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Judges and Judiciary


New Rules for Records Access

Oct. 26, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In an attempt to balance public access and privacy rights, the Judicial Council of California is set Friday to adop...


Government


Jailed Defender Faces Pot Charges

Oct. 26, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A veteran deputy public defender was jailed on felony charges for allegedly trying to slip marijuana into the Lo...


Government Contracts


High Court Halts Case On Bribery

Oct. 26, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday put the brakes on a lawsuit alleging that a major U.S. military manu...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Contamination that simply oozes through the soil does not constitute "disposal," and thus some property owners...


Law Practice


Product-Liability Litigator, 65, Dies at Home

Oct. 26, 2001
By Claude Walbert

IRVINE - Services for Arthur P. Greenfield, who represented automobile manufacturers in product-liability litigation throughou...


Criminal


Judge Keeps Pot Clinic Files

Oct. 26, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Dale C. Schafer claims a Sacramento federal magistrate has jeopardized California lawyers by refusing...


Law Practice


Renne to Take SF Schools Job

Oct. 26, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - After representing the City and County of San Francisco for more than 15 years, Louise Renne has secured her f...


Judges and Judiciary


Retired 1st DCA Justice Joins JAMS

Oct. 26, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Former appellate Justice Gary E. Strankman, who retired in May after serving 13 years on the 1st District Cour...


International


While the fight against terrorism will continue for years to come, the United States already has fought and won the war's most...


Government


School Board Looks at Anti-Immigrant Plan

Oct. 26, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The Anaheim Union High School District board will consider a proposal tonight to require school officials to inf...


Law Practice


Finding Commonality

Oct. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Game theorists who study conflict and negotiations have developed some interesting conclusions about the way in which particip...


Labor/Employment


Fuzzy Math

Oct. 26, 2001
By Columnist

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued one of the most far-reaching decisions in the brief history of the Famil...


Law Practice


Stop Mangling Documents With Odd Edits

Oct. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Lawyers do very interesting things with documents that are presented to them for review and finalization. ...


Litigation


High-Tech Counsel

Oct. 25, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

Bruce Wold often tells people he's a better athlete than a lawyer. Don't tell that to Michael Meadows, who represented a 50-ye...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


In Harmony

Oct. 25, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

With the strains of Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" soaring from the dozens of voices in the midst of the turmoil gripp...


Labor/Employment


Absence Of Malice

Oct. 25, 2001
By Eron Yehuda


Litigation


Byte the Bullet

Oct. 25, 2001
By Columnist

The last five years have seen an incredible growth in technology, including wireless Internet, hand-held computers, high-speed...


Litigation


Loved by His Foes

Oct. 25, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

It's one thing to be honored by one's peers. It's another to be honored by an opponent. Such was the case recently when P. Bea...


Contracts


Disaster Plan

Oct. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Earthquakes, hurricanes, employee violence. When a disaster occurs, much of the focus is on "managing" the crisis, typically i...


Technology & Science


Good In Bed

Oct. 25, 2001
By Columnist

I love to fly. One of the best parts of flying, assuming my children are not screaming in the seats on either side of me, is t...


Product Liability


A Matter of Style

Oct. 25, 2001
By Leonard Novarro

P. Beach Kuhl, by his own admission, is sort of old-fashioned. He doesn't rely much on blowups, PowerPoint or video technology...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Although crime rates around the country are down, one insidious crime still flourishes in homes across America. It is a crime ...


Litigation


World Wide Wireless

Oct. 25, 2001
By Columnist

As the word "wireless" replaces previous buzzwords such as "push," "B2B," "broadband" and "New Economy" as the Next Big Thing,...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Santa Clara Bar Chooses Officers

Oct. 25, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Patricia White, a partner at Littler Mendelson in San Jose, has been chosen president-elect of the Santa Clara Coun...


Intellectual Property


Art of Patents

Oct. 25, 2001
By Columnist

ROUNDTABLE: Rick O'Hare, of Santa Rosa's Rivkin Radler, recently hosted a discussion of patent litigation issues in light of n...


Immigration


9th Circuit To Review Asylum for Battered

Oct. 25, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to take a second look at a groundbreaking decision that allowed a forei...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge, 69, Plans Retirement, Reflects on Career

Oct. 25, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David B. Finkel has discovered that courtroom drama can occur in the unlikelies...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray asked the Commission on Judicial Performance Tuesday to...


Government


Senators Confirm Four District Court Nominees

Oct. 25, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed four district court nominees on Thursday, even as Republicans held up approval of the f...


Law Practice


Litigator, Death-Penalty Appeals Lawyer Dies

Oct. 25, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - J. Bruce Robertson, a civil litigator who dedicated his courtroom skills to causes ranging from death-penalty ap...