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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Tuesday June 21

Jun. 22, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL VAN NUYS - Wesco Track & Tire signed a $950,000 lease for 17,000 square feet of industrial space in the Commer...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Forum Column - By James Lafflin - The problem with Rome is that everything is for sale. -Sallust Whereas voluntary arbitration...


Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - U.S. appeals...


Administrative/Regulatory


'Tampered' Warrant Deemed an Innocent Mistake

Jun. 22, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that a San Francisco police officer committed an innocent mistak...


Litigation


Focus in Pepper-Spray Case Turns to Fees

Jun. 22, 2005
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite years of battling - twice finishing in a tie and a third time nearly so - the combatants in the Humbo...


Zoning, Planning and Use


WASHINGTON - Ending a 12-year legal dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mon...


WASHINGTON - In the latest in a series of decisions highlighting the role of defense attorneys in capital cases, the U.S. Supr...


Civil Rights


ACLU Objects to New Police Consolidation

Jun. 22, 2005
By Ryan Oliver

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU is protesting an initiative they say could create a secondary police force in Los Angeles without any ...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an antitrust case involving a Southern California-based ink company...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Elect Research Attorney Commissioner

Jun. 22, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles appellate court research attorney Mary Lou Katz has been elected the newest Superior Court Commissi...


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...