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Firm Watch


A traditional Chinese lion dance accompanied by the clanging of gongs kicked off the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Assoc...


Intellectual Property


Pixion Loses Infringement Case Against PlaceWare

Mar. 15, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

When software firm PlaceWare developed a product allowing conference meetings to take place over the Internet, fellow develope...


Firm Watch


Conrad Breece has spent the last two years bringing reasonably priced Swedish furniture to Northern California - but he's not ...


Investments


San Diego pharmaceutical company MediciNova raised $113.2 million in an initial public offering on the Osaka Stock Exchange, b...


Firm Watch


China, with its burgeoning economic growth, has become a popular destination for California law firms recently. Santa Rosa-bas...


Entertainment & Sports


Lawyer Lends Hand to Save 'Star Trek'

Mar. 15, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

It's no secret that the Star Trek television franchise has devoted fans. When NBC canceled the original series after its secon...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Blasts Immigration Judge's Incoherence

Mar. 15, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has blistered a Los Angeles immigration judge for filing a...


Law Practice


Open Arms

Mar. 15, 2005
By Amy Spees

When the lights go down in the city, And the rain falls on the bay ... The Scene did twist the lyrics a bit, but it was a cold...


Firm Watch


Employment litigator David Wolds says it was "a significant decision indeed" to leave his old firm, San Diego's Merrill Schult...


Entertainment & Sports


Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - What possible relevance can there be for the entertainment industry in the isolated and unpub...


Environmental


Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - "How clean is clean?" That's the $64,000 question at contaminated site...


Forum Column - By Andrew Love - In 1984, an Orange County jury sentenced Thomas Thompson to death for the rape and murder of G...


Litigation


'STRANGE BEDFELLOWS'

Mar. 15, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Like millions of Americans, James C. Sturdevant is a credit card holder. Sturdevant's also a law...


Administrative/Regulatory


Bush Taps Clement for Solicitor General Post

Mar. 15, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Acting Solicitor General Paul D. Clement should soon be able to drop his temporary job title. President Bush on F...


SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins is a man of the highest integrity who has been wrongly ac...


Labor/Employment


LOS ANGELES - When San Francisco U.S. District Judge Martin J. Jenkins granted class status to all female employees of Wal-Mar...


Appellate Practice


Sex Offender Should Go Free, Panel Rules

Mar. 15, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A sex offender should be freed from Atascadero State Hospital because a Riverside County deputy district attorney ...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser spent three days in jail last week after he violated...


LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge on Friday blocked attorney Stephen Yagman's attempts to depose a Daily Journal report...


Insurance


State on Hook for Costs in Holocaust-Law Case

Mar. 15, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - California's Insurance Commissioner is looking for an angle to appeal a court ruling that leaves California t...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - While teaching U.S. Supreme Court case law to her class of 16-year-old high-school students in Connecticut, Holl...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI need not expedite the release of documents explaining its investigation of hundreds of Muslims and in...


Law Practice


Good Samaritans or Mercenaries?

Mar. 15, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - When attorneys Michael Mendelson and Wayne Lesser tipped off San Francisco officials in 1992 that a major pro...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - The turmoil over federal sentencing guidelines took a new turn late Friday with an announcement by the 9th U.S...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for March 11

Mar. 12, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.1 million lease for 130,200 square feet of warehouse space at 4201...


Real Estate/Development


Jayburgers' Owner Goes to Court

Mar. 12, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Do you want fries with that lawsuit? To the chagrin of late-night snackers, club-goers and other lovers of egg-t...


Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - A prosecutor's job is to represent the people - and to do justice. Doing justice means that the...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Martin L. Pitha - When we last heard about them, a group of people who anonymously posted negative rema...


Litigation


Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - In the unending battle to keep guns out of the hands o...


Law Practice


Estates Lawyer Practiced for Six Decades

Mar. 12, 2005
By Allison Schifani

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for G.G. Baumen, a Los Angeles sole practitioner for six decades. Baumen died of hear...