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Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The passage of a congressional resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide would have given t...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


When Government Worked

Nov. 10, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A new book on former California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh recalls the Golden State's po...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Regulating Managers

Nov. 10, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Larry Steinberg - A case argued before the California Supreme Court earlier this week may alter fundamentall...


Verdicts


LOS ANGELES - Thousand Oaks dental surgeon Glenn Garvin was riding in the bicycle lane with a friend in the fall of 2006 when ...


Education


Faculty Lets Chancellor Off Hook

Nov. 10, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - A special faculty committee at the University of California, Irvine, has concluded that the campus's chancellor ma...


Verdicts


Woman With Eczema Wins Jury Award

Nov. 10, 2007
By Devan Mcclainen

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was fired from her data entry job after taking leave to treat a skin condition has won a $353,000 ...


Verdicts


From Accidental Lawyer to High-Tech Arbitrator

Nov. 10, 2007
By Craig Andersonn

SAN JOSE - Lois Abraham describes her legal career as a bit of an accident, that of a mother in her late 30s who decided to go...


Corporate


SAN JOSE - Attorneys representing former KLA-Tencor Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Schroeder, facing civil charges as w...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Reality Check

Nov. 10, 2007
By Troy Senikn

ADR Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - The mediation process can often be fraught with emotional considerations that lead clien...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Man in Denaturalization Case

Nov. 10, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - In a rare criminal denaturalization case, a Santa Ana jury has convicted a man born in Afghanistan of lying on h...


Environmental


A ship that hit a tower of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday and fouled local waters with 58,000 gallons of bunker oil...


Corporate


This week, top officials from Emeryville-based LeapFrog Enterprises were scheduled to be somewhere no California executive wan...


California Supreme Court


SAN FRANCISCO - After the California Supreme Court dropped from its docket last week a multimillion-dollar toxic-tort suit bec...


Firm Watch


How to Fold 150 Laterals Into Your Firm

Nov. 9, 2007
By David Houstonn

As pandemonium reigned around them, Steve Finn and Brock Gowdy had a rule: keep smiling. It was January 2003, and the two part...


WASHINGTON - A key witness in the lawsuit accusing phone giant AT&T of unlawfully cooperating with the government's survei...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Guiding Juries

Nov. 9, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Michael L. Fox - California will have to reform its jury instructions if it hopes to get toxic-tort cases un...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Cable Con

Nov. 9, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Those who tout regulations that would force cable television companies to provide channels a ...


Corporate


Jury Rules Dole Failed to Safeguard Workers

Nov. 9, 2007
By Rebecca Beyer

LOS ANGELES - Dole Food Co. was aware that a pesticide it used on banana plantations in Nicaragua could harm its workers, but ...


Corporate


Ex-Apple Lawyer Opposes Subpoena

Nov. 9, 2007
By David Houstonn

SAN JOSE - An in-house lawyer at Apple who was fired last year for drafting minutes of a fictitious board meeting that awarded...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - What every litigator needs is a guide to getting through the day in court without beating oppo...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The War for Talent

Nov. 9, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Recruiting Column - By Sandford A. Lechtick - Today's legal environment is marked by heavy competition among firms looking to ...


Government


The state's political watchdog agency is about to crack the whip on legal defense funds it suspects some lawmakers may be usin...


Firm Watch


When it comes to transactional legal work, Los Angeles is a middle-market town. Few large corporations are headquartered in th...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - When Casey Sobhani, a real estate senior counsel at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, got the call t...


U.S. Supreme Court


Court Weighs Judiciary Role in Arbitration

Nov. 9, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a case that could significantly affect the scope of future arbitration agreements, a highly engaged U.S. Supre...


Litigation


Lawmakers leaned on Yahoo Inc. Tuesday to settle a lawsuit brought by the families of Chinese journalists imprisoned because t...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - A top lawyer in the Los Angeles city attorney's office is departing to join the land-use practice at Latham &...


Judges and Judiciary


Reporter Took Joy in Covering Court

Nov. 8, 2007
By Brent Kendall

David F. Pike, 68, a longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the Daily Journal, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in ...


Transactions


Top October Deals

Nov. 8, 2007
By Devan Mcclainen

Michael Eisner's Torante Group was co-purchaser of Topps Co. The former Disney CEO's group, along with Madison Dearborn Partne...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - With the No Child Left Behind act up for reauthorization, lawmakers pursuing effective ref...