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Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - Lower minority enrollments at California-run law schools could foreshadow the future of state-run law schools na...


Civil Rights


Affirmative Action Divides Court

Apr. 2, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Hearing its most important case in 25 years on the highly charged issue of race, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ind...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Northern California

Apr. 2, 2003
By Jack Briggs

DIXON - The John H. Olson Family Limited Trust purchased an 11,520-square-foot building at 1520 N. Lincoln St. (and occupied ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, there have been stories of professional athletes and people who are simply tryin...


Public Interest


Crucial Assistance for Victims

Apr. 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Susan G. Millmann - Now there is factual evidence that confirms what legal aid attorneys have known anecdota...


Securities


Focus Column - Securities Law - By M. Chapman Findlay, David R. Garcia and G. Michael Phillips - Some 15 years ago, the U.S. S...


Criminal


Church Document Fight Moves Into Open

Apr. 2, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The public could get its first close view today of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese's response to dema...


Civil Rights


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 7-2, that debtors who owe money as the result of settling a fraud suit against...


Government


Advocate Fights For Access to Expulsion Data

Apr. 2, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Larry Komar wasn't on a mission to make new law. The Lake Arrowhead man says he just wanted to find out why t...


Administrative/Regulatory


Column By Garry Abrams - Some eternities are shorter than others. For instance, I never expected a gaggle of consumer and muni...


Administrative/Regulatory


Committee Challenge Fails

Apr. 2, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge dismissed a bid by a conservative lawyer to dismantle a committee that recommends to President B...


Environmental


Feds Drop Fight For Offshore Oil Leases

Apr. 2, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government Monday gave up its legal fight to muzzle California on matters regarding the extension ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A day after they had pronounced the case "closed," police have reopened an investigation into the murder-suicide...


Judges and Judiciary


Patient Justice Brings Administrative Skills

Apr. 1, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES -The corridor outside Justice Judith Ashmann-Gerst's chambers is lined with 8-by-11 photos of the 2nd District Cou...


Criminal


MONTEREY - Presiding Judge Terrance Duncan was understandably apprehensive when he got word that the jury in a recent rape cas...


Firm Watch


Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's commerce and finance group splintered as the firm dissolved last month, with members of the ...


Intellectual Property


Protecting Ideas Requires More Than Just Registration

Apr. 1, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Practitioner Column - Intellectual Property - By William R. Hart and David C. Baker - According to American essayist and poet ...


Firm Watch


Baker & McKenzie Beefs Up Practice

Apr. 1, 2003
By Erik Cummins

The Bay Area's wilted economy isn't dissuading Baker & McKenzie from beefing up its corporate and securities practice. Joh...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch Briefs

Apr. 1, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Real Estate Partner Joins Practice At Reed Smith's Los Angeles Shop Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has recruited real e...


Transactions


Aristos Logic Nets $20 Million

Apr. 1, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Aristos Logic, which develops network storage processors, has raised $20 million from investors in third-round financing. New ...


Marketing


Frugal Fame

Apr. 1, 2003
By Tanya Rothman

In Closing Column - By Traci Stuart - While TV ads and high-end trinkets are the most touted of law firm marketing tools, the ...


Firm Watch


Associates

Apr. 1, 2003
By Staff Writer

Riordan & McKinzie has added a trio of associates. Christina N. Lebedeff has joined the firm's Costa Mesa office, and Step...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Legal Politicking

Apr. 1, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Although the Consumer Attorneys of California was founded in 1961 as an organization dedicated to educating its members, the g...


Transactions


Tribe Borrows Millions for Casino Plan

Apr. 1, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

A California Native American tribe has borrowed $140 million to finance its ambitious plans for its casino business. The Agua ...


Corporate


Bills Target Public Companies

Apr. 1, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

California lawmakers have introduced more bills targeted at scandal-plagued corporate America. Last year, following the scanda...


International


Tug of War

Apr. 1, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

The scenario is straight out of a Tom Clancy novel. The Hague in Netherlands, center of international justice, prepares to try...


Firm Watch


With an uncertain economy and some law firms struggling to survive, Thomas Igoe Jr. hates to think what would have happened if...


Large Firms


Sydney Lawyer Becomes Interlaw Chair

Apr. 1, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Jim Harrowell, a lawyer from Sydney, Australia, will be the next chairman of Interlaw Ltd., a consortium of 64 law firms locat...


Litigation


Court Finds for Insurer in Apple Fee Dispute

Apr. 1, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

"It ain't over till it's over" could be attorney Mark Goodman's motto. The Barger & Wolen lawyer in San Francisco has repr...


Transactions


Deals

Apr. 1, 2003
By Tina Spee

BANKRUPTCY - Craig Millet (Irvine) of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher represented bankrupt Advanced Tissues Sciences, which filed ...