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BAKERSFIELD - John Stoll shuffled almost jauntily into the interview room at the Kern County detention facility. Despite being...


Entertainment & Sports


Attorney Finds Oscar Loophole

Mar. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

The attorney who recently helped Orson Welles' daughter win the right to sell her father's Oscar award says he succeeded by fi...


Corporate


The executives at InVision Technologies Inc. have received a double dose of good news. General Electric Co. announced March 15...


Law Practice


Shock and Awe

Mar. 30, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Washington, D.C.-The nation's Capitol was rocked today by a series of disclosures of pr...


Litigation


Ex-Police Chief Wins Defamation Suit

Mar. 30, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

Jarado Blue, former Pasadena school district police chief, won a $2.5 million judgment this month in his defamation lawsuit ag...


Firm Watch


Pillsbury Winthrop has landed a mergers and acquisitions practice for its Century City office. Ray La Soya and Lino J. Lauro, ...


Firm Watch


Inside Voices

Mar. 30, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Each year, the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America attracts more than a thousand guest...


Firm Watch


In the last two months, Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has swept up attorneys Marilyn S. Barrett, Daniel L. Go...


Litigation


Jury Rejects Sexual-Harassment Claims

Mar. 30, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

A prominent UCLA heart surgeon has won a defense verdict in a case alleging that he sexually harassed two former employees. ...


Firm Watch


Labor Lawyer Lands at L.A.'s Loeb

Mar. 30, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Michelle LaMar has landed at Loeb & Loeb after spending close to a year at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger. Before ...


Corporate


New Bill Would Affect the Governance of Nonprofits

Mar. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Good Company - By Jill S. Dodd - Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (comm...


Corporate


Firms Settle Long Program-Guide Battle

Mar. 30, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Media and technology company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Cor...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Ten years after taking Interpore International Inc. public, Charles Ruck has guided the company in another milestone. The Cost...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Semiconductor Firm Adds Data Storage

Mar. 30, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Trying to expand its presence in the data-storage market, semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corp. of San Diego has ...


Investments


Clever Cushion

Mar. 30, 2004
By Amy Spees

Some attorneys have found a creative way to plan for retirement, their children's education, or other long-term financial comm...


Firm Watch


Defense Pro Switches to Cooley

Mar. 30, 2004
By Tina Spee

White-collar defense attorney Michael Attanasio has joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office, leaving his post as partner at S...


Firm Watch


Dennis Maio spent 17 years as a senior staff attorney to state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk. When Mosk died in 2001, aft...


Litigation


Digital Sleuths

Mar. 30, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Evidence - By Scott Stevens - By now, most litigators are aware of the increasing importance of digital evidence in d...


Firm Watch


Aon Corp.'s approach to litigation was a bit unconventional, says Shand Stephens, the former chief trial counsel to the insura...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The track record of William G. Myers III as Interior Department solicitor demonstrates that ...


Juvenile


Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We can point with justifiable pride to the many innovations our state ...


Appellate Practice


Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - A case challenging California's protection against racial bias in jury selection will be th...


Appellate Practice


Court Tosses Murder Conviction, Life Term

Mar. 30, 2004
By Dan Evans

LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man's murder conviction must be thrown out because sheriff's deputies failed to advise him of h...


Criminal


Forgiving Legal Wrongs Doesn't Come Easily for Some

Mar. 30, 2004
By Philip Carrizosa

Notebook - By Phillip Carrizosa - To most lawyers and judges, forgiveness is still a foreign concept within the law. The Ameri...


Judges and Judiciary


Tashima to Take Senior Status

Mar. 30, 2004
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge A. Wallace Tashima has announced he will mov...


Criminal


Putting It In Reverse

Mar. 30, 2004
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor David Angel has an unusual new assignment. He's not trying to put people behind bars....


Criminal


BAKERSFIELD - When John Stoll was sent to prison in 1985 as a convicted child molester, he chose to remain in the general popu...


Education


Hallowed Halls

Mar. 30, 2004
By Brent Kendall

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Brent Kendall - On a blustery January day uncommonly cold for coastal Virginia, dozens of fir...


Government


Welfare Increase Tied to Vehicle Fee Cut

Mar. 30, 2004
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - When he slashed the state's vehicle license fee, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger triggered an obligation to pay an ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Before he ever considered becoming a judge, or a lawyer for that matter, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis...