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Immigration


Paying the Price for Freedom

Mar. 12, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Wendy Young and Christine Gordon - The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee recently held an oversight hearing on t...


Labor/Employment


Forum Column - By Tom Osbourne The Supreme Court's decision in EEOC v. Waffle House Inc. correctly upheld employee righ...


Large Firms


Intellectual Property Expert Goes to Stroock

Mar. 12, 2002
By Tanya Rothman

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has recruited intellectual property litigator and rainmaker Jam...


Discipline


WASHINGTON - How badly do you want to argue a case before the Supreme Court? Would you contact the clients in a case set for a...


^^Corporate Law^^ **with photo** The court in 'Speedee Oil' set some clear guidelines as to just when franchisees' causes of a...


Judges and Judiciary


Interpreters Boycott Judge

Mar. 9, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters, angry over what they consider shabby treatment by a judge, have been boycott...


Labor/Employment


Workplace Hurt

Mar. 9, 2002
By Columnist

Column by Ronald Feenberg - Annually, thousands of California's workers suffer illnesses and injuries on the job that disable ...


Litigation


Shaping Arbitration

Mar. 9, 2002
By Columnist

Column by Gerald G. Knapton - Many lawyers and clients believe that arbitration is a good idea for at least some cases, if onl...


Judges and Judiciary


Expand Profiling Worries to Cycling While Black

Mar. 9, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Well, it appears Janice Rogers Brown was right to be suspicious. When she wrote her dissent to Monday's Califo...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Who's at Fault for Nursing Home Closures?

Mar. 9, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A plaintiffs lawyer stunned a legislative committee this week by suggesting that the state and federal government...


Litigation


Drive to Victory

Mar. 9, 2002
By Christina Landers

It was a horrible accident no matter how you look at it, when a husband and wife, their two young sons and the boys' cousin we...


Litigation


Early Starter

Mar. 9, 2002
By Christina Landers

Three day before graduating from law school, Charles B. O'Reilly was sworn in as a member of the California Bar. Three days af...


Litigation


Hands On

Mar. 9, 2002
By Christina Landers

Garo Mardirossian has come a long way since his days under the hood of a car, helping his father in their family owned auto sh...


Law Practice


Sealing Loose Lips

Mar. 9, 2002
By Columnist

Column by Nancy J. Warren - Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 2-100 is designed to prevent attorneys from directly comm...


Labor/Employment


Work Time

Mar. 9, 2002
By Columnist

By Ronald J. Klepetar, Jeffrey C. Freedman, Margaret Rosenthal and Steven J. Prough - Wage and hour litigation in California, ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Another Democrat was recommended by the state's bipartisan judicial selection committee for a seat on the U.S. D...


Front Page


D.C. Law Firm Nabs Bankruptcy Veteran

Mar. 9, 2002
By Tanya Rothman

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to fill out i...


Government


Study Shows Flaws In County Foster Care

Mar. 9, 2002
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has failed to comply with federal and state la...


Forum Column - By Robert E. Cartwright - The recent article "New Bills Threaten High-Tech" (Fred Main & Chris Micheli, For...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Five attorneys have left the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop to form their own specialty real estate ...


Law Practice


Judge Reprimands Defender in Dog-Mauling Case

Mar. 9, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A clearly disturbed San Francisco Superior Court Judge sternly reprimanded one of two defense attorneys for char...


Family


Bureaucratic Lockout

Mar. 9, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement in its preliminary statistics for 2000 ...


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Ted Obrzut, a corporate lawyer with vast knowledge of financial transactions and w...


Large Firms


D.C. Law Firm Nabs Bankruptcy Veteran

Mar. 9, 2002
By Tanya Rothman

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to fill out i...


Education


SAN FRANCISCO - A 33-year veteran of one of the world's largest engineering firms cannot sue for age discrimination just becau...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstering its white collar criminal defense practice amid a surge in that field, Gray Cary Ware & Freiden...


Criminal


Losing DA Candidate Will Contest His Transfer

Mar. 9, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - A deputy prosecutor who lost his bid to unseat District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in Tuesday's primary said he inte...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles city attorneys were not just targeting pornography's "bad guys" when they decided to bring obscenity...


Health Care & Hospital Law


DA Will Seek Retrial For Pediatric Dentist

Mar. 9, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor said Thursday that he wants to retry a Pasadena pediatric dentist whom a jury acquitted of most cha...


Law Practice


Clients Given Remedy for Attorney Error

Mar. 9, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients shouldn't face default judgments when their lawyers commit gross negligence, a divided panel of the 9t...