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Judges and Judiciary

WASHINGTON - A deal worked out last week between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership may lead to a rash of j...


Intellectual Property

WASHINGTON - Labor and business will be going to the mat before the Supreme Court this week on whether workers covered by col...



Technology & Science

Wilson Sonsini Wins Its Own Invention Patent

Oct. 3, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of Palo Alto, which specializes in offering legal assistance to Silicon Valle...


State Bar & Bar Associations

Poll: Lawyers Want the Right to Elect Board

Oct. 3, 1998
By Don J. De Benedictis

California lawyers overwhelmingly believe they should keep the right to elect most of the members of the State Bar Board of G...



State Bar & Bar Associations

Riverside President Sees Local Bar Responding to New Duties

Oct. 3, 1998
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - As newly installed president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Diane Catran Roth has clearly defined goals...


Education

Online Law School Features No Classrooms

Oct. 3, 1998
By Michael Ueda

^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda^^ Scheduled to open later this month, Concord University School of Law, based in the Westwood...



Litigation

Last year, Los Angeles resident Adrian G. Ready was shocked to find that he was dead. And in the eyes of the Social Security ...


Judges and Judiciary

DA Doubted on One-Day Service

Oct. 3, 1998
By Michael Harris

Los Angeles County court officials said Thursday that despite District Attorney Gil Garcetti's call for the implementation of...



Litigation

Neither guppy nor goldfish, it was, in fact, a thrashing lemon shark that left Steven Rosenbloom hospitalized for three days....


Litigation

In a world where people often look for others to blame for their troubles, the story of a father of two who is suing his form...



Government

Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn and Attorney General Dan Lungren took a fight public Thursday over Hahn's lawsuit aga...


Government

Wilson Vetoes Bill to Expand Rights at Work

Oct. 3, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Siding with the business community, Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed a sweeping civil rights bill that would have expa...



Government

How Much Was the 'A' Sign in the Window?

Sep. 26, 1998
By Lauren Blau

Restaurants in Los Angeles County have been on the front burner recently because of the controversy over cleanliness in the ki...


Government

San Diego Ex-Prosecutor Appeals Termination

Sep. 26, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Former deputy district attorney James Fitzpatrick, whose termination for misconduct from the district attorney's ...



Judges and Judiciary

Fast-Track Civil Trial System Called a Success

Sep. 26, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA --- A new fast-track civil trial system has been a great success in getting cases to trial faster, according to a s...


Technology & Science

Financial Matchmaking

Sep. 26, 1998
By Leslie Gordon

Garage.com is a very '90's, very Silicon Valley version of "The Dating Game." The Web site, brainchild of Venture Law Group f...



Government

Advise and Consent

Sep. 26, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Taking a slap at the Clinton administration and a possible preemptive strike at future White Houses, the Senate ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi, lauded by colleagues and feared by adversaries for his knack of winning multimillion-...



Criminal

New Law Fleshing Out DNA Banks Feared, Praised

Sep. 26, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - The sexual assault and murder of a 76-year-old woman. The rape of a pregnant woman resulting in the death of her...


State Bar & Bar Associations

State Bar Purges Republican Critic From Governors

Sep. 23, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

The State Bar of California suddenly and unexpectedly removed a persistent Republican critic from its Board of Governors last...



Family

Claims Board: Settle 'Sex Slave' Case

Sep. 23, 1998
By Cheryl Romo

On Monday, Los Angeles County's Claims Board forwarded $974,000 in lawsuit settlements to the Board of Supervisors for cases ...


Zoning, Planning and Use

Trash Dump Opponents Hope Dirt Spills

Sep. 23, 1998
By Mathew Heller

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A convicted felon accused of conspiring with a trash-company executive to subvert opposition to the Rail-C...



Judges and Judiciary

Judges' Ratings To Continue Despite Critics

Sep. 23, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association's survey of judges' performance, long disliked by members of the local benc...


Government

SAN FRANCISCO - It was originally supposed to take just two weeks. Instead, it's taken six months to get from opening stateme...



Natural Resources

Watershed Decision

Sep. 23, 1998
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The most recent legal battle over the state's water hasn't resulted in people taking shorter showers or watching ...


Insurance

Insurers Crash The Consumer Lawyers Party

Sep. 23, 1998
By Denise Levin

By Denise Levin Daily Journal Staff Reporter Walking into the lion's den proved successful for representatives of an insuranc...



Criminal

No Suspicion Is Needed to Search State's Parolees

Sep. 23, 1998
By Philip Carizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing aside a 12-year-old precedent, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police may search parol...


Media

Kato Kaelin Can Sue Over Accomplice Claims

Sep. 19, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

A state appeal court Thursday resurrected part of a libel suit that Brian "Kato" Kaelin brought against a former acquaintance...



Law Office Automation

Immunity for Year-2000 Bug Catches Foes

Sep. 19, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - With the millennium fast approaching and the end of the congressional session just weeks away, a brief but possi...


Personal Injury & Torts

Malpractice Killed Jailed Teen, Suit Says

Sep. 19, 1998
By Lauren Blau

Contending her healthy 17-year-old son died needlessly, a woman filed a $25 million claim Thursday against the county of Los ...