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Criminal


Convicted Date-Rapist Causes Legal Dilemma

Jan. 24, 2003
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - It may not bring him back from wherever he has fled to, but Andrew Luster, now a convicted date-rapist, could lose ...


Focus Column - Litigation - By Rex S. Heinke and Sandra M. Lee - Suppose you represent a client who is being investigated by a...



Military Law


Power Struggle

Jan. 23, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Elisa Massimino - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the preside...


Government


Justices Grapple With Drug-Discount Case

Jan. 23, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday struggled over how to resolve a challenge by drug manufacturers to a Main...



Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Robert Gnalzda and Nativo Lopez - Rehnquist may be the wrong leader to raise the issue of an increase in the...


Discipline


Noisy Objections

Jan. 23, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out if securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to turn the...



Judges and Judiciary


Cowboy Judge Tackles Budget

Jan. 23, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - In the early morning hours, while most people are sleeping, Judge William A. MacLaughlin is awake, tending to hi...


Litigation


Judge Will Advise on Priest Sex-Abuse Cases

Jan. 23, 2003
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has been assigned to determine whether eight cases involving allega...



WASHINGTON - Handing a solid victory to prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a criminal conspiracy...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has handed a local environmental group a significant victory in its bitter, multimilli...



Judges and Judiciary


A Disaster Waiting to Happen

Jan. 23, 2003
By Robert Selna

Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - Nearly a year after someone detonated an explosive in a men's restroom at the Hall of ...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Karen Marie Kitterman - Those companies that fail to focus on the tax aspects of the...



Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Why can't American lawyers be more like the English? That question took hold of Alan Fenster when he became the ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Returns to Practicing Law

Jan. 23, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - In a rare move for a judge, Janice McIntyre is stepping down from the Riverside Superior Court to practice law ag...



International


9th Circuit Strikes WWII Slave Labor Law

Jan. 23, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - California's novel 1999 law giving World War II victims of Japanese or German slave labor the right to sue co...


Litigation


YUCAIPA - By the time 13-year-old Dylan Carr committed suicide with his grandfather's rifle, four months had passed since he r...



Front Page


Panel Finds Slave-Labor Suits Unconstitutional

Jan. 23, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday held unconstitutional California's landmark law allowing individ...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates can...



Employment and labor law attorney Colleen Regan is leaving Perkins Coie to join Santa Monica litigation boutique Van Etten, S...


Firm Watch


By Erik Cummins In November, a Cooley Godward memo stated obliquely that its two remaining Kirkland, Wash., partners, Christo...



Judges and Judiciary


The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel named its officers for the year 2003. Paul Fine is president-elect. He...


Transactions


East West Bancorp Buys Another Bank

Jan. 22, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes San Marino's East West Bancorp Inc. is continuing its buying spree, agreeing to purchase Pacific Business Ban...



Firm Watch


By Erik Cummins Midway through his career as a construction litigator, Jeffrey Sykes took some time off and reassessed his li...


Large Firms


Three Firms Make 'Best Place to Work' List

Jan. 22, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Liz Valsamis Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Places to Work is a list that sports a variety of corporations, but few law firms. T...



Firm Watch


Bonne Bridges Opens Las Vegas Outpost

Jan. 22, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols has opened its much-needed Las Vegas office. Los Angeles litig...


Litigation


Cha-Ching!

Jan. 22, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

By Joan Osterwalder Juries didn't buy into corporate America in 2002. Business fraud cases made up the bulk of the top 10 jury...



Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis After 18 months of commuting from his San Diego county home to Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office, partner N...


Labor/Employment


Layoffs Worry Members of Employment Law Alliance

Jan. 22, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

By Stefanie Knapp For the first time in its three-year history, the Employment Law Alliance surveyed its member attorneys to ...



Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis After three years of helping rebuild the economies of countries that had belonged to the former Soviet Union,...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Retired U.S. District Court Judge John G. Davies will rejoin JAMS as a neutral Feb. 3. After initially sig...