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Government


Many Prepare To Smooth Out Election Kinks

Oct. 8, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Electoral watchdogs and lawyers planned to fan out to polling places across the state today to smooth the kinks ...


Column By Garry Abrams - Fellow Californians, on this recall election day we are on the brink of big changes. We could wake up...


Communications


Cable Providers Have to Share, 9th Says

Oct. 8, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The cable television industry will have to give Internet service providers open access to their high-speed cab...


Criminal


Leak Brings Party Role-Reversal

Oct. 7, 2003
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - "You know, a single allegation can be most worthy of a special prosecutor." Given the myriad calls from Democrati...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court removed a barrier Monday to the execution of a death-row inmate who must take antipsychotic dru...


Government


LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has denied a petition by Los Angeles County authorities to remove three children from th...


Firm Watch


McGrane, Greenfield, Hannon & Harrington is the latest law firm to move into the newly renovated Ferry Building. The six-l...


Litigation


Group Sues to Protect Habitat of Birds

Oct. 7, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

Santa Barbara County's alleged poor oversight of a 600-acre park is threatening the safety of federally protected birds, accor...


Law Practice


Racial Disparity in Admissions Increases

Oct. 7, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

A study released by the San Francisco-based Equal Justice Society found that racial disparity in law-school admissions is grow...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Irvine-based JAMS is shoring up two coasts with newly acquired neutrals. The alternative dispute resolution provider group rec...


Criminal


The Magician

Oct. 7, 2003
By David Houston

Victor Sherman bumped against the criminal justice system for the first time in 1964, when he was charged with inciting a riot...


Litigation


Musician's Heir Sues Rapper Over Royalties

Oct. 7, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Eminem catapulted into the limelight when his album "The Slim Shady LP" was released in 1999. Now, one of the songs from that ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Criminal Law Event Lauds Bench, Bar

Oct. 7, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

The Century City Bar Association honored six members of the legal profession in September during its 12th annual Criminal Law ...


Litigation


Bryan Cave has agreed to settle claims of negligence over its representation of swindler Reed Slatkin. The firm will pay $650,...


Litigation


Eight Rules Can Simplify Discovery-Motion Process

Oct. 7, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Litigation Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Discovery can seem deceptively simple and straightforward: You send out...


Firm Watch


Craig Cardon thinks Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton is one of the state's go-to firms for entertainment and media law....


Transactions


SAN BERNARDINO - CCI Club SB LLC purchased the 212,000-square-foot Club Center retail and industrial center at 243-269 E. Car...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Power Points

Oct. 7, 2003
By Columnist

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question : What should the defense bar unders...


Solo and Small Firms


Public Defenders Start Their Own Firm

Oct. 7, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

Three veteran trial attorneys are leaving Los Angeles' federal public-defender's office to open a private partnership concentr...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


When increasing numbers of gay couples started splitting up in the early 1990s, Oakland attorney Frederick Hertz found a uniqu...


Firm Watch


The massive blackout on the East Coast this summer uncovered serious flaws in the way energy is transmitted, says Dan Fessler,...


Personal Injury & Torts


Do Punitives Need a New Home?

Oct. 7, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Just exactly what was Tom McClintock talking about? As recall candidates Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffi...


Government


Trunk Twister

Oct. 7, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Duf Sundheim - For months, East Coast political pundits and other outside observers have watched the Califor...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Lawyers have tried to expand the ability of parties to ...


Litigation


Focus Column - Evidence Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - In 1956, professor David W. Louisell eloquently explained the nature of...


Government


Recall Ruckus

Oct. 7, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Art Torres - As Sen. Dianne Feinstein has said, this recall is a bad idea for California. The original inten...


Judges and Judiciary


Prosecutor, Lawyer Get Judicial Posts

Oct. 7, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday the appointments of Deputy District Attorney George "Woody" Clarke and civil atto...


Criminal


DA Won't Probe Claims of Groping

Oct. 7, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney on Friday rejected calls to investigate Arnold Schwarzenegger for sexual batte...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has settled a fee fight between two lawyers and their security company client, leaving n...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year have moved to dismiss ...