Neda Shahrokhi sold about 6,000 BMWs in her years at Beverly Hills BMW then jumped to a rival dealership in the Valley, taking her client list along. Her ex-employer sued, claiming she purloined secret info. The lawsuit is now in arbitration, and this week's L.A. Business Journal traces the legal dispute. The Journal also runs a package on parking and stories on how Mayor Hahn's plan to speed traffic on major streets may hurt the flow on cross streets, KLSX's challenge to replace Howard Stern's ratings and a push to ease the anonymity rules on reporting of new AIDS cases in the county. There's also a letter from the director of external communications at Rand complaining about an earlier story that misreported the think tank has "a long history of research for the defense industry":

In fact, Rand has never done any research whatsoever for the defense industry...and we do not do so as a matter of corporate policy. We do research on on national security matters for the United States Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force and and U.S. Army.

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