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International


Holocaust Haggle

Feb. 11, 2000
By Columnist

By Barry A. Fisher In 1996, lawsuits filed in U.S. courts sought compensation for the role of Swiss banks in the German takeov...


Solo and Small Firms


Veteran Lawyer Succumbs to Heart Failure at 90

Feb. 11, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Services will be held today for Michael J. Fasman, a Beverly Hills real estate lawyer who practiced for more than 50 years. F...


California's judicial hunting season for journalists, a favorite quarry of authoritarians everywhere, is in full swing. Last w...


Criminal


Empty-Handed Burglar Pleads Guilty

Feb. 11, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald decided Monday that a suspect's flight into a garage during a police cha...


Judges and Judiciary


Why Aren't Women More Like Men?

Feb. 11, 2000
By Jean Guccione

SAN FRANCISCO - More than a decade ago, Appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of Los Angeles advanced the controversial theory ...


Criminal


LSAT Cons Learning About Torts the Hard Way

Feb. 11, 2000
By Denise Levin

The Law School Admission Council has sued three men who were recently convicted for their parts in a scheme to steal a Law Sch...


Criminal


Raid on DAs Office Sheds Little Light

Feb. 11, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The district attorney's office will have little to say about the criminal investigation of Deputy District Attorne...


Large Firms


Fenwick & West: Showing Them the Money

Feb. 10, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Better late than never. Palo Alto's Fenwick & West is the last large Northern California law firm to anno...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Daily Developments

Feb. 10, 2000
By Columnist

ADR Daily Developments ADR Is No Longer a Refuge From Complex Legal Rules The Legislature has acted to deal with 'Birbrower, M...


Large Firms


Six IP Attorneys Switch Firms

Feb. 10, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Six IP Attorneys Switch Firms Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Los Angeles-based Lyon & Ly...


Litigation


Former Nude Dancer Sues Workplace

Feb. 10, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A former nude dancer has sued the owner of the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, claiming the establishmen...


Insurance


Costlier Insurance for Disabled Questioned

Feb. 10, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

In a potentially far-reaching case, a federal appeals court peppered both sides with tough questions Tuesday over claims that ...


Criminal


Protester Wants Videotapes for Appeal

Feb. 10, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Lawyers for convicted animal activist Pamelyn Ferdin Vlasak and the Los Angeles city attorney's office Tuesday agreed to rele...


Environmental


GREENS

Feb. 10, 2000
By Columnist

By Iryna A. Kwasny and James R. Wheaton In Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw , 120 S.Ct. 693 (2000) the Supreme Court used ...


Litigation


Hahn Targets Venice Gang

Feb. 10, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

Hahn Targets Venice Gang Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn has filed a nuisance-abatement lawsuit against the Venice 13 ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Foothill Bar Inducts New Officers at Gala

Feb. 10, 2000
By Martin Kruming

Richard Freed was sworn in as president of the Foothills Bar Association during a swank gala at Singing Hills Country Club in ...


Media


Heidi Fleiss Says E! Bio Hurt Her Reputation

Feb. 10, 2000
By Denise Levin

Former madam to the stars Heidi Fleiss has sued the owners of E! Entertainment Television for defamation over a televised doc...


Judges and Judiciary


Pepperdine to Honor Mosk

Feb. 10, 2000
By Pat Alston

Pepperdine to Honor Mosk State Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk will receive Pepperdine University School of Law's Legal Her...


Government


Rampart Scandal Will Be Last of Its Kind

Feb. 10, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

The president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners sought to bolster public confidence in the police department T...


Education


USC Law School Dean Returning to Teaching

Feb. 10, 2000
By Denise Levin

Scott Bice, one of the University of Southern California Law School's longest-serving deans, has announced he will return to ...


Criminal


Slain Officers Father Tearfully Testifies

Feb. 10, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Family members of Garden Grove police officer Donald Reed told jurors Tuesday during the penalty phase trial of R...


Criminal


Judge Phoning It In Wasnt So Kosher

Feb. 10, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Allowing Judge Patrick B. Murphy to take the oath of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge over the telephone on Jan. 31 may not ...


Family


Parents Sue County Over Adoption

Feb. 10, 2000
By Denise Levin

The parents of Jeremy Strohmeyer, who recently recanted a guilty plea for the killing of a little girl in a Nevada casino rest...


Intellectual Property


Townsend Partner to Lead Microsoft Assault

Feb. 10, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - After weeks of wrestling for control of some two dozen class actions against software giant Microsoft Corp., p...


Criminal


New PD Joins Olson Defense Team

Feb. 10, 2000
By Michael Harris

A highly regarded Los Angeles County alternate public defender Tuesday became new co-counsel for former reputed Symbionese Li...


Labor/Employment


Federal authorities have filed a discrimination lawsuit against a prominent San Diego-based law firm, over the firm's inclusi...


Product Liability


Isuzus Trial Against Consumers Union Begins

Feb. 10, 2000
By Martin Bergn

There are plenty of hard-fought legal battles in the federal court in Los Angeles. But it's rare that lawyers for one side ask...


Media


Former television news anchor Larry Carroll, who recently had charges of investment fraud against him dismissed, has sued his...


Environmental


GREENS

Feb. 9, 2000
By Columnist

By William Funderburk and Lisa Morelli While members of environmental and other "public interest" groups may be celebrating th...


Litigation


Butchering Legitimate

Feb. 9, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Two forms of illegality exist - actual and effective - and both can prevent a company from marketing its product.By Mich...