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Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The German chemical firm Hoechst AG has agreed to pay a $36 million fine and plead guilty to a 17-year conspiracy to fix the ...


Judges and Judiciary


When Youre Singing, the CJP Frowns on You

May 7, 1999
By Jean Guccione

An Orange County judge is being investigated for repeatedly making "undignified" comments on the bench - including singing "w...


Appellate Practice


An attorney trying to attack an injunction against racially derogatory words in the workplace ran into a buzzsaw Wednesday at...


Civil Rights


Civil Rights Lawyers Praise Report

May 7, 1999
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles civil rights lawyers and police abuse plaintiffs' counsel Wednesday praised a reported recommendation by the U.S....


Judges and Judiciary


Community Standards

May 7, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - Staring at a video about their career possibilities as they slouched in a row of office chairs, the defendants...


Appellate Practice


Media Argues For Release Of Transcripts

May 6, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court looked askance Tuesday at an attempt by news organizations to gain access to the...


Law Practice


Gibson Dunn Partner Lesley Wolf Dead at 46

May 6, 1999
By E Freudenthal

Lesley Wolf, a real estate partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office, died Sunday of breast cancer. She was...


Judges and Judiciary


Display Honors Local Legal Giants

May 6, 1999
By Martin Kruming

For years, the San Diego County Bar Foundation's Distinguished Lawyers Memorial was displayed outside the Superior Court pres...


Criminal


Ex-Conservator Pleads Not Guilty to Thefts

May 6, 1999
By Michael Harris

After waiving his right to a preliminary hearing, a former Los Angeles Superior Court conservator and trustee has been ordere...


Large Firms


Cincinnati insurance giant American Financial Group Inc. is about to gain a high-profile, high-tech attorney. As of June 1, V...


Law Office Automation


San Bernardino Superior Court is planning to join the slowly increasing number of California county courthouses establishing ...


Discipline


A former Los Angeles police officer accused of sexual abuse by a former Explorer program member has filed his own lawsuit aga...


Intellectual Property


Defense Begins in Growth Hormone Patent Case

May 6, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In the opening salvo of the defense by Genentech Inc. against charges it infringed a University of California...


Criminal


Judge Arrested on Suspicion of Spousal Abuse

May 6, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James J. McBride, 47 could be arraigned as early as today following his we...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyers Reach Out to Community

May 6, 1999
By Martin Kruming

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Lawyers throughout San Diego are participating in Law Week activities, including a band ...


Civil Rights


SIS Civil Rights Case Loses More Judges

May 6, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Four more federal judges have recused themselves from a civil rights case stemming from shootings by the Los Angeles police S...


Law Practice


Taking It SLO

May 6, 1999
By Dick Goldberg

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Denton Wilson, a deputy district attorney in San Mateo County, and his wife, Ann, practicing insurance defe...


Entertainment & Sports


Testifying in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million lawsuit, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar May Trim Discipline System

May 5, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the State Bar Board of Governors took their first detailed look Saturday at how a downsized bar wi...


Criminal


Discipline No Defense for Alleged Abuser

May 5, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

In a ruling that sends a stern warning to abusive parents, a state appeal panel has ruled that mothers and fathers who unlawf...


Entertainment & Sports


Dead Witness Proves Problematic for Disney

May 5, 1999
By Garry Abrams

The death of president Frank Wells created a legal problem for the Walt Disney Co. in its dispute with movie executive Jeffre...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial disciplinary prosecutors have fired back at Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline, defending their charge of misconduct...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Barrister of Budapest

May 5, 1999
By Jean Guccione

Two years ago, he could not have found Budapest, Hungary, on a map. But now Robert M. Talcott, a Los Angeles lawyer, bar lead...


Criminal


Judge to Define Liability for Bad Cop

May 5, 1999
By Matthew Heller

MURRIETA - By having sex with two teen-age girls he was supervising in a police Explorer program, Murrieta Officer Derick Boy...


Immigration


Court Eases Immigrant Deportation

May 5, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Rejecting a balancing test proposed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday unanim...


Criminal


Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy's lawyer said Monday the jurist is confident once prosecutors interview him, t...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Changes in the medical records of a patient who apparently suffered permanent paralysis after treatment at a Los Angeles coun...


Large Firms


Quadrupling its Silicon Valley presence in one fell swoop - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has acquired Palo Alto...


Personal Injury & Torts


Gray Matter

May 4, 1999
By Stephanie Cahill

Eight years ago, the California legislature passed a law providing expansive remedies to elderly and disabled individuals who...


Securities


Man Indicted On Securities Fraud Charges

May 4, 1999
By Martin Bergn

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Friday indicted a North Carolina man on securities fraud charges for posting a fabricated...