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• Cover: LAW DAY 5K
• Presidents Message
• LRIS Today
• Paterson On Film “Every Little Step”
• Passing of Judge Daily
• Ear to the Wall
• Family Law Dispatch
• Significant Increases in Probate Filing Fees
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Re-Thinking Discovery: Outrunning Greyhound with Micro-Trials
• Presidents Message
• Letter to the Editor
• Collaborative Corner: Seven Doomsday Words
• Punishment by Interest: Rejecting Reasonable Statutory Offers
• Judge of the Year Photos
• Probono Highlights
• “Trial Lawyer of the Year”
• Insurance Law Update
• Sunshine Cleaning
• Ear to the Wall
• Those Defining Wine Moments
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: A New Form for End-Of-Life Planning
• President’s Message
• Letter to the Editor
• Dave Ammons
• E-Verify Still (Mostly) Voluntary, No-Match Rule Still a No Go
• Bankruptcy Filings Rise Nearly 100% in Ventura County Re Solution Waiting For Comment
• Pro -Bono Highlights
• Family Law Dispatch: Elkins Redux
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• President’s Message
• Letter to the Editor
• What Is “Lien Striping” and Why Should You Care?
• Pro-Bono Highlights
• Ear to the Wall
• Practitioner Alert
• Paterson’s Films
• Ab Initio
• Judicial Evaluation Membership Changes
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Return of the Family Law Dispatch: Top Family Law Legislation for 2009
• President’s Message
• Where Are They Now? - 2009 Courtroom Assignments
• Pro-Bono High Lights
• The Unintended Consequences
  of Law
• The Chicken or the Client?
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Another Giant Departs
• President’s Message
• Ab Initio a Different Type of Civility in the 1970s
• The Year of the Barrister
• Ear to the Wall
• Santa Barbara Bar Association’s Bench & Bar Conference
• Stays on Appeal
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Commissioner Mark Borrell
• President’s Message
• MABA Awards
• Ear to the Wall
• For the Love of Birds
• Pro Bono Corner
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Annual Installation and Awards Banquet Photos
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: 2008 Ben E. Nordman Public Services Award Winner Kathleen
  Johnston Back
• President’s Message
• An Extraordinary Alternative to Law School
• Municipal Law Report: Regulation of Home Businesses
• Letters to the Editor
• The Advantages of Hiring Your Nanny Legally
• The Legacy of Richard A. Weinstock
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Taking the Long Way
• President’s Message
• Letters to the Editor
• A Comment from the Editor
• A Brief History of Court Tours
• Ab Initio
• Proposed Changes to Local Rules
• Pro Bono Highlights: Expenses Stall Relative Adoptions
• Women Lawyers of Ventura County to Honor Three Leaders
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: AB Initio
• President’s Message
• Letter to the Editor
• Rasnow Wins National Award
• Welcome to the Bench
• Need Experience?
• Selling Property in a Tight Lending Market
• Pro Bono Hightlights
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: The Blog and Short of It
• President’s Message
• Letter to Editor
• Ear to the Wall
• Advocates and Their Automobiles : an Impressive Infiniti
• VC Law Library, a Public Treasure
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Barristers 2nd Annual Bowling Night
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: 2008 Conservatorship Legislation Update - Part II
• President’s Message
• Animal Suffrage: Let Slip the Dogs of War
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Trial Lawyer of the Year Award
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Volunteers Needed
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Santo Tomas: Life in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp
• President’s Message
• 2008 Judge of the Year and Portrait Honoree
• Ventura ’S New City Attorney , Ariel Calonne
• Law Day 5k Photos
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Law Library Records Now Online
• Animal Suffrage - Let Freedom Howl
• Ear to the Wall
• Local School Granted Maximum Reaccreditation
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Trent and I Were Supposed to Die
• President’s Message
• Letters to the Editor
• 2008 Conservatorship Legislation Update
• Ear to the Wall
• Barristers Darts Night
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Law Day 5K Race : The 25th Anniversary
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Lincoln on E-Mail
  
• President’s Message
• “Trial Lawyer of The Year” Nominations Open
• Jerome H. Berenson
• Still Going… And Going… And Going…
• Experienced Family Lawyer to Manage Family Court Services
• A Law School Is Born
• Mexican-American Bar Association Hosts Mexican Consul “Inside The Mediators Studio ” Interviews
• Judge Wiliam Peck
• Working With Allied Professionals
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot...

