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Judges and Judiciary


What Do Judges Wear Under Their Robes?

Mar. 10, 2001
By Pamela Kraver

What do lawyers think judges wear under their robes, anyway? ...


Law Practice


Job-Listing Site Targets Attorneys' Work-Search Needs

Mar. 10, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Want to find out what your friends are making at other firms? How do their benefits compare to yours? Like just about everythi...


Litigation


We should go much further than the required constitutional adequacy for voir dire about racial biases described by Laurie Leve...


Corporate


Daunting Task

Mar. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The proposed Model Franchise Disclosure Law aims high but may fall slightly short of its mark. ...


Securities


Fuzzy Math

Mar. 10, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

Rarely has a company name so aptly described its present situation as Critical Path Inc., an e-mail hosting company that finds...


Judges and Judiciary


Enter Declaiming

Mar. 10, 2001
By Columnist

I have been wondering lately if acting skills are useful to judges. Forrest McDonald, in his book "The American Presidency: An...


Law Practice


Workers' Compensation Reformer Dies at 83

Mar. 10, 2001
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - Labor specialist John F. O'Hara, who was instrumental in the reform of the state's workers' compensation program...


Litigation


Jury Finds Doctors Liable for Insurance Fraud

Mar. 10, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday awarded $8.2 million to Allstate Insurance Co. after finding three do...


Insurance


Insurance For Quake Damage Is Unpopular

Mar. 10, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

Patrick McCoy's world got shaken up last week, and he's still feeling the aftershocks. His restaurant, McCoy's Firehouse Bar &...


Government


Man Settles in Wake Of Rampart Scandal

Mar. 10, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A man who claimed he spent more than seven years in state prison after corrupt former Los Angeles police officer...


Government


Panel Scrutinizes Campaign Law Glitches

Mar. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Even before a campaign-finance reform measure was passed by voters last November, a state agency charged with enf...


Government


SAN DIEGO - Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Ikola refused Thursday to set aside a $94.5 million judgment that de...


Family


Windfalls Count in Child Support

Mar. 10, 2001
By Gina Keating

RIVERSIDE - Parents who inherit money while their children are on food stamps must list that one-time windfall as income when ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


New Director for Alameda Bar Group

Mar. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland resident and State Bar veteran Ann Wassam has been named executive director of the Alameda County Bar ...


Environmental


Lockyer Preparing Proposition 65 Overhaul

Mar. 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is developing a legislative proposal to overhaul the state's groundbreakin...


Government


Patent Associate Running Against Kamena

Mar. 10, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, a Silicon Valley patent law firm associate who lives in Mill Valley, filed Thursday to ru...


Criminal


Posthumous Video Testimony Raises Issues in Murder Case

Mar. 10, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

INDIO - Peggy Baker died of ovarian cancer more than a year ago. But last month her image filled a courtroom and jurors hung o...


Securities


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge known for his hands-on interest in securities litigation held a highly unusual job interview i...


Education


LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to let Carson establish its own school dis...


Environmental


Coastal Concern

Mar. 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - While California continues its struggle to keep the lights on, another energy battle of older vintage appears ...


Firm Watch


Brobeck Enlists New Technology Partner

Mar. 10, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

IRVINE - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's Irvine outpost has snagged the services of O'Melveny & Myers' corporate transact...


Intellectual Property


Net Notice

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

An Internet service providers' forum for the exchange of data may violate two exclusive rights of copyright holders.


Large Firms


Littler Adds an Office in Philadephia

Mar. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Littler Mendelson is double-dipping from the Pittsburgh firm that provided the partners for a recently establi...


Litigation


Lawyers' Tobacco Payday Here

Mar. 9, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The $637.5 million fee award to California lawyers in the national tobacco settlement is either incredible or ...


Public Interest


"How Did You Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search For Identity," By Kevin R. Johnson, Temple University Press, 245 Pa...


Litigation


Betraying Valid Ballots

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

Californians labor under one of the nation's heaviest tax burdens when local, state and federal taxes are added together. That...


Litigation


Tech Testimony

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

Technology-augmented trials are faster and more effective than those that don't use multimedia presentations. ...


Criminal


It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. The Gulf War just had come to an end, and there were "no fly zones" im...


Labor/Employment


The Jerk

Mar. 9, 2001
By Columnist

The employer must 'either intentionally create or knowingly permit' the intolerable working conditions. ...


Criminal


Jury Can't Determine Man's Mental Health

Mar. 9, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury announced Wednesday that it was unable to reach a decision on the mental soundness of a man who raped ...