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Firm Watch


Wilson Sonsini Attracts Tax Expert

Oct. 23, 2007
By Maya Meinert

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Tax attorney Gregory P. Broome left Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner for Wilson Sons...


Firm Watch


Trial Lawyer Trio Keeps It All in the Family

Oct. 23, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Industry Watch - By Rebecca Beyer - When Matthew S. McNicholas was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates over th...


Corporate


Children's Law Center's Veteran Takes Helm

Oct. 23, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

MONTEREY PARK - Longtime children's advocate Leslie Starr Heimov has been selected by the board of directors of the Children's...


Litigation


Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy nabbed prominent securities litigator Jerry Marks, formerly the Los Angeles managing partn...


Labor/Employment


Lawsuit Says Lenders Didn't Heed Warnings

Oct. 23, 2007
By David Houstonn

A prominent Oakland attorney says lending companies' hostility toward employees helped trigger the subprime mortgage crisis. ...


Judicial Profile


From Pen-and-Paper Man to Internet Guru

Oct. 23, 2007
By Laura Ernden

Like the other justices on Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal, Justice James A. Richman is k...


Judges and Judiciary


In Chambers

Oct. 22, 2007
By Pat Alston

Los Angeles County judges, prosecutors, emergency medical personnel and clergy will join student actors this week in a street...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Oct. 22, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

On the Move


Judicial Profile


Northern Gentleman

Oct. 22, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Colleagues applaud the way Judge Eugene S. Gini treats everyone with respect and dignity - which he attributes to growing up ...


Judicial Profile


Seeing Both Sides Now

Oct. 21, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

San Diego Judge Patricia Garcia brings to the bench the dualities of her Mexican and American heritage and her experience as b...


Litigation


After Shrimpgate, Going on Defense

Oct. 20, 2007
By David Houstonn

A decade ago, George O'Connell prosecuted Shrimpgate, the last big political corruption scandal in the state Capitol. Today, h...


Litigation


A federal judge in New York Thursday disqualified a San Francisco attorney representing a former KPMG manager in one of the na...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Intoxicant Inquiries

Oct. 20, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Employment Column - By Frances Rogers - A case coming before the California Supreme Court will determine whether the state's d...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Letters to the Editor - Readers weigh in on contentious state Senate hearings, partisan legal conferences and the State Bar's ...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Richard C. Neal shuffles down the hallway of JAMS' high-rise office in downtown Los Angeles, a trace of smile on...


Verdicts


Wham-O Wins Battle Over Yellow

Oct. 20, 2007
By D. Heimpel

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded Emeryville's Wham-O $6 million, finding that rival toy maker ToyQuest of Los Angeles ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Checking Out

Oct. 20, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Robert Harrison - Despite the explosion of electronic commerce, the use of paper checks is at an all-time hi...


Verdicts


LOS ANGELES - Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment will have to pay $6.4 million for breaching a contract its lawyers wrot...


Government


Panel Urges Reporting of Misconduct

Oct. 20, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

LOS ANGELES - A commision appointed by the state Senate recommended Thursday that trial judges report egregious examples of p...


Immigration


Judges Protest Withdrawal of Immigration Case

Oct. 20, 2007
By Laura Ernden

Note to appellate lawyers: The incoming chief of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won't be happy if you withdraw a case t...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Death by Prosecutor

Oct. 20, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Natasha Minsker and Daniel Ballon - Though capital murder cases are matters of life and death, California ha...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Cross-Examined Confessional

Oct. 20, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Expert Witness Column - By Ken Moscaret - A former litigator describes his new life as an expert witness. ...


Litigation


Lazar Pleads Guilty in Kickback Case

Oct. 20, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Seymour Lazar, the 80-year-old former entertainment lawyer from Palm Springs who had denounced his criminal pros...


U.S. Supreme Court


Some day, when you get your first traffic ticket by e-mail, you can thank Justice Ming Chin of the California Supreme Court. ...


Corporate


Judge Questions Juror From Backdating Case

Oct. 20, 2007
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A woman on the jury that convicted a Silicon Valley CEO of fraud in the first criminal case to come out of the back...


Government


Bill Would Add Power for Senior Judges

Oct. 20, 2007
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Conservative judges will have more power over key cases at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals if a bill bef...


Litigation


Disciplinary Actions

Oct. 19, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...


Law Practice


U.S. Turns Up the Heat on Foreign Corruption

Oct. 19, 2007
By Amelia Hansen

It doesn't take something as blatant as a $4.1 million bribe to officials in Kazakhstan to land multinational companies in ser...


PALO ALTO - Kevin Dennis, co-chair of Goodwin Procter's burgeoning Palo Alto office, said he's had only one dull moment in the...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Insuring Resolution

Oct. 19, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Michael Bruce Abelson - Paying insufficient attention to ADR provisions in insurance policies can severely l...