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Corporate


Lexar's Determined to Make Toshiba Pay

Jun. 22, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In a motion that Toshiba Corp. says could cost it billions of dollars in sales, attorneys for a Fremont technology...


Civil Rights


Column - By Garry Abrams - Perry R. Sanders Jr., the lead attorney for the estate of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G., came out with...


Law Practice


Wound to Financial Privacy Law May Be Fatal

Jun. 22, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a sharp blow Monday to California's landmark financial privacy law, considered o...


Judges and Judiciary


Brown Sets Departure Date

Jun. 22, 2005
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown, recently confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for...


Judges and Judiciary


New Judge Follows Parents' Strong Work Ethic

Jun. 22, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Randa M. Trapp's journey to the legal world was anything but direct, but she had two guideposts from her parents ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Annette Hurst started working with Patricia Thayer her first day as a young associate at Howard Rice Nemerovs...


Criminal


San Diego City Employees Challenge Charge

Jun. 22, 2005
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The arraignment of six city employees caught up in San Diego's pension scandal took a surprise turn Monday, when ...


Litigation


A Montebello Fire Department volunteer who worked just 84 hours over three and a half shifts for the city recently settled for...


Litigation


With a high-profile client roster, multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and tenure at her law firm Vicki Freimann's practice was ...


Litigation


Two students who gave up on their high school and joined independent studies after being spit on, shoved and threatened by oth...


Litigation


Catherine Graham went to Santa Rosa doctor Eric Gordon for the treatment of Lyme disease. Joseph Leach sought out Gordon for t...


Litigation


When Marsha Paskin went to Dr. Marc Kramer for surgery to reduce her snoring, Kramer told her about the risk of infection that...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Monday June 20

Jun. 21, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Swank LLC purchased a 15,600-square-foot industrial building at 3376 Main St. from Virzi Wyatt Inc. fo...


LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano was charged Friday with criminal threats and conspiracy for his role in alle...


Entertainment & Sports


Theme Parks Don't Want to Play by Federal Rules

Jun. 21, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney World may be the "Happiest Place on Earth," but, according to attorneys, activists and lawmakers fig...


Firm Watch


Big Winners

Jun. 21, 2005
By Adrianna Khoo

June 9 was a night to remember. With all the pomp and glitz of the Academy Awards yet the practicality of eBay in the flesh, P...


Firm Watch


There's always room for improvement, if you ask Bruce Friedman. "We have a great corporate group, but we want to make it stron...


Mergers & Acquisitions


A group of finance lawyers from Winston & Strawn are banking on new careers with megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Lur...


Firm Watch


ProLogis Buys Catellus Development for $3.6 Billion

Jun. 21, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Under other circumstances, Kenneth Gack could have been a world-class diplomat or sales professional. In a decade as a mediato...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association is beginning to sound the alarm about government policies that encourage corporat...


Law Practice


Write On

Jun. 21, 2005
By Columnist

EXTRA Column - Entertainment Law - By Aaron J. Moss - In a decision with wide-ranging implications for writers, producers and ...


Firm Watch


Ten years after Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi opened in Los Angeles, the office is stronger than ever, according to Roma...


Firm Watch


Although teaching elementary school students about biodiversity, having close encounters with endangered species, playing a sa...


Constitutional Law


Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Laura Schulking - What does the phrase discrimination "on the basis of sex" mean? The a...


Environmental


Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Can and should the federal government regulate wetlands? This hotly disputed question...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Preciliano P. Recendez. Recendez,...


Constitutional Law


WASHINGTON - Democrats are keeping their options open over whether to filibuster controversial judicial nominee Terrence W. B...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco attorney John Zanghi discovered the hard way that pro pers can pack a punch in court. Zanghi, 4...


Media


EXTRA Feature - Mitch Mitchell has built his career on being a man of many worlds. Early in his career, that meant putting his...