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Firms Invest $52 Million in Matrix

Apr. 8, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Venture capitalists have invested $52 million in Matrix Semiconductor Inc. during a fifth round of financing. New investor Tel...


The Markets

Apr. 8, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

"The market is excellent. We do a tremendous amount of business in L.A. I can't think of an exception of a particular retail p...



DAILY DEALS -- Orange County

Apr. 5, 2003
By Jack Briggs

ANAHEIM - Private investors Barry Mycorn and Robert Brown purchased a 24-unit, two-building apartment complex at 1215-1221 N....


Employment Column By Deanna Wilkinson It is 7 p.m. You cannot remember the last time you sat back and relaxed. You have spent ...



Above the Law?

Apr. 5, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Picture this. The trial is over. One of the parties was so eager to be involved that it ...


Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - No provision in the Constitution says that a citizen must never be offended. With the priv...



Focus Column - Litigation - By Scott P. Ward - The "offer to compromise" under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has become ...


LOS ANGELES - Retired workers' compensation Judge Ernest Patrick Kiernan has died at the age of 82. Known in the courtroom as ...



LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Cheryl Romo has won a first place public service reporting award in the A...


LOS ANGELES - In continued fallout from the corporate scandals that have tainted Enron Corp. and other companies, the Securit...



Five Bar Seats Draw 18 Candidates

Apr. 5, 2003
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen lawyers in the state have signed up to run for five open seats on the State Bar Board of Governors, inc...


Sex Abuse Case Time Limitations Are Frozen

Apr. 5, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A measure that allows Los Angeles prosecutors to proceed with their cases against priests accused of molesting ch...



Michael Remy, 59, Fought Nuke Plant

Apr. 5, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Remy, a pioneering Sacramento environmental lawyer who led the nation's first successful ballot initi...


LOS ANGELES - In a year in which state budget cuts are said to imperil the health of the court system, the California Judges A...



SFO Environmental Papers Ordered Released

Apr. 5, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The city must grant public access to previously secret environmental documents involving plans to expand San ...


Kerry Leads New BASF Series by Candidates

Apr. 5, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Just one month after she took over from Teveia Barnes as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...



SAN FRANCISCO - The consensus at San Francisco's Hall of Justice is that Superior Court Judge Kay Tsenin today will dismiss f...


SAN DIEGO - California cities won a small victory Thursday in their efforts to stem the gun trade when a Southern California f...



SAN FRANCISCO - Mary C. Morgan, a former San Francisco municipal court judge who was the nation's first openly lesbian jurist...


Batterer Bias?

Apr. 5, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Specialized domestic violence courts have become common fixtures in the state's legal system over the past decade,...



Death Verdict Upheld Despite No Defense

Apr. 5, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 4-3 Thursday to uphold a death sentence even though the defendant's attorn...


County Plans to Close All Courts For Eight Days

Apr. 5, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Saying budget shortfalls had reduced the courts to "a Third World country stage," Los Angeles Superior Court off...



New Rules Empower Firms' Audit Panels

Apr. 5, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - In continued fallout from the corporate scandals that have tainted Enron Corp. and other companies, the Securiti...


Many Praise Jurist's Kindness

Apr. 4, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - Department 414 at the Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park is a showcase, the place where presiding judges of ...



DAILY DEALS -- Los Angeles County

Apr. 4, 2003
By Ron Mc Nees

CERRITOS - Cip Two LLC sold 8,400 square feet of manufacturing space at 16627 Parkside Ave. for $670,000. Jim Kuhne and Sam C...


DAILY DEALS -- Kern County

Apr. 4, 2003
By Jack Briggs

BAKERSFIELD - Elizabeth Newton purchased an 11,150-square-foot industrial building in the Stockdale Industrial Park at 4301 Y...



Lower minority enrollments at California-run law schools could foreshadow the future of state-run law schools nationwide if t...


Affirmative Action Divides Court

Apr. 4, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Hearing its most important case in 25 years on the highly charged issue of race, the Supreme Court on Tuesday in...



Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Frederic G. Ludwig III - Do California state courts have concurrent subject matter j...


Forum Column - Marjorie Cohn - The Vietnam War was justified by the U.S. government as necessary to save the Vietnamese peopl...