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Law Practice


Money-Laundering Lawyer Gets Prison

Oct. 25, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for helping to launder...


Government


Baca Challenges Term-Limit Ballot Measures

Oct. 25, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - When members of the Board of Supervisors agreed three months ago to place on the March ballot two measures that ...


Large Firms


Client Conflicts Shut Down Merger Talks

Oct. 25, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - McKenna & Cuneo and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have called off their merger talks, citing client ...


Criminal


ACLU Sues to Save Patriotic Mural

Oct. 25, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit Tuesday in federal court to stop the city o...


Law Practice


Garment Workers' Lawyer Wins MacArthur Grant

Oct. 25, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Julie Su, an attorney with the Asian Pacific-American Legal Center, will receive a $500,000 grant today from the...


Insurance


Family Mourns Judge Known for Doing Right

Oct. 25, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Judge Melvin B. Grover, "Barney" to those who knew him best, made a pledge to always do what was right, even if ...


Criminal


Silence Isn't 'Demeanor Evidence,' Circuit Rules

Oct. 25, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boon for defendants, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government prosecutors cannot characteriz...


LOS ANGELES - A Hispanic murder defendant will get a new trial because a prosecutor violated his right to a representative jur...


Civil Rights


Theme Park Wins Summary Judgment in Bias Suit

Oct. 25, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has gutted a race-discrimination lawsuit against Six Flags Magic Mountain, granting summary judgme...


Criminal


Stalker Changed Venues, DA Says

Oct. 24, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The cyberstalking trial of a Fremont man accused of making terrorist threats against a Michigan couple began Monday...


Law Practice


When Swimming With Sharks, Devour Rivals

Oct. 24, 2001
By Columnist

During law school orientation, new students are told to look at the person sitting on their right and then the one to their le...


Large Firms


Lawyers Move to New Digs in San Diego

Oct. 24, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

SAN DIEGO - San Francisco outsider Pillsbury Winthrop has nabbed three attorneys for its intellectual-property and corporate p...


Law Practice


Talk Will Focus on Amicable Divorce

Oct. 24, 2001
By Pat Alston

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco attorney Pauline H. Tesler and psychotherapist Nancy Ross will describe the collaborative approach...


Litigation


12 World Views

Oct. 24, 2001
By Columnist

There are many different ways of looking at the world, and the attitude that your jurors have will affect the verdict. This id...


International


Surprise Obligation

Oct. 24, 2001
By Columnist

It is probably not surprising that, under U.S. tax principles, an executor of an estate has certain tax filing and reporting ...


Immigration


Different Strokes

Oct. 24, 2001
By Columnist

Terrorism comes in many forms. It is inflicted on women and children around the world, not just in the form of indiscriminate ...


Law Practice


WASHINGTON - When Lucas Guttentag was facing back-to-back hourlong arguments in the Supreme Court last April, he turned to the...


Judges and Judiciary


Three Justices Win Confirmation to 2nd District

Oct. 24, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments announced Monday the confirmation of three justices to the 2nd District ...


Judges and Judiciary


Lottery Puts Woman On L.A. Grand Jury

Oct. 24, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A Rolling Hills woman will fill a vacancy on the 2001-02. Los Angeles County civil grand jury. The juror, Carole...


Personal Injury & Torts


OAKLAND - Rather than proceed with a trial that posed risks for both sides, Tosco Corp. and two former employees have reached ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo unveiled his plan Monday to reorganize his office using a corporate model that en...


Judges and Judiciary


Rising to Challenges

Oct. 24, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN RAFAEL - Superior Court Judge Jim Ritchie recently contemplated the fate of a criminal defendant he had just sentenced to ...


Criminal


WASHINGTON - Terrorism experts differ on the effectiveness of the military campaign against Afghanistan, but agree that tactic...


Administrative/Regulatory


The war on terrorism has generated so much to worry about that I decided to create the Terrorism Anxiety Checklist. Without su...


Government


DAs Drop Charges in Gang Murder

Oct. 24, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SANTA BARBARA - In a case that has divided two neighboring counties, Santa Barbara prosecutors Monday dismissed a murder charg...


Media


Family, Colleagues Mourn Newspaper Veteran

Oct. 24, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Edgar Hightower, a Daily Journal employee for more than half a century, has died. Hightower died in his sleep at...


San Jose's KLA Tencor Corp. has agreed to acquire QC Optics Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., in a transaction valued at $3 million. ...


Intellectual Property


Cookie Cutters

Oct. 23, 2001
By Marisa Navarro


Transactions


Lawyer's Experience Aids Entrepreneurs

Oct. 23, 2001
By Staff Writer

When Santa Fe Springs-based Omni Plastics Inc. asked Jack Goldman to represent it in an upcoming transaction, the attorney ins...


International


Hunting Down Backers of Terrorism

Oct. 23, 2001
By Columnist

On Oct. 11, President Bush said, "Ours is a war against terrorism ... [and] ... our focus is on Afghanistan ... right now." Hi...