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Corporate


Lawyers 'On Demand' for High-Tech TV

Jan. 12, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - The next generation of TV hardly would be recognizable to Philo Farnsworth, the farm boy who invented the medium...


Securities


Broker Will Pay $153 Million to Settle Charges

Jan. 12, 2006
By Anna Oberthurn

LAS VEGAS - The president of a now-defunct Las Vegas broker-dealer company has agreed to pay $153 million, including a record ...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers has become the latest Los Angeles-based law firm to raise associate base salaries, accord...


Administrative/Regulatory


Justices to Inmates: Don't Waste Time

Jan. 12, 2006
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - California prison inmates may have time on their hands, but they had better not waste any before filing habeas...


Appellate Practice


Defunct Law Firm Must Answer Malpractice Claim

Jan. 12, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A law firm that shut down in Los Angeles years ago and later closed its doors in Ohio still must answer to a mal...


Law Practice


San Bernardino DAs, Defenders Get Pay Raise

Jan. 12, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 12.5 percent raise for attorneys in the ...


Appellate Practice


PG&E Again Faces Massive Restitution Claims

Jan. 12, 2006
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and San Francisco City ...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether the city of Berkeley was within its rights to end a 5...


Administrative/Regulatory


LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney involved in the church sex-abuse litigation for talking trash...


Criminal


Guilty Pleas in Pellicano Case Detailed

Jan. 12, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles federal prosecutors released details Tuesday of two guilty pleas in connection with the wiretapping ...


Judges and Judiciary


Feinstein Switches Gears in Probe of Alito

Jan. 12, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - When it was time for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to quest...


Government


Briefly

Jan. 11, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree

BOOST FOR COURTS - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $125.6 billion budget proposal Tuesday that includes funding for 150 ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals

Jan. 11, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - CancerVax, Micromet Agree to Join Forces Biotechnology companies CancerVax Corp. and Micromet AG have announced ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 10

Jan. 11, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

OFFICE LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged $63 million in financing for the purchase of 5900 Wilshire Blvd., a ...


Education


Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - As we look back on 2005, we are reminded of the many significant changes that occurred wit...


Constitutional Law


Protected Speech

Jan. 11, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

Briefly - Protests outside the homes of Los Angeles city animal shelter officials by members of a radical animal rights group ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Caren Deane Thomas - When I recently received an invitation to a reunion of my Yale Law School class, it sti...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Contributions - By Leonard A. Leo • Justice Robert Jackson of the Supreme Court once famously wrote, "We are not final b...


Government


Whatever Happened to 'Pay-toPlay'?

Jan. 11, 2006
By Erin Park

LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, allegations of corruption within Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's administration started flicker...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - Sasha the dog has won a reprieve. A state appellate court on Monday ordered the Alameda County Sheriff's Departm...


Administrative/Regulatory


LOS ANGELES - Things have gotten so bad for Jack Abramoff that he tried to give me money. Abramoff is the Washington, D.C., lo...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN JOSE - After a career spent mostly in criminal defense, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Patrick Tondreau has thri...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Jan. 9

Jan. 10, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

MORENO VALLEY - ERP Operating LP purchased Broadstone Moreno Valley Ranch, a 176-unit apartment community at 15100 Moreno Beac...


Law Practice


Latino Group Lures Prosecutor

Jan. 10, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund has tapped a Los Angeles federal prosecutor to serve as it...


Focus Column - By Bruce Givner - Family limited partnerships fared well in the federal courts in 2005. Following is a brief su...


Education


Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Question: What does the Armenian genocide have in common with evolution? Answer: In certain ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - President Bush has made his determination perfectly clear: "We cannot let terrorists and...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added civil litigator Dana J. Dunwoody to its business trial practi...


Firm Watch


New Name Reflects Sullivan Wertz Promotions

Jan. 10, 2006
By Kenneth Davis

SAN DIEGO - San Diego law firm Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace has changed its name to Wertz McDade Wallace Moot & Br...


Criminal


Cooley Urges Three-Strikes Reform

Jan. 10, 2006
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - Concerned about nonviolent offenders receiving disproportionate sentences under the state's three-strikes law, ...