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State Sen. Tom Hayden is claiming that the ever-widening LAPD Rampart Division corruption scandal this week saved a former gan...


Criminal


Drug Dealer Operating in Projects Sentenced

Feb. 18, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Marcellus Aaron Elder, convicted last year of dealing cocaine in San Francisco housing projects in 1995, was ...


Intellectual Property


Darby & Darby Abandons Southern California

Feb. 17, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Pasadena's Christie, Parker & Hale has recruited several lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Darby & Darby, a New Y...


Judges and Judiciary


Murphy's Lawyer Withdraws

Feb. 17, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy must either show up in federal court at the end of the month to represent h...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - In last week's groundbreaking decision expanding the "fair use" doctrine to permit some use of copyrighted mat...


Litigation


Bosses Barred Chen's Promotion, Lawyer Says

Feb. 17, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen volunteered to take assignments within the office that no one...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Critical Care

Feb. 17, 2000
By Columnist

Complying with seismic-safety regulations may put California hospitals in critical condition. ...


Criminal


Victim Testifies Happy With Oleesky

Feb. 17, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Despite allegations that Steven and Denise Oleesky bilked a food bank of more than $3 million with the help of Gle...


Education


Professor Tapped to Be Boalt's New Dean

Feb. 17, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - John Dwyer, a nationally known environmental law scholar, was appointed Tuesday to become dean of the Boalt Ha...


Law Practice


Londoner Installed as Bar Head

Feb. 17, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Graham Hollis , a naturalized American citizen who grew up in West London near Heathrow Airport, was recently installed as thi...


Education


By Charles Levendosky Government should not do a number of things. Pushing religion is one of them; telling people when and ho...


Labor/Employment


The inevitable disclosure doctrine is a potentially devastating weapon in the arsenal of former employers. ...


Criminal


Trial Begins in N. Hollywood Bank Robber Case

Feb. 17, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a civil lawsuit stemming from charges that Los Angeles police violated ...


Large Firms


Three More Firms Hike Base Pay

Feb. 17, 2000
By Tamara Scott & Leslie Gordon

Three more Los Angeles firms - O'Melveny & Myers, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedge...


Criminal


SAN DIEGO - Peter J. Longanbach, the San Diego deputy district attorney who heads DA Paul Pfingst's economic fraud division, i...


Criminal


A Year Of Change

Feb. 17, 2000
By Martin Bergn

It was a tense crowd, brimming with frustration and some hostility. U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas had been at his job about...


Labor/Employment


Ruling: Federal Courts Can't Enjoin Picketing

Feb. 17, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant boon for employees of subcontractors in the rail and airline industries, a federal appeals co...


Government


Politicians Spar Over Legal Services

Feb. 17, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - New session of Congress, same old story. A routine discussion of budget items in a House Judiciary Committee meet...


Government


Lynch to Endorse Cooley for DA

Feb. 17, 2000
By Michael Harris

Prosecutor John F. Lynch, who in 1996 came close to defeating incumbent Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles County district attorney,...


Civil Rights


Colorless Politics Is Surfacing

Feb. 16, 2000
By Columnist

By William Raspberry I suppose getting engrossed in a subplot is easier when the main storyline has become fairly obvious. May...


Criminal


Program Aims to Combat Stalking

Feb. 16, 2000
By Michael Harris

Program Aims to Combat Stalking Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults A...


Judges and Judiciary


Niles TRO with Ex Is Extended for 30 Days

Feb. 16, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A domestic violence temporary restraining order keeping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles and his former long-t...


Family


Marital Strife

Feb. 16, 2000
By Columnist

The letters page of the Daily Journal has recently been alive with the debate over same-sex marriage. This certainly reflects ...


Judges and Judiciary


Michael Farrell Named Top Judge

Feb. 16, 2000
By Denise Levin

Michael Farrell Named Top Judge Superior Court Judge Michael Farrell will be named Judge of the Year Thursday night by the San...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Few issues have emerged in the race between the Oakland City Attorney Jayne W. Williams and her challenger, Ci...


Law Practice


Recruiting Violations

Feb. 16, 2000
By Columnist

With the advent of two recently signed laws, firms should consider carefully the possible downsides of using temporary employe...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Value is Key, Says Future ABA Leader

Feb. 16, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

DALLAS - The man likely to be president of the American Bar Association in 2001-02 intends to focus his term in part on making...


Criminal


Convicted Cop Killers Uncles Testify in Retrial

Feb. 16, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Two uncles of convicted cop killer John George Brown testified Monday that the defendant, soon to be sentenced for...


Litigation


I am an unabashed fan of pleading motions - the demurrer or its cousin, the motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Proc...


Labor/Employment


Suit's Weekend Negotiations Scuttled

Feb. 16, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett

A $40 million settlement proposal to resolve two lawsuits alleging that the city of Los Angeles is violating a federal overti...