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More Convictions To Be Reversed

May 24, 2000
By Michael Harris

In what will bring to 77 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...


On Monday - the same day that the conservative and mostly geriatric U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had violated free s...



Rights Lawyers Said Not Welcome on Panel

May 24, 2000
By Chris Ford

The general counsel of a panel investigating corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department recently told a group of civic le...


Council Members Blast Police Board

May 24, 2000
By Chris Ford

Several members of the Los Angeles City Council on Monday blasted the Board of Police Commissioners for overloading its police...



Defender Tries To Strike Deal For Transcripts

May 24, 2000
By Michael Harris

Saying it has never encountered a protective order as restrictive as the one imposed on the Rafael Perez transcripts, the alte...


Court: Credible Kids' Hearsay Can Be Offered

May 24, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case with big consequences for dependency hearings involving very young children, the California Supreme ...



DEALS: REMANAGE.COM AND AXEO FINALIZE MERGER

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Remanage.com and AXEO Corp. have completed their merger. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. The combined company ...


Biopool International Inc. and Xtrana have entered into an agreement to merge. ...



DAZED AND CONFUSED

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

The Adviser: Intellectual Property Law By Sue J. Hodges Companies with significant value in their intellectual-property asset...


Brobeck Veteran Will Stop at Nothing

May 23, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

One philosophy in life is to quit while you're ahead. That's not the approach taken by Brobeck Phleger & Harrison partner ...



Back to the Basics

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

First Principles By By John C. Eastman Last week the Supreme Court invalidated, by the narrowest of margins, a portion of the ...


Mo Manager

May 23, 2000
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

Update: When Keith Wetmore When Keith Wetmore first took on the task of managing the San Francisco office of Morrison & Fo...



DEALS: NELVANA ACQUIRING KLUTZ PUBLISHER

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Nelvana Ltd., the Toronto-based children's entertainment company, has agreed to acquire children's publisher Klutz. The transa...


Songnappers

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Entertainment Law By John M. Genga Copyright interests continue to prevail in lawsuits challenging uncompensated...



DEALS: MERGER DOUBLES SIZE OF PEREGRINE SYSTEMS

May 23, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc., a business infrastructure software provider, has acquired Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp., w...


Alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS, based in Irvine, has added eight mediators to offices throughout the state, includin...



On the Move: Palo-Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has recruited two lateral partners for its 366-attorney corporat...


Latino Organization Seeks Probe of 'Hate Group'

May 23, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The League of United Latin American Citizens, a national organization advocating civil rights for Hispanics, is ac...



O.C. Midwife Pleads Guilty to Baby's Death

May 23, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife accused of causing the stillborn birth of a baby by unlawfully adminis...


Tax Lawyer Applies Skills to e-Charities

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

As everything else is linked to the Web, so is charity, according to Cynthia Rowland, partner in San Francisco's Coblentz, Pat...



Platinum Equity Holdings, a Los Angeles-based, privately held company specializing in acquiring Internet technology companies,...


Three Nabbed for Allegedly Defrauding Bank

May 23, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Three Mexico City men, one of them apparently an attorney, were arrested early this month in Chula Vista for defra...



Kenneth N. Klee, acting professor at UCLA School of Law , has been given the 11th annual Frederic P. Sutherland Public Interes...


DEALS: SILICON ENERGY BUYS ENERGY CONCEPTS

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Silicon Energy Corp. has acquired Energy Concepts Inc. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. ...



By Thomas Edward Wall The cause of child abuse prevention received a major boost when the California Supreme Court unanimously...


Santa Clara-based Veridicom Inc., which provides security software for use in business-to-business online transactions, has ac...



Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Gamble Leck & Mallory has promoted six associates to partner in its Irvine, Los Angeles, W...


Trickle Down

May 23, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

An executive from a Silicon Valley start-up was shocked when he talked to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati - the region'...



LEGAL STIGMATA

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

The Closer: By Stanley W. Lamport Mark Twain once said, " Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." The world arou...


Starting the Workday by Riding the Surf

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Plenty of busy attorneys rise each morning before the sun. But the alarm clock of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Jonathan Moshe...