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Firm Watch


Perhaps the biggest event in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's quest to build its litigation department came in 1998, when ...


Litigation


A parcel of Koreatown land will become home to 1,500 middle-school students instead of 3,500 parishioners, a judge ruled Tuesd...


Litigation


A company is accused of providing misleading financial information that resulted in big losses for another, SCI Holdings Inc. ...


Litigation


Hemophiliacs Sue U.S. Blood Companies

Jul. 1, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Four U.S. companies exposed thousands of hemophiliacs to HIV and hepatitis C in the 1980s by selling them blood-clotting medic...


Litigation


Irvine attorney Eric P. Lampel doesn't expect sympathy for his client Susan D. Atkins, a prisoner notorious for her participat...


Firm Watch


Townsend Opens San Diego Office

Jul. 1, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew is on track for the scheduled opening of its San Diego office tomorrow. On June...


Daily Journal EXTRA has discovered still more tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by Sen. Joseph M...


Litigation


Consumer Attorneys Enjoy Slow Roast

Jul. 1, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

A roast is supposed to make mincemeat out of the person honored. But that's not exactly a tall order when the subject of the g...


Litigation


Jury Clears Convalescent Hospital of Elder Abuse

Jul. 1, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...


Litigation


Corinthian Colleges Buys Career Choices

Jul. 1, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...


Constitutional Law


Right to Repair

Jul. 1, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...


Litigation


On Their Court

Jul. 1, 2003
By Katrina Dewey

Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...


Firm Watch


Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...


Law Practice


Perfect Fit

Jul. 1, 2003
By Robin Davidson

When the American Jewish Committee held its 24th Annual Learned Hand Award Dinner a month ago, The Scene expected to encounter...


Firm Watch


Real estate lawyer Craig Wood recently packed up and made the move to Southern California in order to be closer to his family....


Litigation


A new state law aimed at combating identity theft may be more of a nuisance than a help to businesses and consumers and end up...


Firm Watch


Insurance Trial Lawyer Joins Stroock

Jul. 1, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired insurance lawyer James E. Fitzgerald as partner. Fitzgerald, who joined the firm i...


Corporate


EBay Inc. is boosting its investment in an online auction company serving the Chinese market. San Jose-based eBay has agreed t...


Investments


It took half the year, but a technology company finally found its way to an initial public offering in 2003. FormFactor Inc. o...


Personal Injury & Torts


Focus Column - Tort Law - By David Martinez - Health care providers participating in California's Medi-Cal program routinely h...


Entertainment & Sports


Forum Column - By Philip Graves - On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court issued yet another in a recent string of decisions limitin...


Public Interest


Bishops Should Doff Their Blinkers

Jul. 1, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Former Gov. Frank Keating's description of the conduct of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Maho...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Brian K. Landsberg - At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in the Michigan higher education affir...


Appellate Practice


Panel Won't Second-Guess Disqualification

Jul. 1, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...


Litigation


Jurist Finds Firm Duped Seller

Jul. 1, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...


Constitutional Law


WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...


Large Firms


Chicago's Altheimer to Close

Jul. 1, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...