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Law Practice


Paul Allen left Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office last year to volunteer for the Mona Foundation, a nonprofit organization...


Environmental


A plan to replace a grass field with artificial turf at a Santa Cruz middle school has sprouted a lawsuit. Neighbors of Missio...



Firm Watch


Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has snared two Cooley Godward partners in as many weeks - landing antitrust and trade regulation la...


Litigation


Victor Strong used to be a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. But now he's not eager for another trip to the ballpark. Strong's family t...



Constitutional Law


A popular Hispanic radio host cannot be held liable for referring listeners to unlicensed medical professionals who prosecutor...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer, who recently ruled that a series of lawsuits regarding t...



Firm Watch


Former record company executive and longtime music industry attorney Richard Leher became a partner at Miami-based-Greenberg T...


Forum Column - By Anthony Paul Farley - Two million people are imprisoned in the United States. The majority of them are black...



Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Wiener v. Southcoast Childcare Centers Inc., 2004 DJDAR 5420 (Cal...


Forum Column - By Amy Jordan and Sandra Calvert - On May 19, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., introduced the Children and Media Re...



Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael Farn - Technical standards are often used to ensure that products from diffe...


Real Estate/Development


Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Opal Fox is a senior with a disability who believes in giving back to her Long Beach commu...



Judges and Judiciary


S.F. Discovery Commissioner Hired

Jun. 15, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court has hired a former lawyer for the state Assembly as a new discovery commissio...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - In what one advocate called a major victory for journalists and the press, a state appeals court has ruled that ...



Government


Hersek Gets Top Defender Post

Jun. 15, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Michael Hersek, a California Supreme Court staff attorney, as the state's ne...


Large Firms


Storm Chasers

Jun. 15, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - Environmental lawyer Michele Corash has had impeccable timing while building h...



Discipline


LOS ANGELES - The target of a courtroom tirade got the last laugh Friday, when a judge fined criminal defense attorney Thomas ...


Civil Rights


Rights Issue Began at S.F.'s Black Cat

Jun. 15, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1950s through 1963, there was a bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Nort...



Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office extradited the mother-and-son grifter team, Sa...


Securities


Fraud Verdict Mutes the SEC's Message

Jun. 15, 2004
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN JOSE - In bringing fraud charges against a sales executive of Legato Systems Inc., lawyers at the Securities and Exchange ...



Judges and Judiciary


Judge Attacks Rule Punishing Leaks to Media

Jun. 15, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A U.S. appellate judge said he is "outraged" that a 9th Circuit committee adopted a rule punishing complainants ...


Firm Watch


Former Arnold & Porter partner Craig Hentschel joined the five attorneys at the Pasadena outpost of Detroit-based Dykema G...



Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Ten years after O.J. Simpson's criminal trial, its legacy is felt not in the courtroom but in the newsroom and t...


Government


'War on Pain' Targets Pharmacist

Jun. 12, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - For now, Richard Ozar still owns and operates the Victoria Village Pharmacy in Ventura. With a 33-count federal ...



Law Practice


Insurance Outrage

Jun. 12, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - When Roxana Yang started a solo practice at her home in Los Altos Hills in November 2001, she had no apprehens...


Personal Injury & Torts


SAN FRANCISCO - When lawyers arrange with clients that their legal fees will be paid out of prospective civil lawsuit recoveri...



Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Mary is going out on a workers' compensation leave of absence, and she wants to...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By John Seitman - The notion that timing is a large part of success or failure...



Appellate Practice


City Attorney Can't Sue Former Client

Jun. 12, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided appeal court said Thursday that public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system requires t...


Appellate Practice


Justices Strike Sentence of Drug Defendant

Jun. 12, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has struck a drug defendant's sentence, saying the judge in the case engaged in "illegal p...