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Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - In a survey bound to deliver more thorns than roses to love-smitten co-workers on Valentine's Day, most Americ...


Criminal


Davis Gets Lower Bail, Trial Delay

Feb. 15, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday delayed the criminal trial of former attorney James H. Davis and redu...


Government


Lockyer Proposes Reforms for Riverside Police

Feb. 15, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Capping an extensive investigation prompted by the fatal shooting of Tyisha Miller in 1998, California Attorney Ge...


Banking


Dangerous Debt

Feb. 14, 2001
By Columnist

Casino patrons may be arrested, tried, convicted and jailed for failing to repay amounts evidenced by casino markers. ...


Labor/Employment


Villaraigosa Nabs Union Backing

Feb. 14, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - By just one vote Monday, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa won the backing of the largest labor...


Judges and Judiciary


Sacramento's Law Library Finds Elegant Digs

Feb. 14, 2001
By Contributing Writer

SACRAMENTO - After 110 years of relegation to basements, the Sacramento County Public Law Library has a new home above ground....


Law Practice


Intraoffice Interaction

Feb. 14, 2001
By Columnist

At the start of their legal careers, most lawyers make the same pledge. They promise themselves not to become romantically inv...


Judges and Judiciary


In Waddel v. Georgia, 27 Ga. 262 (1859), Judge Joseph H. Lumpkin wrote the following for the court: The defendant havin...


Criminal


Saving Misbehaving LAPD

Feb. 14, 2001
By Columnist

Once again, the Los Angeles Police Department, with a little help from Mayor Richard J. Riordan, is making sure to talk only t...


Criminal


RIVERSIDE - A Hemet woman who claimed she wasn't home when her boyfriend shook her baby to death has been sentenced to 20 year...


Criminal


Judge Orders Ex-Nightclub Owner to Forfeit Bail

Feb. 14, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday ordered former Hollywood nightclub owner Eddie Nash to forfeit $75,000 of the $1.5 millio...


Judges and Judiciary


McBride Wins Dismissal of Case

Feb. 14, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Misdemeanor spousal abuse charges against San Francisco Superior Court Judge James McBride have been dismissed...


Intellectual Property


Forced to Reboot

Feb. 14, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The $15 billion-a-year music industry can sing all the way to the bank. In a clear victory for the recording c...


Litigation


Appellate Court Ruling Favors Cellphone Users

Feb. 14, 2001
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - Cellphone users can pursue claims for damages against their wireless service providers in state court, an appel...


Environmental


Ruling Seen as a Crippling Blow

Feb. 14, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The anti-piracy opinion issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday will probably push Napster and ...


Litigation


Users Lament End of Music File-Swapping

Feb. 14, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

LOS ANGELES - As word of the Napster ruling spread Monday morning, some avid users rushed to their computers to download free...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski cannot have a new trial, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ru...


LOS ANGELES - An 80-year-old San Bruno card room named after a mild-mannered gourmet vegetable wants to become The Little Shop...


Firm Watch


Burnham Brown, a litigation firm in Oakland, has hired three litigators from San Jose's Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. Par...


Firm Watch


Labor and employment lawyer Angel Gomez has moved to a firm that's as well-known as he is for that practice area, New York's E...


Entertainment & Sports


SPIN CONTROLLERS STEER INTERTAINMENT LITIGATION

Feb. 13, 2001
By Contributing Writer

I stopped by the Sunset Room, Hollywood's hottest nightclub since it opened in Fall 1999. I had a good talk with co-owner Brad...


Firm Watch


Ken Lamb, a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, is going off to head mergers and acquisitions g...


Entertainment & Sports


JAFFE AND CLEMENS TALK DIVORCE HOLLYWOOD-STYLE

Feb. 13, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Tom Cruise! Nicole Kidman! Going, going gone! Oh, Lawdy! Reeling from the announcement that the showbiz twosome of the decade ...


Transactions


Steering Thousands Toward a Common Goal

Feb. 13, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Ethan Feffer wants to take his clients' success to the next level. That's why the new partner with Brobeck Phleger & Harri...


Four lawyers from Los Angeles' Pretty & Schroeder decided to forgo the boutique lifestyle after theirs merged with the Pas...


Transactions


UMember.com has acquired the Success Companies for $75 million. Los Angeles' uMember.com is an online discount shopping servic...


Transactions


CarsDirect.com is buying online rival Greenlight.com. The terms of the stock deal will not be disclosed. Culver City's CarsDir...


Firm Watch


San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass has added three attorneys to its ranks: a former assistant public defender, an...


Firm Watch


Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfield Kelly & Kraemer, a 30-lawyer San Francisco employment and labor law boutique, opened a thr...


Communications


SAN JOSE - Lawyers for a San Jose attorney who is accusing the California Highway Patrol of racial profiling have tried to per...