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Insurance


Going Postal

Feb. 1, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Evidence that's missing sometimes says more than what's there. That was the case in Hanstad v. Truck Insurance Co., in which p...


Litigation


High Rolling

Feb. 1, 2001
By Bobbi Murrayn

Paul Nelson of San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft would like to take credit for a brilliant legal strategy that r...


Personal Injury & Torts


Softening The Jurors

Feb. 1, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

Gary L. Chambers, a partner with Chambers & Noronha, of Santa Ana, won a $300,000 verdict in a premises liability case, Ha...


Litigation


Bank Shot

Feb. 1, 2001
By Bobbi Murrayn

'The arrow to the bull's eye," San Francisco sole practitioner Robert Wallach says genially, "was that a bank had made a loan ...


Labor/Employment


Rising Up

Feb. 1, 2001
By Ed Kimble

It was almost a religious experience for San Francisco civil rights attorney Angela Alioto when a jury found for her clients t...


Personal Injury & Torts


Victims Suffer Without Settlements

Jan. 31, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Richard and Linda Stuber met 35 years ago cruising Van Nuys Boulevard. They married and raised two children in t...


Technology & Science


Silicon Gully

Jan. 31, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The sentence, buried in the first paragraph of a press release last month announcing the merger between Marvel...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Monday he is considering the possibility of filing a criminal charge a...


Judges and Judiciary


Honored S.D. Judge Earl B. Gilliam Dies

Jan. 31, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Senior U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam, the first African-American on the Municipal, Superior and federal cour...


Government


SF's New Public Defender Sacks Rival Adachi

Jan. 31, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Kimiko Burton, the just-appointed interim public defender for San Francisco, announced several management chan...


Public Interest


LOS ANGELES - Late one night in 1968, Warren Christopher broke his toe as he sprang out of bed to answer the telephone. The ca...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...


Family


Dad's Effort to Lower Child Support Fails

Jan. 31, 2001
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has rejected a father's attempt to decrease his child-support payments based on the life-insu...


Public Interest


Pioneering Justice

Jan. 31, 2001
By Columnist


Appellate Practice


Brief Brief

Jan. 31, 2001
By Columnist

The appellate brief alone can - and usually does - make or break the case. ...


Discipline


Earthquake Shake-up

Jan. 31, 2001
By Columnist

Insurance companies should have learned some hard lessons in the wake of the Northridge earthquake, the insurance commissioner...


Criminal


Councilwoman Pleads to Stock Violations

Jan. 31, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego city councilwoman resigned from office and agreed Monday to plead guilty to misdemeanor Government Cod...


Law Practice


The next time a California lawyer tries to get a referral fee for sending a client to another attorney, he or she should think...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - According to a local juvenile justice expert, the fact that police have charged a San Francisco youth with com...


Judges and Judiciary


San Diego Judges Will Share Honors

Jan. 31, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court judges from San Diego and Los Angeles counties will share the state Judicial Council's Jurist o...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Samuel Greenfield. Greenfield died Jan. 2...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - As City Hall grappled over the weekend and on Monday with how to comply with a federal directive to put an end t...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit in federal court Monday in an attempt to co...


Intellectual Property


Gotham City

Jan. 30, 2001
By Columnist

If the appellate court could not agree on what Warner Bros. could film without permission, how is a production company to know...


Several California plaintiffs' lawyers became the targets of a pair of lawsuits seeking to overturn fees awarded them in a law...


Firm Watch


Music insider Elliot Cahn joined Century City's King Purtich Holmes Paterno & Berliner as a partner on Jan. 8. A former pa...


Cleveland's Arter & Hadden booted 16 lawyers from its 86-lawyer Los Angeles outpost on Jan. 18. Managing partner Harriet W...


Firm Watch


Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Jeffrey Young, a sole practitioner based in Santa Barbara, to the Central Coast Regional Water Q...


Transactions


Purchase Answers Church's Prayers

Jan. 30, 2001
By Victoria Newman

For Channing Johnson, Faithful Central Bible Church's Dec. 29 purchase of Inglewood's Great Western Forum was a miracle. That'...


Entertainment & Sports


Does anyone know what the hell is going on in Hollywood's latest legal tussle? If you do, could you please explain it to the l...