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Discipline


Bar Court Judge Advises Attorney's Disbarment

Apr. 14, 2004
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a Riverside immigration attorney be disbarred for "frivolously" filin...


Judges and Judiciary


Scalia Laments Erasure of Tapes

Apr. 14, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a letter made public Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the actions of a federal marshal who confis...


Criminal


Project Head, Cooley Critic Will Stand Trial

Apr. 14, 2004
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Project Islamic HOPE founder Najee Ali was ordered Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for felon...


Government


Backers Say 2 Initiatives Are Good to Go

Apr. 14, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Proponents of two major legal initiatives, one dealing with tort reform and the other with DNA testing, announced...


Litigation


Woman Settles Suit Over Limousine Rapist

Apr. 14, 2004
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - An alleged sexual-assault victim of John Gordon Jones settled her lawsuit last week with the attorneys she claim...


Public Interest


MALDEF Picks President-Counsel

Apr. 14, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has tapped Ann Marie Tallman to serve as its president a...


Administrative/Regulatory


Schools Choose Civil Rights Pro to Be Counsel

Apr. 14, 2004
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Civil rights lawyer Kevin S. Reed will be appointed general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ...


Energy Law


Column By Garry Abrams - Nearly four years after California danced on the brink of massive energy failures, last week's federa...


Criminal


A Disarming Decision

Apr. 14, 2004
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her hu...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - John Keker has prepared an aggressive defense for the retrial of Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattr...


Intellectual Property


Microsoft to Pay $440 Million Settlement

Apr. 14, 2004
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - A small San Jose software company announced Monday that it won a $440 million settlement in its bitter three-y...


Law Practice


WASHINGTON - A glance around Beth S. Brinkmann's spacious office provides some clues about why she is among the very elite gro...


Firm Watch


McDermott Nabs Fitzpatrick Associates

Apr. 13, 2004
By Tina Spee

McDermott, Will & Emery has nabbed three associates in as many months from the Costa Mesa office of Washington, D.C.-based...


Government


Judge's Sensitivity, Fairness Earn Lawyers' Esteem

Apr. 13, 2004
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard R. Romero was a second-year law student at Hastings College of the Law ...


Firm Watch


ActivX Counsel Joins Buchanan Ingersoll

Apr. 13, 2004
By Tina Spee

Buchanan Ingersoll has added former in-house attorney Nancy Dahl to its San Diego outpost, the Pittsburgh-based firm's only Ca...


Labor/Employment


Although the two sides disagree about why, a real estate business owned by a Super Bowl quarterback and one of his company's f...


Firm Watch


Next month, Gregory Weingart will re-enter private practice at the law firm where he first worked as an attorney. Weingart, wh...


Technology & Science


8th Annual Event Offers Gathering for the E-Minded

Apr. 13, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

While laws seldom change fast, technology and tools available to lawyers often do. On Thursday and Friday, the Daily Journal C...


Firm Watch


New California Partners

Apr. 13, 2004
By Katherine Gaidos

Irell & Manella Century City • Benjamin Hattenbach (Boalt Hall, 1996) • Andrei Iancu (University of California, Los Angele...


Firm Watch


Fresh Starts

Apr. 13, 2004
By Erik Cummins

When the name partners of San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss recruited Barry W. Lee to the firm in 1992, they knew th...


Firm Watch


Thanks to a planned $7 million donation by veteran trial attorney Joseph W. Cotchett Jr. and his wife Victoria Cotchett, inner...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Bigger continues to be better in the banking industry. BancWest Corp. has signed a deal to buy Community First Bankshares Inc....


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Selecting Right Provider for ADR Takes Careful Thought

Apr. 13, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Nathan R. Scott - Who to choose? When parties include alternative dispute resolut...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Monster Spends $39.5 Million on Military

Apr. 13, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Members of the military who are looking for jobs, educational opportunities or benefit information now have a monster to help ...


Litigation


Elder-Abuse Litigator Pushes Envelope

Apr. 13, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

A few years ago, Billie Lawrence underwent a needle biopsy to determine whether she had a malignant tumor on her lung. The doc...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Amgen Agrees to Acquire Rest of Tularik

Apr. 13, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

For Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology firm, owning just part of Tularik Inc. is no longer enough. A year after buy...


Litigation


A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit that approves the first phase of a 5,000-home development in the San Joaquin Valley can ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


In a deal uniting two Silicon Valley chipmakers, Intersil Corp. has agreed to purchase Xicor Inc. for $529 million in cash and...


Marketing


To the Top

Apr. 13, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Marketing - By Timothy P. O'Brien - When someone meets you for the first time, here's the deal, good or bad: Within o...


Litigation


PowerAgent Goes 0 for 3 Billion in EDS Arbitration

Apr. 13, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

Although PowerAgent Inc. had demanded $3.5 billion, the company left a recent arbitration against former business partner Elec...