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Civil Rights


New Rights for Domestic Partners

Jun. 8, 2001
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A bill to grant new legal privileges to domestic partners was approved Wednesday by the state Assembly following ...


Criminal


Alleged Assault Victim Speaks Out

Jun. 8, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor, hoping to get legislation passed that would make it easier to convict defendants a...


Law Practice


Lawyers Get Some Protection From Office Searches

Jun. 8, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Listen carefully when you leave the office tonight - the click of the lock might sound slightly different. Law...


Intellectual Property


Digital Music Codes At Issue in Lawsuit

Jun. 8, 2001
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - In a role reversal, the notably litigious record industry found itself on the defensive end of a lawsuit Wedne...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Riordan & McKinzie has lost three more partners from its Orange County office. The departu...


Criminal


A Triumphant Delgadillo Says City Will Shine

Jun. 8, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The next thing Los Angeles' newly elected city attorney should do is buy a lottery ticket. With a new baby and a...


Government


Bad-Chad Anxiety Haunts L.A. Elections

Jun. 8, 2001
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - The specters of those tiny but fearsome twins, Hanging and Dimpled Chad, haunted Tuesday's elections. Concern th...


Government


Law-and-Order Hahn Poises to Move Forward

Jun. 8, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor-elect James K. Hahn said he wants to move past the bitterness of an election race he won with ...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - The high-technology industry has succeeded in dumping financial fraud from a list of public hazards that would be...


Securities


New Limits Placed on Shareholder Litigation

Jun. 8, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - As if the 1995 securities reform law didn't clamp down enough on shareholder class action suits, a federal app...


Judges and Judiciary


A Rash Of Court Illnesses

Jun. 8, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - At first, courtroom clerk Margie Sadler figured her runny nose and scratchy throat were just allergies, a comm...


Criminal


Judge Denies Execution Stay, McVeigh Appeals

Jun. 7, 2001
By Charles Asbhy

DENVER - Defense lawyers for Timothy McVeigh today will appeal a federal judge's decision refusing to stay the convicted bombe...


Constitutional Law


Police Suit Moves to U.S. Court

Jun. 7, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the San Francisco Police Department avoided a showdown with criminal defense attorney J. ...


Litigation


Fight on

Jun. 7, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Calabasas attorney Andrew C. Bryman has an aggressive style to litigation, as evidenced in his recent $2.2 million settlement ...


Litigation


Building Rapport

Jun. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Persuading a judge, whether arguing motions or during a bench trial, requires skills that are in some ways similar and in some...


Education


A recent report indicates that 2 million teen-agers, self-identified as gay, report "widespread bullying" and "teacher indiffe...


Litigation


Hell on Earth

Jun. 7, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Hell may look different to the many religions of the world, but patients suffering with reflex sympathetic dystrophy agree on ...


Law Practice


Jack Werchick, Leading Trial Lawyer

Jun. 7, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Werchick, who put himself through law school by driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco and be...


Litigation


Does Section 17200 Add Up?

Jun. 7, 2001
By Columnist

YES. The plaintiffs' bar is alleging Business & Professions Code Section 17200 claims with more frequency and in a wider r...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


People Person

Jun. 7, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Neutrals aren't always so neutral. Mediators can't help but bring their biases to the table. At least, that's how Robert Ballo...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Appoints Pair of Superior Court Judges

Jun. 7, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed two veteran members of the San Diego legal community to the Superior Court, filling ...


Large Firms


Clerk Sues Law Firm, Alleging Harassment

Jun. 7, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A word processing clerk who worked for a prominent Orange County law firm for 10 years has sued her former employe...


Juvenile


Freedom Tastes Bittersweet

Jun. 7, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - Like other foster kids, Leo Aguilar and Robert Zubia, now 20, grew up in the belly of an impersonal, rigid syste...


Constitutional Law


Justices Hear Arguments on Tenants' Rights

Jun. 7, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court struggled mightily Tuesday with whether tenants can be banned from distributing lea...


By For the second time in a week, bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has rebuffed efforts by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to have...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Loses Bid to Avoid Paying High Energy Bills

Jun. 7, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a week, bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has rebuffed efforts by Pacific Gas and Electri...


Criminal


Idaho Can Charge Ruby Ridge Shooter

Jun. 7, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The state of Idaho can prosecute FBI marksman Lon T. Horiuchi for involuntary manslaughter in the 1992 shootin...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - In a move Baker & McKenzie managers say aids a firmwide push to refocus on its traditional specialties, th...


Administrative/Regulatory


As a 16-year-city prosecutor, Jim Hahn has compiled hands-on public safety experience. As a college student, Jim Hahn voluntee...


Law Practice


By Linda Bulmash Confidence is the ability to project a positive self-view to the public and to make others comfortable in yo...