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Judges and Judiciary


Clean Start

Dec. 16, 1999
By Amy Bentley

VENTURA - Call him the comeback kid. Robert Bradley - the former Ventura County Superior Court judge who was forced from the b...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Vote on Court Merger

Dec. 16, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles judges began casting their ballots today on a proposed merger of the Superior and Municipal courts. This marks the...


Judges and Judiciary


FORUM There is no need for government to be telling the country that a lawyer to be worth his salt must have had at least thre...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Reject Listing Assets on Web Site

Dec. 16, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing safety concerns, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States announced Tuesday it ha...


Litigation


Softer Side of Sears Lacking in Safe Parking

Dec. 16, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appellate panel has ruled a department store had no duty to provide better lighting and landscaping in its parking lot...


Marketing


Stairway to Sales

Dec. 15, 1999
By Columnist

DICTA At its best , marketing training should make successful rainmakers even more effective - and help neophytes learn to mak...


Law Practice


Diamond Bar High School and Sierra Canyon Middle School took top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 22nd annual ...


Large Firms


Akin Gump Signs Four to Media Practice

Dec. 15, 1999
By Tamara Scott

In a move to build its entertainment practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has nabbed two med...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for a Greek shipping company handed over four certified checks - totaling nearly $4 million - in f...


Law Practice


Know When to Walk Away and When to Run

Dec. 15, 1999
By Columnist

Kenny Rogers might have sung, "You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to stop paying your bar dues." Or so says t...


Kenneth Williams, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge, died Saturday at age 90, leaving behind a legacy of high profe...


Litigation


Hard Boiled

Dec. 15, 1999
By Columnist

FORUM Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" spoke with author and lawyer George V. Higgins and asked about how he went from journalism to...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles County's 13th municipal courthouse - the Airport Branch near Los Angeles International Airport - opened with a whi...


Family


Imputing Income

Dec. 15, 1999
By Columnist

Consideration of assets which do not produce income for child support may provide fertile ground for disputes and opinions. 'D...


Criminal


Corona Couple Pleads Guilty

Dec. 15, 1999
By Dan Jennings

RIVERSIDE - A Corona couple who let their 5-week-old son die because of their faith has pleaded guilty to child endangerment c...


Litigation


'Dirty Word List' Outrages Board

Dec. 15, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - Exhibit A in the case of two former San Bernardino County marshal's department employees alleging sexual harassmen...


Criminal


Weekly Poker Games Deal Judge Off Case

Dec. 15, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - In yet another unusual development in a case already with more than its share, a judge appointed less than two wee...


Product Liability


Defense Counsel Blasts $6M Asbestos Verdict

Dec. 15, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorney Gregory M. Sheffer used unfair tactics to win a $5.9 million jury award last week in an as...


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...