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Litigation


Plaintiff: Trial Delayed for Political Gain

Sep. 22, 1999
By Michael Harris

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who 21/2 years ago sued her office for retaliation, Monday accused her boss, DA...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Begins Reviving MCLE

Sep. 22, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Armed with a Supreme Court decision upholding its program, the State Bar of California has begun the process of enforcing man...


Intellectual Property


Cyber Corps

Sep. 22, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Saying that development of computer forensic standards is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities, U.S...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alex E. Saldamando may hold the antidote to the kind of jury selection nightmares that force people to ...


Criminal


Garcetti to Ask Court to Stay Gang Injunction

Sep. 22, 1999
By Michael Harris

Based on revelations that Los Angeles police may have fabricated testimony to obtain a sweeping injunction against the city's...


Public Interest


Trial and Error

Sep. 21, 1999
By Columnist

^^Courtroom Craft^^ Trial and Error Admitting and explaining mistakes will lessen their impact at trial By Christopher Tayback...


Criminal


Hefty Jail Term Given to Two in Gasoline Scam

Sep. 21, 1999
By Michael Harris

Two brothers convicted in the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation have drawn one-year jail terms, a...


Criminal


LAPD Faces Wrath of Destiny

Sep. 21, 1999
By Denise Levin

A civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed this week on behalf of a little girl named Destiny - the 2-year-old daughter o...


Securities


Tender Trap

Sep. 21, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued on its consumer education Web site a warning to the country's investo...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Last Request

Sep. 21, 1999
By Columnist

^^Land Use Law^^ Last Request No Need to Seek Reconsideration Before Resorting to Court The court said that it now had recons...


Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E. Ralph Stewart CORRECTI...


Securities


SEC Accuses Ex-Lawyer of Stock Crimes

Sep. 21, 1999
By Martin Bergn

Securities regulators have filed suit against a disbarred Santa Monica lawyer, charging that he made more than $200,000 from ...


byline = Jason J. Song and Katherine Gaidos Varner Saleson STATER BROS. ACQUIRES TWO SUPERMARKET CHAINS Stater Bros. Holdings...


Contracts


^^Commercial Law^^ By Richard L. Seabolt Technological developments have produced shortened product cycles, which reward quic...


Litigation


A malicious prosecution lawsuit brought against State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., its CEO and other officers was dismisse...


Government


Court Ruling Shields DAs From Suit

Sep. 21, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - California district attorneys are immune from lawsuits when they accuse government officials of violating the...


Judges and Judiciary


Prosecutors Paper San Bernardino Jurist

Sep. 21, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - The San Bernardino district attorney's office will no longer take three-strikes cases to Superior Court Judge Pat...


Intellectual Property


Playing the Odds

Sep. 21, 1999
By Chris Ford

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has some intellectual property attorneys wondering whethe...


Appellate Practice


Law Firm Life Begins at 57

Sep. 21, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Last October, at age 57, Walter Dellinger made a dramatic career change. After 30 years as a constitutional law ...


Government


In an unusual wrongful termination verdict against a judge and county officials, a federal jury in Sacramento has awarded $3....


State Bar & Bar Associations


Traditional bar association activists defeated reform candidates in two contested elections for the State Bar Board of Govern...


Intellectual Property


Separate Spheres

Sep. 18, 1999
By Columnist

^^Intellectual Property^^ Separate Spheres Addressing the Confusion Surrounding the Enablement Requirement By Douglas B. Luft...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Will Expand One-Day Jury Service

Sep. 18, 1999
By Denise Levin

Within five years, every citizen called to serve on a jury in Los Angeles County will either be called as a potential juror o...


Discipline


Ex-Lawyer Sentenced for Continuing to Practice

Sep. 18, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law after being suspended from the State Bar and posing as another lawy...


Discipline


Mitchelson Must Prove Fitness to Practice

Sep. 18, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Marvin M. Mitchelson, the Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyer who made palimony a household word, has been o...


Intellectual Property


Innovative Invention

Sep. 18, 1999
By Columnist

Innovative Invention New Bill Slated to Reform Patent System By Brennan Swain, David Meyer and Rod S. Berman On May 26, the H...


State Bar & Bar Associations


MCLE Laggards Get New Deadlines

Sep. 18, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Laggard lawyers will have at least until 2001 to catch up on past-due continuing legal education requirements, governors of t...


Discipline


State High Court to Hear Disbarment Case

Sep. 18, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Pasadena attorney who met someone described as a 14-year-old girl in an online chat room and atte...


Large Firms


Los Angeles school officials filed a legal malpractice suit against the school district's former lawyer at O'Melveny & My...


Judges and Judiciary


Rejecting fears that juries will prejudge cases, a new study has found no harm in letting jurors discuss a case among themsel...