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Judges and Judiciary


Task Force Surveys Courthouses

Apr. 5, 2000
By Jean Guccione

Appellate Justice Daniel J. Kremer walked with a group of visitors through the hallways of the Simi Valley courthouse in outl...


Criminal


Conning the Cons

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA When it isn't some poor soul conned out of his or her savings but instead a criminal geting conned, the result is sweet...


Litigation


Studio Hit With $11M by Production Co.

Apr. 5, 2000
By Denise Levin

A movie studio is responsible for the negligent acts committed by an independent contractor producer who works out of its fac...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Feasible Fees?

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

Feasible Fees? Court Strikes Blow to Section 317 Strategy Whether Section 317 justifies an award of attorney fees to a defend...


Criminal


Lawyer Will Stand Trial for Murder of Client

Apr. 5, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A Carlsbad real estate lawyer who became infatuated with a client and wanted to marry her will stand trial July 1...


Law Practice


Intellectual property attorney Bruce D. Kuyper joins Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins as a partner, effective today . Kuyper...


Intellectual Property


DICTA 'Rembrants in the Attic' is a book about valuing, building and protecting business investments by effectively using pat...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge May Call Prosecutors Policy Asinine

Apr. 5, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Although a federal judge in Los Angeles berated prosecutors as "asinine" for failing to add a weapons charge ...


Criminal


Court to Rehear Bishops Remaining Convictions

Apr. 5, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa Supervisor Gayle Bishop, who succeeded in getting two of four perjury convictions tossed ...


Litigation


Farmers Co. Affiliate to Pay $30M Plus $94

Apr. 5, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - When it came to awarding punitive damages, an Orange County Superior Court decided to send Los Angeles-based insu...


Intellectual Property


Zombie Computer

Apr. 5, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Recent hacker attacks may have given rise to a new form of legal liability. Page 6. By Peter Whalen and Nicole Goodwin ...


Appellate Practice


Court to Decide Limits on LSC Lawyers

Apr. 5, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether barring lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp. from c...


Government


Cost of Plans First Year: $9.2M+

Apr. 5, 2000
By Chris Ford

A proposal by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to prevent Rampart-style corruption by increasing the rati...


After 21/2 years of dreadful peril at the hands of a multinational entertainment behemoth and an aging, eccentric Irish film ...


Appellate Practice


SACRAMENTO - Dealing a blow to doctors, a fractured California Supreme Court ruled Monday that revocation of medical licenses...


Criminal


Officer Pleads Not Guilty to False Report

Apr. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A California Highway Patrol officer suspected of lying about being shot during a traffic stop pleaded not guil...


Criminal


Cracking Hacking

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

THE ADVISER Initiatives from government and industry may stem the tide of Internet-spawned cybercrimes. By Peter Brown XX By ...


Large Firms


Brobeck Snags Two Partners From Shearman

Apr. 4, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Dean Kristy and Susan Samuels Muck, litigation partners at Shearman & Sterling in San Francisco, have join...


Labor/Employment


Premium Bypass

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

THE ADVISER Under new overtime rules, firms still may be able to get staff to work long days without overtime pay. By Richard ...


Criminal


Plaintiffs Cannot Get Confidential Files

Apr. 4, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Records of a criminal investigation into the homicide of a toddler need not be turned over to his parents to help...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian - the Menlo Park-based firm that gained national ...


Criminal


Panel Prejudice

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

Panel Prejudice Juror Misconduct Deprives a Defendant of Constitutional Rights Certain extraneous materials, such as dictionar...


Intellectual Property


Global Flexibility

Apr. 4, 2000
By Columnist

THE CLOSER U.S. courts must remain user-friendly to continue as premier venues for intellectual property disputes. By William...


Criminal


Traffic-Stop Cop-Slayer Faces Death Sentence

Apr. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court jurors will begin hearing arguments next week to help them decide whether or not to s...


Judges and Judiciary


The idea that trial court unification would benefit the justice system originated in the early 20th century. Harvard Law Schoo...


Criminal


Internet Seduction Law Upheld

Apr. 4, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has for the first time upheld a California law making it a felony to send a child harmful m...


Litigation


Isuzu, Consumers Union End Defamation Trial

Apr. 4, 2000
By Martin Bergn

While lawyers for an automaking giant told jurors Friday that "truth doesn't matter" to officials at the leading product ratin...


Judges and Judiciary


Ex-Judge Sues County for $72K Legal Costs

Apr. 4, 2000
By Jean Guccione

An ex-judge is suing Ventura County to collect the $72,000 in legal costs he spent defending himself against alcohol-related d...


Litigation


U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie pounded a fatal stake through one of the movie business's longest-lived litigation monste...


Litigation


SAN JOSE - Each time the real estate agent stopped by 83-year-old Janis Jepson's house last year, her grandson said she was as...