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Pointing Out Bias

Aug. 7, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Has the University of California developed a sneaky way around Proposition 209, the 1996 Ca...


Growing Business

Aug. 7, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...



Focus Column - By Andrew B. Serwin ...


LOS ANGELES - Asking an exotic dancer at a strip club to show "more skin" is not entrapment, a state appellate court has ruled...



DA Wants Death for Child-Slaying Suspect

Aug. 7, 2002
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors will seek death for the man accused of killing Samantha Runnion, District Attorney Tony ...


Meditating on Jurors' Whimsical Ways

Aug. 7, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...



Growing Business

Aug. 6, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...


Meditating on Jurors' Whimsical Ways

Aug. 6, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...



Orrick Litigator Receives Judicial Nod

Aug. 6, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

For the second time in two years, an Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner is headed for the bench. On July 25...


When law firm partners describe successful mergers, they talk about things like synergy, cultural fits and cross-selling. So i...



Akin Gump Expands Land Use Practice

Aug. 6, 2002
By John Ryan

Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department...


Born Again

Aug. 6, 2002
By Contributing Writer

BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer If everything goes according to plan, up-and-coming executives and entrepreneurs will one da...



Southern California Hotels Coming Out of Their Slumber

Aug. 6, 2002
By Contributing Writer

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Where business is strong, hotels are sure to follow. That real estate aphorism holds especial...


San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has parted ways with its Tysons Corner, Va., corporate practice. Two partners and two assoc...



Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chap...


Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has finally moved into the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. ...



Non-Profit Leases in Aero Park

Aug. 6, 2002
By Ron Mc Nees

The San Diego Workforce Partnership signed a 36-month, $2.58 million lease for 53,000 square feet of office space from Aero P...


IMPCO Spins Off Its Fuel-Cell Subsidiary

Aug. 6, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Alternative fuel company IMPCO Technologies Inc. of Cerritos has spun off its subsidiary Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Wor...



Probe Is No Deal Breaker, Arbitrator Says

Aug. 6, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

With the government in his corner, this should have been a straightforward case that Los Angeles lawyer Richard Marmaro couldn...


Seven months after McDermott, Will & Emery opened a Munich office, the firm has added an intellectual property practice to...



ABA Plans Annual Meeting

Aug. 6, 2002
By Christina Landers

After September's terrorist attacks united Americans in newfound patriotism, the nation's capital seems the perfect setting to...


Bruce Schildkraut joined the Office of the U.S. Trustee in Los Angeles as a senior attorney July 29. Schildkraut had been an a...



Growing Concerns

Aug. 6, 2002
By Columnist

BY STEPHEN BLOCK Before starting my landscape design business in Los Angeles, I spent 12 years in commercial real estate putt...


Lawyers Help Symantec With Quartet of Deals

Aug. 6, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Creating an avalanche of work for Silicon Valley lawyers, Norton anti-virus maker Symantec Corp. of Cupertino has inked four d...



Bowling, Beer, Trophy Lure Lawyers

Aug. 6, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Walking into the Hollywood Star Lanes on a Friday night, you might expect to see some serious bowlers practicing for league pl...


Minda Schecter has joined the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson as counsel to the antitrust, compet...



Betting on the House

Aug. 6, 2002
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer In 1998, when most of the big Nevada gaming companies were lining up to oppose casinos o...


Keeping the Promise Alive

Aug. 6, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Many promises were made to rebuild South-Central Los Angeles as the embers of doze...



If you've ever pondered trading your billable-hours requirements for a job in legal marketing, there's something you should kn...


Lyon & Lyon Stands Alone at Alter, Again

Aug. 6, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Instead of a marriage proposal, Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon got a Dear John letter from San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend...