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| Mosk's
death leaves mark on court term |
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| By J. CLARK KELSO |
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Justice Stanley Mosk's death on June 19 easily
stands out as the most significant event of the California Supreme
Court's just completed term. As I write in mid-August, Justice
Mosk's chair still sits in the corner just a few feet away from the
conference table in the chief justice chambers, a reminder of the
great mind and spirit that for 37 years animated the room and the
court.
Justice Mosk was one of the very few state court
judges known to virtually every lawyer in the country. Author of
almost 1,700 opinions, he wrote landmark rulings in nearly every area
of the law, and Mosk opinions can be found in literally dozens of
casebooks across the entire spectrum of the law school curriculum. He
is, in a word, irreplaceable, and the court and entire legal community
in California mourns his passing.
Appropriately,
one of the most important cases this term was Aguilar v. Atlantic
Richfield Co. (2001) 25 |
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DEATH LEAVES IMPACT |
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| California
not ready for full MJP, panel says |
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By SHARON LERMAN
Staff Writer |
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A state Supreme Court task force on
multijurisdictional practice has decided California isn't ready to
open its doors to all comers, instead recommending relaxed rules
allowing some out-of-state attorneys to cross the threshold.
Last
year, the state legislature referred the issue for further study after
state Sen. Bill Morrow, R-Ocean-side, authored a bill that would have
allowed established attorneys to practice in California without taking |
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| State
Bar settles Brosterhous case for $900,000 |
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The State Bar has agreed to pay the Pacific Legal
Foundation $900,000 in attorneys fees for its work on the decade-long
Brosterhous case, which challenged how the bar uses mandatory member
dues.
The fee is less than half of PLF's $2.3 million
fee petition, which was pending before Sacramento Superior Court Judge
Morrison England Jr.
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are pleased to have resolved the final issue in a case that lasted 10
years," said State Bar President |
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| A new president brings energy and
determination to the job |
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 Karen Nobumoto isn't one to cloak her feelings,
and on a recent day in Los Angeles Superior Court, the deputy district
attorney is feeling a bit impatient. This is her last criminal trial
of the year, before she moves to a lighter case workload to perform
her duties as the 76th president of the State Bar of California.
It's
not that this case isn't a good one: Mark Hylland, a paralegal, is
accused of practicing law without a license, and UPL is a statewide
concern Nobumoto plans to address during her presidential term. It's
the day in court that's lackluster: The defense attorney |
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| Activist for Latino community cited by
State Bar |
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For more than 25 years, attorney Joaquin G. Avila
has ensured the polls are open to minority voters. Avila, 53, is a
voter-rights specialist who works to secure access for Latino voters
and is promoting redistricting following the 2000 U.S. Census.
For his efforts spanning the Southwest states,
Avila was selected to receive the 2001 Loren Miller Legal Services
Award, the State Bar's highest honor.
As a young attorney working for the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in the early
1970s, Avila quickly learned that equal access is at the heart of
community activism.
"I
realized some of the cases we had were against poli- |
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