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Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Norwalk attorney John A. McDonald doesn't mince words when he talks about Superior Court Judge Larry S. Knupp. ...


Litigation


Settlement Bill Veto

Oct. 4, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling its provisions a threat to California's economy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed a bill t...



Real Estate/Development


SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Zumbrun, the guru of private property rights in California, has spent much of his career fighting for l...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Oct. 3, 2005
By Jennifer Hammn

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has announced that Randall K. Broberg has joined the firm as a partner in the Del Mar ...



Government


Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

Oct. 1, 2005
By Lawrence Hurleyn

WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. paid tribute to his predecessor and mentor, William H. Rehnquist, after taking the oath of o...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Sept. 30

Oct. 1, 2005
By Aidan Doherty

OFFICE LONG BEACH - Adler Realty Investments Inc. borrowed $29.5 million through Wrightwood Capital for the purchase of a 194...



Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Richard G. Frenkel, Katharine J. Galston, Christopher M. Newman and Jonathan...


Forum Column - By David J. Ozeran - The defendant loses at trial, and the plaintiff recovers a substantial judgment. Among the...



Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Scott C. Harris - Those who track legal trends have come out with a staggering figure: By 2016, as much...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The bond between El Centro attorney Lowell F. Sutherland and his client runs deeper than the personal injury cas...



Arbitrator Profile


LOS ANGELES - Troy D. Roe did not consider becoming a lawyer until a professor suggested the idea to him during his final year...


Appellate Practice


Court Reconsiders Blast at Attorneys

Oct. 1, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento appellate court has agreed to reconsider one of its published opinions that lambasted attorneys for...



Civil Rights


Column By Peter Blumberg One developed a hunger for justice as a witness to the racial violence in Birmingham, Ala., at the h...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Last Friday, veteran Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Yamamoto went to court for the first time as...



Criminal


Ticket-Fixing Probe

Oct. 1, 2005
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Commissioner Richard Rutledge will not face criminal charges over allegations that he fixed tr...


Judges and Judiciary


Attorneys Praise Judge for Being Pragmatic

Oct. 1, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - The panoramic vista from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr's chambers at the Central Civil West ...



Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - Providian Financial Corp., one of the nation's largest credit card issuers, has agreed to pay $3 million to se...


Law Practice


In Chambers

Sep. 30, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has honored Tressa Sloan Kentner, executive officer of the San Bernardino Supe...



Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Sept. 29

Sep. 30, 2005
By Aidan Doherty

RETAIL UPLAND - Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. sold Upland Square Shopping Center at 813-913 W. Foothill Blvd. for $19.1...


International


Holocaust Survivors Seek Pensions

Sep. 30, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Stanley Orzech was 13, living in the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, when World War II broke out. Young and healthy, Or...



Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on John Roberts' appointment as chief justice of...


Law Practice


Firms Expand Scope of Donations

Sep. 30, 2005
By Drew Combs

LOS ANGELES - Hurricane Katrina produced a montage of devastatingly unfamiliar scenes: corpses left unattended in the streets ...



Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - In an effort to recruit more lawyers to represent abused and neglected children in dependency court proceedings...


Government


SACRAMENTO - All they wanted was a little privacy, the judges said, a little added protection from some angry soul bent on ret...



Law Practice


Spheres of Influence

Sep. 30, 2005
By Martin Bergn

The Daily Journal Top 100 - Some are power brokers and insiders. Others fight for the powerless and those caught inside exces...


Firm Watch


Rehashing the Career-Family Split

Sep. 30, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - One day in the late 1970s, Marie Fiala gathered with a group of women in a restroom on the 30th floor of a dow...



Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella has hired prominent white-collar criminal-defense law...


Environmental


Illegal Dumping

Sep. 30, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - Two men charged with illegally dumping and storing toxic waste were arrested Wednesday in what the Los Angeles C...



Probate


Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Playboy Playmate and all-around celebrity and sex icon Anna Nicole Smith was in Vermont play...


Constitutional Law


Insurance Dispute

Sep. 30, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 6-0 Wednesday to decide whether the renovation of an old bank building in ...