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Litigation


Interpreter Shortage Tongue-Ties Courts

Oct. 16, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Jobs that pay $265 a day are just waiting to be filled at the Los Angeles Superior Court, but few applicants exi...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - Drug court judges, prosecutors, and even some drug policy reform advocates contend that Gov. Gray Davis' eliminat...


Government


SAN DIEGO - Convicted in a drunken-driving crash, Feliciano Vidal Perez stared blankly at the courtroom floor when Judge David...


Law Practice


Former Dot-Commers Face Competition at Law Firms

Oct. 13, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Many attorneys who rushed out of law-firm doors to follow their dot-com dreams a year or two ago are having a rough time. Now ...


Government


Incumbents Lose Funding Edge

Oct. 13, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency adopted regulations Thursday to eliminate a financial advantage that incumb...


Litigation


Trial Theatre

Oct. 13, 2001
By Columnist

What is a trial? There are many models. In purely legal terms, we know that trials can be of law or fact, they can be court tr...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Dull Arrow

Oct. 13, 2001
By Columnist

Counsel should never enter the inverse-condemnation end game without first informing their clients about the likely results. ...


Entertainment & Sports


When Does an Officer Become a Criminal?

Oct. 13, 2001
By Columnist

The division between legality and corruption has never been precisely delineated. Narcotics officers are out on the street eve...


Government


Agreement Allows Shelter to Continue

Oct. 13, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office agreed Thursday to a judge's proposal to allow a religious group founded ...


Labor/Employment


Rare Message Board Suit Goes to Trial

Oct. 13, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The nasty battle between a Palo Alto company and two of its former employees, who have taken to the Internet to pos...


Zoning, Planning and Use


1865 Map Too Old for Subdivision

Oct. 13, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a zoning matter as old as the Civil War, a state appellate court on Thursday blocked a Sonoma County...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Teveia Barnes Is Chosen to Lead BASF

Oct. 13, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Culminating a six-month search, the Bar Association of San Francisco has selected Teveia Barnes, a former bank...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo took part Thursday in a nationwide satellite discussion of consequences of the Se...


Public Interest


Blaming Victims

Oct. 13, 2001
By Columnist

Imagine being abused by your husband or boyfriend. Your children have witnessed this abuse and may have been subject to abuse,...


Military Law


LOS ANGELES - In what some are calling an overreaction to the threat of further Columbine-like youth violence in the public sc...


Judges and Judiciary


Trouble In Paradise

Oct. 13, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - While power and prestige are undeniable fringe benefits that come with a gavel, El Dorado County Presiding Sup...


Government


SACRAMENTO - Citing California's slumping economy and the fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Gov. Gray Davis on Thur...


Criminal


Bar Association Gets Defender as President

Oct. 13, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - David R. Evans got hooked on criminal law during his third year of law school when a defense attorney gave him t...


Government


Study Ignores Election Realities, Experts Say

Oct. 13, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Campaign-finance lawyers say that a study that proposes tighter restrictions on wealthy candidates and third-par...


Criminal


Extradited Mexican Pleads Guilty in U.S.

Oct. 13, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A high-ranking drug trafficker, whose case resulted in an unprecedented ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court that a...


Criminal


Domestic-Violence Shelters Get Funds

Oct. 13, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed an emergency measure on Thursday to restore funding to 10 domestic violence shelters. ...


International


The United States has struck back at terrorism. Although surgical strikes allegedly were aimed at military targets, early repo...


Labor/Employment


Cottage Industry

Oct. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The proliferation of wage-and-hour class actions has transformed employee-rights law from a practice specialty into a cottage ...


Labor/Employment


Emergency Response

Oct. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The terrorist attacks that occurred exactly one month ago left indelible marks on employers throughout the country. Many compa...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Compact Impact

Oct. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Getting paid is usually up near the top of the priority list for most attorneys. Although most attorneys do some cases pro bon...


International


Shaping the New World

Oct. 12, 2001
By Columnist

The Sept. 11th attacks manifested the hate of a few of the dispossessed against the leaders of liberal internationalism. The e...


Public Interest


Poker Faces May Hide Stressed Psyche

Oct. 12, 2001
By Columnist

Is it taking you three times as long as it usually does to write a contract or draft interrogatories, because you stop frequen...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - As hiring partners travel around the Bay Area this month looking for summer associates, they are likely to mis...


Immigration


Selective Prosecution Suit Rejected

Oct. 12, 2001
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge flatly rejected a defense request Wednesday to pursue claims that federal prosecutors dispropo...


Labor/Employment


Justices to Hear Disability Suits

Oct. 12, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers face retroactive liability under a n...