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Government Contracts


SAN FRANCISCO - Flush with a state appellate victory curtailing San Jose's minority hiring program, proponents of Proposition...


Government


Suit Threated Over Ban of Gun Sales at Shows

Sep. 9, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

The final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors of an ordinance banning the sale of guns and ammuni...


Criminal


Witnesses Recant in 19-Year-Old Murder

Sep. 9, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Public Defender Carl Holmes argued before a jury nearly two decades ago that there was not enough e...


Immigration


Immigrant Injustices

Sep. 9, 1999
By Lauren Dodge

A report issued by Hastings College of the Law raises questions about a recent immigration policy designed to streamline the ...


Judges and Judiciary


David Joe Searcy often jokes that his courtroom has the highest-volume caseload - and the lowest public profile - in Los Ange...


Securities


SAN FRANCISCO - A frustrated federal judge has grudgingly approved settlements totaling $14 million in two shareholder suits,...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Governor Signs Legislation to Revive State Bar

Sep. 9, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Ending nearly two years of doubt and political crisis, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday to revive the State Bar of C...


Labor/Employment


A legal secretary at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel claims she was ejected from her employment based on e-mail. And the firm a...


Solo and Small Firms


Golden Age

Sep. 8, 1999
By Jeffrey Anderson

Golden Age Pasadena's Hahn & Hahn is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What's the secret to its longevity? By Jeffrey An...


Law Practice


Horse Sense

Sep. 8, 1999
By Columnist

Horse Sense When the bookie lawyer jumps out of the starting gate, he plays to win By Mark B. Vezzani My first assignment as ...


Discipline


Stress Fracture

Sep. 8, 1999
By Columnist

^^Professional Responsibility^^ Stress Fracture Immunity for Emotional Distress Caused During Negotiations The court's holdin...


Filling excess office space shouldn't tear a hole in your pocket By Kimberly Quackenbush When a law firm has extra office spa...


Law Practice


Open House

Sep. 8, 1999
By Stacy Cohen

By Stacy L. Cohen In May, Jerry A. Hager, a partner at Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, got a call from r...


Administrative/Regulatory


Pact Reached in Cross Controversy

Sep. 8, 1999
By Claude Walbert

Pact Reached in Cross Controversy SAN DIEGO - After nine years of litigation over a Christian cross in a county-owned park, t...


Natural Resources


Water Providers Cannot Be Sued For Pollution

Sep. 8, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Private companies supplying water to residents of the San Gabriel Valley - much of which constitutes one of t...


Administrative/Regulatory


Absence of Marketable Skills

Sep. 8, 1999
By Columnist

By Susan R. Wasserman The Social Security Administration has proposed significant regulatory changes that would make it easie...


Criminal


Independence Day

Sep. 8, 1999
By Columnist

Just because a firm intends to establish a contractor relationship doesn't mean state and federal agencies won't classify the ...


Criminal


Prosecutor Facing Possible Charges

Sep. 8, 1999
By Matthew Heller

Prosecutor Facing Possible Charges INDIO - The state attorney general's office is reviewing possible misdemeanor charges agai...


Cooley Godward SOFTBANK'S NEW VENTURE FOCUSES ON THE INTERNET San Jose-based Softbank Technology Ventures announced the creat...


By Nell Bernstein In 1994 Newt Gingrich sparked a short-lived tempest by suggesting that welfare payments be stopped and the ...


Large Firms


Seeing Stars

Sep. 8, 1999
By Garry Abrams

By Garry Abrams On a recent day at his office at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in West Los Angeles, attorney Daniel Petroc...


No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles CORR...


Law Practice


O.C. Firm Dissolves as Lawyers Sue Each Other

Sep. 8, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Lawyers representing a partner in the Fountain Valley law firm of Bridgman, Mordkin & Shapiro confirmed Frida...


Criminal


Attorney Gets the Maximum in DUI Conviction

Sep. 8, 1999
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - After apologizing to the family of two young girls he killed while driving under the influence of alcohol, a fo...


Securities


Irvine Investment Firm Executives Arrested

Sep. 8, 1999
By Martin Bergn

By Martin Berg Daily Journal Staff Reporter Authorities last week arrested four executives of an Irvine-based investment firm...


Criminal


County Supervisors to Vote on New Curfew

Sep. 8, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Hoping to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled today to vote on whether to give ...


Criminal


Prosecutors Link Man to Teen Fatality

Sep. 8, 1999
By Martin Bergn

For months, undercover agents had been buying LSD from a young Pasadena man. Then last week, as they were arranging to buy mo...


Judges and Judiciary


Ready for Takeoff

Sep. 8, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Any courthouse employee or visitor who has encountered a shackled inmate in an elevator or hallway, or who has witnessed a de...


Intellectual Property


L.A. County Will Ponder Limiting Internet Access

Sep. 8, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

Despite several court rulings finding similar laws unconstitutional, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled...


Criminal


With conviction at her pending trial far from a sure thing, former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson...