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Litigation


Galardi Gets $2M for Brain Damage

Dec. 28, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court jury on Thursday granted more than $2 million in damages to an Orange County attor...


Large Firms


'It's being able to make a difference.'

Dec. 28, 1999
By Tamara Scott

When attorney David J. Katz was paged in the middle of the night, five years ago, he knew there had been an accident. A car ha...


Intellectual Property


Free or Fee?

Dec. 28, 1999
By Columnist

The courts struggled with how to protect an individual's ideas from exploitation by another without unduly interfering with th...


Mergers & Acquisitions


No Sleep? It's No Big Deal for Dealmaker

Dec. 28, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Keith Flaum, a partner in the mergers and acquisitions group at Cooley Godward, has discovered he no longer needs to sleep. Fl...


Law Office Automation


Required Redundancy

Dec. 28, 1999
By Columnist

Required Redundancy Hard-drive failure can be catastrophic for a firm, but, thanks to falling hard-drive costs, a data-backup ...


Criminal


Domestic Violence Court Returns

Dec. 28, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Members of an organization that assists battered women are applauding a decision to reestablish a courtroom dedicated solely ...


Criminal


Woman Convicted of Murdering Husband

Dec. 28, 1999
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - A Ventura woman who shot her sleeping husband in the head before dismembering his body with an electric saw has been...


Large Firms


Thelen Reid & Priest Adds 13 New Partners

Dec. 28, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest has elected 13 new partners, six from the associate ranks and seven attorneys who ha...


Law Practice


Services Held for Top Civil Defense Lawyer

Dec. 28, 1999
By Liz Valsamis

Services have been held for John W. Baker, a retired civil defense trial attorney. Baker died Dec. 11 at his West Los Angeles...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawsuit Seeks Financial Data About Judges

Dec. 28, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

A lawsuit filed last week that raises new questions about privacy in cyberspace may force the Judicial Conference of the Unite...


Law Practice


The Revolution 1960-1969

Dec. 28, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Attorney Art Goldberg spent the 1960s going to school in the winter, spring and fall. In the summer, he went to jail. Goldber...


Judges and Judiciary


Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, who led the court from 1953 to 1969, had a legendary career not only on the court, bu...


Public Interest


SEATTLE - A couple of years ago, Paul Wright read a short blurb in one of Seattle's daily newspapers. Washington state was con...


Litigation


Ex-Rodney King Lawyer Sued for Boat Accident

Dec. 28, 1999
By Anna La Jeunesse

Steven A. Lerman, one of beaten-motorist Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a...


Law Practice


ATTORNEYS

Dec. 27, 1999
By Pat Alston

LOS ANGELES - Steven A. Lerman, one of Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a y...


Law Practice


Disciplinary Actions

Dec. 27, 1999
By Contributing Writer

DISBARMENTS Dixon, Kathryn Jo Anne, Berkeley Gray, Paul Michael , Hemet Moriarty, Michael J., Corte Madera Pohlmeyer, Donald V...


Law Practice


Dedication Personified

Dec. 24, 1999
By Contributing Writer

Peter M. Appleton Law School : University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, 1967 Career Highlights : Principal, Pete...


Criminal


Sentenced to Hard Time After Doing the Crime

Dec. 24, 1999
By Michael Grinfeld

Allen Payne has a Y3K problem. Convicted in March 1997 of multiple sexual assault counts and three counts of child endangermen...


Government


Making a Family for Children Without One

Dec. 24, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

The sense of magic created was evident in the wide eyes and bright smiles of kids who weren't accustomed to this much attentio...


Immigration


Punishment Politics

Dec. 24, 1999
By Columnist

The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba that has led to the tragic conditions in Cuba must be lifted at once, and Elian must be ret...


Government


Mayor Riordan's Revolutionary L.A. Heyday

Dec. 24, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Does Mayor Riordan see himself as a revolutionary marching into a new age with God and Mickey Mouse at his side? ...


Labor/Employment


Lone Harasser

Dec. 24, 1999
By Columnist

Lone Harasser Non supervisory Employee Cannot Be Held Personally Liable Under FEHA The court considered and rejected appellant...


Criminal


No-Contest Plea in Masturbation Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has pleaded no contest in a lewd conduct case and must undergo a treatment prog...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Resolution Insulation

Dec. 24, 1999
By Mark Blumberg

EDWARD STERN ADR Group: JAMS Case Types: General civil Location Served: Northern California Law School: Harvard Law School, 19...


Product Liability


Stanley and Deliver

Dec. 24, 1999
By Contributing Writer

By Stephen R. Barnett As Justice Stanley Mosk on Dec. 26 becomes the longest-serving justice in the history of the California ...


Family


Court Narrows Focus of Barry Bonds Divorce Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By David Kravetz

The California Supreme Court has narrowed the focus of a closely watched divorce case it will hear between San Francisco Giant...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Unsettling Settlements

Dec. 24, 1999
By Lisa Milller

By Michael Young In a recent mediation, no briefs had been submitted and no pre-mediation conference calls had taken place, so...


Government Contracts


Public Defender, Fired Amid Scandal, Sues

Dec. 24, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside public defender who was fired following a scandal over her office's handling of conservatorships sue...


Criminal


9th Circuit Puts Stop to Racial Profiling Case

Dec. 24, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing the ability of minority motorists to challenge allegedly race-based traffic stops, a federal appeal...


Law Practice


By his own account, he was a "paid gladiator." "I fight for my clients," he explained to his secretary. "Most clients aren't ...