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Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals

Feb. 15, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Nortel will sell its blade-server switch business to a new company as the Canadian telecommunications equipment ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Your Space is My Space, Big Media Says

Feb. 15, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - As the Internet slowly eclipses everything from traditional bank statements to newspapers, attorneys are cashin...


Law Practice


Drug Court Affords Second Chance

Feb. 15, 2006
By Sarah Garveyn

LOS ANGELES - After 22 years of civil litigation, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dorothy B. Reyes now...


Civil Rights


Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Obie Scott, father of the late, great Coretta Scott King, was known to brag, after it was...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - Recent high-profile infringement cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - The long-shot effort by two former utility regulators to keep alive their opposition to a deal that helped Pac...


Litigation


Skadden Pays $2.6 Million to End Conflict Suit

Feb. 15, 2006
By Peter Zuckerman

LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills ophthalmologist, who had accused one of the nation's most prominent law firms of ruining his car...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Remember the color-coding system for rating the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attack? Well, some defense a...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - In a small, dimly lit room in San Francisco, eight women take turns twisting around two floor-to-ceiling poles...


Criminal


Inmates Ask Judge to Seize Firm's Equipment

Feb. 15, 2006
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The state must seize a display-rack company's equipment to ensure payment of at least $390,000 in wages owed to i...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Briefly

Feb. 14, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

COURT OKS BIG DIG - The city of Santa Clarita has lost its decades-long battle to stop the building of a nearby 56.1 million t...


Law Practice


Questions Over Death Panel Funding

Feb. 14, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Last month, former state Attorney General John Van de Kamp was named chairman of a commission studying the way Ca...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Feb. 13

Feb. 14, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

LOS ANGELES - BlackRock Realty purchased Museum Gardens, an 84,891-square-foot, Class A mixed-use property at 5353 Wilshire Bl...


Judges and Judiciary


From the Blogs - SoCal jurist Alex Kozinski in classic form [Feb. 1] on the 9th Circuit. If someone ever asks why he should be...


Criminal


Letter to the Editor - A commentary in the Feb. 8 Daily Journal ("Californians Need to Constrain Harshness of Three-Strikes La...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran Manager Will Take Over Region of Courts

Feb. 14, 2006
By Savannah Blackwell

SAN FRANCISCO - Administrative Office of the Courts veteran Jody Patel was named administrative director for the northern/cent...


Litigation


Focus Column - By Tazamisha H. Imara - On Dec. 27, 2005, the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia certified as a class action...


Government


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Just when you thought it might be slowing down. Just when you thought that the near-univ...


Firm Watch


Rocking Litigator Quits Jacobs for Luce Forward

Feb. 14, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - On stage, Gerald M. Murphy goes by "Butch," a guitar-playing, wisecracking character who performs with the band...


Firm Watch


Patent Litigator Moves to Weston Benshoof

Feb. 14, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property litigator James E. Doroshow has joined Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish...


Criminal


Judge Jails Lawyer for Extorting Business Owners

Feb. 14, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer is in jail after a judge called him an extortionist, held him in contempt of court and or...


Judges and Judiciary


After Decade, Court Allows Judge to Practice Law Again

Feb. 14, 2006
By Savannah Blackwell

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after booting a judge from the bench and yanking her bar card for dishonest and immoral behavior, th...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - "I went not even a block," Sandra Lee Montgomery said of her move to Bingham McCutchen's Los Angeles offices fro...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished a Los Angeles Superior Court judge for, amo...


Judges and Judiciary


Variety in Cases, Courses Enlivens the Workweek

Feb. 14, 2006
By Sarah Garveyn

LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Brad M. Fox's first stop each morning is the Torrance Annex Court located behind the Southwest Dist...


Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutor, professor, and now - big-firm litigator. Rory K. Little had exactly what McDermott Will &a...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. His father, William J. McGuiness, b...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Recent salary increases have left law-firm associates feeling fat and happy. But don't expect corporate general ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Feb. 13, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced that Ken Krug will join the firm as a partner in the firm's real...