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Investments


Builder Seeks Rehearing in Dispute

Jan. 10, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - An Irvine developer Wednesday filed a petition for a rehearing of an appellate decision that could allow its pa...


Government


L.A. Pays Out $1 Million to Police Victim

Jan. 10, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles on Monday cut a check for just under $1 million to a bystander shot by members of the co...



Government


LOS ANGELES - Steven Nolan still looks like a cop. The thick mustache trails downward into a goatee. The full head of hair is ...


Investments


Judge Hears Petition By Unhappy Investor

Jan. 10, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Thierry Colaw on Wednesday heard an unhappy investor's petition to force Merri...



Healthcare/Hospital Law


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Gottlieb - The health care affordability crisis can be summed up in two words: unsustainable infl...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Rieger v. Arnold , 2002 ...



Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Imperial County

Jan. 9, 2003
By Jack Briggs

EL CENTRO - TRI Capital Co. Inc. structured an FHA 223 $6.12 million refinance on behalf of the owners of the 272-unit Posada...


Judges and Judiciary


Fixture on Bench, Judge Thrives

Jan. 9, 2003
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - A couple of tips from veteran Judge Charles E. Frisco on ruling from the bench: Be independent, and be mindful o...



Litigation


Tipped Scales

Jan. 9, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Bess Blank - Usually legislation that affects litigation procedure is of little interest to anyone other tha...


Immigration


In a case of first impression, the Review Department of the State Bar Court has recommended that an immigration lawyer be susp...



Government


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday revised the department's pursuit policy, which would put a...


Government


Profiling Figures Provoke Debate

Jan. 9, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - One day after the mayor and chief of police released a truckload of raw data on police stops, experts and advoca...



Large Firms


MoFo Speaks to Israeli Clients

Jan. 9, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster launched a new Hebrew-language Web site Tuesday to better cater to its Israeli techno...


Judges and Judiciary


Hitchens Makes New Assignments

Jan. 9, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A new presiding judge has installed the old regime in the San Francisco Superior Courts' law and motion depar...



Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Cooley Godward partners in Kirkland, Wash., have landed in the Seattle office of San Francisco's O...


Litigation


Arbitrator Quantifies Elevator Shove

Jan. 9, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator has awarded $138,740 to a San Rafael lawyer after finding that another attorney attacked him in ...



Judges and Judiciary


Acting PJ Says She'll Step Down

Jan. 9, 2003
By Riley Guerin

SAN JOSE - Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, whose tenure as acting presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal ...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to allow Kim Boyd, the widow of a slain Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, to expan...



Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...


Judges and Judiciary


DCA Justice John Benson, 75

Jan. 9, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...



Securities


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...


Large Firms


Edsell Eady Moves to Nixon Peabody

Jan. 9, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...



Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Remcho argued twice before the California Supreme Court over redistricting issues and succeeded both t...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


LOS ANGELES - Faced with securities firms' rejection of California's tough new disclosure rules for arbitrators, disgruntled ...



Column By Garry Abrams - It's official. Los Angeles is a hellhole. A judicial hellhole, to be exact. That's the opinion of the...


Criminal


Date-Rape Suspect Disappears

Jan. 8, 2003
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - Wealthy date-rape suspect Andrew Luster failed to show up in court for his trial Monday, forcing a judge to declare ...



Government


Jewish Group Wins Round in Court

Jan. 8, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Monday after a city official pledged that...


Government


Police Release Raw Numbers About Profiling

Jan. 8, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - African-Americans and Hispanics driving or walking in the city of Los Angeles are far more likely than whites to...



Criminal


LOS ANGELES - In the final weeks of 2002, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and some of his top command staff held meet...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - Looking back on 2002, perhaps the most interesting of the large number of...