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Discipline


Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isn't the Way to Go By Gary Greenfield No hard-and-fast rules dictate how to bill travel t...


Litigation


Too Much Information

Oct. 14, 1999
By Columnist

^^Capitol Account^^ By Chris Micheli One of the measures on the legislative agenda of the plaintiffs' bar is a bill to severel...


Constitutional Law


Court Puts the Squeeze on Search Tactic

Oct. 14, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a new police weapon against drug smuggling - squeezing bus ...


Law Practice


Attorney Finds Paradise in San Diego

Oct. 14, 1999
By Martin Kruming

Charlie Grebing didn't know a lot about San Diego back in the 1960s. Although he had been accepted by UCLA and USC, someone u...


Criminal


Tougher DA, PD Hiring Checks to Be Studied

Oct. 14, 1999
By Michael Harris

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first step Tuesday toward possibly directing the district attorney's and...


Intellectual Property


Genentech, UC May Settle Patent Dispute

Oct. 14, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Current settlement talks between the University of California and Genentech Inc., over the biotech firm's all...


Government


Ventura Prosecutors, PDs Win Salary Hike

Oct. 14, 1999
By Amy Bentley

VENTURA - The deputy prosecutors and public defenders of Ventura County are expected to receive substantial pay raises over t...


Large Firms


S.F.-Based MoFo Opens San Diego Office

Oct. 14, 1999
By Tamara Scott

The rapid growth of the high-technology market in San Diego came into focus this week when San Francisco-based Morrison &...


Government


Insurers Seek to Overturn Bad-Faith Law

Oct. 14, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - A coalition made up largely of major insurers and business groups took the first step Tuesday toward placing a r...


Criminal


Political or Malicious? That Is the Question

Oct. 14, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - He fit the portrait of any other canvasser, handing out flyers on a Huntington Beach street corner last July Four...


Criminal


Trial May Make Law on DNA Statistical Analysis

Oct. 14, 1999
By Daniel Jennings

RIVERSIDE - A precedent on the use of statistical analysis of DNA evidence could emerge from a death-penalty case scheduled t...


Entertainment & Sports


The decade-long saga of fugitive Italian financier and former Hollywood mogul Giancarlo Parretti reached another climax Tuesd...


Entertainment & Sports


Thanks to a personal computer and the credit card in his wallet, Mark Eisele of North Carolina recently lost $15,000 gambling...


Judges and Judiciary


CHULA VISTA - Few people know kids the way Ernest Borunda does. Twenty-eight years ago, while a sole practitioner, he was ass...


Intellectual Property


Chipmaker Wins $143M for Use Of Trademark

Oct. 14, 1999
By Martin Bergn

In a verdict that reportedly is the largest trademark infringement judgment in U.S. history, a Los Angeles federal court jury...


Law Practice


A memorial service will be held Wednesday for John Bayne, a special-education rights advocate and legal malpractice defense l...


Judges and Judiciary


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith C. Chirlin has received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the National Center f...


Personal Injury & Torts


DENVER - A Michigan attorney representing the family of a Columbine shooting victim should not be allowed to sue in Colorado ...


Government


Hostile Contest For Santa Cruz DA Shaping Up

Oct. 13, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The contentious battle for the top prosecutor's job in Santa Cruz County is taking shape. Former acting district a...


Criminal


SAN BERNARDINO - An attorney charged with criminal conspiracy and a host of other crimes in what one official has termed one ...


Law Practice


The political chaos that set Stuart Hanlon's course as a young radical lawyer is back on his docket. In 1974 Hanlon was a thi...


Judges and Judiciary


Docket Science

Oct. 12, 1999
By Chris Ford

By Chris Ford There was a time not long ago when the Internet was viewed as a latter-day Wild West. There were no rules and u...


Litigation


Nurses' Aid

Oct. 12, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

By Leslie A. Gordon Bed sores, falls and broken bones are nightmares for anyone. But they're a particular burden for lawyers ...


MEDIATION KEEPS HOMEOWNER SWINGING In a matter that gives new meaning to three-strikes offenses, an attorney recently mediate...


Bankruptcy


Money Matters

Oct. 12, 1999
By Columnist

Money Matters Reversing the Tide of Bankruptcy Filings Requires Community Outreach By Maureen A. Tighe The upsurge in nationw...


Public Interest


Civil Wars

Oct. 12, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

By Jennifer Byrd The year was 1984, but San Francisco lawyer Eva Jefferson Paterson felt like it was still the 1950s. Paterso...


Law Office Automation


Outside California, E-filing is Closer to Reality By Chris Ford While California courts talk about electronic filing, other j...


Entertainment & Sports


Queen for a Day

Oct. 12, 1999
By Garry Abrams


Pillsbury Madison XEROX MAKES COLORFUL COPY A NEW ACQUISITION Xerox's document division closed its biggest deal in nearly 20 ...


Technology & Science


Crowded Domain

Oct. 12, 1999
By Columnist

By Mark Radcliffe and Maureen Dorney In early November in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...