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• Cover: Jerome H. "Jerry" Benson
• President’s Message
• California Foreclosures: An Avalanche of Filings...
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Judicial Evaluations
• First-Hand Knowledge, From Ventura to Havana
• Law School Open House
• California Mediation Week
• Ear to the Wall
• Law Day 5k - A Look Back
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• Cover: Off-Court with Mark Hiepler
  
• President’s Message
• Memories: The First Law Day 5k
• Changes to Local Rules Effective 1/1/2008
• Problem-Gambling Awareness Week
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Exit Planning
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• Cover: In Memoriam: Judge John Hunter
  
• President’s Message
• The Solo Practice of Law
• Pro-Bono Highlights
• “Pro-Bono Attorney Fees” Is Not an Oxymoron
• More than Mojitos – A Series of Articles on Cuba
• A Lawyer’s Homage to the Children of Kenya’s Slums
• Collaborative Corner
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President’s Message
• Please Contribute to the Justice Gap Fund
• Annual Bar Dinner Photos
• In Remembrance: William Boyd Ritner
• Pro-Bono Highlights
• Another Way to Go
• In Remembrance: Dorothy Schechter
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President’s Message
• Letters to The Editor
• Fiction Becomes You: The Story of Erle Stanley Gardner
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Ear to the Wall
• U. S. District Court Mandatory Training Update
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President’s Message
• Letters to The Editor
• Mediation Program for Small Claims Court Instituted
• Mandatory Training for Electronic Case Filing
• Structured Settlements Sometimes Misunderstood
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Boost Your Practice and Yourself Through Coaching
• Gizmos and Gadgets
• Collaborative Corner
• Ear to The Wall
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Ear to the Wall
• Enhancing California's Payroll Compliance Regime
• Collaborative Corner
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Women Lawyers of Ventura County Honors Melodie Kleiman
• We Read So You Don't Have To
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message
• Ear to the Wall
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Letters to the Editor
• I'm A Solo, Darn It!
• Honoring Holly
• Building the Firm
• VA Finally Allows Legal Representation
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message
• Tread Lightly While InterviewingProspective Candidates
• Presentation Technology – It's not Smoke and Mirrors
• And Who Do You Think Is Paying For That Now?
• Guidelines for Achieving Success at Mediation
• Pro Bono Highlights
• We Read So You Don't Have To
• Bye, Laura
• New Admittees
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message
• Olympic Lawyer
• Judicial Council Adopts New Rules for Simple Civil Collection
• In Memoriam: Holly G. Spevak
• Civility Guidelines
• Law Day 5k Photos
• In Memoriam: Keith M. Carter
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Ear To The Wall
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message
• David Long
• Simi Valley Cajun Creole Festival – May 26 And 27th
• The Greer Case: Hanif and Nishihama Revisited
• And Who Do You Think Is Paying For That Now?
• Ear to the Wall
• The Charity Clause: How Attorneys Can Give Back
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot...
• Classifieds

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• President's Message
• Letters to the Editor
• Sexual Orientation and Employment Discrimination
• Ear to the Wall
• We Read So You Don't Have To
• Postal Service Changes Inconvenience Lawyers
• Local Justice Agencies Scramble to Cope With Recent Decision
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot...
• Classifieds

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• President's Message
• Letters to the Editor
• Family History
• From Tashkent to Ventura (via Moscow and Miami)
• Collaborative Corner
• In you Corner - An essay on independent counsel
• Ear to the Wall
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot...
• Classifieds

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• President’s Message
• VCTLA Announces Nominations For “Trial Lawyer Of The Year”
• Springtime MCLE Conference
• Pro-Bono Highlights
• Ear To The Wall
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Collaborative Corner In Your Corner - An Esssay On Independent Counsel - Part 2
• Lawyers Helping Bring The Mlk Jr. Memorial To Fruition
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message
• Collaborative Corner
• State Bar Appointments
• What They Wore; What They Bought
• Implications Against Tax-Free Life Insurance Proceeds
• Ear To The Wall
• New Admittees
• Robert D. Bornet: In Memoriam
• Lawyer Coach Transforms Kids
• In Your Corner - An Essay On Independent Counsel
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: Signing Off
• Letters to the Editor
• Mental Health Professionals and Collaborative Family Law
• We Read so You Don't Have To
• Georgakis Accepts Appointment as Dean
• Annual Dinner Photos
• What Great Big Teeth You Have
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: Hanging with the Supremes
• Letters to the Editor
• Reflections on the Life of Richard Goldman
• Heeding Our Nobler Angels, Dean Richard Goldman
• Unreported Income's Effect on Family Law
• We Read, So You Don't Have To
• Comp Benefits Increase
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Collaborative Corner
• You Be the Judge: Behind the Steering Wheel of Jewish Law
• Ear to the Wall
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: How to Change the Law
• Santa Clara Valley Legal Aid Celebrates 10th Birthday
• Henderson Consults Libel Lawyer
• Yellow Pages
• Pro Tem Training Required
• Law School Names New Directors
• We Read so You Don't Have to
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Ear to the Wall
• Justice Abbe Moot Court Honors Competition
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: How to Change the Law
• Santa Clara Valley Legal Aid Celebrates 10th Birthday
• Henderson Consults Libel Lawyer
• Yellow Pages
• Pro Tem Training Required
• Law School Names New Directors
• We Read so You Don't Have to
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Ear to the Wall
• Justice Abbe Moot Court Honors Competition
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: Ten Years Old (Almost)
• Letter to the Editor
• Judge Reiser Reports: The Courtroom of Tomorrow
• The Value of Medical Claims
• MABA Scholarships
• We Read So You Don't Have To
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Ear to the Wall
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot... Dot... Dot

