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Pandoras Box

Feb. 5, 2000
By Columnist

By Jennifer Taggart - Business on the Internet is the wave of the future, but in the rush to get on the Net, businesses may be...


Litigation


Movie Review By Paul Frizler "Snow Falling on Cedars," a film based on the widely acclaimed 1996 novel of the same name by Dav...


Judges and Judiciary


Access to Justice

Feb. 4, 2000
By Columnist

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Two years ago the Los Angeles Superior Court caught up with the times and launched a Web site ( www....


Personal Injury & Torts


Causation Conundrum

Feb. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Real Property Courts in California conflict on duty of landlord for garage safety. Causation Conundrum Appellate Courts Confli...


Government


O.C. Courts Win Awards

Feb. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

O.C. Courts Win Awards SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court has taken home two prestigious Ralph N. Kleps awards for its D...


Government


DA Wannabes Debate, Sans Garcetti

Feb. 4, 2000
By Michael Harris

With the incumbent conspicuously absent, Los Angeles County district attorney candidates Stephen Cooley and Barry Groveman squ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Two more Bay Area law firms have raised associate salaries: San Francisco's Thelen Reid & Priest and San J...


Family


DA Gives State $12M in Unused Child Support

Feb. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office Wednesday handed over to the state more than $12 million in unused ch...


SACRAMENTO - Most voters both think insurance companies treat people fairly and oppose two March 7 ballot measures designed to...


Criminal


Injunction Targets Harbor Area Gangs

Feb. 4, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett

Injunction Targets Harbor Area Gangs City prosecutors and police now have the power of a permanent injunction to help them try...


Litigation


In an early application of the federal cybersquatting bill passed in November, a Northridge company accused of holding a rival...


Public Interest


Private Eye

Feb. 4, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Two recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court offer only illusory encouragement to privacy advocates and discouragement...


Criminal


Olson Seeks Conditional Exam of Dying Witness

Feb. 4, 2000
By Michael Harris

Susan B. Jordan, the attorney for former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson, has asked the trial judge...


Litigation


Asking Why

Feb. 4, 2000
By Denise Levin

Family members of 88 people who presumably died when the Alaska Airlines plane they were in plunged into the ocean 20 miles o...


Litigation


Widows Gifts To Her Lawyer Finally Repaid

Feb. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Virginia Opfell had complete trust in her lawyer - until he told her he needed $100,000 immediately to reconcile h...


Criminal


Judges Telephonic Swearing-in Is Legal

Feb. 4, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

There is no statute to prohibit judges from being sworn into office telephonically, Los Angeles Superior Court officials have ...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court said Wednesday that a psychiatrist and a therapist whose work paved the way for the f...


Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of rap label Death Row Records, is serving a 9-year term in California state prison for proba...


Banking


Lender Comfort

Feb. 3, 2000
By Columnist


Judges and Judiciary


A Path Well Chosen

Feb. 3, 2000
By Contributing Writer


Litigation


A quadriplegic man claims in an abuse of process lawsuit that an attorney induced the defendants in his personal injury case t...


Real Estate/Development


S&P releases new CMBS rating criteria

Feb. 3, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

New York - Standard & Poor's recently released a new criteria book outlining its approach in evaluating real estate cash ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


North S.D. Rings in New Bar President

Feb. 3, 2000
By Martin Kruming

More than 100 guests, including about 15 North County judges, attended last week's installation and awards dinner of the Bar A...


Education


By Thomas D. Elias All over California, school districts received big shocks this fall. The reason - they're not getting state...


Litigation


A Question of Balance

Feb. 3, 2000
By Columnist

By Timothy P. Dillon Recently, the Daily Journal published an article by well-known Los Angeles defense attorney Royal F. Oake...


Appellate Practice


Judgment Day

Feb. 3, 2000
By Columnist

Appellate Practice ...


Construction


Washington - The National Multi Housing Council, American Seniors Housing Association, and National Apartment Association are...


Law Practice


Deborah Klein Accepts Partnership at Barnes Morris

Feb. 3, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Entertainment attorney Deborah Klein has left a partnership position at Bloom Hergott Cook Deimer & Klein to join Santa Mo...


Criminal


Despite Release, Cop-Killer Convicted Once and Again

Feb. 3, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Once-convicted cop-killer John George Brown was convicted a second time Tuesday by an Orange County jury for the 1...


Real Estate/Development


Get smart

Feb. 3, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

Is the "smart growth" movement just another attempt to limit growth or is it a viable concept the industry can embrace? If so...