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Insurance


Justices Won't Back Down From Insurance Ruling

Jul. 13, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has rejected all requests to reconsider its May ruling that allows insurance comp...


Transportation


Costs of MTA Legal Battle Mount

Jul. 13, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has won a major legal round against the Metro Rai...



Solo and Small Firms


Perkins Adds Iota Pi Group

Jul. 13, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Iota Pi Law Group, best-known as the longtime Palo Alto intellectual property boutique Dehlinger & Associa...


LOS ANGELES - The prospect of going to trial against two disabled people, including a man with no arms and legs, has made the ...



Juvenile


Businessman Tells of Vietnam's Other Side

Jul. 13, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is preparing to vote on an agreement expanding trade with Vietnam, one of that country...


Front Page


Automatic Update

Jul. 13, 2001
By Columnist

^^Bankruptcy Law^^ Automatic Update New Inflation Adjustments Affect Consumers and Creditors By Wesley H. Avery Section 104(b...



Constitutional Law


S.F. Landlords' Eviction Suit Is Revived

Jul. 13, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeals court on Wednesday revived a landowners' lawsuit challenging a city voter-mandated law meant t...


Intellectual Property


Avant Restitution Hearing Wrapping Up

Jul. 13, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for Cadence Design Systems pressed their argument Wednesday that Avant Corp. should pay $700 million in c...



Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon's novel vote-by-mail statute complies with federal election law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...


Energy Law


SACRAMENTO - A conflict between Enron Corp. and a Senate committee investigating alleged price-gouging in California's energy ...



Law Practice


Family and Relatives Mourn Securities Attorney

Jul. 12, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

LOS ANGELES - Retired securities lawyer Wayne H. Knight has died. Knight died July 3 from complications of pneumonia. He was 9...


Real Estate/Development


Soothing The Soul

Jul. 12, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Defending an 81-year-old woman threatened with eviction brought Southern California attorney Denise Letzer-McGranahan a long-s...



Real Estate/Development


No Vacancy

Jul. 12, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Facing an eviction from her Santa Monica apartment after more than 30 years, 81-year-old Lavon Fitzgerald couldn't fund an exp...


Corporate


Franchisee Fodder

Jul. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Unlike most franchise cases of the past several years where arbitrability was an issue, the court did not proceed with the usu...



Law Practice


Family Law Practitioner Loses Fight With Cancer

Jul. 12, 2001
By Victoria Newman

LOS ANGELES - Family law sole practitioner Toby Plevin has died after a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Plevin di...


Litigation


Teaching the Takers

Jul. 12, 2001
By Columnist

A deposition taken by an inexperienced deposition-taker can be a cruel experience for the questioner, the deponent and the vet...



Public Interest


Predatory lending became the focus of a multicase pro bono effort spearheaded by a team of attorneys in the Silicon Valley off...


Criminal


Embezzler Gets Time For Defrauding Firm

Jul. 12, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento man who fled to England after he and his wife embezzled nearly $1 million from a Santa Monica law f...



Litigation


Brain Food

Jul. 12, 2001
By Columnist

One of the challenges facing litigators during peak stress times is time pressure interfering with quality nutrition. Busy tri...


Constitutional Law


Space Invaders

Jul. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Violence on campus cannot be the basis for abdicating our duty to protect the Constitution and instill in youth what the Bill ...



Alternative Dispute Resolution


New View

Jul. 12, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Sometimes, all it takes is a suggestion. Irene Zeibarth sensed that an elder wanted more than money when he sued his church fo...


Government


SANTA ANA - When Orange County Deputy Marshal Stephen J. Scott retired in 1992, he knew his 11-year tenure in the Sheriff's De...



Litigation


Cruel Parade

Jul. 12, 2001
By Columnist

It was raining, and I was poring, over some 90-day A/Rs. The phone rang. Stanley, a plaintiff's lawyer, was upset. "I've been ...


Energy Law


Judge Still Rejects PG&E Ratepayer Committee

Jul. 12, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers will not have a formal committee to represent them in the Chapter 11 case of Pacific Gas and Electr...



Criminal


Report Shows Reform in PD's Office

Jul. 12, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The national watchdog agency that lambasted the Riverside County public defender's office in an audit last year la...


Civil Rights


Dog Defendants File Suit for Inmate Son

Jul. 12, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco attorneys, themselves behind bars awaiting trial for murder and manslaughter in the dog-maul...



Large Firms


Coudert Brothers Firm Moves to The Cannery

Jul. 12, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - The 90 lawyers and staff in the San Francisco office of Coudert Brothers will get a change of scenery next wee...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - In an apparent effort to circumvent a landmark DNA law enacted last year, an attorney general's task force has dr...



Insurance


Court Lets Firms Settle, Then Bill Insured

Jul. 12, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A little-noticed California Supreme Court decision has alarmed consumer advocates concerned that insurance com...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen E. O'Neil, supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, and a man...