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Discipline


Bar Complaint Targets Lawyer, Support Team

Dec. 21, 2006
By Rebecca Beyer

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City attorney's office filed a complaint with the California State Bar Tuesday against well-know...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - Michael Nash, presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, said this week he is confident Children'...


Judicial Profile


The Solomon Approach

Dec. 20, 2006
By Donna Dominon

NAPA - It took some coaxing by the Napa Women Lawyers to get Francisca Tisher to consider leaving her family law and bankruptc...


Judicial Profile


SACRAMENTO - Justice Fred K. Morrison of the 3rd District Court of Appeal made plenty of friends in 1998 when he ruled that th...


Transactions


DEALS COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - The holidays are is a season rife with speculation. As mysterious gifts pile up under the Chr...


LOS ANGELES - Construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. filed false claims and overbilled the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Tran...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - The Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana and former members of Led Zeppelin and The Doors are suing an online purveyo...


Appellate Practice


Panel Asks High Court to Rule on Boy Scouts

Dec. 20, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

SAN DIEGO - Faced with unresolved questions of California constitutional law, a federal appellate court on Monday asked the st...


Judges and Judiciary


Getting to Jurors' Heads Through Their Hearts

Dec. 19, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

Psychodrama Method Uses Role Playing to Create Emotional Connections at Trial


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - The nine lawyers at Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Brien Abeles will join Arent Fox, establishing the first W...


Criminal


Court Supports Death-Penalty Lawyer

Dec. 19, 2006
By Laura Ernden

The California Supreme Court on Monday vindicated a former Los Angeles attorney who offered no defense at trial for a client f...


Discipline


Lockyer Puts Lawyer on Oversight Agency

Dec. 19, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - In a last appointment, Attorney General Bill Lockyer selected a veteran political-law attorney from his office fo...


Law Practice


Brobeck Managing Partner Served as UC Regent

Dec. 19, 2006
By Noah Barronn

George Hamilton Link, a former managing partner of the now-defunct San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, died Th...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Services for retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman R. Dowds will take place Friday in San Gabriel.


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Dec. 19, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

SUSPENSIONS


Constitutional Law


Judge Faults State's Lethal Injection Process

Dec. 18, 2006
By Laura Ernden

SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable...


Firm Watch


Goodwin Procter Opens New Portal

Dec. 18, 2006
By Robert Iafolla

LOS ANGELES - Goodwin Procter took advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan to net Rachae...


Family


Troublesome Exit Orders

Dec. 18, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - When a hotly contested child custody dispute spills o...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - The Suns' Tony Brown of Selman Breitman drives low under the hoop and calls for the ball.


Government


Lawyers on Lockyer's Staff Will Stay With Him

Dec. 18, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Outgoing Attorney General Bill Lockyer is taking several of his key staff with him to the state treasurer's offic...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Partners with Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Seattle's Preston, Gates & El...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Dec. 18, 2006
By Jennifer Hammn

O'Melveny & Myers announced the promotion of eight partners in the firm's California offices.


Firm Watch


Preston Partner Joins Greenberg Traurig in O.C.

Dec. 18, 2006
By Emma Dewaldn

LOS ANGELES - Daniel K. Donahue and David J. Perry started working together in 1986.


Criminal


SAN JOSE - Federal prosecutors finally have claimed their first convictions under a 1996 law designed to prevent economic espi...


Government


FORUM COLUMN - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - The J. Paul Getty Museum has been fighting to keep the core of its antiquities coll...


Law Practice


Further Thoughts About Collecting Attorney Fees

Dec. 18, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I read with interest the article titled "Collecting Unpaid Fees" in the Nov. 24 issue of the Los Angele...


Immigration


Restaurant Workers Need Immigration Plan

Dec. 18, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Steven Anderson - As President Bush and the new Democratic-led Congress seek common ground to do the people'...


Litigation


Games Site Returns to Owner After Porn Detour

Dec. 18, 2006
By Andrew Harmon

LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based board games company Morning Star Games, whose Web site address was besieged earlier this mont...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - With term limits forcing California Assembly Majority Leader Dario J. Frommer out of office, he surveyed the ter...


Criminal


Judge Tosses Some Death-Penalty Enhancements

Dec. 18, 2006
By Jim Adamekn

RIVERSIDE - In a blow to the prosecution, a Riverside County judge Friday dismissed potential death-penalty enhancements again...