Joy Gibson Gets 3 Years for Pimping
By Anne La Jeunesse
Convicted pimp Joy "Babydol" Gibson, who allegedly plied her sex trade via the Internet, was sentenced Monday to three years i...
Dump Site Suit Charges Lawyer With Conspiracy
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro,...
'Driving While Black' Bill More Palatable, Less Powerful
By Jeffrey Anderson
A compromise "Driving While Black or Brown" bill tailored to win the support of Gov. Gray Davis has been proclaimed by its spo...
Movie Executive Joins Irell's IP and Entertainment Groups
By Katherine Gaidos
Eric Suddleson, former head of business and legal affairs at Los Angeles' Mutual Film Co., has joined the entertainment and in...
Rampart Attorneys Lash Out
By Michael Harris
As the first three officers charged in the Rampart scandal pleaded not guilty Monday, their attorneys went on the offensive, a...
Supporters Back Off Compromise
By Jeffrey Anderson
In announcing his compromise racial profiling bill at that April 27 Sacramento rally, state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City.,...
DETAILED SEARCH
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Bottom Line: By Frank W. Nemecek and Mary H. Redfield An attorney has been hired to represent a client in a lawsuit. Pursuant ...
Waddington Set for Arbitration Talk
By Staff Reports
Retired Judge Lawrence C. Waddington will talk about "The 'Litigization' of Arbitration: A Review of Cutting Edge Case Law" at...
Making a Career of Doing Big Mergers
By Melissa Onstad
Debra Summers believes in getting down to business. In fact, focusing on the business issues, while managing the legal ones al...
DEALS: NET ADVISER BLUE MARTINI FILES FOR $75 MILLION IPO
By Liz Valsamis
Software company Blue Martini Inc. has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of stock. The transaction...
Easy Marks
By Jeffrey Anderson
A 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and $55 was all it took for Joel Levitt and Barbara Gold to get hitched at th...
DEALS: PEOPLESOFT PURCHASES ANALYTIC PLATFORM COMPANY
By Melissa Onstad
PeopleSoft Inc. has acquired Advance Planning Solution Inc. in a cash transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...
Waste Elimination
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Practitioner: Land Use Law By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. In Waste Management of Alameda County Inc., v County of Alameda (Browning-F...
Chevron Remains a Defendant in Nigeria Suit
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ruled that Chevron Corp. must remain as a defendant in a suit accusing the oil giant's Nig...
DEALS: CLARENT ACQUIRES ACT IN A $189 MILLION TRANSACTION
By Liz Valsamis
ACT Networks Inc., based in Calabasas, is being acquired by Redwood City's Clarent Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valu...
BREAKING THE MOLD
By Tamara Scott
Nightmare on Tribute Street For years, Kathy Masera and her staff at the California Job Journal in Sacramento had lived with a...
DEALS: SEAGATE DIVIDES IN COMPLEX, $20 BILLION TRANSACTION
By Melissa Onstad
Seagate Technology Inc. has been acquired by Veritas Software Corp. and a private investor group led by Silver Lake Partners i...
DEALS: GOTO.COM GOES ON AUCTION CIRCUIT WITH DEAL FOR LINKS
By Liz Valsamis
Online search engine GoTo.com Inc., based in Pasadena, has acquired AuctionRover.com Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, N....
Parks Functions as Aider and Abettor of Cover-Up
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Forum: By Stephen Yagman The paradoxical notion of hiding in plain sight serves LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks very well, like th...
Fancy Footwork Won't Help Quackenbush Avoid Liability
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Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Showing some pretty fancy footwork, Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush denied knowi...
STRAYING WATCHDOG
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The Closer: By Anthony V. Baker These days, I often wonder what Alexander Hamitlton would think about the Supreme Court. By an...
FIRM WATCH: ANDREWS RETURNS TO PRIVATE PRACTICE FROM WASHINGTON
By Tamara Scott
International environmental lawyer David R. Andrews has returned to San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen after ...
DEALS: WINETASTING.COM BUYS RETAIL HOST AFICION.COM
By Melissa Onstad
WineTasting.com has acquired Aficion.com in a transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...
VIRTUAL JURISDICTION
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The Advisor: By Michael J. Lawrence Today, more companies than ever are launching Web sites as the borderless nature of cybers...
DEALS: INTERNET BUSINESSS BUYS REALITY SITE ATLAS CAPITAL
By Melissa Onstad
Internet Business's International Inc. has acquired Atlas Capital Corp. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ...
Graduation Recommendations
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Forum: From the Tower By Ira L. Shafiroff Across the nation this coming weekend, thousands of men and women will be graduating...
FAVORED FORUM
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The Advisor: By Robert Barnes For the past five months, cybersquatters-registrants and would-be resellers of Internet domain n...
Cigarette Maker Settles Suit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The makers of Kent cigarettes have settled a lawsuit brought by children of a longtime smoker after a jury awa...
Rampart-Related Suits Cross Three-Dozen Mark
By Chris Ford
The number of Rampart-related lawsuits filed against the city of Los Angeles claiming civil rights violations by police topped...
FIRM WATCH: NEW LABOR LAWYER WILL BEEF UP PALO ALTO OFFICE
By Meredith Alexander
David J. Murphy , a senior partner in labor and employment law who practiced at Littler Mendelson 's San Jose office, has join...