McCutchen Doyle: TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND MAKES TWO-FOR-ONE DEAL
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen recently signed an inseparable pair of intellectual property attorneys, Mi...
Bryan Cave: AVISTAR GOES PUBLIC WITH ITS $36 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Avistar Communications Corp. of Redwood Shores has gone public in an offering valued at $36 million. Avistar develops, markets...
A Marry Quandry
By Columnist
THE CLOSER The divisive nature of Proposition 22 demonstrates the judgmental behavior of those who supported and voted for it,...
Crime Protection Again Will Be the 'Primary Mission'
By Columnist
Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...
Court Twice Denies Appeal Of Hungry Homeless Man
By John Roemer
A hungry homeless man must spend 25 years to life in prison because he tried to break into a Los Angeles church to find food, ...
Troop Steuber: LIBERTY DIGITAL BUYS HALF OF GAME SHOW NETWORK
By Staff Writers
Liberty Digital Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50 percent share of the Game Show Network, a division of Sony Pictures Entertain...
Paul Hastings: S.F. OFFICE ADDS THREE AS LABOR BOUTIQUE IMPLODES
By Staff Writer
So far, Los Angeles-based Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is among the first firms to pick up lawyers from the breakup of ...
Allen Matkins: REAL ESTATE GROUP LURES LILLICK & CHARLES VETERAN
By Staff Writer
Lillick & Charles real estate partner Lee Gotshall-Maxon hopped over to the 20-lawyer San Francisco office of the Los Ange...
Latham & Watkins: PAN PACIFIC WILL BECOME MAJOR REIT ON WEST COAST
By Staff Writers
Vista's Pan Pacific Retail Properties has announced that it will pay $440 million to acquire its rival, Western Properties Tru...
Fenwick & West: BOUTIQUE SUPPLIES THREE NEW ATTORNEYS IN PART II
By Staff Writer
Palo Alto's Fenwick & West is scooping up three more attorneys on the eve of the breakup of Schachter Kristoff. The three ...
Pillsbury Madison: FIRM THAT IMPROVES GENES AND PROTEINS GOES PUBLIC
By Staff Writers
San Diego's Applied Molecular Evolution Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at just over $88 million. Applied Molecular...
Stubborn Streak
By Staff Writer
By Karen Coleman. Last week, the Financial Services Group Inc. was established as an independent company, with 30 business pro...
Astute Asking Filters Out Wrong Jurors
By Columnist
Brickner's Bits by David Brickner. As we know, voir dire has four objectives: get the jurors to like you (if only just a littl...
Head Start
By Melissa Onstad
ADR Attorneys want to succeed in the hot fields of mediation and arbitration, but retired judges have the edge, radiating an a...
Colorado Program Educates Latinos on Laws
By Staff Writer
DENVER - Court officials in California's San Mateo County want to stop the flow of Hispanics getting in trouble with the law. ...
DA Charges Williams With Murder
By Anne La Jeunesse
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office filed murder and robbery charges Friday against Damian Monroe "Football" Wil...
City Attorney Dismisses Critical Mass Charges
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles City Attorney Howard Gluck crafted a creative disposition with dozens of Critical Mass bicycling activists arreste...
Bankruptcy Topic Of Training Session
By Staff Reports
The Los Angeles Free Clinic will hold its Summer 2000 Chapter 7 Bankruptcy training from 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Sept. 16. ...
Activists Enter Not Guilty Pleas
By Anne La Jeunesse
Four activists who demonstrated their disdain of corporate greed by unfurling a huge banner from a downtown hotel just before ...
Lawyer, Assistant Helped Launder $1.65M
By David Houston
A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former assistant laundered more than $1.65 million for two men who helped pull of...
Five New Lawyers Join Bar Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
Five lawyers from small and mid-size law firms will join the State Bar Board of Governors later this month, the bar has announ...
Court Rejects Sheriff's Grievance Procedures
By Dawn Piimanu
An appellate court has refused to recognize an informal agreement modifying disciplinary grievance procedures for deputies in ...
Guarding the Children
By Cheryl Romo
When Brandon was 17, he was confined at Nidorf Juvenile Hall. We don't know why he was being held there, nor what his life was...
Lawyers and Judges View Kids' Rights
By Cheryl Romo
What, exactly, are the legal rights of kids in juvenile detention facilities? This seemingly innocuous question was posed to a...
Youngsters Face Perils In Detention
By Cheryl Romo
What little light has been shed on rights violations inside the juvenile detention system has come largely from the occasional...
Escutia Becomes Judiciary Committee Chair
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Martha Escutia, who spearheaded trial court restructuring and was once recognized by trial lawyers as Legislator ...
County Sets Up Task Force To Reform Juvenile Facilities
By Cheryl Romo
Following startling allegations about the mistreatment of kids with special needs in the county's juvenile detention facilitie...
Union Unites 2,000 Orange County Janitors
By Susan Mc Rae
Three years ago, Hilda Razao paid a coyote $1,000 to smuggle her into the United States. Immigration agents caught her at the ...
Sony Accuses Company of Theft And Unfair Business Practices
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has warned Connectix Corp. that Internet downloading of publicly accessible trade secrets alle...
Pit Bull Litigator Embeds Teeth in LAPD's Soft Tissues
By Garry Abrams
Controversial police brutality and civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman is back from the legally dead. A federal judge ruled las...