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Criminal


SAN DIEGO - A man has been convicted of a hate crime based on gender for attacking a woman, apparently without reason, on a do...


Law Practice


Fees or Famine?

Mar. 7, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Observers of the recent blizzard of associate salary hikes - at least those who have any sort of institutional memory - have o...


Transactions


Attorney and Client Grow Up Together

Mar. 7, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Larry Rabkin, name partner at Howard Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, has seen his client Charle...


Entertainment & Sports


Clients are often displeased with the result we procure, even if it's fabulous given the facts. They think that since we know ...


Corporate


California Tops U.S. in Patents

Mar. 4, 2000
By Chris Ford

California led the nation in innovation last year, nabbing 20 percent of the patents issued to American inventors by the U.S....


Technology & Science


Sticky Web

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

By Guylyn Cummins A host of cyberspace problems (especially Internet linking) are pitting First and 14th amendment protections...


Litigation


Cause Unknown

Mar. 4, 2000
By Leonard Novarro

Some 100,000 asbestos-related bodily injury or wrongful death cases have been resolved in the United States in the last 20 yea...


Litigation


Spurred On

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

The ongoing Internet revolution has created tremendous new economic opportunities, most as yet unrealized. What is too little ...


Law Practice


Patent Lessons

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

There's an oft-heard rumor that mediation in intellectual property cases is somehow fundamentally "different" than in cases wh...


This week's show opens with a suppression motion of a possession charge involving a small amount of pot by a juvenile. The leg...


Labor/Employment


Services Planned for L.S. Janofsky

Mar. 4, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Service Planned For L.S. Janofsky A memorial service for retired labor lawyer Leonard S. Janofsky will be held at Occidental C...


Government


Dead IRS Agent IDd by Officials

Mar. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Dead IRS Agent ID'd by Officials SANTA ANA - Officials with the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that the man fatally sh...


Product Liability


Inherit the Lawsuit

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

When does a successor company inherit the liability for products made by a former company? ...


Litigation


In what could be a first, a Santa Ana jury Thursday topped a $623,000 insurance-fraud verdict against an Orange County develo...


Litigation


Settlement Wizard

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

By Deborah R. Rosenthal Talking with Randall W. Wulff about mediation is like talking to a proud parent: While he has a sense ...


^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents Monday night's episode gave examples of the song lyrics: "Oz never did give nothin' to the T...


Public Interest


Politicians Do Apple Polishing

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

After a century of being undervalued and underpaid, California schoolteachers find themselves the darlings of politicians. ...


Labor/Employment


Los Angeles deserves a new district attorney - one with unquestioned integrity, skill and courage. One with the courage to mak...


Technology & Science


Life Line

Mar. 4, 2000
By Columnist

VIEWPOINT By Paul R. Kiesel To beep or not to beep, that is the question. Flash back to 1977, my senior year of high school. I...


Law Practice


Attorney Lends Name to School

Mar. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Attorney Lends Name to School LONG BEACH - Orange County construction defect attorney Thomas E. Miller is the namesake to a ne...


Judges and Judiciary


Candidates Vie for Seven O.C. Seats

Mar. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Two months ago, a supporter of former Orange County district attorney and judicial candidate Mike Capizzi filed a ...


Education


ABA Names New Consultant on Legal Education

Mar. 4, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

The American Bar Association on Thursday named a new consultant to its arm that accredits law schools nationwide. John A. Sebe...


Entertainment & Sports


The producers of "Law & Order" have perfected the art of disguising devastating attacks on individual liberties. They snea...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A judge presiding over an asbestos case has wiped out a $5.9 million verdict, saying the plaintiffs attorney ...


Government


County Drops Appeal in Detective's Race Suit

Mar. 4, 2000
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles County has decided to drop its appeal of a $138,000 jury verdict awarded to a former sheriff's detective who claim...


Solo and Small Firms


Three to Join Alschuler Grossman as Partners

Mar. 4, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added three prominent new partners to its ranks . William Finkelstein jo...


Law Practice


Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and partner James B. Hicks have been sued for slander and libel by Mattel Inc., which cl...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Chastised for Remarks

Mar. 4, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association has joined the chorus chastising Gov. Gray Davis for comments he made here earlier t...


Government


DA Documents Misconduct by Investigator

Mar. 4, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst took the witness stand Thursday to tell why he fired a district attorney's investig...


Criminal


Trial Court to Re-examine 1998 Robbery Case

Mar. 4, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has ordered prosecutors to show why a writ of habeas corpus seeking...