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Investments


Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. of Canada raised $30 million in a public stock offering last month, generating legal work for s...


Marketing


Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - By their nature, major-product cases can generate more media...


Administrative/Regulatory


Women Live, Learn, Pass the Healing On

Jul. 8, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

OCEANSIDE - What began eight years ago as a simple act of compassion for women incarcerated in San Diego's jail system has bec...


Firm Watch


Gibson Dunn Finds Antitrust Cornucopia

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has seen an explosion of antitrust work in the Bay Area, where it has three senior lawyers focusin...


Law Practice


Gun Battle

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

On the afternoon of July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri strode into the offices of Pettit & Martin with a .45 caliber automatic...


Law Practice


The Los Angeles County Bar Association has installed Robin Meadow, a partner at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, as its...


Litigation


FOX Wins Rights In 'Goosebumps' Nonjury Verdict

Jul. 8, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

A ruling on the distribution rights to the scary Goosebumps children's TV series gave FOX a warm fuzzy. FOX won a defense verd...


Litigation


While Sacramento lawmakers argue about relatively minor reforms to the state's unfair-competition law, an appellate court opin...


Firm Watch


Sole Practitioner Joins Litigation Boutique

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

After 19 years as a sole practitioner, Berkeley's Berne Reuben says he was tired of being on his own. "I wanted to be part of ...


Firm Watch


Joseph Campisi says leaving Pillsbury Winthrop wasn't so much about leaving the San Francisco firm as it was about re-examinin...


Litigation


A Los Angeles jury awarded a telephone calling-card provider $4.6 million last month in its dispute with Pacific Bell Telephon...


Litigation


Litigation Warhorses Fight the Good Fight

Jul. 8, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

In the 1986 film "Tough Guys," Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play train robbers who finally are set free after 30 years in t...


Public Interest


Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...


Real Estate/Development


Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...


Criminal


Press Interview Prompts Recusal in Murder Trial

Jul. 8, 2003
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...


Appellate Practice


Ruling Nulls Charges Against Former Priest

Jul. 8, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Confidentiality

Jul. 8, 2003
By Contributing Writer

In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...


Criminal


Officer Convicted

Jul. 8, 2003
By Jim Adamekn

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...


Civil Rights


Hope, Faith and Love

Jul. 8, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...


Government


Ex-Employee At Livermore Can Sue Lab

Jul. 8, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...


Government


High Hopes

Jul. 8, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit the use of marijuana as a medical necessity, attorneys for...


Juvenile


Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Dara K. Reiner and Jennifer Rodriguez - Every day, decisions are made in California's ...


Environmental


It's Not Just Fish

Jul. 4, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Joseph F. C. DiMento - The publication last month of a major study reporting the collapse of the great preda...


Focus Column - Litigation - By John B. Quinn and William C. Price - On the morning of your final status conference, your clien...


Judges and Judiciary


RIVERSIDE - In a controversial move, Riverside County's Superior Court may halt civil trials for a month this summer so that j...


Judges and Judiciary


DA, Judge Compromise on Overtime Pay Issue

Jul. 4, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes and District Attorney Steve Cooley have reached a com...


Discipline


Bill Would Ease Privilege Rule

Jul. 4, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Several bills affecting the legal profession passed legislative committees this week, including one by Assemblyma...