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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions For Jan. 6

Jan. 7, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Good Karma LLC purchased a 64,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1700 S. Wilmington Ave. from...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - The latest test of whether a corporation waives the confidentiality of any internal records it shares with fed...


Forum Column - By John M. True III - Several times a day in my court, I question defendants about the plea they are about to e...


Litigation


Tsunami as Class Action Is in Bad Taste

Jan. 7, 2005
By Columnist

Letter to the Editor - Some 135,000 people dead at last count and 5 million homeless - desperately needing food, water and med...


Construction


Focus Column - Construction Law - By Paul Means - A recent case out of the 2nd District Court of Appeal suggests that general ...


Criminal


Justices Seem Skeptical of Capital Appeal

Jan. 7, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Hearing an appeal Wednesday from the lone Iranian on death row, the California Supreme Court did not seem tro...


Litigation


Kin of Workers Killed in Iraq Sue Employer

Jan. 7, 2005
By Tim Willert

The families of four slain security contractors whose bodies were burned and dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, s...


Law Practice


Corporate Lawyer Loved Mentoring Young

Jan. 7, 2005
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Alden Gray Pearce, a retired senior partner with Loeb & Loeb and a tr...


Public Interest


Howrey Simon Will Donate $1 Million to Relief

Jan. 7, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Howrey Simon Arnold & White announced Wednesday that it will donate $1 million to organizations helping tho...


Criminal


Jurist Violated Physician's Rights

Jan. 7, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Napa Superior Court commissioner violated Dr. Jeffrey Thomas Gray's due process rights by requiring him to s...


Criminal


Justices Deny Spector's Request for Secrecy

Jan. 7, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday turned down legendary music producer Phil Spector's request to kee...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - A three-justice panel heard the first appellate arguments Wednesday on whether a voter-approved change to the st...


Entertainment & Sports


Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Fox television executive Steven Webster spent his second wedding anniversary in a Los Angele...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Admonishes Judge in Kern

Jan. 7, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BAKERSFIELD - A veteran Kern County Superior Court judge was admonished Wednesday for abusing his judicial authority by faili...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Does Without Magic Wand

Jan. 7, 2005
By Don Ray

LOS ANGELES - If he had a judicial magic wand, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Martin L. Goetsch might just make his ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - The rapidly growing Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has hired three more partners to begin 2005 - two immigration...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel got it wrong in denying condemned inmate Donald J. Beardslee's plea for a new penal...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 5

Jan. 6, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - An undisclosed trust purchased a 30,000-square-foot industrial building at 5900 Rodeo Road from ACI I...


Criminal


Death-Penalty Cases Must Be Politics-Free

Jan. 6, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - The decision to seek a death verdict is all too frequently a political decision. Take for instance one ...


Government


Forum Colum - By Marjorie Cohn - In anticipation of hard questions that Alberto Gonzales will face at his attorney general con...


Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Lisa M. Baird and Andrea M. Schoor - It had ethos, pathos and punch. As some commentators ha...


Large Firms


Attorneys Need to Be Multilingual

Jan. 6, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - Sheppard Mullin, a full-service American Lawyer 100 law firm based in Los Angeles with 400 attorneys in...


Judges and Judiciary


Memorial

Jan. 6, 2005
By Don Ray

A memorial service for retired appellate court Justice William A. Reppy will take place Jan. 13 in Montecito. Reppy, who serve...


Probate


Court Questions Crosby Confidentiality

Jan. 6, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday that Bing Crosby's communications with his attorneys ...


Litigation


Judge Declines to Toss Wetlands Verdict

Jan. 6, 2005
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA BARBARA - A Superior Court judge Tuesday upheld a $5.6 million verdict against the Santa Barbara County planning departm...


Litigation


Insurer Must Pay Motorcycle Cop

Jan. 6, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - In a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an insurance ...


Personal Injury & Torts


LOS ANGELES - The first appellate arguments aimed at determining whether Proposition 64 can be invoked retroactively to throw ...


Entertainment & Sports


SAN FRANCISCO - Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel has leaped live rattlesnakes and stacks of cars, but he failed to get past a...


Personal Injury & Torts


Panel Stays Release of Church's Priest Files

Jan. 6, 2005
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued an emergency stay Tuesday blocking the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los...


Judges and Judiciary


Coaching From the Bench

Jan. 6, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson Stanley ran track in high school and still considers herself a "...