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Underwear manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has got its knickers in a twist with the well-known law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris,...


L.A. Will Pay $11M to Settle 29 Rampart Suits

Nov. 8, 2000
By David Houston

The city of Los Angeles tentatively has agreed to pay nearly $11 million to settle 29 lawsuits filed by victims of corrupt Ram...



A Los Angeles prosecutor improperly urged jurors to impose the death penalty by invoking "God's law" as justification in four ...


Court: To Sell Milk Here, Meet Our Standards

Nov. 8, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

The California Supreme Court decided Monday what kind of milk Californians should drink. From now on, the court said, only mil...



Irvine communications chip maker Broadcom Corp. is acquiring Allayer Communications, a privately held developer of optical net...


Oakland's Zhone Technologies has filed an initial public offering valued at $345 million. Zhone Technologies develops subscrib...



Calabassas' Ixia has gone public in an offering valued at $71.5 million. Ixia is developing a family of platforms for testing ...


Stars' Bar

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

The 9th Circuit just heard oral arguments in a high-profile right-of-publicity case. ...



Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. has agreed to acquire Cerprobe Corp. in a deal valued at $225 million. Kulicke and Soffa, ba...


Students Gear Up For Mock Trials

Nov. 7, 2000
By Staff Reports

Senior- and middle-school teams from throughout the county will participate in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 23rd ann...



Most of the remaining lawyers from Majestic Parsons Siebert & Hsue have landed in the new San Francisco office Skjerven Mo...


Risky Mail

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers can help clients keep their carefully packaged marketing morsels from degenerating into distasteful "spam," thus avoid...



Los Angles' Loeb & Loeb considers its most recent lawyer acquisitions, both from the corporate world, to be a coup for the...


Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the big national firm out of Cleveland, recently hosted a contingent of 80 lawyers from Japan at...



The demise of an 18-year-old San Francisco intellectual property boutique means five new lawyers and another patent agent for ...


Amid reports that another county worker may have contracted Legionnaires' disease, union officials charge that the county down...



Yagman's World

Nov. 7, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Stephen Yagman just doesn't know when to quit. This is how the Los Angeles civil rights lawyer and renowned gadfly recently co...


Rule of Law

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

To promote justice, all members of the bar should stay informed about rule-of-law issues here and abroad and speak out in favo...



Sunnyvale's Web content management software maker, Interwoven Inc., has agreed to acquire two companies: San Francisco's Metac...


Sullivan & Cromwell, a big New York firm with 45 lawyers in Los Angles, lit a fire under East Coast year-end bonuses when ...



Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Texaco Inc. for $36 billion. Chevron also will acquire $7 billion of Texaco's debt. San Fr...


Terry Kee, corporate and securities partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, is a little weary of the media ...



Political Junkie

Nov. 7, 2000
By John Ryan

Attorney Stephen Kaufman is a political junkie, the Smith Kaufman name partner practicing the arcane art of campaign and elect...


Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers isn't one to shrink from the limelight. Litigator Dan Petrocelli, whose name became a house...



Holding Sway

Nov. 7, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Sliding easily from bar to clustered armchairs and back again, they paused from time to time to graze from trays laden with go...


Having a Life

Nov. 7, 2000
By Staff Writer

Santa Rosa's Lanahan & Reilley has doubled in size in three years. "We're not doing it to be a large law firm," Daniel Lan...



9 to 5

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

New Wage Orders will effect the rules that law firms must follow on such diverse topics as overtime, alternative workweeks, me...


Southern California's Haight Brown & Bonesteel announced plans to move its Los Angeles office closer to the Los Angeles In...



In a deal both firms say was sealed some time ago, the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley & Austin has acquired three ...


Bar Board OKs $50 Cut in Bar Dues Next Year

Nov. 7, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Board of Governors voted unanimously - and happily - on Friday to cut bar dues by $50 for next y...