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Government


Firing Likely for S.D. Investigator

Dec. 17, 1999
By Claude Walbert

Firing Likely for S.D. Investigator SAN DIEGO - District Attorney's Investigator Eddie Cervantes is under threat of being fir...


Insurance


Certain Suit

Dec. 17, 1999
By Columnist

Certain Suit Policyholder Counsel Should Talk Tough When a Claim Is Denied By Scott Ferrell It is no secret that insurance com...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Health Care Has Become Hijacked

Dec. 17, 1999
By Columnist

By Abby J. Leibman and Susan Berke Fogel The legal regulation of women's reproductive health care has undergone a dramatic rol...


Litigation


A man who claims he was set up by the officer who sparked the Rampart Division scandal has sued the city of Los Angeles for vi...


Government


Probation Officers, L.A. County Near Settlement

Dec. 17, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $2 million settlement between the Los Angeles County and the Black Proba...


Insurance


Defining Decade

Dec. 17, 1999
By Columnist

Insurance law's defining moments are seen in two important cases decided in the 1960s. Page 7 ^^Insurance Law^^ Defining Decad...


Technology & Science


Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for MP3

Dec. 17, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Music Piracy is the target of a lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against an Internet service tha...


Litigation


Rejected $1.9M Offer Still Burns Piuze

Dec. 17, 1999
By Denise Levin

Veteran personal injury attorney Michael J. Piuze will face trial in February for advising a burn victim to turn down a $1.9 m...


Litigation


District Board to Take Up Belmont Matter

Dec. 17, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

It could be a good hypothetical for a law school class: Take a rare large parcel of land in an urban area populated largely wi...


Law Practice


'Problem! SOL'

Dec. 17, 1999
By Columnist

DICTA Deadlines may come and deadlines may go, but their value cannot be underestimated. Page 8. By Paul O'Brien Nearly 20 yea...


Solo and Small Firms


Lobbying Firm Hires FPPC Star Churchwell

Dec. 17, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The prominent lobbying and litigation firm of Livingston & Mattesich has moved into the political law field w...


SAN FRANCISCO - The race for San Francisco district attorney ended in a virtual dead heat Wednesday, and authorities said the...


Law Practice


Lawyer Says Listing Is No Hissing Matter

Dec. 17, 1999
By Michael Grinfeld

"No reptiles are found there," [in Ireland]", the 8th century historian, Venerable Bede, wrote of Ireland. Apparently, the sam...


Large Firms


Quinn Emanuel Adds Four Partners

Dec. 17, 1999
By Jason Songn

Quinn Emanuel Adds Four Partners Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired a lateral partner and elev...


Government


SACRAMENTO - History shows that the plaintiffs bar group, Consumer Attorneys of California, has an unfailing ability to raise...


Law Practice


The Dawn of a New Century

Dec. 17, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

The first Fords were swerving through dust to dodge horses and wagons. Ladies still wore corsets and toe-length dresses, and ...


Litigation


PD Reviewing 3,000 Cases From Rampart

Dec. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Wednesday sharply questioned estimates by the public defender that more than...


Law Practice


One morning in 1915, a potential client came to Earl Rogers' law office at 107 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. "Mr. Roge...


Education


California state universities may cut the number of male athletes in their sports programs to comply with a federal law design...


Government


Sheriff Lee Baca and the special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the Sheriff's Department to...


Judges and Judiciary


Former professional football great Jim Brown has lost a bid to recuse a judge from sentencing him for vandalism, on grounds sh...


Entertainment & Sports


Frank Sinatra's long-time attorney Milton "Mickey" Rudin died Monday . in Los Angeles. He was 79. Rudin, counsel to the late ...


Judges and Judiciary


Education Deregulation

Dec. 16, 1999
By Columnist

By Richard A. Epstein Let's suppose that the improbable happens - that state bar associations no longer require bar candidates...


Judges and Judiciary


Two Courtrooms Get Longer Cases

Dec. 16, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett.

Two Courtrooms Get Longer Cases Starting today, two additional courtrooms at the main c ounty c ourthouse downtown will be de...


Law Practice


New Bar Admittees Take the Oath

Dec. 16, 1999
By Martin Kruming

More than 250 new attorneys were sworn in last Thursday during a combined state and federal court ceremony at the Wyndham Emer...


Government


When a federal court jury convicted former narcotics officer Richard Wayne Parker on four drug-related charges in October, it ...


Law Practice


Ballplayer Sues San Diego Firm

Dec. 16, 1999
By Claude Walbert

Ballplayer Sues San Diego Firm SAN DIEGO - Tony Gwynn, the Padre s' all- star hitter, has filed a malpractice lawsuit against...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Bitter Medicine

Dec. 16, 1999
By Columnist

^^Health-Care Law^^ Once a "mom and pop" business, health care has become one of the largest, growing industries of the 1990s...


Judges and Judiciary


Kleps Awards Recognize Courts

Dec. 16, 1999
By Jean Guccione

In one of the cross-county court innovations being recognized by state judicial leaders this year, lawyers in San Diego can pa...


Juvenile


DA Praises Mosaic System for Schools

Dec. 16, 1999
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Tuesday touted a computer system that is slated to be placed in 10 area ...