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Litigation


Network Associates' Lead Counsel Named

Jan. 29, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The feisty sparring for lucrative lead counsel status in the Network Associates securities litigation was reso...


Entertainment & Sports


In this week's 'Judging Amy,' the presiding judge gives Amy a case that pits the Catholic church against the Constitution. ...


Entertainment & Sports


This week's repeat features 'The Practice' lawyers being filmed by a documentary crew as they attempt to get a stay of executi...


Personal Injury & Torts


HOA Isn't Liable for Secondhand-Smoke Illness

Jan. 29, 2000
By Denise Levin

A condominium owners' association is not responsible for the health ailments of a condo owner that allegedly were caused by br...


Trusts & Estates


Sibling Rivalry Leads to Lawsuit

Jan. 29, 2000
By Denise Levin

A woman has sued her brother and their family's law firm, Magasinn & Magasinn, for $20 million, claiming they helped devis...


Criminal


Handling Children With Kid Gloves

Jan. 29, 2000
By Columnist

All judicial proceedings involving children should collect and resolve in a single court system under a judge who has the pers...


Criminal


Safety Net

Jan. 29, 2000
By Columnist

In Valladoli , the California Supreme Court faced the issue of whether a post-verdict amendment of an information is permissib...


Real Estate/Development


Condo Wins Without Giving Blood

Jan. 29, 2000
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - A marathon legal battle between a Simi Valley homeowners' association and a contractor has been resolved with a set...


Personal Injury & Torts


Desolation Angels

Jan. 29, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

John N. Schwartz suffered from dementia, was diabetic and had a single kidney when he underwent surgery for a fractured hip at...


Large Firms


SoCal Lags Behind NoCal in Pay Hikes

Jan. 29, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - More Bay area law firms have jumped onto the associate salary bandwagon, and in doing so, some are expressing ...


Public Interest


Joining Hands in Justice

Jan. 29, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

While California's largest law firms have been busy one-upping associate salaries, Los Angeles public interest law firms Bet T...


Entertainment & Sports


On this week's re-run of 'Ally McBeal,' a group called Mothers Opposed to Pornographic Material tries to shut down a female mu...


Law Practice


But My Dog Made Me Do It

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM In our litigious society, creative legal defenses are becoming standard operating procedure. Page 6. By Marianne Means D...


Education


Lawsuit Spurs School to Erect Portable Rooms

Jan. 28, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

After more than a year of allowing 100 elementary school students to be housed in an auditorium, it took less than two weeks ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Taxing Torment

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Taxing Torment Proposed Act Re-establishes Exempt Status for Emotional-Distress Claims Not Based on Physical Injury. ...


Law Practice


Negotiating the Language Labyrinth

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA Lawyers face the daily challenge of determining which bias-free references to use in addressing delicate issues. ...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Fans of fictional gumshoe Archibald McNally have followed the detective through "McNally's Secret," "McNally's...


Law Practice


Get a Life!

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA For attorneys who once enjoyed the practice of law but have now become dissatisfied, Steven Keeva's new book can help in...


Criminal


LSAT Cons Learn Criminal Law the Hard Way

Jan. 28, 2000
By Michael Harris

Two would-be law students were sentenced Wednesday to one year in custody and ordered to help pay $96,000 in restitution for ...


Communications


Umbilical.com

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Not since the wave's introduction at a Notre Dame-USC football game has the world been so crazed about an invention - un...


Contracts


Gloria Allred on Wrong Side of Lawsuit

Jan. 28, 2000
By Denise Levin

Allred, Maroko and Goldberg, the Los Angeles law firm known for putting its clients into the spotlights of news cameras, is th...


Labor/Employment


Moonlighting

Jan. 28, 2000
By Columnist

While surfing the Internet, an employer comes across a Web site called the "First Amendment Gang," which advocates the overthr...


Criminal


Jury Biased in DA's Favor Mandates Reversal

Jan. 28, 2000
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal panel has reversed a cocaine possession conviction because the defendant was not given extra peremptory challe...


Judges and Judiciary


Diabetes Claims Life of Judge Brown

Jan. 28, 2000
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ira A. Brown Jr., a retired San Francisco jurist who educated civil litigators for years as co-author o...


Judges and Judiciary


Inhofe Will Block Judicial Nominees

Jan. 28, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator on Wednesday reiterated his vow to block the confirmation of all of President Clinton's rem...


Litigation


Judge Likely to Let Gay Club Meet

Jan. 28, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - In comments indicating that he may be leaning toward issuing a temporary injunction allowing students at El Modena...


The Internet revolution is turning a Beverly Hills lawyer into an investment banker. So, yes, the World Wide Web does perform...


Government


$40 Million Settlement in Police Lawsuit Near

Jan. 28, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

The Los Angeles City Council inched closer to a reported $40 million settlement of police overtime lawsuits Wednesday, despit...


Labor/Employment


Council Settles Holdens Sex-Harassment Suit

Jan. 28, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett.

Just days before trial was scheduled to start, the Los Angeles City Council approved a $175,000 settlement Wednesday of a sex...


Criminal


Large as Life

Jan. 27, 2000
By Columnist

California's three-strikes law does not substantially reduce crime. Instead, many nonviolent, small-time criminals are being i...