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Litigation


Disney Suit

Jul. 30, 2003
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - A former contract writer for the New York Post may pursue her $10 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., ...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday disqualified the city attorney's office from a lawsuit accusing a former buildi...


Judges and Judiciary


Democrats In Assembly Hammering Out Budget

Jul. 30, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The state Capitol was abuzz Monday with speculation about whether the Assembly would approve a budget compromise ...


Government


Two More Suits Seek to Modify Recall Vote

Jul. 30, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In new legal challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election, two prominent appellate specialists Monday filed petit...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawmakers Haggle Over Diminishing Court Budget

Jul. 29, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers worked over the weekend on a budget that would allow courts to stay open for the public, though furthe...


Investments


By Toni Vranjes Kavado Inc., a New York-based firm whose founders received technology training from the Israeli military, has...


Litigation


Lawyers: Choose a Medical Specialist Jurors Would Use

Jul. 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Expert Witnesses By David Feinberg A medical expert witness can be hard to choose. Ideally, when your case is over, yo...


Litigation


Judge Axes Case, Says Lawyers Ignored Him

Jul. 29, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in New York threw out a securities-fraud case earlier this month, asserting that the plai...


Firm Watch


By John Ryan California law offices continue to benefit from the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden. Citing costly at...


Litigation


By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval last month to an $8.6 million settlement in a class ...


Marketing


Law for Sale

Jul. 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom didn't want to hear the bad news, according to a lawsuit filed last ...


Firm Watch


Firm Overcomes Crisis of Confidence

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...


Firm Watch


By Erik Cummins Over the course of his career, Joseph Petrillo has handled the enormous task of helping create legislative gu...


Firm Watch


Jeffer Mangels Draws Schnader Litigator

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison has endured some prominent defections this year, but that's not the reason Robert Gebhardt ...


Bankruptcy


By Toni Vranjes WorldCom Inc. filed the largest bankruptcy case in the nation's history in July 2002. A year later, the case ...


Firm Watch


By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Yahoo Acquires Paid-Search Firm

Jul. 29, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...


Firm Watch


Lawyer Finds Home at Sheppard Mullin

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...


Litigation


By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...


Litigation


Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory

Jul. 29, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Gray Cary Guides Virage in Buyout

Jul. 29, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...


Litigation


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...


Military Law


Government Pull

Jul. 29, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...


Commercial Law


Feuding Lawyers Reach Agreement in Corridor

Jul. 29, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...


Constitutional Law


Street-Closure Plan Hits Roadblock

Jul. 29, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...


Criminal


DeVries Judge Assails Critics

Jul. 29, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...


Environmental


Cleanup Pacts Open Way for NFL Stadium

Jul. 29, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...


Technology & Science


SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...