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Law Practice


Lawyers Dance to Another Tune After Leaving Court

May 6, 2006
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln

LOS ANGELES - Twice a week, during lunch, three lawyers drive from downtown Los Angeles to San Gabriel, take off their suits, ...


Firm Watch


Succession Is Made Official at Pillsbury

May 6, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

Amid cost-cutting measures following a merger that doubled his firm's size, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's new chairman-ele...


Labor/Employment


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles city ordinance ostensibly adopted to protect grocery workers, as well as health and safety standar...


Judicial Profile


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rex A. Heeseman knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he was in junior high school...


Appellate Practice


Which Idahoan Has Better Shot at 9th Circuit?

May 5, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

WASHINGTON - The sun may finally be setting on the Bush administration's controversial nomination of William G. Myers III to t...


Firm Watch


United Front at Christensen Disintegrates

May 5, 2006
By Drew Combsn

LOS ANGELES - For weeks, the partners at Los Angeles' Christensen Miller law firm have struggled to maintain a united front in...


Criminal


Challenging the Limits of Advocacy

May 5, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - Criminal defense attorneys have an ethical duty to zealously represent their clients, and that zeal often ramps up...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - A week ago Monday morning, I was sitting in a class with 13 enthusiastic, new judicial officer...


Environmental


Focus Column - By Catherine W. Johnson - Last year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standard ...


Real Estate/Development


Private Enforcement Shakedowns Must End

May 5, 2006
By Amy Kalinn

Forum Column - By Brian J. Finn - As an attorney whose practice focuses in large part on advising real-estate professionals an...


Litigation


Claiming Klimt

May 5, 2006
By Peter Zuckermann

It took a seven-year legal battle to return the "Mona Lisa of Austria" to a family in Los Angeles County. And if the Nazis had...


Law Practice


Since its inception 15 years ago, Greenberg Traurig's objective has been to gain a foothold in growing markets and key financi...


Judges and Judiciary


Watchdog Agency Charges Judge With Misconduct

May 5, 2006
By Savannah Blackwelln

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency Wednesday charged Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Governments could be held liable in international dealings with foreign investors if U.S. courts uphold a $1 bil...


Judges and Judiciary


Chief Justice Ronald M. George suggested Wednesday that the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office was too harsh on a murder d...


Administrative/Regulatory


LOS ANGELES - Thanks to former Playboy Playmate of the Year and onetime-stripper Anna Nicole Smith, we're going to be hearing ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Bolivian Lawyer, U.S. Woodworker

May 4, 2006
By Martin Bergn

Milene Yerke is eminently practical. She has done whatever she needed to in order to survive and support herself. At various t...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Congress is once again trying to stop water from running downhill. This metaphor describes t...


Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In its most recent child custody move-away case, the California Sup...


Civil Rights


Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Last year, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of the most successful civil rights laws ...


Judges and Judiciary


Governor Names Four to State Court Benches

May 4, 2006
By Savannah Blackwelln

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted two Superior Court judges to appellate positions Tuesday and filled two Superior Court sea...


Corporate


Microsoft Settles Antitrust Claim

May 4, 2006
By Kevin Livingstonn

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in three years, Microsoft has agreed to settle a class action antitrust claim filed by San...


Personal Injury & Torts


Builder Should Have Known Better, Court Says

May 4, 2006
By Leslie Simmonsn

LOS ANGELES - A seasoned construction manager has only himself to blame for a scaffold plank falling on his foot while he talk...


Firm Watch


Let's Have Lunch - And Go Into Business

May 4, 2006
By Drew Combsn

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers Yuk K. Law and Kent T. Brandmeyer were never partners at the same firm, nor were they old law-school bu...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Well, they won't have the late Humboldt County District Attorney Kenneth Newett Jr. to kick around anymore. I...


Constitutional Law


L.A. Seeks Rehearing in Homeless Case

May 4, 2006
By Anat Rubinn

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles will ask for a rehearing of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision barring police from arre...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall admitted Eva Paterson in 1972 with a 2.7 grade point average and a Law School Admissi...


Litigation


RIVERSIDE - A lawsuit four years ago charged that San Bernardino County officials treated juvenile hall inmates like "caged an...


Judges and Judiciary


Even after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to be tougher on prosecutors who kick minorities off juries, the Californ...


Firm Watch


Skip Miller Ponders Move to Goodwin

May 4, 2006
By Drew Combsn

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller is in talks to join Boston-based Goodwin Procter, sources say. In ...