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Securities


Tender Trap

Sep. 21, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued on its consumer education Web site a warning to the country's investo...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Last Request

Sep. 21, 1999
By Columnist

^^Land Use Law^^ Last Request No Need to Seek Reconsideration Before Resorting to Court The court said that it now had recons...


Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E. Ralph Stewart CORRECTI...


Securities


SEC Accuses Ex-Lawyer of Stock Crimes

Sep. 21, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Securities regulators have filed suit against a disbarred Santa Monica lawyer, charging that he made more than $200,000 from ...


byline = Jason J. Song and Katherine Gaidos Varner Saleson STATER BROS. ACQUIRES TWO SUPERMARKET CHAINS Stater Bros. Holdings...


Contracts


^^Commercial Law^^ By Richard L. Seabolt Technological developments have produced shortened product cycles, which reward quic...


Litigation


A malicious prosecution lawsuit brought against State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., its CEO and other officers was dismisse...


Government


Court Ruling Shields DAs From Suit

Sep. 21, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - California district attorneys are immune from lawsuits when they accuse government officials of violating the...


Judges and Judiciary


Prosecutors Paper San Bernardino Jurist

Sep. 21, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - The San Bernardino district attorney's office will no longer take three-strikes cases to Superior Court Judge Pat...


Intellectual Property


Playing the Odds

Sep. 21, 1999
By Chris Ford

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has some intellectual property attorneys wondering whethe...


Appellate Practice


Law Firm Life Begins at 57

Sep. 21, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Last October, at age 57, Walter Dellinger made a dramatic career change. After 30 years as a constitutional law ...


Government


In an unusual wrongful termination verdict against a judge and county officials, a federal jury in Sacramento has awarded $3....


State Bar & Bar Associations


Traditional bar association activists defeated reform candidates in two contested elections for the State Bar Board of Govern...


Intellectual Property


Separate Spheres

Sep. 18, 1999
By Columnist

^^Intellectual Property^^ Separate Spheres Addressing the Confusion Surrounding the Enablement Requirement By Douglas B. Luft...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Will Expand One-Day Jury Service

Sep. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Within five years, every citizen called to serve on a jury in Los Angeles County will either be called as a potential juror o...


Discipline


Ex-Lawyer Sentenced for Continuing to Practice

Sep. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law after being suspended from the State Bar and posing as another lawy...


Discipline


Mitchelson Must Prove Fitness to Practice

Sep. 18, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Marvin M. Mitchelson, the Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyer who made palimony a household word, has been o...


Intellectual Property


Innovative Invention

Sep. 18, 1999
By Columnist

Innovative Invention New Bill Slated to Reform Patent System By Brennan Swain, David Meyer and Rod S. Berman On May 26, the H...


State Bar & Bar Associations


MCLE Laggards Get New Deadlines

Sep. 18, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Laggard lawyers will have at least until 2001 to catch up on past-due continuing legal education requirements, governors of t...


Discipline


State High Court to Hear Disbarment Case

Sep. 18, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Pasadena attorney who met someone described as a 14-year-old girl in an online chat room and atte...


Large Firms


Los Angeles school officials filed a legal malpractice suit against the school district's former lawyer at O'Melveny & My...


Judges and Judiciary


Rejecting fears that juries will prejudge cases, a new study has found no harm in letting jurors discuss a case among themsel...


Law Practice


It may have started as an "Ally McBeal"-style office romance between a lawyer and a paralegal. But that was before the false ...


Criminal


Judge Orders Inmates Release In LAPD Probe

Sep. 18, 1999
By Michael Harris

In what is believed to be an unprecedented action taken by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, prosecutors Thu...


Government


Ruling Eases Way for Organ Transplants

Sep. 17, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A federal appeals court has ruled that neither a hospital nor an organ donor network had a duty to search for the next of kin...


Native Americans


By Peter Schrag Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever...


Insurance


Ordinary People

Sep. 17, 1999
By Columnist

Ordinary People CGL Policy Covers Breach-of-Contract Damages The court explained that there was no evidence that the parties ...


Law Practice


Lawyers, Cross-Examine Yourselves

Sep. 17, 1999
By Columnist

By William M. Crosby "Lawsuit abuse," "tort reform," "overhauling our legal system" and "reining in out-of-control juries and...


Judges and Judiciary


Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court

Sep. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court Two months after their last protest, approximately two-dozen court interpreters Wednesd...


Family


Grant to Fund Visitation Program

Sep. 17, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

Grant to Fund Visitation Program SAN BERNARDINO - The Superior Court of San Bernardino has been awarded a $67,775 grant by th...