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Novatel Wireless Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $56 million. San Diego's Novatel Wireless develops wireless Int...


Conexant Spinco Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Newport Beach's Conexant Spinco is a who...



Scholarship Connects Lawyer, Student

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Writer

Shanna Bradford is a success story from one of the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods. Last year, she won a $5,000-a-year law sc...


Portal Software Inc. has acquired Solution42 AG. The transaction is valued at $300 million. Portal Software, of Cupertino, pro...



San Francisco patent prosecution boutique Limbach & Limbach will disband by year's end. Firm partners are blaming Limbach'...


Court Eyes Ineffective-Counsel Rules

Nov. 28, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider this week just how "ineffective" attorneys must be for their convicted clients to...



Murder Suspect Testifies About GHB

Nov. 27, 2000
By Tessa Jarrett

JOSHUA TREE - During his days of partying, Troy Lindley Geborde often saw people pass out from ingesting too much of the contr...


Judge Changes Venue in Wrongful-Death Suit

Nov. 27, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge recently transferred a mother's $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Palmdale Sch...



Parties Consent to End Shootout Suit

Nov. 27, 2000
By David Houston

After months of haggling over details, the parties in the lawsuit filed by the two children of one of the robbers in the 1997 ...


Fee Agreements Would Need to Be in Writing

Nov. 27, 2000
By Don Debenedictisn

Here are excerpts of some of the more significant changes to lawyer ethics rules proposed today by the American Bar Associatio...



After 3 1/2 years of hard labor, a blue-ribbon American Bar Association commission today releases its proposal to rewrite atto...


Justice May Be Blind, But It's Not Cheap

Nov. 27, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Justice is supposed to be blind. Too bad it's not cheap. The ever-growing chasm between the wealthy and the poor in this count...



Martha Rodriguez, 28, returned to her parents' home in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico, with her two baby girls. She had come home ...


In light of the continuing presidential election furor, the day after Thanksgiving may be a good, safe moment to say a few wor...



Draw Them a Picture

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

A strong opening statement is critical to success at trial. It should be the jury's road map through the maze of legal issues ...


Technical Turmoil

Nov. 25, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Attorneys come in different stripes, but few offer greater contrast in style and personality than Manatt, Phelps & Phillip...



Immaculate Rejection

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

The prosecutor told the jurors that they could '[do] what God says' and impose the death penalty, or act like heathens and let...


Legal Dilettante

Nov. 25, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Attorney B. Boyd Hight seems suspiciously modest for a one-time actor. Actually, calling him an actor is a stretch. His only r...



Showing Brain Drain

Nov. 25, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Greg K. Hafif of the Law Offices of Herbert Hafif in Claremont won $5.8 million in a boating accident case. Raul Marmol v. Ade...


In Indonesia, All Contracts Are Onerous

Nov. 25, 2000
By Contributing Writer

BALI, Indonesia -- Like most Indonesian attorneys, Aloysia Trombine knew little about contract drafting when she started pract...



Photo Finish

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...


Perilous Policy

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...



Smoke This Book: Advice on Avoiding Pot Busts

Nov. 25, 2000
By Staff Writer

Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...


Courtroom Clod

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...



Second Class

Nov. 25, 2000
By Columnist

When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...


Judge Blocks Transfer of Assets From Fraudulent Firm

Nov. 25, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...



Panel Studies LAPD Immigration Policy

Nov. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...


Council OKs Hiring Patricia Glaser

Nov. 25, 2000
By Chris Ford

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...



Personal-Injury Pioneer Toxey Hall Smith Dies

Nov. 25, 2000
By David Houston

Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...


Rampart Juror Denies Misconduct

Nov. 25, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...