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Public Interest


Greenwood Appointed Santa Clara's New P.D.

May 25, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The second time was the charm for Mary Greenwood, a veteran administrator in the Santa Clara County public defende...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Justices Repudiate 'Takings' Test

May 25, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for federal, state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a p...


Appellate Practice


Judges Can Instruct Grand Jurors on Nullifying

May 25, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A sharply divided federal appellate-court panel ruled Monday that judges are on safe constitutional ground when t...


Firm Watch


Who Needs College to Pass Bar?

May 25, 2005
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Since accessing his Bar Exam results Friday evening, 35-year-old paralegal and ex-Marine Michael Ehline has bee...


Constitutional Law


Lawyer Who Beat Child Porn Law Denied Fees

May 25, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A leading First Amendment attorney who successfully challenged a federal child pornography law should not rec...


Personal Injury & Torts


Baby's First $8 Million

May 25, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Skyway Airlines finalized an $8 million settlement Monday with a 40-year-old Los Angeles woman who fell down a ...


Corporate


Communities Take on Fake-Lawyer Problem

May 25, 2005
By Adrianna Khoo

LOS ANGELES - Jordis Moore and her co-workers at the Bank of America in Los Angeles always wondered what wild tales would come...


Column - By Garry Abrams - The current Los Angeles federal-court trial of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former senatorial campaign ...


Firm Watch


David Bradford spent 20 years as an in-house counsel and an entrepreneur in the software industry. But he says it was his last...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Monday May 23

May 24, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL MONTEBELLO - OMP Industrial LLC purchased a 112,000-square-foot industrial building at 7171 Telegraph Road from th...


Law Practice


Fee Fight Looks to Be 'Outta Here'

May 24, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The guy who claimed he caught and was then robbed of Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball in 2001 is stil...


Transactions


Attorney Leads New Credit-Abuse Education Program

May 24, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

To earn a driver's license, teenagers must pass a series of tests to show they know what they're doing on the road. Receiving ...


Litigation


'West Wing' Star Stiffed Agency, Lawsuit Alleges

May 24, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

A talent agency claiming to represent Richard Schiff, who portrays high-strung White House staffer Toby Ziegler on "The West W...


Law Practice


16th Annual Justa Taste Raises $200,000

May 24, 2005
By Tina Spee

On May 5, actress Geena Davis warmed up guests of the California Women's Law Center with an intelligently funny speech at "Jus...


Litigation


Jury Awards Medical Optics $94.8 Million

May 24, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

A Delaware jury awarded Orange County eye care manufacturer Advanced Medical Optics $94.8 million in its patent infringement l...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Health club chain 24-Hour Fitness has been snapped up by a New York investment firm for $1.6 billion. Palo Alto-based Wilson S...


Public Interest


As the audience watched the Holocaust documentary flicker on the screen, their emotions ratcheted like pistons. File footage o...


Litigation


Daniel Judgeson made it easy for investigators the day he was interrogated for stabbing to death a 67-year-old woman with a ca...


Firm Watch


Attorney Switches From Courtroom to Classroom

May 24, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

In 2003, it looked like personal-injury attorney Barry Shanley had it all. He had his own firm in Montrose, Potter, Shanley &a...


Firm Watch


Jeff Lederman says everyday in Winston & Strawn's litigation department is like walking onto a sports field with an all-st...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Robert Feinerman Background: 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Age: 78 Affiliations: ARC, ADR Services, Judicate West, Ind...


Public Interest


Tailor Tale

May 24, 2005
By Contributing Writer

EXTRA Column - Trial Strategies - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors relate best to what they already know. To the average juror, a ...


Firm Watch


Attendees at the Orange County Bar Association's 2005 Law Day luncheon on May 12 came away knowing two things about Harmon Sch...


Firm Watch


The month of May brought the Los Angeles outpost of River Edge, N.J.-based Peckar & Abramson new office space as well as o...


Litigation


The same pharmacy company in the business of selling specialty prescriptions for cancer and HIV patients drove one of its San ...


Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It used to be that in all of the large family law districts in our state, there was a mast...


Intellectual Property


Letter to the Editor - In her article "Intellectual Property Piracy Threatens Worldwide Economic Health, Stability" (May 13 Da...


Litigation


Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - Civil Code Section 1717 requires any contractual attorney fees clause tha...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Dies After Long Battle With Alcoholism

May 24, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Former Ventura Superior Court Judge Robert C. Bradley, whose long battle with alcoholism led to a fall from gra...


Law Practice


Exotic Expeditions

May 24, 2005
By Kenneth Davis

EXTRA Feature - Zihuatanejo, Mexico - Wayne Beaudoin says every once in awhile he needs to escape the "hustle and bustle" of L...