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Judges and Judiciary


Steady Under Fire

Dec. 16, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas Hansen didn't really want to become presiding judge. Although he was...


Government


Prisons Chief Leaves System in Disarray

Dec. 16, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt resignation of Edward Alameida Jr. as head of California's prison system may not put an end to the ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 12

Dec. 13, 2003
By Angela Gottula

KERN COUNTY BAKERSFIELD - Joseph No, represented by DeLonne Valens of NAI Capital Commercial, purchased a 25,000-square-foot o...


Construction


Focus Column - Construction Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The wildfires that recently ravaged Southern California destroyed t...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Performance reviews need not be an ordeal. With the proper preparation and attitu...


Law Practice


Lockheed Counsel Was Knowledgeable, Witty

Dec. 13, 2003
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - John Edward Cavanagh, a retired Los Angeles government-contract attorney and former counsel for Lockheed Corp., ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Daily Journal Managing Editor Wins Award

Dec. 13, 2003
By Don De Benedictis

LOS ANGELES - California's criminal defense lawyers will honor Los Angeles Daily Journal Managing Editor Martin Berg for his j...


Criminal


Federal Corruption Case Inches Closer to Trial

Dec. 13, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Federal prosecutors' corruption case against three City Council members moved a step closer to trial Thursday as l...


Technology & Science


Lawyers See Potential Of Asia at Conference

Dec. 13, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - The appetite for anything Asian was palpable at the Asia America Multitechnology Association's annual conferen...


Litigation


Man's Suit Says Nun Molested Him

Dec. 13, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego lawyer filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that he was sexually molested 60 years ago by a nun, an abuse...


Criminal


Defendant Embraces Conflict

Dec. 13, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A murder defendant facing a death penalty trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court wants to keep his attorney, de...


Criminal


Pellicano Seeks Dismissal

Dec. 13, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano will seek dismissal of one of two federal weapons charges he pleaded guilty t...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's eagerly awaited verdict on the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 200...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - Harold Archuleta is waiting for his day in court. Actually, Archuleta was in court Thursday, but it was not what...


Education


Edley Says He'll Make Boalt 'Powerful'

Dec. 13, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Edley Jr., Boalt Hall's newly appointed dean, hopes to transform the Berkeley law school into a na...


Large Firms


L.A. Firm Will Merge With French Group

Dec. 12, 2003
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has agreed in principle to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde, Greg Nitzkowski...


Government


Justice Delayed

Dec. 12, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - My one-year-old son's grandfather, my dad, served in World War II on a U.S. destroyer i...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 10

Dec. 12, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Janet Neman of Charles Dunn Co. brokered the dual sale of a 139-unit apartment building at 4...


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Amy Oppenheimer - Attorneys bringing and defending workplace-harassment lawsuits should con...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The state Supreme Court has held that a victim's conduct does not prov...


Judges and Judiciary


Five Vie for San Diego Bench Seat

Dec. 12, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - One of the San Diego Superior Court's judicial races in the March 2 primary features five candidates, a number tha...


Judges and Judiciary


Retiree Still Heeds the Court's Call

Dec. 12, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

CLEAR LAKE - For a year, Superior Court Judge John J. Golden delayed construction of Christo's famed "Running Fence" art proje...


Government


WASHINGTON - Members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared hesitant to police a closely watched battle over congressional...


Criminal


Riverside D.A. May Be Grooming Replacement

Dec. 12, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Rod Pacheco, a former state Assemblyman who started his career in the Riverside district attorney's office and ret...


Government


Two Groups Hail Campaign Finance Decision

Dec. 12, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision preserving soft money restrictions in federal campaigns will lessen the corrupt...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating allegations that celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano wiretapped prosecutors in a high-pr...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer ...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles boxer Vitali Klitschko's two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson Saturday night at ...


Appellate Practice


Appellate Court Gets Warm and Fuzzy, Wins Award

Dec. 12, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...


Criminal


From Out of Nowhere

Dec. 12, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...