Timing is Critical to Good Tax Planning Strategies
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - There are many ways to reduce, defer and, in a few cases, even eliminate taxes. Est...
City Attorney Draws Praise for His Professional Polish, Politics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rockard J. Delgadillo has brought a professional polish to an office where, to hear him tell it, l...
Corporate Insolvency Soars to a New High in 2002
By Tina Spee
By Toni Vranjes A number of American industry titans collapsed in financial ruin last year, producing a record 12 months in c...
Mr. Fix-It Man
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Forum Column - By James Acret - In the session that concluded last September, the Legislature showed a striking enthusiasm for...
Supportive Patriarch Raised Legal Luminaries
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Albert H. Girardi, the patriarch of the family that produced the successful Los Angeles legal team of Tom and J...
Death Sentence Raises Jury Issue
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury's decision to sentence a cop killer to death despite arguments by his lawyer that he is retarded...
Coalition of Music and Internet Groups Aims to Break Ground
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Cydney A. Tune and Michelle T. Rutledge - On Jan. 14, the Recording Industry Associa...
Exit Strategy Gets Right Back to Basics
By Tina Spee
By Toni Vranjes Bankruptcy attorneys are busy practicing their ABCs. An out-of-court process known as assignment for the bene...
S.F. Prosecutor Gets Diversion In Incident With Daughter
By Robert Selna
SAN RAFAEL - After more than two years of turmoil, prosecutor Floyd Andrews' life has returned legally to exactly where he wa...
Judge Signs Huge Farmland Pact
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has approved a three-year, $107 million agreement that could clear the way for the retirement...
Regretfully, They Can't Fix the Laws
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook By Peter Blumberg SAN FRANCISCO - It's a safe bet that when an appellate court reaches a conclusion "relu...
Expert Calls for New Approach to Water Use
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - As suburban sprawl continues to swallow vast swaths of California, resulting in ever-greater consumption of water...
Panel Revives Bias Suit Based on One Slur
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A single ethnic slur, combined with other abusive treatment, is enough to prove a hostile work environment unde...
Judge Says He Was Wrong to Try to Fix His Son's Tickets
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser has learned a lesson in how not handle his son's parking ti...
9th Circuit Steps Into Key Arbitration Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Requiring newly hired workers to agree to arbitrate civil rights claims is widespread "do-it-yourself tort re...
Reed Smith Launches New Entrepreneurship Practice
By Erik Cummins
Reed Smith Crosby Heafey hopes to build on an existing group of attorneys and clients in its Northern California offices and s...
Informational Interviews Could Lead to a Job
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Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Lawyers thinking of making a career move or interested in deepening their knowledge o...
Panel Orders $175,000 Penalty for Hate Crime
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The state Fair Employment and Housing Commission has ordered Buford Furrow Jr., the shooter in the Jewish Commu...
Rights Group Files Race Suit Against L.A. Real Estate Baron
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A housing rights group is suing real estate baron Donald Sterling for allegedly booting out Hispanic and Africa...
CJA's Director Suddenly Quits
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - After only seven months at the helm of the California Judges Association, executive director Keenan G. Casady...
Time's Up
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Forum Column - By Bobby Eberle - As the sand in the hourglass quickly runs out on Saddam Hussein, there has been a growing cal...
Panel Tosses Jurist From Police-Brutality Case
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has ordered a federal judge removed from a case after he dismissed many of the claims brought ...
Sheppard Nabs Entertainment Trio
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added three partners to its entertainment practice, wo...
Little League Player Strikes Out in Court
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - A former Little League baseball player who suffered a fractured skull when a batted ball hit him in the head stru...
Having Lost Car Tax Funds, DAs Predict Layoffs Ahead
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - California's district attorneys are distraught at the prospect of losing millions of dollars and possibly having...
'Mattel' Adds to Confusion on First Amendment Defense Issue
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark S. Lee - In Mattel v. MCA Records , 296 F.3d 894 (9th Cir. 2002), a pane...
Walk, Don't Run, To Your New Job
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - As lawyers from the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison scramble to find new homes before the firm closes ...
19th-Century Map Too Old, Justices Rule
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that property maps as old as the Civil War are not le...
A Self-Styled Ombudsman
By Peter Blumberg
Anti-tax activists hail him as a government watchdog. Foes deride him as a litigious gadfly. Beverly Hills attorney Richard F...
Probationer Can't Be Jailed for Missing Test
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Further limiting the risk of jail time for Proposition 36 defendants, a state appellate court has ruled that a ...