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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Lawsuit Claims Client Trapped in a Vendetta

Dec. 15, 1999
By Denise Levin

An abuse of process and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by an attorney and his clients against the now-defunct Daniels, Ba...


Personal Injury & Torts


On the night of March 13, 1995 Kelly Jamerson, a 28-year-old resident of south central Los Angeles went to a party thrown by D...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Dec. 14, 1999
By David Pike

The justices Monday announced the following actions: GRANTS BANK ROBBERY/LARCENY: The court agreed to review a decision by the...


Public Interest


Mission Aid

Dec. 14, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Legal Angels Law students at Pepperdine's legal aid clinic help homeless. 16 Inside the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los ...


Large Firms


Former Litigator Finds a Fit in Transactional Law

Dec. 14, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Renee Lanam of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian realized early in her law career tha...


Law Practice


Services were held Friday for Redondo Beach attorney Alexis Alexandrovitch Fafenrodt, who died Dec. 6 of cancer. He was 62. "...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Remarkable Recovery

Dec. 14, 1999
By Columnist

The Sherman Act , Once considered a relic from a bygone era, has been shown in recent court decisions to have relevance in th...


Public Interest


Team Effort

Dec. 14, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

Comfort Level Gibson Dunn and San Francisco Bar offer help to nonprofits. 16 Every year Arriba Juntos, a nonprofit job traini...


Solo and Small Firms


Viking Vendor

Dec. 14, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

High-Tech Seas Richard Horning works with the Silicon Valley Vikings as they help Swedish companies navigate California water...


Public Interest


And Then There Were Three

Dec. 14, 1999
By Jeffrey Anderson

By Jeffrey Anderson In 1995, the Washington, D.C.-based Legal Services Corp. tightened its purse-strings on nationwide legal ...


Public Interest


Family Ties

Dec. 14, 1999
By Jason Songn

COME TOGETHER Through its pro bono program, Mannis & Phillips contributes to troubled youths' lives while improving office...


Large Firms


Living a Dream: Law and Writing

Dec. 14, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

There's likely not a lawyer around who hasn't at some point dreamed of leaving the law to become a writer. Doug Dorst , a for...


Tax


Family Shelter

Dec. 14, 1999
By Columnist

FORUM The Internal Revenue Code already provides a child-care tax credit to enable parents to work. I propose that Congress e...


Public Interest


Free Enterprise

Dec. 14, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

San Francisco transactional lawyers who want to use their skills to help underrepresented groups can hook up with the Bay Are...


Public Interest


On the House

Dec. 14, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

HOUSE CALL There is an upswing in corporate counsel giving back to their communities by performing pro bono work. By Elizabet...


Solo and Small Firms


Rainmaker Carlson Leaves Long & Levit

Dec. 14, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years, Long & Levit rainmaker Don Carlson will be leaving the firm along with five other partner...


Law Practice


King's Former Lawyer Prevails in Fees Suit

Dec. 14, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Rodney King's one-time lead civil rights attorney, Milton C. Grimes of Santa Ana, prevailed Thursday in a bench trial of a br...


Litigation


DCSF Worker Sues County, Former Boss

Dec. 14, 1999
By Denise Levin

Fallout continued to flow from the widespread allegations of corruption at the Department of Children and Family Services wit...


A San Fernando judge on Friday made the rare determination that a woman, acquitted two months ago of the murder of her husban...


Labor/Employment


Working Late

Dec. 14, 1999
By Columnist

THE ADVISER Daily overtime is back for many California workers, but what about the flexibility in creative scheduling? By Wil...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Judge Bazan Dies

Dec. 11, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfonso Bazan, who had a reputation for presiding over challenging cases with meticu...


Litigation


FULL SPEED AHEAD

Dec. 11, 1999
By Contributing Writer

ADR Profile Full Speed Ahead This energetic San Francisco mediator attempts to motor around resolution roadblocks before medi...


SAN FRANCISCO - A rare San Francisco three-strikes prosecution has been derailed by a judge's decision rejecting two prior co...


Media


San Jose Judge Seizes Courtroom Sketches

Dec. 11, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge who seized two courtroom sketches from an artist who was working for a Palo Alto newspa...


Juvenile


Bar Trustees to Oppose Juvenile Crime Measure

Dec. 11, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Taking on a controversial and highly political issue, Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees have decided to oppose the ...


Litigation


Gun Show Will Leave Pomona for Las Vegas

Dec. 11, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The sponsor of the nation's largest gun show, which sued the county of Los Angeles for enacting an ordinance banning the sale...


Health Care & Hospital Law


A tentative $2.2 million settlement has been agreed to by workers for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the groundbreaking case...


Law Practice


Suit Dismissed Against Troop, Steuber Firm

Dec. 11, 1999
By Denise Levin

A judge has dismissed a defamation suit against Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, which a former legal secretary h...


Litigation


Hughes Suit Likely to Continue

Dec. 10, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

It looks likely that the saga of two employees who won $89.5 million in a discrimination and retaliation suit against Hughes A...


Environmental


ARCO Attorney Meck, 55, Dies

Dec. 10, 1999
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

John P. Meck, an environmental law attorney and retired senior counsel for ARCO Products Company, has died. He was 55. Meck di...