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Litigation


Until now, anti-spam lawsuits have taken aim at advertisers sending unsolicited commercial e-mails. Microsoft Corp. blazed a n...


Firm Watch


Perkins Coie Focuses on Patent Practice

Mar. 11, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

With the lateral hire of partner Paul Andre last month, Ed Wes, managing partner of Perkins Coie's Bay Area offices, says he's...


Bankruptcy


The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a final resolution. ...


Firm Watch


One month after it acquired the remnants of Cooley Godward's shuttered Kirkland, Wash., office, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcl...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Alireza Ghazi Zahedi had big hopes when he arrived in the United States a year and a half ago from Iran as a del...


Large Firms


Coming Apart

Mar. 11, 2003
By Tanya Rothman

In Closing Column - By Richard S. Levick - When Robin Hood and his Merry Men launched their first act of justice against the P...


Corporate


In yet another merger in the fast-consolidating biotechnology industry, Utah biotech company NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agre...


Firm Watch


Employment and labor law boutique Littler Mendelson has closed its immigration law practice, spinning it off into a separate b...


Firm Watch


Cooley Business Department Dwindles

Mar. 11, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Palo Alto's Cooley Godward has lost three business partners in as many weeks. ...


Litigation


Jury Awards Insurance Agency $500,000

Mar. 11, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

John Sargeant's wrongful-termination suit backfired. The 73-year-old insurance broker sued Costanza Insurance Agency Inc. afte...


Large Firms


New Names In Brobeck Liquidation

Mar. 11, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's liquidation committee has hired Henry Kevane and Kenneth Brown to advise th...


Environmental


Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Can the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sue a defendant for the s...


Judges and Judiciary


Surf City Isn't a Laid Back Place, Judge Finds

Mar. 11, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SANTA CRUZ - Like many immigrants to Santa Cruz, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Barton was lured by the promise of sun, surf ...


Litigation


Rare Oakland Police Pact Aims for Reform

Mar. 11, 2003
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...


Front Page


By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...


International


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...


Litigation


Stop Loss Discipline Fails Stock Brokerage

Mar. 11, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...


Firm Watch


Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...


Government


Herrera Hires Kimiko Burton

Mar. 11, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Overture Buys Up AltaVista, Fast Search

Mar. 11, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...


Large Firms


End of an Era

Mar. 11, 2003
By John Ryan

Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...


Litigation


Dondero Ends Long-Running Feud of Alioto And McCoy

Mar. 8, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...


Criminal


Judge Orders Violent Guards to Prison

Mar. 8, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO -Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards must begin serving their own prison terms soon for conspiring to solicit t...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court is facing deep cuts in its operating budget, which could result in reduced court hou...


Government


WASHINGTON - In an apparently unprecedented move, California officials have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss - three weeks b...


Civil Rights


Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a phi...


Government


Budget May Force Court Closures

Mar. 8, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - With further state budget cuts expected, the Los Angeles Superior Court is considering closing the Monrovia and...