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Hoping for a Rain of IPOs to Ease the Drought

Jul. 11, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Attorney Dennis DeBroeck, a partner at Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, senses that the initial public offering dry spell is ov...


Arco's Ronald Redcay Rejoins Arnold & Porter

Jul. 11, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Ronald Redcay, a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.,-based Arnold & Porter, rejoined the firm ...



Hardly a Pollution Solution

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The federal government, responsible for enforcing our environmental laws, regularly pollutes the environment with impunity. Th...


Capstone Turbine Corp. went public in late June in an offering valued at about $136.5 million. Capstone, based in Woodland Hil...



StaffMark Inc., which provides temporary and supplemental staff to companies needing employees for office administration and l...


Meteoric Rise

Jul. 11, 2000
By Tamara Scott

It was something of a shock when Alan K. Austin, the longtime managing partner of Silicon Valley's hottest firm, Wilson, Sonsi...



Hazard Control

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

Law firms need to operate more as businesses, including being proactive about risk management and the type of insurance covera...


Center Stage

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The problem of sexual assault needs to take center stage. It is important that men understand its severity, police become well...



Good Trade

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The major aim of the bill is to allow African countries to expand their economies through growth in trade with the United Stat...


'Gangsta Cops' Focus of Meetings

Jul. 11, 2000
By Staff Writer

Joseph D. McNamara, an associate at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, will talk about "Gangsta Cops and the Drug Wars"...



Handspring Inc. went public in late June in a stock offering valued at about $200 million. The founders of the Mountain View-b...


Santa Monica Bar Sets Summer Party

Jul. 11, 2000
By Staff Writer

Lawyer Sandra Polin will host a summer party at her Pacific Palisades home July 18 for members of the Santa Monica Bar Associa...



Mattson Technology has agreed to acquire STEAG Electronic Systems' Semiconductor Division and CFM Technologies. The value of t...


After years of overtures from firms throughout the country, prominent Century City entertainment and high-tech boutique Blanc ...



Santa Clara's Webango Inc., which helps companies use the Internet to manage their relationships with various service supplier...


Worker Sues City Over Shared Costs

Jul. 11, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A man fired from his job as a warehouse supervisor for the city of Burbank has filed suit against the city, challenging the co...



Judicial Campaign Costs Harmful

Jul. 11, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

NEW YORK - State and local grassroots organizations increasingly are setting their sights on the sharply escalating costs of j...


Officers May Be Demoted Without Hearing

Jul. 11, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The state appellate court has refused to block the demotion of two senior Los Angeles police officers who complained their rea...



Bankruptcy Fraud Charges Expanded

Jul. 11, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A federal indictment against a Los Angeles attorney and two doctors on bankruptcy fraud has been expanded to include three add...


Bar Lacks Sufficient Diversity

Jul. 11, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

NEW YORK - Minorities are significantly underrepresented in the legal profession compared even to other professions, the presi...



Nail Polish Needn't Carry Warnings, Says AG

Jul. 11, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - During the past eight years, dozens of sometimes acrimonious lawsuits resulted in more than $1 million paid to...


Two Officers Are Acquitted in Rampart Hearing

Jul. 11, 2000
By Michael Harris

Once again casting doubts on the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez, two police officers were acquitte...



Davis Names Vietnamese-American to O.C. Court

Jul. 11, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Deputy Attorney General Nho Trong Nguyen was appointed Orange County Superior Court's first Vietnamese American judge. ...


ABA Board Opposes MDPs

Jul. 11, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

NEW YORK - The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted strongly Friday to oppose letting lawyers form partnerships o...



Professor Can Use Public Funds

Jul. 11, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A university professor who champions anti-smoking campaigns is free to use public funds for his lobbying activ...


Pozner Has a Penchant for Detail

Jul. 11, 2000
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Most television legal analysts don't say much that's worth listening to. That may not come as a surprise to many lawy...



Leaving the lives of 130 dogs in doubt, a state appellate court has given the green light to the city of Burbank to shut down ...


S.D. Project Offers DNA Testing to Prisoners

Jul. 11, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Each request, painstakingly printed in pencil, represents someone's last hope to prove to the world that the jury ...



The state Department of Social Services is seeking to revoke permanently the foster care license of a Santa Barbara-area foste...


Protests continued to escalate Friday over the protesters expected at the Democratic National Convention, as the Los Angeles C...