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Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Jests

Jul. 28, 1999
By Columnist

By Douglas G. Carnahan In the humorless 1980s, the California Commission on Judicial Performance published in one of its annu...


Judges and Judiciary


Race to Judgment

Jul. 28, 1999
By Columnist

Race to Judgment Preparation, a good reputation and community involvement are essential to the judicial appointment process B...


Litigation


By Kim Quackenbush Lawyers' increased dependence on e-mail has changed the face of law firm communication (as well as expande...


Personal Injury & Torts


Deflecting Moths

Jul. 28, 1999
By Columnist

By Peter S. Selvin Foreign litigants often view U.S. courts as an attractive venue for disputes against U.S. companies, espec...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


County Will Pay $475,000 For Botched Medical Care

Jul. 28, 1999
By Anna La Jeunesse

The county of Los Angeles Claims Board recommended Monday that the Board of Supervisors pay $475,000 to the survivors of a wo...


Criminal


Despite Tough Tactics, DA Still in Spotlight

Jul. 28, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

OROVILLE - Anthony Melton got off easy. After spending 23 days in custody during his extradition from Missouri to Northern Ca...


Large Firms


Wilson Sonsini Nabs 2 Partner From Brobeck

Jul. 28, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has lost two of its most prominent corporate lawyers to Palo Alto-based Wilson...


Judges and Judiciary


PITTSBURG - Ever since he became a lawyer, Steven K. Austin was interested in shaping the lives of others. By becoming a judg...


Law Practice


ABA Said to Be Unlikely to Act on Fee-Sharing

Jul. 27, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

An American Bar Association proposal to permit lawyers to practice in partnerships with nonlawyers may be dead, at least for ...


"Old Bull" Warren at Harvard was right when he said that one didn't need brains to be a lawyer, only a cast-iron bottom. Edwa...


Law Practice


Doctor Drama

Jul. 27, 1999
By Columnist

By Arif Alikhan As I was growing up in the United States as a first-generation American, there were many cross-cultural issue...


Media


TV Nation

Jul. 27, 1999
By Columnist

^^Entertainment Law^^ TV Nation Recent Cases Give Reality-Based Shows Little Guidance These determinations often must be made...


Commercial Law


^^Commercial Law^^ By Joel D. Covelman Both equipment-leasing companies and lessees need to be aware of lurking year-2000 def...


International


States of the Nations

Jul. 27, 1999
By Columnist

By James Cooper Over the past month, the international community has been struggling with the aftermath of Operation "Allied ...


Tax


Swiss Gold

Jul. 27, 1999
By Columnist

By Richard J. Sideman and Steven M. Katz Without a specific exemption from the California Legislature and Congress, settlemen...


Large Firms


Tap-Dancing Lawyer: It's Not Just a Stage

Jul. 27, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

When financial services and insolvency lawyer Jason D. Schauer goes into his usual song-and-dance routine, people don't roll ...


Law Practice


California King

Jul. 27, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

By Leslie A. Gordon If you can't conceptualize just how big Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become, consider these f...


Banking


The Equalizer

Jul. 27, 1999
By Stacy Cohen

By Stacy L. Cohen No one can say Marci Rubin isn't a well-rounded person. She left law school to be a waitress, then a ski bu...


Product Liability


State of the Arter

Jul. 27, 1999
By Mary Micheletti

By Mary Micheletti If any Los Angeles law office has a "Midwestern feel," it's Arter & Hadden, partner Robert L. Dickson ...


Technology & Science


Gold Rush

Jul. 27, 1999
By Tom Orewyler

By Tom Orewyler As the state's high-tech hotbeds - most notably Silicon Valley - prosper, real estate prices have gone throug...


Civil Rights


BERKELEY - Thirty years after sparking a notorious march to take over a vacant field in Berkeley known as People's Park, atto...


Sullivan & Cromwell DEAL HELPS PHARMACIA & UPJOHN FIGHT CANCER Bridgewater, N.J.-based pharmaceutical company Pharmac...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Ronald Schoenberg Hangs Up His Robes

Jul. 27, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Ronald R. Schoenberg quietly retired earlier this month, in a manner that reflected the way...


Criminal


O.C. Prosecutor Trades Briefs for Boards

Jul. 27, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Christopher Evans said Friday that he plans to leave the DA's offic...


Criminal


Woman Guilty Of Killing Over Parking Space

Jul. 27, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Mara Plascencia, her mouth slowly opening and closing, scanned the faces of the six women and six men, but they f...


Judges and Judiciary


Knives Targeted by Courthouse Security

Jul. 27, 1999
By Denise Levin

The recent discovery of knives among the possessions of visitors to the downtown County Courthouse has led to a new security ...


Law Practice


Case Could Hit Many Lawyers in the Wallet

Jul. 27, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Section 6254(f) of the California Public Records Act, which forbids release of the addresses of arrestees and cr...


Family


In reaction to a recent Daily Journal article detailing the deaths of 12 Los Angeles County children during a period of six w...


Corporate


Fee Simple

Jul. 26, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

About five years ago W. Bruce Wold, a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold in San Francisco, gave up his hourly billi...


Media


Orange County Officials Agree To Disagree Over Transcripts

Jul. 24, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - In the wake of Thursday's state Supreme Court ruling barring the release of grand jury transcripts concerning Ora...