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Buying Canadian Outfit Proves Tricky

Jul. 24, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Negotiating with a privately held Canadian company can be tricky, Michael Dorf recently discovered. A corporate and securities...


Judges and Judiciary


Campaign Costs and Contributions

Jul. 24, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Some illustrations of escalating judicial campaign costs and contributions: ...


Public Interest


Outgoing Legal Aid Head Picks Up Another Award

Jul. 24, 2001
By Contributing Writer

The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center presented Drucilla Ramey, outgoing executive director and general counsel of the B...


Firm Watch


John Petrovich, a former partner in the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, is working his way...


Judges and Judiciary


Public Financing of Judicial Contests Urged

Jul. 24, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the need to mount million-dollar election campaigns, more judges are seeking help from those with a...


Criminal


Court Orders Drug Abuser's Release

Jul. 24, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - In what is believed to be the first writ granted in connection with a Proposition 36 case, the 2nd District Cour...


Solo and Small Firms


Flying Solo

Jul. 24, 2001
By Erik Cummins

Do screaming partners, escalating billable hours and demanding corporate clients have you eyeing the door, contemplating a bol...


Government


Counsel Alleges DA Has Conflict Over Probe

Jul. 24, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas had a conflict in calling for a grand jury probe into the 1988 s...


Law Practice


Nolo's Founders Do Their Own Divorce

Jul. 24, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Charles "Ed" Sherman wrote a best-seller, "How to Do Your Own Divorce in California," and 20 years la...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Seven elderly and disabled tenants facing eviction from their Venice apartment complex have sued their landlord ...


Immigration


AG Meets Today With Thai Boy, Community

Jul. 24, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - The fate of a 4-year-old Thai boy, stranded in Los Angeles after being caught in a slave-trafficking ring, may b...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A fractious 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered two majority decisions, one ...


Criminal


MOUNTAIN VIEW - Venturing into the Silicon Valley, Attorney General John Ashcroft has unveiled a plan to increase the weight o...


Law Practice


Noloids Rule!

Jul. 24, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo's flying solo. And hostile lawyers are still trying to shoot it down. The Berkeley self-help law book pub...


Government


Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," observed in the 1800s that you could judge a country by the way it tr...


Law Practice


'Legally Blonde' captures the essence of at least one Harvard Law School graduate's experience. ...


Constitutional Law


On High

Jul. 21, 2001

To state the obvious, the U.S. Supreme Court must do more than simply resolve the controversies in the cases before it; the co...


Large Firms


Another Riordan & McKinzie Partner Defects

Jul. 21, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie, which has suffered a series of defections since the firm's failed merger ta...


Government


Plan Will Give Aid to Low-Income Litigants

Jul. 21, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

SANTA ANA - Low-income Californians who represent themselves in civil court will have more computers to use at legal-aid cente...


Public Interest


Stocking Up

Jul. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Should busy lawyers put their financial investments on autopilot? ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Pat Bradford, a veteran Los Angeles Superior Court court reporter. Bradfor...


Government


Czar-Craze Hits Home In America

Jul. 21, 2001
By Columnist

America is czar-struck. I didn't realize how bad the problem had become until I read that Philadelphia had appointed - get thi...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Residential Inclusion

Jul. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The court noted that Napa, like many other localities in California, has a shortage of affordable housing. ...


Labor/Employment


Court Reporter Sues After Pay Cut

Jul. 21, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Victorville court reporter has filed a federal lawsuit against San Bernardino County, contending her supervisors...


Judges and Judiciary


Cancer Claims 'Gregarious' Los Angeles Judge

Jul. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald E. Cappai. Cappai, known for his affa...


Criminal


SLA Trial Takes Trip North for Testimony

Jul. 21, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys in the bombing-conspiracy case against accused '70s radical-turned-...


Large Firms


Ex-Candidate Joins Mayer Brown in Palo Alto

Jul. 21, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Shannon, an attorney who in 1996 ran as a Republican against incumbent Democratic Sen. Byron Sher to r...


Government


U.S. Attorney Emphasizes Activism in New Post

Jul. 21, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Although John Hueston heads the U.S. attorney's office in Orange County, law wasn't the first thing on his mind 15...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Thursday as me...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge postponed a cop-killer's sentencing Thursday because of the defense attorney'...