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Firm Watch


Partners

Mar. 25, 2003
By Staff Writer

The law firms below recently announced partner promotions; the list includes only attorneys in California offices. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Ex-Prosecutor, Sailing Enthusiast Retires From Superior Court Post

Mar. 25, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Sylvia Lee Husing, a former prosecutor and sailing enthusiast who adapted to a variety of ...


Firm Watch


After a little more than a year serving as managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, Janet Kwuon...


Personal Injury & Torts


Jury Awards $5 Million for Wrongful Death of Worker

Mar. 25, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

John Craig Escobar was waiting for his turn to pick up a load of asphalt for the El Dorado Irrigation District on a balmy Nove...


Corporate


Mining Company Completes Deal

Mar. 25, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Canadian mining company Placer Dome Inc. has completed a $200 million refinancing deal. Placer Dome mines gold, copper and oth...


Litigation


Jury Sends FedEx $1.5 Million 'Message'

Mar. 25, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

An Alameda County Superior Court jury has slapped Federal Express Corp., better known as FedEx, with $1.5 million in punitive ...


Firm Watch


Partner Finds Piper Rudnick Appealing

Mar. 25, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After 12 years working in the nation's capital, real estate lawyer Howard Parelskin was ready to return to the city of angels....


Bankruptcy


Chip Developer Buys Assets of Bankrupt Firm

Mar. 25, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...


Solo and Small Firms


Pair of Entrepreneurs Leaves Large Firm

Mar. 25, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Starting their own firm seemed to be in the stars, or at least in the fortune cookies, for Nedy Williams and Julianna Yasinski...


Law Practice


Luring Clients

Mar. 25, 2003
By Columnist

Partners and partner-track associates face pressure to attract new business to their firms. But if they try to act like tradit...


Litigation


A Los Angeles entertainment attorney last month agreed to pay $100,000 and issue a written apology to the father of Dodi Al Fa...


Mergers & Acquisitions


3Com Trades CommWorks for $100 Million

Mar. 25, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

3Com Corp. of Santa Clara will sell its CommWorks telecommunications equipment division to UTStarcom Inc. for $100 million cas...


Public Interest


High Ideals

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tina Spee

The Scene arrived early for the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's 2003 Jurisprudence Award dinner on March 12....


Front Page


Foley Bolsters Bankruptcy Practice

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tina Spee

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...


Front Page


Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...


Front Page


For Richer, For Poorer

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tina Spee

In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...


Criminal


Continuing Threat

Mar. 25, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...


Education


Santa Clara Picks Law School Dean

Mar. 25, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency

Mar. 25, 2003
By Don De Benedictis

LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...


Judges and Judiciary


Governor Names Four to L.A. Superior Court

Mar. 25, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...


Immigration


Asylum Seekers From Mideast Face Obstacles

Mar. 25, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...


Immigration


As Embassies Close, Business Gets Difficult

Mar. 25, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...


Criminal


Inmate Is Free After Patel's Order

Mar. 25, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...


Criminal


Disqualification Motion Is Unusual

Mar. 25, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...


Immigration


Fears Mount for Iraqi-American

Mar. 25, 2003
By Mark Cromer

LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...


Criminal


'Political Animal' From the Start

Mar. 25, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...


Criminal


CDAA Chief, Scott's Top Aide

Mar. 25, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...


Litigation


Black Santa Suffered No Bias, Jury Says

Mar. 25, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...


Judges and Judiciary


'People's Court' in the Gold Country

Mar. 22, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SONORA - Tuolumne Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Boyack seems to fit perfectly the role of a small-town judge. Usually dresse...