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Large Firms


Gray Cary Spins Off Startup Advice Firm

May 25, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is trying to get out of the startup company advice business. Law...


SAN BERNARDINO - Superior Court Judge James A. Edwards said he had a "Hobson's Choice" in deciding how to sentence a teen-age...


Immigration


Alien Remains Free During Appeal

May 25, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - In a rare turnabout this week, the INS has agreed to allow Antonio "Tony" Alvarado-Torres to remain free while ...


Judges and Judiciary


Probe Reveals Conflict Issues in Court Votes

May 25, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Four California Supreme Court justices with stock investments in large corporations have participated in 32 ca...


Health Care & Hospital Law


LOS ANGELES - Beware: litigious podiatrist. That warning probably addresses anyone who contemplates tangling with Garey Lee We...


Law Practice


Ruling Lets In-House Counsel Divulge Confidences

May 25, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that clarifies that in-house lawyers are people too, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday that in...


Front Page


James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, has been inducted as a Fellow to ...


Construction


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether San Francisco tenants can block a landlord's ...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Paula Kamena, the Marin County district attorney who overwhelmingly defeated an effort to throw her out of of...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco has stepped up its search for a new executive director, and so far one t...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Lunge, Parry

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

Negotiating the resolution of legal disputes is not the same as everyday bargaining.


Education


McGeorge School of Law Names Interim Dean

May 24, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - University of the Pacific president Donald DeRosa announced the appointment Wednesday of John Sprankling as inte...


Government


Judge's Past May Prove Prologue

May 24, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - In 1981, Carolyn B. Kuhl and two other Justice Department officials persuaded the U.S. attorney general to suppo...


Litigation


Judging Judges

May 24, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

While retired judges have little trouble mastering most ADR methods, they get mixed reviews in their work as mediators. ...


Insurance


Bad Company

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

Many insureds face claims of antitrust violations, anti-competitive conduct, unfair competition and theft of trade secrets. To...


Corporate


Alschuler Grossman Taps Corporate Attorney

May 24, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Michael Miller, a founding partner of Beverly Hills boutique Sherman, Nathanson & Miller...


Litigation


Dangerous Waters

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

California courts may have left the unfortunate impression that arbitrators may ignore applicable law. While it is one thing t...


Litigation


Swear No More

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

The wording of the Code of Civil Procedure Section 2093 oath to tell the truth in an action or proceeding was changed by legis...


Litigation


International Call

May 24, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Lawyers can be too clever for their clients' good. A San Diego legal team learned this lesson the hard way when an internation...


Criminal


Hope Is Blind

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

Every term-to-life prisoner in the state is waiting, holding his breath and praying that Robert Rosenkrantz wins his lawsuit a...


Litigation


One Right Answer

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

Every mediation presents its own challenges, including how people think. One significant phenomenon arising from thought proce...


Litigation


It's the Phrasing

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

Cole Porter, a Harvard Law alum, wrote it. But nobody made it come alive like Frank Sinatra, who never graduated from anyplace...


Litigation


Speak the Vernacular

May 24, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Gifted litigators can take the most technically complicated cases and frame the issues in an easily understood way. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Wordsmith

May 24, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

It wasn't starting a law career at the age of 39 after raising three kids, gaining technical expertise in a budding computer i...


Administrative/Regulatory


Sex Offenders Must Register at College SANTA ANA - The state Assembly has passed new legislation requiring sex offenders who ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The End Is Not Here

May 24, 2001
By Columnist

There are a number of changes on the horizon for the franchise community. These may have a dramatic effect on conflict resolut...


Energy Law


Lawmakers Sue FERC, Citing Health, Safety

May 24, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In a longshot gamble to drag a federal appeals court into California's energy crisis, state legislative leade...


Criminal


Jury Says Misconduct Didn't Affect Its Verdict

May 24, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Members of a Superior Court jury that Tuesday convicted a burglary suspect of hiring a hit man to kill two witn...


Government


County Lobbies State to Fix Rickety Courthouse

May 24, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - The roof and windows leak. The interior walls have cracks. Concrete is crumbling, the elevators need repairs...


Criminal


DAs Attack Olson Defense's Tactics

May 24, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - In an argument against further postponements of the trial of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane ...