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Juvenile


YOUTH

Feb. 24, 2000
By Columnist

Voters should vote yes on Proposition 21. The measure sends a clear message to gang members and other potential serious offend...


Judges and Judiciary


Commissioner Elected Chair

Feb. 24, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Commissioner Elected Chair SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Sheila Fell has been elected chair of the Ora...


Law Practice


Memorial Is Planned for Attorney William Tucker

Feb. 24, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

A memorial mass at Loyola University School of Law is planned for William G. Tucker, a veteran trial lawyer best known for hi...


Criminal


Defendants Can Review Grand Jury Records

Feb. 24, 2000
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutors must disclose full transcripts of grand jury proceedings, including their legal inst...


Criminal


Audio and video forensics expert Norman I. Perle, who analyzed taped evidence and testified in a number of high-profile crimi...


Government


Internal Affairs

Feb. 24, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

The Los Angeles City Council stopped short Tuesday of endorsing a plan for a new independent commission to review the Rampart ...


WASHINGTON - Dealing a multimillion-dollar blow to California, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a ...


Appellate Practice


High-Court Debut at 29

Feb. 24, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Thomas C. Goldstein is living the dream of many lawyers. He argued two cases before the Supreme Court last year a...


Juvenile


YOUTH

Feb. 23, 2000
By Columnist

Proposition 21 is unnecessary and ineffective and will only make matters worse for California's youth and for California. This...


Firm Watch


Six IP Attorneys Leave Lyon & Lyon

Feb. 23, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Brobeck Phleger SIX IP ATTORNEYS LEAVE LYON & LYON Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon ...


Constitutional Law


Campaign Reformers Still Battling On

Feb. 23, 2000
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - Defenders of a 1996 campaign finance reform initiative will continue to face tough going, despite a recent U.S. S...


International


Foreign Bounty

Feb. 23, 2000
By Columnist

International Law - U.S. taxpayers must now realize that certain gifts must be reported and that the failure to report such gi...


Environmental


Standing Up

Feb. 23, 2000
By Columnist

By Helen H. Kang In a comprehensive opinion overturning the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the U.S. Supreme Cour...


Transactions


Internet Company Attaches a Leaf to the Tree

Feb. 23, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Cooley Godward INTERNET CONTENT COMPANY ATTACHES A LEAF TO THE TREE Redwood City's BroadVision Inc., which provides services ...


Environmental


Babbitt Wants U.S. to Adopt Foster Land

Feb. 23, 2000
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced a new land conservation system last week that will make the Bureau of Land...


Transactions


Burningham & Burningham CYBERTEL COMPLETES DEAL MUSICALLY JUST LIKE DAT La Jolla's Cybertel Communications Corp. complete...


Criminal


Reptile Curator Sentenced for Stealing

Feb. 23, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Still maintaining that money he admitted stealing from the San Diego Zoo was spent for the zoo's benefit, former r...


Government


Investigator Receives Executive Certificate

Feb. 23, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

Investigator Receives Executive Certificate SAN BERNARDINO - The chief investigator for the San Bernardino County district att...


Law Practice


Remote Recruiting

Feb. 23, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA Online recruiting seems to be the wave of the future. Page 8. Cyber Solutions By Deborah Johnson and Kevin Lee Thomason ...


Unwilling to hibernate through the turn of the millennium, Lawyers for One America and the American Corporate Counsel Associa...


Criminal


DA Charges 20 Freeway Protesters

Feb. 23, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

The Riverside County DA has charged 20 of the 40 people who demonstrated on the 91 Freeway to protest Tyisha Miller's shooting...


Transactions


San Franciscos Organic Ripens a Stock Offering

Feb. 23, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Morrison & Foerster SAN FRANCISCO'S ORGANIC RIPENS A STOCK OFFERING San Francisco's Organic Inc. has begun an initial pub...


Criminal


Workers' Comp. Crooks Get Longest Sentences

Feb. 23, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Two Los Angeles men have received what prosecutors say are the longest sentences ever for workers' compensation insurance prem...


Unlike the laws of physics, the laws of men place no restrictions on time travel. That helps explain why a bubble from Hollywo...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Promises, Promises

Feb. 23, 2000
By Columnist

By Jonathan B. Cole and Scott C. Pape A potential client walks into an attorney's office and says he was subject to discrimin...


Litigation


New Counsel Leads Reform Laws Defense

Feb. 23, 2000
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The Fair Political Practices Commission has named a new general counsel as the agency prepares to enter a new pha...


Transactions


Arter & Hadden RELIANCE STEEL FORMS NEW ALLOY WITH SUBSIDIARIES Los Angeles' Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. agreed to ...


Transactions


Aethlon Medical Acquires Nearby Syngen Research

Feb. 23, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Gibson, Haglund & Paulsen AETHLON MEDICAL ACQUIRES NEARBY SYNGEN RESEARCH San Diego's Aethlon Medical Inc. has completed ...


Transactions


Paul Hastings VENTURE'S CATALYST TO BE PRIZE OF GROWER WEBINC Venture Catalyst Inc. of San Diego is in the process of acquiri...


Transactions


Animal Devotees Can Buy Stock Online Pets.com

Feb. 23, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Venture Law Group ANIMAL DEVOTEES CAN BUY STOCK IN ONLINE PETS.COM San Francisco-based Pets.com has begun an initial public o...