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The Macerich Co. has sold 15.2 million shares of common stock in a public offering, which will help the real estate investment...


Appellate Practice


Lonely Law Clerk Sues INeedANewGirlfriend.co m

Dec. 17, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

An online dating service cons lonely men out of money and leaves them brokenhearted, a class action filed on behalf of a law c...


Firm Watch


Veteran Los Angeles trial lawyer John Lawler has long wanted to open a Northern California office of Murchison & Cumming. ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Ruling Keeps Alive Cases Against Boeing

Dec. 17, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

"It's not over till it's over." Attorney A. Barry Cappello's motto, made famous by baseball great Yogi Berra, rang true in a t...


Civil Rights


El Gallo

Dec. 17, 2002
By Christina Landers

One Monday morning in late October, attorney Arturo J. Gonzalez entered his office at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster,...


Firm Watch


A little less than a year after Laurence Pretty and his law firm Pretty & Schroeder joined Christie, Parker & Hale, he...


Firm Watch


Delgadillo Reels in Lawyer for Harbor Post

Dec. 17, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appointed Thomas A. Russell as the managing assistant of the Harbor division of the city attorn...


Marketing


Step by Step

Dec. 17, 2002
By Contributing Writer

In Closing Column - By Kate Fitzgerald - Come the first of the year, law firms will pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into...


Firm Watch


Contract Specialist Joins Duane Morris

Dec. 17, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Oliver "Lock" Holmes, a respected name in government contracts law, has followed two prominent figures in Bay Area politics to...


Litigation


Cyberpiracy Ruling Levels Heavy Damages

Dec. 17, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...


Judges and Judiciary


The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...


Litigation


Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...


Litigation


If the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had better procedures for communicating with hearing impaired suspects, then 22...


Firm Watch


Pillsbury Offers Buyout Package

Dec. 17, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Small, incremental layoffs and buyouts seem to be the thing at cost-conscious Pillsbury Winthrop, where another 12 nonlawyer s...


Government


Small Cities Ask FPPC to Loosen Rule On Conflicts

Dec. 17, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers representing California's small cities want the state's political watchdog agency to amend its new confl...


Litigation


Partner for Sheppard Gets Hit With Claim

Dec. 17, 2002
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - A partner at Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has been hit with a lawsuit by Mercury Air Gr...


Product Liability


SUV Rollover Case Goes to Jury

Dec. 17, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that flipped when its driver swerved to avoid hittin...


Education


Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Grutter v. Bollinger , 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002), the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...


Civil Rights


Race-Based Lockdowns Unconstitutional

Dec. 17, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The practice of indefinitely locking Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in their cells based on their race has ...


Solo and Small Firms


Coblentz Moving to Ferry Bldg.

Dec. 17, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is leaving its office and signature rooftop bocce ball court on Kearny Stre...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - In today's uncertain national security climate, security has never been tighter at California's courthouses. ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit

Dec. 17, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...


Discipline


Attorney Discipline

Dec. 17, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...


Front Page


Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit

Dec. 16, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...


Criminal


Disciplinary Actions

Dec. 16, 2002
By Philip Carrizosa

SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurist Keeps Lawyers on Their Toes

Dec. 14, 2002
By Craiq Anderson


Intellectual Property


Elcomsoft Case Goes to the Jury

Dec. 14, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...


Personal Injury & Torts


Airlines Hit With Smoking Award

Dec. 14, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...


Large Firms


Sheppard Mullin Gets Litigator in Antitrust

Dec. 14, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...