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Firm Watch


No-Loss City Attorney Joins Hanson

Aug. 9, 2005
By Amy Spees

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy is hoping Tom Brown, a new of-counsel, will bring...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Erb, a corporate partner that joined Ropes & Gray Aug. 1, said the Boston-based firm is known as a ...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has announced the latest partner addition to its expanding corporate pract...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who frequent Division 6 at the El Monte Courthouse know that Superior Court Judge Suzanne E. Persn is...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California developer who made millions of dollars building business parks in Silicon Valley and Ea...


Law Practice


Male Victims Rarely Get Attention, Help

Aug. 9, 2005
By Columnist

Letter to the Editor - Capt. Jeff Bell, who, in his letter to the editor, calls psychology professor Gordon Finley a conspirac...


Firm Watch


With Honors

Aug. 8, 2005
By Maggie Guerin

Roger R. Myers, chair of the media practice group of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in San Francisco, was to be presented with th...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 8, 2005
By Jennifer Hammn

Litigation partner Yolanda Orozco has jumped from Los Angeles' O'Neill Lysaght & Sun to Jones Day in Los Angeles. Orozco h...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Aug. 5

Aug. 6, 2005
By Julie Leupoldn

RETAIL THOUSAND OAKS - Robertson Properties Group is expanding its local holdings with the $23.6 million acquisition of the Ne...


Public Interest


'Have a Nice Life' Can Become Kids' Reality

Aug. 6, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Lilliana and Nicki emancipated from Los Angeles County's foster-care system with big hopes, but it didn't take ...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Desmond Lee - Paying employees for time spent traveling is, perhaps, one of the most widely misundersto...


Real Estate/Development


Focus Column - Real Property - By Alan D. Wallace - A nuisance is "anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or off...


Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Jin W. Han - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become the nation's firs...


Law Practice


Lawyer Tried to Reverse Sirhan Conviction

Aug. 6, 2005
By Victoria Fine

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Lawrence Teeter, who tried to overturn the conviction of Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan ...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - Madera County District Attorney Ernest J. LiCalsi is facing allegations in a civil suit that he extorted money f...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


LOS ANGELES - At a recent conference sponsored by the Southern California Mediation Association, Sherman Oaks mediator Charle...


Technology & Science


LOS ANGELES - Matthew P. Guasco was a mediator of sorts, even as a child. "My mother was a very, very challenging woman," said...


Litigation


Judge Allows Rejected Korean Heir to Proceed With Lawsuit

Aug. 6, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The son of one of the wealthiest businessmen in Korea, who claims he was wrongly stripped of his inheritance, can...


Law Practice


Becoming Her Own Role Model

Aug. 6, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When Mary Cranston was a young San Francisco lawyer angling to become a top antitrust trial attorney, she loo...


Judges and Judiciary


In Chambers

Aug. 5, 2005
By Pat Alston

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired U.S. District Judge Fern M. Smith of the Northern District has joined JAMS. Smith, who left the bench ...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - After five years in-house at a San Diego biotech company, Noemi "Nicky" Espinosa has joined Dewey Ballantine'...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Aug. 4

Aug. 5, 2005
By Julie Leupoldn

MULTIFAMILY RIVERSIDE - BRE Properties Inc. acquired a 432-unit apartment complex for $75.8 million. The San Francisco-based m...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Deportation Avoided

Aug. 5, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles immigration judge has ruled that a transgender woman, diagnosed as HIV positive, can remain in the...


Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - A fundamental tenet of mainstream journalism in the United States is that reporters should st...


Securities


Focus Column - Buisness Law By Leonard M. Shulman and James R. Sechrist - Routinely in a commercial lending context, one hears...


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded two insurance companies $1.9 million this week in a legal malpractice verdict. The ju...


SAN FRANCISCO - Millbrae attorney Jeff Greenwald hit rock bottom when his methamphetamine supplier borrowed and wrecked the ca...


Personal Injury & Torts


Jury Orders MTA to Pay $6 Million

Aug. 5, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Metropolitan Transit Authority must pay $6 million to a man who was rendered a paraplegic in a cra...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Court Judge William "Bill" J. Rea of Los Angeles died Wednesday. He was 85. Court spokeswoman June...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - California's initiative process conjures noble images of grassroots, power-to-the-people direct democracy. In...