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Corporate


Deals

Aug. 10, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

DLA Piper Gray Cary and Cooley Godward attorneys represented Protein Design Labs in its collaboration with Biogen Idec. Latham...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Aug. 9

Aug. 10, 2005
By Julie Leupoldn

OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - Newmark Realty Capital secured a $44 million financing for the CNET Networks Inc. world headquarters a...


Verdicts


Verdict Tossed

Aug. 10, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge late Monday set aside a $6.5 million verdict against the county and ordered a new trial in ...


Education


Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - When the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act was celebrated on July 26...


Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Mark Ivener - Reminiscent of the late 1990s, big-name mergers are in the news: Proctor &...


Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Putting aside for a moment the emotion and rhetoric that surround the notion of same-se...


U.S. Supreme Court, Letters, Judges and Judiciary


Thomas, O'Connor Agree on 'Kelo'

Aug. 10, 2005
By Columnist

Letter to the Editor - In "Thomas, Unbridled, Would Gut 200 Years of Precedent" (Aug. 5 Daily Journal), professor Erwin Chemer...


Judges and Judiciary


Family Schedules Services for Judge

Aug. 10, 2005
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services are scheduled for U.S. District Judge William J. Rea, who died last week after a brief illnes...


Intellectual Property


Patent Cases Flock to Texas 'Rocket Docket'

Aug. 10, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Federal Judge John T. Ward thinks his "rocket docket" reputation, which draws patent cases to his Texas courtro...


Intellectual Property


LOS ANGELES - Ronald Katz, a Los Angeles inventor, has filed a patent infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas again...


Environmental


Activists Fear Ruling May Increase Pollution

Aug. 10, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists fret that a judge's recent ruling could create a significant loophole allowing for massive i...


Entertainment & Sports


'The Play's the Thing,' Lunchers Say

Aug. 10, 2005
By Allison Schifani

LOS ANGELES - Over the course of his lunch hour, Los Angeles criminal defense attorney "Morgan Bishop" dissuaded the district ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing, who pleaded no contest to an enhanced drunken driving charg...


Administrative/Regulatory


Court Allows Regulators to Fight Mining Plans

Aug. 10, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court Monday affirmed the authority of state regulators to go to court to block faulty ...


Judges and Judiciary


Baines Accepts the Political Heat

Aug. 10, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert Baines has not shied away from controversial cases, even when his r...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - The CIA has been maligned for missing the pending fall of the Soviet Union and other intelligence miscues. No...


Criminal


Column - By Garry Abrams - Public Beware: News Media and Politicians Rediscover an Old, Dangerous Trend and Call It New, Impro...


Litigation


Livermore Lab Case Sparks Fight Over Fees

Aug. 9, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - A tortured whistle-blower retaliation case that consumed eight years, millions of dollars in attorney fees an...


Government


Reagan Library Relishes Calm Before Storm

Aug. 9, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

SIMI VALLEY - Inside the modest research room at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library - home to 60,000 pages of largely unre...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Aug. 8

Aug. 9, 2005
By Julie Leupoldn

OFFICE SAN DIEGO - Future Wei Technologies inked a $694,540 lease, 60-month lease for 4,629 square feet of office space in 101...


Solo and Small Firms


LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a ruling sharply critical of his billing practices in connection with the South Gate corruption s...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Juliet Leftwich - On July 29, the U.S. Senate demonstrated its allegiance to the National Rifle Association ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Several recent appellate-court decisions address the proper roles of co...


Law Practice


Letter to the Editor - In his article, "Mental Torture: Behavioral Scientists at Gitmo May Cross Line" (July 22 Daily Journal)...


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...