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• President's Message: Meet Your Neighbor the VCPA
• Zen and the Art of Dying
• Things I Already Knew
• We Read so You Don't Have to
• Roshambot
• Pro Bono Highlights
• New Admittees Join the Ranks
• VCAABATennis
• Ear to the Wall
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President’s Message: How A Will Survives More Than A Century
• Animal Rights Or Animal Crackers?
• Mortgages And Divorce
• Judge Pro Tem Rule Change
• Punitive Damages Initiative Withdrawn
• Law Day 5K Photos
• New Filing Requirement Reminder
• Ear To The Wall
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President’s Message: Chief Justice Roberts In Ventura County
• Wherever You Go, There You Are
• Ear To The Wall
• Brazil Appoints A Woman As Chief Justice
• Disgruntled Employees In Your Law Firm: The Enemy Within
• Judicial Portrait:  Judge Joe Hadden
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Classifieds
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President’s Message: Bench-Bar Coalition Day in Sacramento
• County Welcomes New Judge
• We Read so You Don’t Have to: Oldie, No Goodies
• Lris Modest Means Panel
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Lawyers and Faith
• Halting Unauthorized Practice
• Ear to the Wall
• C. Russell King
• Caoc News
• Internet Reconnaissance Report
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Opportunities and Information
• Letters to the Editor
• New and Revised Judicial Council Probate Forms
• We Read so You Don’t Have to
• Masters in Trial
• Judge and Juror
• Springtime MCLE Conference
• Ear to the Wall
• Pro Bono Corner
• Classifieds
• Career Fair
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Extraordinary People Among Us
• Letters to the Editor
• Ear to the Wall
• Barristers
• Got Malpractice Insurance?
• Pro Bono Awards
• Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominees
• Richard Armand Richards 1934 to 2005
• Court Room Demeanor in a Casual Friday World
• Classifieds
• Al Yablon Emeritus Attorney Extraordinaire
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Two Important Attorneys in My Life
• Letter to the Editor
• VCBA Affiliates Fund Scholarships
• Ode to a Scholarship
• We Read so You Don't Have to
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Taxation and Transfer of Domestic Partnership Property
• Judge Ross...You're Fired
• Classifieds
• Obituaries
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• The Red Sweater
• Letters to the Editor
• The Local Voluntary Early Civil Mediation Program
• 2005 Annual Installation Dinner Photos
• We Read So You Don't Have To
• Ear to the Wall
• New Federalist Society Chapter
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• Softball, Pizza and the Emergency Room
• Ventura County Black Attorneys Association: Who We Are
• Participate in Mock Trial
• Street Law
• Drafting Electronic Evidence
• Do You Know a Lawyer In Trouble? Perhaps it's You?
• Family Law and Egg Donation
• Ear to the Wall
• VCDS Reaches Out to Hispanic Community
• Classifieds
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: My Sister, Fran Smith, Learning to Jet Ski
• Letters to the Editor
• California's Same-Sex Marriage Yo-Yo
• Legal Urban Legends: Tenderloin Housing Clinic V. Sparks
• Urgent Notice/Reminder: Upcoming Bankruptcy Deadline
• Pro Bono Highlights
• Local Mediator Honored
• Ear to the Wall
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President’s Message: Sasebo 1968
• Letters To The Editor
• Former Vcba Pres Joins State Bar Board
• Try Skype–It’s Free!
• What Is A Blog?
• Catching Up With... John Howard
• A Funny Thing Happened At The Clerk’s Window...
• Pro Bono Corner
• Justice Abbe Moot Court Honors Competition
• We Read So You Don’t Have To
• The Dining Advocate
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President’s Message: Zoom Zoom
• Letters To The Editor
• Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, Public Use And The Kelo Case
• Ear To The Wall
• Catching Up With... Bob Davidson
• Pro Bono Corner
• Book Review We Read So You Don’t Have To
• Exec’s Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Cruise Control
• We Read so You Don't Have to - Footnote Fetish
• Law Day Photos
• Team Arrogant Bastard Hits the Beach
• Due Diligence...Do Your Homework!
• Ear to the Wall
• Swearing-in Ceremony
• Pro Bono Corner
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
• Letter to the Editor
• Ventura County 's "Fast" Response to the Crime of Indignity
• Sanctions to Be Collected
• Most Comprehensive Changes Ever in U.S. Bankruptcy Law
• Ear to the Wall
• Trust Me!
• Vote for Maria Carmen Ramirez
• Casting Call to all Attorney Actors
• Exec's Dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Message: Baseball
• Letters to the Editors
• Portrait of Judge Bill Peck
• Ken Riley is Judge (and Nice Guy) of the Year
• The Pro Per Attorney's Fees
• Ear to the Wall
• Mock Trial
• Pro Bono Corner
• Fee Cap Initiative Withdrawn
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• President's Messege: Company
• A Word From the Editors
• Asian-American Bar Inaugural
• What I do is Criminal
• Ear to the Wall
• Music - A Harmless Addiction
• Renewing the Supreme Court
• Forgery and the Handwriting Expert
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• What Stays in Vegas is Generally the Money
• State of the Courts
• Renewing the Supreme Court
• Ear to the Wall
• Letters to the Editor
• Equitable Macs-Ims
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• Presidents' Message: for the Love of Max
• Ear to the Wall
• Gravity, Rain, Mud and Litigation
• Asian American Bar Association Forming 1
• Proposition 64 Limits Standing on Section 17200 Actions
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• Where have all the mgs gone?
• I didn't want to go to the annual vCBA dinner
• Street law announcement
• VCBA admission ceremony
• Volunteering with election protection
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• The long goodbye
• Change the law
• Evolving legal battles for domestic partners
• Annual installation awards banquet photos
• State bar president's pro bono award
• Ear to the wall
• Whistlestop
• Letter to the editor
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• One soapbox out of twelve isn't too bad
• Attorney to host "Art and the law" reception
• A legal blog the old-fashioned way
• My husband has a mistress
• Noted ethics speaker at scholarship event
• Ear to the wall
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• A love affair with paris
• Letter to the editor
• Get a life!
• Vcyl - committed to pro bono service
• New inmate telephone system
• Changes to "Bounty hunter" law...but the law lives on
• Hero
• Employee leaves of absence: potential pitfalls Ear to the wall
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• Venting the ghosts
• Letters to the editor
• An hour on constitutional rights
• Whither rojas?
• Ventura college of law celebrates 35th anniversary
• Ear to the wall
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• The hunt for the great blue whale
• Justice arthur gilbert - the accidental jurist
• Employee probation - the "Last chance to make good"
• Put it on the elmo - courtroom technology in ventura
• Letter to the editor
• Whistlestop - tentative rulings on the court's website
• Ear to the wall
• In memory of danny dale hullinger
• Classifieds
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• The xyz affair
• Judge Frederick H. Bysshe, Jr.
• Judge back honored
• VCBA ceremony
• Ear to the wall
• Law day race photos
• Gang injunction
• In memory of E. E. Clabaugh, Jr.
• VCBA ceremony
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot

