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Technology & Science


Napster's Adversary Rises From The Ashes

Mar. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Using the novel approach of offering online music files legitimately, a reincarnated Scour plans to avoid the billion-dollar ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Retro Restriction

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Recently, an appellate court held that an initiative totally banning oil drilling applied to a pre-existing project because it...


Litigation


City of San Diego Challenges Ruling

Mar. 17, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - The city of San Diego, slammed with a $94.5 million jury verdict in an inverse condemnation case, filed an appella...


Securities


Bear Facts

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Nearly all venture investing is done in stages, or rounds. Typically, the initial round of financing, usually a convertible pr...


Large Firms


Firm Gets Annual Business Award

Mar. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Century City Chamber of Commerce will honor the law firm of Cox, Castle & Nicholson as its "citizen of t...


Juvenile


The Daily Journal asks attorneys what they think about the life sentence for 14-year-old Lionel Tate. ...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Marshall W. Vorkink, retired trial attorney and former supervisor of Union Pacific...


Investments


Early Bird

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Lawyers often go from trial to trial or closing to closing without thinking much about their retirement. But, if you force you...


Appellate Practice


SAN DIEGO - A legal malpractice expert Thursday hailed a state appellate ruling that bars clients from suing their attorneys f...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - In rare victories for sex offenders facing life sentences, the California Supreme Court and an intermediate ap...


Family


Learning to Listen

Mar. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after El Dorado Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury took over as presiding judge in mid-1999, the n...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area air pollution regulators have refused to hand over detailed information on more than 1,000 pollution ...


Judges and Judiciary


Best Be Careful With That 'Send' Button

Mar. 17, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal court in northern California will launch its Internet-based electronic case filing project April 2...


Criminal


Suit Targets Management Firm At Center of DA Controversy

Mar. 17, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A month after Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas stirred controversy by withdrawing a consumer-protec...


Education


HUNTINGTON BEACH - Charlre-L Jackson won't be on the basketball court Saturday when her high school's basketball team takes th...


Government


Cash and Carry

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Pending before the California Supreme Court is the urgent plea of the state's consumers to resolve a matter the court first ad...


Law Practice


PUC Legal Dept. Acquires New Chief

Mar. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen has followed his former law partner Loretta Lynch to the state Public Utilities Commission, the age...


Litigation


Stop the Presses

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Business executives and communications directors often face complex situations, involving intense media and public scrutiny. A...


Technology & Science


Where is a Web site located? Courts around the world have been grappling with this very issue of jurisdiction in a cyberworld ...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired Santa Anita Presiding Judge Dies

Mar. 17, 2001
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Samuel Clark Moore Jr., retired presiding judge of the Santa Anita Municip...


Public Interest


Tricks of the Trade

Mar. 16, 2001
By Columnist

The knock on the newspaper business is, "If it bleeds, it leads." Some in the "Fourth Estate" no longer understand that the ex...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The World's Women Lawyers Gather

Mar. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Women have made tremendous strides in California's legal landscape. Just this week, the 175,000-member State B...


Public Interest


Some law firms do little planning, if any, when it comes to projecting future income and expenses. They have neither budgets n...


Judges and Judiciary


Courtly Critic of Civility

Mar. 16, 2001
By Columnist

In a speech last month before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas deliv...


Bankruptcy


Graham & James Files Financials

Mar. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James confirmed Wednesday that the firm owes $6 million...


Criminal


Fired Investigator Sues Riverside PD for Bias

Mar. 16, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A woman who used to be the chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office has filed a sex dis...


Law Practice


Plaintiff Withdrawing Suit Must Pay Fees

Mar. 16, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a plaintiff who voluntarily withdrew a lawsuit must pay the other party's a...


Government


SAN DIEGO - It was a gnarly way to make the evening news, but the district attorney's consumer protection unit finally got its...


Large Firms


Lawyer Departs Disney, Returns to Dewey

Mar. 16, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Sanford "Sandy" Litvack, former vice chair of Burbank-based media giant Walt Disney Co., rejoined New York-based...


Criminal


Sheriff's Staffers Face Charges for Card Scam

Mar. 16, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging four Los Angeles County Sheriff'...