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Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Songbird Denies Improper Conduct Charges

Nov. 19, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Susanne S. Shaw, accused of imploring drunken driving defendants to "fly with ...


Insurance


Paper Chase

Nov. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Kevin M. Christensen The recent debate about whether an insurer may be estopped from asserting the one-year suit limitation...


Real Estate/Development


Financings North

Nov. 18, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

ALAMEDA COUNTY CIVIC CENTER DRIVE AND STEVENSON BOULEVARD, FREMONT Sq. Ft.: UNDISCLOSED Borrower: HUNTINGTON PARTNERS INC. Le...


Real Estate/Development


Defaults North

Nov. 18, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

ALAMEDA COUNTY STEVENSON BLV, FREMONT, CA 94538 APN: 531--0165-033-0 Use: 401 Trustor: BEHOCO INC Owner: BEHOCO INC Mailing: ...


Environmental


What Is Definition of Green?

Nov. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Thomas D. Elias Things are not turning out quite as simply as California's energy planners figured when they set up large ...


Probate


Too Much Justice

Nov. 18, 1999
By Columnist

Probate Law Too Much Justice Parties Must Make Sure That Scope of Reference Is Clear As probate judges refer accounting proble...


Technology & Science


Computer Gifts Planned by Court

Nov. 18, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Computer Gifts Planned by Court Inglewood Municipal Court will present computer systems valued at $10,000 to local school dis...


Large Firms


Pillsbury Web Site Turning Japanese

Nov. 18, 1999
By Chris Ford

Pillsbury Web Site Turning Japanese Claiming to be the first large firm to do so, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro recently laun...


Real Estate/Development


North Meetings

Nov. 18, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

DEC. 1 BOMA San Francisco holds its annual holiday party from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Merchants Exchange Ballroom & Confere...


Elder Law


County to Review Its Pension Rules

Nov. 18, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

County to Review Its Pension Rules The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Tuesday asking t...


Real Estate/Development


REOs North

Nov. 18, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

SACRAMENTO COUNTY 9830 FAIR OAKS BLV, FAIR OAKS, CA 95628 APN: 242-0195-023-00 Use: BCE0 New Owner: FRUGOLI FAMILY TRUST Mail...


Civil Rights


Racial Rile

Nov. 18, 1999
By Columnist

By Vernon Jarrett When earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the William Wardlaw stop-and-frisk case, Illinois v....


Government


Bad-Faith Referendum to Be Submitted

Nov. 18, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - An insurer-led coalition today will submit petitions to qualify for the March 2000 ballot a referendum to overtu...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Races Shaping Up in San Diego

Nov. 18, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - As the first filing period for judicial candidates ended Monday, one Superior Court judge announced that he won't...


Law Practice


O.C. Family Law Practitioner Dies at Age 71

Nov. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

ORANGE - Orange attorney Charles William Garrity, remembered as a "very talented" lawyer, died Nov. 12 after a long battle wi...


Civil Rights


BofA Sued Over Racially Charged Police 'Check'

Nov. 18, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

In a time rife with complaints that African-Americans experience continuing racial profiling by police as well as discriminat...


Judges and Judiciary


Elections 2000

Nov. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Three more candidates for the only open Los Angeles Municipal Court seat filed the necessary paperwork before Monday's deadli...


Law Practice


For the first time in its history, the American Bar Association will hold its mid-year meeting in San Diego in 2001. Last wee...


Personal Injury & Torts


SAN FRANCISCO - Despite an Oakland jury's report Tuesday that it is "hopelessly deadlocked" 8-4 in the $4 billion class-actio...


Judges and Judiciary


Orange County Judge Candidates Cheaper by the Two-Dozen?

Nov. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Commissioners Sheila Fell, Gary Paer, Michael Leversen and Erick Larsh were among nearly two dozen ...


Judges and Judiciary


RIVERSIDE - Superior Court Judge William H. Sullivan, reassigned from the probate bench earlier this year after an investigat...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The landmark trade agreement between the Clinton Administration and China could have a positive trickle-down effect for large...


Law Practice


By Kimberly Quackenbush Trend analysts tell us the shortage of talent, from lawyers to entry-level clerical, will be at an al...


Real Estate/Development


A Closer Look: George B. Brewster

Nov. 17, 1999
By John Mc Cloud

Name: George B. Brewster Title: President and executive director Company: California Center for Land Recycling Location: San ...


Real Estate/Development


Letter

Nov. 17, 1999
By Jane Zastrow

Your article in the November 1999 issue, on page 29, titled "Concrete-frame structures pose serious quake risk" is quite misl...


Criminal


DA Counters Sara Jane Olson Motions

Nov. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday filed their responses to three defense motions attacking a 1976 grand jury indictment t...


Discipline


It was, according to a seemingly disgusted state appellate panel, the "trial from hell." Not because of an unruly defendant. ...


Constitutional Law


Supreme Court to Reconsider Student Prayer

Nov. 17, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Delving once again into the knotty issue of prayer in the public schools, the Supreme Court announced Monday it ...


Large Firms


Name Partner, 90, Still a Favorite of Clients

Nov. 16, 1999
By Tamara Scott

Attorney Murray M. Fields is 90, but he still shows up for work four days a week at Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields &am...


Mergers & Acquisitions


All-Night Dealmaking Trains Soon-to-Be Dad

Nov. 16, 1999
By Jason Songn

Burning the midnight oil as an attorney in the fast-paced business climate of Silicon Valley is hardly a new phenomenon. Stil...