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Law Practice


Now that my trademark application is on file, can I use the (r) symbol on my packaging and advertisements? Should we use the (...


Firm Watch


Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist has hired Gary Samson to handle financing matters for firm client Bank of America. Samson, who...


Firm Watch


Jack Johal was the first tax lawyer to join Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton's largest law firm. When Johal took his practi...


Firm Watch


Bankruptcy Star Changes Firm, Not Title

May 6, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Richard M. Cieri has settled into his new job as chair of the business restructuring and reorganization practice at Gibson, Du...


Large Firms


Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's September 2001 announcement that it was moving most of the firm's support services to a g...


Litigation


Dean Hansell arrived in American Samoa with boxes of law books for legal research, exhibits, several copies each of motions an...


Bankruptcy


Another Telecom Firm Files Chapter 11

May 6, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

San Diego's Leap Wireless International Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 relief, swelling the ranks of bankrupt telecommunication...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Construction-materials company Hanson is building a bigger business. The London company has agreed to buy Better Materials Cor...


Litigation


Ex-Aviation Pupils Air Grievances in Court

May 6, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Leticia Mendez and Robert Torres met in flight school at Glendale Community College in the summer of 2000. They dated for a ye...


Investments


Investors have pumped $10 million into Arzoon Inc., a manufacturer of trade and transportation software. New investors Redrock...


Firm Watch


Former Prosecutors Open Private Firm

May 6, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Daniel Nixon still is getting used to the view from the 39th floor of his Bunker Hill office building. From his perch, Nixon c...


Law Office Automation


In a recent trial in Los Angeles, jurors literally fell asleep until the defense presented a spectacular multimedia demonstrat...


Litigation


A seven-decade water rights dispute may have reached an end with a tentative settlement between three Southern California wate...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Bob Dobalina broke up with his girlfriend, Alison Smithers, recently at a local high school. Smithers was quite crushed, but D...


Corporate


It's a tough time to be an in-house lawyer. A new survey has found that strict new corporate-reform laws and the high costs of...


Firm Watch


Lawyer's Move Puts Silicon Valley in Reach

May 6, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Eduardo Roy says the motivation for leaving Arter & Hadden as a partner after 2 1/2 years was the need for a Palo Alto off...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Taking Control

May 6, 2003
By Columnist

Who controls the arbitration process? By ceding control to the arbitrator, counsel relinquishes a valuable benefit conferred b...


Firm Watch


Representing security and alarm companies is becoming an increasingly national practice as smaller, regional companies merge, ...


Law Practice


Models by Night

May 6, 2003
By Tina Spee

The Los Angeles Women's Foundation has found the perfect fund-raising platform: the catwalk. Take champagne, roses and a black...


Large Firms


Growth Spurt

May 6, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After swelling from five lawyers to 31 since 2001, Piper Rudnick's Los Angeles office has bigger goals in mind for the coming ...


Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The issue of the ability of a franchisor to obtain damages equivalent ...


Criminal


A Local Angle to Enron Litigation

May 6, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco meets Houston as an Enron prosecutor with Bay Area ties confronts local criminal defense lawyers...


Securities


Ruling Hurts NASD Stance In Arbitration

May 6, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge, in a recent dispute between an Oakland man and his broker over investm...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for Bruce E. Goldberg, a Los Angeles civil litigator. Goldberg died Thursday at ...


Law Practice


Counsel Pays Price for Stealing From Clients

May 6, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - After 83-year-old Lucille Jones' home was sold, her attorney, Bruce A. Nahin, deposited $179,913 of the proceeds...


Criminal


Reginald Denny's Beater Faces Time

May 6, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in 10 years, the central figure in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los...


Criminal


Jury Convicts Attorney for Embezzlement

May 6, 2003
By Mark Cromer

BREA - Attorney Steven Paul Coleman has been convicted of embezzling $184,000 from the Orange County law firm where he once wo...


Government


Old Tricks

May 6, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A sweet lady, described as a "doll" by a social worker, was 80 years old when her neighbor sold her two deferred ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Michael L. Benov has been the warden of Los Angeles' federal Metropolitan Detention Center for less than a month...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Some court clerks in San Francisco want to stop paying union dues and are calling for an election to change u...