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• Travels with Tom, part 2
• My quiet demonstration
• Farm workers celebrate local labor contract
• Women's rights - condition precedent
• Are you violating the labor code?
• Notice to all civil attorneys
• "Women of Juarez"
• New chapter of the federal bar association
• Convincing clients to protect themselves
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot
• Addressing elder abuse

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• A week in the life of the PGA tour
• Judge william liebmann - years of public service
• The wonders & worries of wireless networking
• Note from Dubai
• Clarification
• Ear to the wall
• Fixing the reputation of the 'Bad patient'
• Whistlestop
• Remembering T. Dale Pease
• Lascher at large
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot
• Microsoft class action deadline extended

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• A fact-finding mission to North Carolina
• The history of the juvenile justice complex
• Ventura music festival 10th anniversary season
• Masters in trial
• Elder abuse in our county
• Ear to the wall / make law now!
• Invoking judicial notice: some common problems 2003 developments in insurance law - part 2
• Citations solicitation
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot
• We should change the "bunkhouse rule"

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• Feeling California-ish
• One day, one mountain, one mission
• Drafting a buy-sell agreement - part 3
• Lascher at large
• Ear to the wall
• Federal hipaa privacy rules
• 2003 developments in insurance law - part 1
• Combatting the negative image of lawyers
• Exec's dot...Dot...Dot
• Protect yourself from 'Phishing' scams

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