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Litigation


Plan Your Civil Disobedience Legalities

Apr. 13, 2000
By Contributing Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Planning a mass arrest or some act of civil disobedience? As with any activity with legal ramifications, movi...


Solo and Small Firms


SF Lawyer Accused of Extortion

Apr. 13, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO -- A young San Francisco lawyer copied confidential documents from clients in a bid to extort a lucrative retir...


Commercial Law


By Thomas Elias Ignoring the concept of the income tax, as the deadline for filing state and federal returns looms very close,...


Constitutional Law


Fee Speech

Apr. 13, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM The Supreme Court in Southworth provides a blueprint for causing the entire student-activity-fee system to implode. ...


Criminal


Parks Expanding Gang Unit Oversight

Apr. 13, 2000
By Chris Ford

In an attempt to avoid the kind of officer law-breaking associated with the Rampart scandal, the Los Angeles Police Departmen...


Law Practice


Three Plead Not Guilty to Stealing Charity Food

Apr. 13, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Glendora lawyer John Franklyn Watkins, a private investigator and a LaVerne couple pleaded not guilty Tuesday to ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Not So Secret

Apr. 13, 2000
By Columnist

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ California's mediation confidentiality statutes were thought to be the broadest in the Unit...


Large Firms


Remembrance Day

Apr. 13, 2000
By Martin Kruming

^^San Diego Watch Martin Kruming^^ ROLE MODEL EXTRAORDINAIRE : Even as he battled cancer, Reaves Elledge used to go into the c...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal heard arguments Tuesday on the state Department of Justice's appe...


Intellectual Property


Woman Who Sheltered Jews Settles Lawsuit

Apr. 13, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - For more than two months, Orange County jurors have listened patiently to testimony in a lawsuit filed by an elde...


Criminal


DA Opposes Habeas Corpus Bid in 1993 Case

Apr. 13, 2000
By Michael Harris

Despite a man's contention that two of the most disgraced officers in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department - Rafae...


Judges and Judiciary


Appellate Judge Denies Hearing To Court Staff

Apr. 13, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Attempts by Los Angeles County court workers to halt unification-driven changes in their duties have come to an abrupt stands...


International


Fascination With Tibet Leads To Hiatus Working for ICLT

Apr. 13, 2000
By Contributing Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - It all began for Dennis Cusack when he took a six-month break from his life as partner at the busy San Francis...


Marketing


Leader of the Pack

Apr. 12, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA The best way for a firm to stand out is to be a specialist. ...


Karl Marx is helping sell books about James Dean on the Internet. That thought crossed my mind Monday when Glendale attorney R...


Law Practice


Like to Say More, But I'm in Trial

Apr. 12, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA The 'I'm in trial, at the printer or at a closing' excuse can be used for missing firm functions and to get you out of a...


Law Practice


DeVries Is Leading Nossaman Guthners Pack

Apr. 12, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Los Angeles-based Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has elected complex civil litigator Scott P. DeVries - who joined the f...


Family


Tricky Transfer

Apr. 12, 2000
By Columnist

Tricky Transfer Taxation of Stock Options in the Context of Divorce ...


Criminal


FLIGHT

Apr. 12, 2000
By Columnist

The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Illinois v. Wardlow , 120 S.Ct. 673 (2000), is not a wholesale abandonment of...


Criminal


Prosecutors Say DSaachs Picked Up Hit Man

Apr. 12, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

IRVINE - Dino D'Saachs knew exactly where Biofem Pharmaceutical co-owner James Patrick Riley would park his car at work on th...


Government


Garcetti: Rampart Charges Filed Soon

Apr. 12, 2000
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, repeatedly criticized by Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks for having...


Judges and Judiciary


Women Appointed To State Agencies

Apr. 12, 2000
By Jean Guccione

Two Los Angeles-area women have received appointments to statewide law-related regulatory bodies from Senate President Pro Tem...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Puts Litigator on S.D. Bench

Apr. 12, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A veteran civil litigator who was one of the founding masters of the Louis Welsh Chapter of the American Inns of ...


Discipline


A State Bar court Monday rejected bar prosecutors' attempts to have high-profile Los Angeles attorney Louis R. "Skip" Miller ...


Judges and Judiciary


FLIGHT

Apr. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The uniformed officer dismounts his motorcycle and approaches a lone male motorist with a broken taillight. As he slowly begin...


Environmental


Lead Firms Named in Chevron Class Action

Apr. 11, 2000
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorneys have elected three firms to serve as lead counsel representing the thousands of East Bay ...


Public Interest


We Need Universal Insurance

Apr. 11, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. ...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing dozens of Nigerians pursuing a human rights lawsuit against the Chevron Corp. have won a...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Matchmaker Negotiates $9B Merger

Apr. 11, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Richard Climan is one of Silicon Valley's most successful matchmakers. To prove it, he just orchestrated the largest union in...


Government


Court Restores Suit Against Ukiah

Apr. 11, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - A jury should decide whether a 1995 deadly house fire triggered by an unattended candle is the city of Ukiah's fa...