her

Jun. 7, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A woman receiving therapy through Orange County's Health Care Agency claims she was sexually harassed by her thera...


Judges and Judiciary


Individuals Cannot Effect Class Results

Jun. 7, 2000
By Pamela A. Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing unfair business-practice suits, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individuals may not ...


Intellectual Property


DESIGN FLAWS

Jun. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Alan P. Block The Supreme Court's decision in WalMart Stores v. Sumara Brothers provides some predictability to prod...


Criminal


Prosecutors Join Bid to Remove Rampart Lawyer

Jun. 7, 2000
By Michael D. Harris

Prosecutors Monday joined Rafael A. Perez's bid to recuse the attorney for one of the first three police officers charged in t...


Law Practice


Morrison Helps Itself to More Baker Partners

Jun. 7, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

On the Move: The San Diego office of Morrison & Foerster has added intellectual property litigators David Doyle and Craig ...


Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, has an exquisite sense of timing. With a speech at the National Press Cl...


Criminal


Court Will Rule On Shielding Witnesses

Jun. 7, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

Labeled by the Mexican Mafia as a snitch, Jose Uribe lasted less than two days at the Los Angeles County Jail, where he was be...


Family


Justices Will Consider Prenuptials

Jun. 7, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

As baseball superstar Barry Bonds and his former wife watched from the sidelines, the California Supreme Court on Monday pitch...


Family


SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond Dunkin called young Marisa his "miracle baby." Stricken with testicular cancer, the East Bay laborer t...


Intellectual Property


DESIGN FLAWS

Jun. 6, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Edward F. O'Connor Congress should eliminate the confusion and uncertainty that is created when courts allow rights ...


Judges and Judiciary


Experts Want More-Diversified Jury Panels

Jun. 6, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

RIVERSIDE - Jury panels need to be better diversified, agreed a panel of five legal and academic experts who gathered Wednesda...


Appellate Practice


TIME TESTED

Jun. 6, 2000
By Columnist

The Adviser: Appellate Law By Ronald P. Kaplan Just as the trial lawyer must be ever vigilant in seeing to it that the complai...


Firm Watch


News

Jun. 6, 2000
By Staff Reports

News: New York's Kelley Drye & Warren has added five lawyers to its Los Angeles office, effective last Thursday. The addit...


Public Interest


Forum: By Madeline Bernstein In response to Andrew Bernstein's article "Animal Rights Activists Seek to Inflict Human Sufferin...


Public Interest


Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Gunning for President Clinton's law license, an Arkansas Supreme Court ethics panel recom...


Zoning, Planning and Use


The Blame Game

Jun. 6, 2000
By Columnist

Forum: By Ronald A. Zumbrun Some governmental agencies are so misguided as to deserve public exposure of their actions. An egr...


Criminal


DA Charges Two in Defrauding Vendors

Jun. 6, 2000
By Jason W. Armstrong

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors on Friday charged two Orange County businessmen with defrauding computer vendors such as...


Discipline


Lawyer Arraigned on Two Grand Theft Charges

Jun. 6, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - When Jon Eric Hollmann was admitted to the California Bar in 1980, his first job as a lawyer was with Earl T. Durh...


Large Firms


Holding an Audience, in Court and in Print

Jun. 6, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

News: He has tried more than 100 jury trials and lost only four. His most recent book, The Alternate , was on the New York Tim...


Criminal


Navy Lt. Cmdr. Is Allegedly Dealer

Jun. 6, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Lance Loeh, 40, was arraigned Friday on charges of selling tablets of Ecstasy , a manufactur...


Labor/Employment


MEN AT WORK

Jun. 6, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

The Employers Group legal committee says that in California's legal and political climate, employment law favors labor over ma...


Law Practice


A memorial service will be held Tuesday in Beverly Hills for Robert McCoun Shea, retired deputy general counsel of Arco. Shea,...


Judges and Judiciary


California 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge William Masterson blasted Los Angeles County counsel's arguments for reclassifyi...


Public Interest


Not Just Old

Jun. 6, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Public Interest Law By Michael S. Paul Welfare reform has brought many changes in law involving basic social-ser...


Public Interest


TRIER OF FACT

Jun. 6, 2000
By Columnist

The Closer: By John Plotz The Holocaust happened long ago, or so I thought. But earlier this year, it was center stage at the ...


Large Firms


Big League Lawyer Pulls Little League Duty

Jun. 6, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Deals: Corporate lawyer Mark Medearis of Menlo Park's Venture Law Group has been handling mergers and acquisitions for more th...