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Reflective Glendale Jurist Keeps an Open Mind

Jul. 26, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...


LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...



At an Impasse, Cooley and Orrick Call it Off

Jul. 26, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...


No Place for Pariahs

Jul. 26, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...



Judge Finds Life An Adventure

Jul. 25, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...



Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...


Front Page Brief Headline

Jul. 25, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to s...



Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...


Insurers Drive Postal Profiling

Jul. 25, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...



Chevron Loses Round in ADA Hiring Suit

Jul. 25, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't use health as an excuse to refuse to hire a job applicant with a liver condition simply...


Thelen Sues 'Does' Who Hacked Its Site

Jul. 25, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into Thelen, Reid & Priest's Internet server this summer and caused two of the firm's Web si...



GOP Pushes Nominee Toward Vote

Jul. 25, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sent the circuit court nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor...


HIV-Positive Cook Wins Harassment Suit

Jul. 25, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $2 million to a cook with the California Youth Authority who claimed he was verba...



Overtime Case to Be Reviewed

Jul. 25, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether corporate officers can be held personally l...


Public Interest Attorneys Honored for Cases

Jul. 25, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California trial teams shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's national Trial Lawyer of t...



SANTA ANA - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city Wednesday, alleging that a poll on a proposed traffic plan in ups...


Indictments Shaky, DA Charges Cops With Assault

Jul. 25, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan switched tactics Wednesday and dismissed grand jury indictments against thr...



GM Settlement

Jul. 25, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to se...


Column By Garry Abrams - Got anarchy? Want chaos? Sometimes, living in California is like being inside a demented milk commerc...



Caring Intensively

Jul. 25, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's 21st Anniversary Gala and awards ceremony this week did doub...


Thorny Recall Theory Fails to Sway Experts

Jul. 25, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Election law experts disagreed Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's surprising contention that the Californi...



Ex-Employee Can Sue Chevron

Jul. 25, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't cite a generalized concern that a job applicant's liver disease could worsen on the jo...


Insurance Rainmaker Opens Boutique

Jul. 25, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - After 21/2 years at Howrey Simon Arnold & White, insurance litigation rainmaker Kirk Pasich is leaving the f...



High-Profile Prosecutor Persists

Jul. 24, 2003
By Jim Adamekn

SAN DIEGO - Carol C. Lam took her place before reporters and television cameras that May 14 afternoon and calmly confirmed the...


Stock Plot

Jul. 24, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Howard M. Wachtel - Today's corporate scandals are a repeat of a cycle of infatuation and betrayal recurring...



Focus Column - Insurance Law - By R. Mark Keenan - Your client's building has gone up in smoke from a devastating fire. It wil...


Gun Group Triggers New Legislation

Jul. 24, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - It has been a good month for the National Rifle Association. A House panel adopted a legislative provision the as...



Board Orders Probe of Foster Children's Case

Jul. 24, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously Tuesday to order the Department of Children and F...


Judge Bans Lawyer's Anti-Income-Tax Tips

Jul. 24, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred permanently Torrance attorney Eduardo Marmolejo Rivera from promoting schemes on ...