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Government


S.D. Mayor Raises Objections

Jul. 10, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was arraigned Thursday on two counts of misconduct in office but raised objections to the cha...


Entertainment & Sports


SAN FRANCISCO - The recording and electronics industries appeared on the verge of a historic accord Thursday that supporters s...


Law Practice


Shear Persistence

Jul. 10, 1999
By Columnist

By Annette S. Biesecker Long gone are the days when law firms submit one-line bills "for services rendered" and still expect ...


Criminal


Attorney Faces Trial for Posing as Another One

Jul. 10, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

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


Large Firms


Phoenix's O'Connor Firm Splitting Up

Jul. 10, 1999
By Jodi Weisberg

After 40 years, one of Phoenix's oldest and largest law firms, O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth & Beshears, is...


Government Contracts


Qui Tam Litigant Will Appeal Award of Attorney Fees

Jul. 10, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Hawthorne activist who claimed a trash collection company pocketed funds that should have gone to the city is appealing a j...


Government


SACRAMENTO - A compromise bill to restore plaintiffs' right to sue defendants' insurers when they wrongfully deny or delay pa...


Insurance


Law-Office-Based Auto Fraud Ring Is Busted by DA

Jul. 10, 1999
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed charges against an auto insurance fraud ring they say perpetrated an apparently new...


Communications


U.S. Attorney Begins Probe of Riverside Cops

Jul. 10, 1999
By Martin Bergn

U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday ratcheted up his office's focus on police misconduct, launching a civil investigati...


Labor/Employment


Policy in Practice

Jul. 9, 1999
By Columnist

By Joseph Posner In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n , 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 6251 (June 22, 1999), the U.S. Supreme Court h...


Law Practice


Happy Days

Jul. 9, 1999
By Columnist

By Jill Strickstein The thought process of a large firm associate on the way to work could go something like this: "Behind on...


Criminal


Pleas Entered in Gasoline Scam

Jul. 9, 1999
By Michael Harris

No-contest pleas have been entered by three of four defendants in what Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has ...


Litigation


Three former Los Angeles County jail inmates have filed a class-action complaint against the county, accusing the sheriff's d...


Labor/Employment


Accommodation Landmine

Jul. 9, 1999
By Columnist

By Mark A. Romeo In three cases decided last month, the U.S. Supreme Court provided specific guidance about what may and may ...


Natural Resources


Environmental Group Is Off Fee Hook

Jul. 9, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Lumber Co. was rebuffed in its attempts to level a potentially devastating financial blow against an ...


Civil Rights


Law Would Ease Burden to Sue for Harassment

Jul. 9, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Sexual harassment claims could more easily be brought against lawyers, doctors, teachers and landlords under a b...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Dental Group Asks AG to Clamp Down on Board

Jul. 9, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is reviewing charges that trade groups and state regulators have committed anticom...


Criminal


SAN DIEGO - To heighten awareness of elder abuse, Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood put up a billboard and distributed ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Defunct Pasadena Firm Faces Malpractice Suit

Jul. 9, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The city of Inglewood and three of its officials have filed a malpractice suit against a defunct Pasadena law firm, charging ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Fertility Scandal Not Over, Even With $17M Paid

Jul. 9, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

IRVINE - Described by attorneys as one of the toughest cases they've ever dealt with, the University of California, Irvine fe...


Entertainment & Sports


Drawing the curtain on one of the most bitterly fought, high-stakes courtroom disputes in Hollywood history, the Walt Disney ...


Criminal


Homicide Math: Take 1 Sentence, Multiply By 3

Jul. 9, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - A single sentence on the last page of a 1996 police newsletter could change how police around California work ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


JAMS Approves Buyout by Its Top Managers

Jul. 8, 1999
By Tom Orewyler

JAMS/Endispute's board of directors on Tuesday voted to approve a $3 million deal between the Irvine-based ADR provider and a...


Law Practice


Organized Lawyers

Jul. 8, 1999
By Columnist

By J. Grant Kennedy It appears that many people have strong feelings against lawyers. Some lawyers throw gas on the fire by c...


Government


The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $500,000 settlement Tuesday of a lawsuit filed by a company president ...


Judges and Judiciary


'Scary World' Prompts New Court Security

Jul. 8, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Calling new security screening systems at the downtown Los Angeles County Courthouse "a sad necessity," family law attorney R...


Intellectual Property


SAN DIEGO - While most of this city's lawyers still work downtown, several firms have staked out their future to the north in...


Intellectual Property


Millennium-Bug Tamer

Jul. 8, 1999
By James Evans

SAN JOSE - Claude M. Stern never intended to become a Y2K expert nor an intellectual property litigator. Nor, for that matter...


Litigation


Suit Dismissed Over Release of Personnel Records

Jul. 8, 1999
By Lauren Bartlett

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed his personnel records illegally were...


Criminal


Fugitive Lawyer Is Sought by Prosecutors

Jul. 8, 1999
By Michael Harris

One of two attorneys charged in a large auto insurance fraud case has refused to surrender as promised and is now considered ...