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Juvenile


Veteran Fought Vigorously for Legal Principles

Feb. 14, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A memorial service will take place Saturday in Riverside for Eugene Robert Thomas, a veteran of the U.S. Navy...


Government


County Settles Gun Show Suit for $1.6 Million

Feb. 14, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials have agreed to pay the promoter of the nation's largest gun show $1.6 million to se...



Judges and Judiciary


Surfer Judge Has Decisive Manner, Peaceful Zen Style

Feb. 14, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Robert P. O'Neill prosecuted some mighty bad characters in his decade as a deputy district attorney, including t...


Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Terence McCormick - On Aug. 29, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final ru...



Judges and Judiciary


Advocate Takes Show on the Road

Feb. 14, 2003
By Karen Coleman

BERKELEY - Judge Jeffrey Tauber has played to all kinds of crowds during his 30-year career. Tauber has appeared before congre...


Public Interest


Forum Column - By David L. Brandon - In "1984," George Orwell described one of the most frightening worlds ever conceived in l...



Government


Farella Would Represent S.F. in Airport Fraud Case

Feb. 14, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has tapped Farella Braun & Martel of San Francisco to litigate a controversi...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - Ivory tower combat over tenure for a Muslim scholar at California State University, Hayward escalated Wednesd...



Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases are not like fender-bender cases. One simply cannot e...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Katherine S. Catlos - If employment law claims can be characterized as weapons, retaliation...



Entertainment & Sports


Film Deal Gone Awry Spawns Suits

Feb. 14, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn may be against a war with Iraq, but that's not stopping him from waging his own legal battle with asp...


Constitutional Law


The Blessings of Liberty

Feb. 14, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - What if a city charged Democrats, but not Republicans, to use a city facility? That might s...



Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - An attorney for a famous movie director is trying to jump-start Pinocchio with a defibrillator. In a...


Criminal


DAs Challenge Expanded Preliminary Hearing

Feb. 14, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge's ruling that allows the defendant in a murder case to challenge the prosecution's evidenc...



Large Firms


Breaking Up

Feb. 14, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Any way you slice it, carving up a law firm is a messy proposition. Even the smallest firm that fails must co...


Large Firms


Partners Find Work, Brobeck Nears End

Feb. 14, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Three of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's largest remaining practice groups found new homes Wednesday, as th...



Criminal


1990 Murder Case Is Reopened

Feb. 13, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - At Anthony Taylor's Los Angeles murder trial 12 years ago, the state's two chief witnesses both recanted the ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Public Defender Is Sued by Renters

Feb. 13, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite repeated warnings from city health and building officials, longtime San Francisco Deputy Public Defen...



Alternative Dispute Resolution


Circuit Strikes AT&T's Consumer Contracts

Feb. 13, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel handed a landmark arbitration victory to seven million California consumers Tuesday, ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood moguls are casting around for a sequel to the hit Leonardo DiCaprio movie, "Catch Me If You Can," ...



Law Practice


Mary Dunlap Memorial Set

Feb. 13, 2003
By John Roemer

From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - Friends will celebrate the life and career of feminist attorney and Equal Rights Advocates...


Civil Rights


Council Will Vote on Benefits for Partners

Feb. 13, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles today is expected to become the largest city in the nation to force city contractors to extend bene...



Government


Keep Close Watch

Feb. 13, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Jeffrey C. Eglash - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners - the civilian body charged with overseein...


Large Firms


Landlord Wants Lyon & Lyon to Get Trustee

Feb. 13, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Accusing Lyon & Lyon of squandering money on attorney and staff salaries, a landlord owed $2.7 million by t...



Large Firms


Piper Rudnick Welcomes Land-Use Partner

Feb. 13, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Another partner from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, the debt-laden San Francisco firm that intends to shut it...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - For the second year in a row, criminal defense lawyers are trying to pass a bill in the Legislature that would i...



Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause will specify the numbe...


Government


Panel Tosses Verdict Against Bank

Feb. 13, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A government-funded community bank founded to foster development in riot-ravaged South Central Los Angeles does...



Firm Watch


Bankruptcy Boutique Adds Name Partner

Feb. 13, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the uber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York a...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Product liability and medical malpractice attorney Alexander B.T. Cobb died Jan. 4 in a car accident near his h...