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Contracts


SAN FRANCISCO - Cabbies beware: San Francisco's state Court of Appeal has just endorsed tort damages for premature ejection of...


Government


Counsel From L.A. Get Ready for High Court

Nov. 20, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - For three hours while the professors interrogated him about the law and his case, Deputy City Attorney Michael K...


Litigation


Cybersquatters Served Notice: It'll Cost

Nov. 20, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Seattle has given videogame maker Nintendo Inc.'s American subsidiary one of the biggest mu...


Intellectual Property


FTC to Host Hearings on New IP Laws

Nov. 20, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice will hold a series of public hearings beginnin...


Criminal


Judge OKs Delay of Official's Trial

Nov. 20, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A Los Angeles federal judge Friday granted a joint request by defense attorneys and prosecutors to postpone f...


Litigation


Ex-Billionaire Boy Sues Prosecutors

Nov. 20, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A Billionaire Boys Club defendant has sued his former prosecutors, claiming they hid exculpatory evidence and ...


Firm Watch


Securities Lawyers Face Thorny Problems Ahead

Nov. 20, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Two trends emerged at the 33rd annual Institute on Securities Regulation, held in New York City Nov. 7-10, acc...


Judges and Judiciary


Newspaper Protests Exclusion

Nov. 20, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A plea hearing in an Internet teen sex case led to a media protest when a federal judge ordered reporters excl...


Law Practice


Pro Bono Aid for Sept. 11 Victims

Nov. 20, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys from prominent firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles have volunteered to provide pro bono legal ser...


Entertainment & Sports


The dueling lawsuits between Franchise Pictures and Intertainment Licensing GmbH have been reassigned to U.S. District Judge A...


Intellectual Property


Affirmative Assent

Nov. 19, 2001
By Columnist

The law's patience with the fiction of posted online agreements may be nearing an end. The U.S. District Court in New York, ap...


Education


With the days of summer finally behind us, it is time to look forward to the annual rites of autumn and winter - Thanksgiving,...


Intellectual Property


Tech Minefield

Nov. 19, 2001
By Columnist

A patent attorney should recommend which of the client's inventions to patent based on the business goals and needs of the cli...


Administrative/Regulatory


An Antidote to Panic

Nov. 19, 2001
By Columnist

The effective creation of disruption and even terror in the United States by the mailing of a small number of letters containi...


Litigation


Security Devices Offer Order in the Court

Nov. 17, 2001
By Columnist

The recent events on the East Coast have brought a tremendous focus on security. Security is designed to make us feel safe and...


Judges and Judiciary


Bar Group Will Track Information on Judges

Nov. 17, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Want to know how many days Los Angeles Superior Court Judge X spent in trial last year or how Judge Y has ruled ...


Large Firms


MoFo Adds Another Ex-DOJ Attorney

Nov. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, continuing to bring more government prosecutors into the fold, has recruited Tony Wes...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Prosecutor May Be Immune for Jailing

Nov. 17, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge indicated Thursday she would probably dismiss a civil false imprisonment complaint again...


Environmental


Auditor Tells Jury of Lab Dangers

Nov. 17, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A 1994 chemical explosion that killed two scientists at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura Coun...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Erwin Supoly's apartment walls were filthy from years of chain-smoking, he didn't wash his clothes and at times ...


Criminal


Stabbing Victim Has Long Record

Nov. 17, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor and the man he stabbed in a fight last week in San Rafael both have criminal histor...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a felony child-endangerment conviction in an unusual case in which the ...


Law Practice


Lawmakers Hope to Appoint New Counsel by January

Nov. 17, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Five people have emerged as potential successors to state Legislative Counsel Bion Gregory, and some legislative ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Ashmann as an asso...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - Catching and prosecuting criminal noncitizens will get easier soon, with the launching this month of an interage...


Large Firms


Brobeck Picks L.A. Lawyer to Lead the Firm

Nov. 17, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Odom, a Los Angeles lawyer who most recently led Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's complex litigation ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis named a longtime city-government and law-enforcement official to the State Bar Board of Governor...


Labor/Employment


Lawyers call recruiters daily, asking them to find them the perfect in-house opportunity, because they are burned out in the p...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Antique Row

Nov. 16, 2001
By Columnist

As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, there has been an increased interest in landowners applying...


On Sept. 11, terrorists attacked a great deal more than our New York skyline. They attacked the United States' way of life. An...