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Government


Lambda Sues for Access to Reports

Jan. 22, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett

Lambda Sues for Access to Reports The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund sued the city of Los Angeles Thursday for allege...


Law Practice


Blinder Vision

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

The 2nd Appellate District issued a surprising opinion last year in State Compensation Insurance Fund v. WPS, Inc ., 70 Cal.Ap...


Litigation


A 16-year-old breach of contract case appears to have come to an end with the awarding of about $8.9 million to a pharmacist w...


Law Practice


VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires on a new top-level management te...


Law Practice


New Challenge to Bar Classes Faces Rejection

Jan. 22, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court appeared inclined Thursday to reject a lingering challenge to the state's mandatory conti...


Entertainment & Sports


The Eye Finds Vertigo and Gen X at the Ivy

Jan. 22, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The January nights were warm and itchy. The Eye was on the roam for action. First stop, Ivy at the Shore. There sat Larry Stei...


Judges and Judiciary


Inch by Inch, Step by Step

Jan. 22, 2000
By Denise Levin

With the passage of unification, Los Angeles County is at the brink of becoming the largest trial court in the nation. First,...


Litigation


State Supreme Court Grants Review for Gun Case

Jan. 22, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for gun makers, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it will review the nation's first court d...


Judges and Judiciary


Compton Court Clerk Sues for Harassment

Jan. 22, 2000
By Denise Levin

Fed up with the ogling of two court custodians, "as if she were a piece of meat," a Compton Municipal Court deputy clerk went...


Entertainment & Sports


'Family Law's' Holt & Associates gains a lawyer and loses an assistant this week when Viveca Foster, Lynn Holt's secretary...


Law Practice


GOVERNMENT

Jan. 21, 2000
By Amy Bentley

VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires a new top-level management team,...


Judges and Judiciary


GOVERNMENT

Jan. 21, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - A major liberal advocacy group lashed out at a group of Republican senators Thursday for threatening to shut down...


Large Firms


Newport Beach Firm Gets Partners

Jan. 21, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Newport Beach Firm Gets Partners Patent and intellectual-property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Ne...


Law Practice


New Appointment Method Irks State Bar Judges

Jan. 21, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

Three judges of the special court that disciplines lawyers asked the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a n...


Litigation


By George Koo In their zeal to force Wen Ho Lee to his knees, federal prosecutors have turned America's system of justice upsi...


Insurance


Proactive Policy

Jan. 21, 2000
By Columnist

By David T. DiBiase and Lisa LeNay Coplen There are instances where insurance companies misinterpret obligations or otherwise ...


Public Interest


New Era Yawning

Jan. 21, 2000
By Columnist

Although the major media and bubbly-makers of the world believe that we have crossed that bridge to the new millennium - the q...


Government


City, County Hit with Suits by Law Enforcement

Jan. 21, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett

As the Los Angeles City Council negotiates to spend millions of dollars to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of about 6,600 poli...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Judge, Bailiff Sentenced

Jan. 21, 2000
By Michael Harris

Retired Whittier Municipal Court Judge Alfonso Hermo and his former bailiff were sentenced Wednesday to two years' informal p...


Government


Groverman Promises to Round Up Felons

Jan. 21, 2000
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County district attorney candidate Barry C. Groveman said Wednesday that if elected, he will make a top priority t...


Insurance


Important Implications

Jan. 21, 2000
By Columnist

By Kirk A. Pasich In 1999, the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal rendered several decisions with important implica...


Law Practice


Develop a System to Gauge Financial Winds

Jan. 21, 2000
By Columnist

The optimum way to manage a firm is to establish measurement systems that will track success indicators and highlight areas fo...


Technology & Science


Theres No Egg on Regents Faces

Jan. 21, 2000
By Anna Marie Stolley

The University of California does not have to pay for the legal defense of one of its fertility specialists who has been sued...


Criminal


Ex-Officer Gets Life Sentence

Jan. 21, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Ex-Officer Gets Life Sentence A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a former state narcotics officer convicted on drug-related c...


Criminal


Condemnation Caps Prosecutors' Case

Jan. 21, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors Wednesday laid to rest their case in the retrial of John George Brown for the 20-year-ol...


Criminal


JUDICIARY

Jan. 21, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A settlement of a federal fraud lawsuit against Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, his sister and s...


Government


OBITUARIES

Jan. 21, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Charles R. Imbrecht, a former California State Assemblyman for Ventura County and chairman of the California Ene...


Criminal


Settlement Over When Murphy Refuses to Pay

Jan. 21, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A settlement of a federal fraud lawsuit against Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, his sister and several other d...


Public Interest


Orange County Legal Aid Trailblazer Eulogized

Jan. 21, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Services have been held for Orange County legal services pioneer Marion "Chip" Mathis, who died Jan. 4 at Veteran's Hospital ...


Government


Former State Energy Comissioner Imbrecht Dies

Jan. 21, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Charles R. Imbrecht, a former California State Assembly representative for Ventura County and chair of the California Energy C...