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Firm Watch


After raiding San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison for most of its 37 Bay Area lawyers, London's Clifford Chance is...


Corporate


Lightconnect Will Continue Glowing

Oct. 8, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Lightconnect Inc. has 9 million reasons to celebrate, following its latest round of venture financing. The Newark-based compan...


Transactions


Guaranty Bank Adds Seven Branches

Oct. 8, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Broadening its presence in the Golden State, Texas-based Guaranty Bank has scooped up seven bank branches. Advised by Manatt, ...


Ken Lemberger has left a 20-year career at Sony Pictures Entertainment to join the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer. "He is ...


Litigation


In her 79 years on earth, Marjorie W. Day has made quite an impression, but perhaps none more lasting than as one of Orange Co...


Firm Watch


Ambition Drives IP Attorney's Move

Oct. 8, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Pure entrepreneurial ambition drove Henry Bunsow to leave his cozy home at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest to help Howrey...


Judge William T. Garner celebrated his 69th birthday and retirement on Sept. 24. He served 12 years on the Municipal Court and...


Following the lead of several other firms with multiple offices in San Diego, Casey, Gerry, Reed & Schenk has opened its s...


Litigation


Law Extending Deadlines Draws Ire of Defense Bar

Oct. 8, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

Defense attorneys are fuming over a new law that gives plaintiffs more time to file lawsuits and respond to motions for summar...


Firm Watch


Michelman Adds Litigation Partner

Oct. 8, 2002
By John Ryan

Encino's Michelman & Robinson continues its slow and steady growth since its launch four years ago. The latest lateral hir...


Firm Watch


The national legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. will have a presence in cities across Canada once its merger with Catalyst...


Firm Watch


Lyon & Lyon Partner Joins White & Case

Oct. 8, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Yet another Lyon & Lyon partner has found a new home. Intellectual property litigator Steven D. Hemminger, who started at ...


Harris F. Brotman has closed his one-man intellectual property shop and joined San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Sa...


Firm Watch


Orrick Nurtures Its Fledgling L.A. Office

Oct. 8, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Paul Webber arrived in Los Angeles 15 years ago in a used Mercury Cougar that his law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe...


Litigation


A longtime Los Angeles Superior Court judge retired in September. On Sept. 10, Robert Letteau left his 20-year job with the co...


George G. Strong Jr. has become general counsel and managing director of Cornerstone Research Inc.'s new Los Angeles office. S...


Litigation


Tenants' Winning Lawyer Did Not Go to Law School

Oct. 8, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

Landlords beware. Marilyn Kalman may never have attended law school, but she is a dedicated and seemingly successful attorney ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in a company that is developing a San Diego toll ...


Litigation


Funky Fungi

Oct. 8, 2002
By Columnist

Adviser Column - By Michael Solender - With the Aas decision decreeing that consequential damages to other construction elemen...


Personal Injury & Torts


A rare lawsuit borne of an embryo mix-up at a San Francisco fertility clinic is about to face its first court challenge, with ...


Law Practice


Schmooze Fests

Oct. 8, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

An ultra-hip West Hollywood club and an upscale, yet trendy, restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District were the meeting p...


Litigation


Changing the Subject

Oct. 8, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Veteran Bay Area lawyers often express surprise when told that San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is no long...


Law Practice


Financial Whiz Represented Dodgers, Lakers

Oct. 8, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Services took place Friday and Saturday for Fullerton estate and tax attorney Allen Courtenay Clarke. Clarke, know...


Constitutional Law


Don't Tread On Us

Oct. 8, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisoner James H. Edwards, who walked with the aid of a prosthetic leg, begged prison guards not to put ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


For three quarters of a century, the State Bar has gathered its members at an annual meeting to attend seminars, see old frien...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Is John Larson calling on an old friend to rescue Brobeck Phleger & Harrison? Brobeck is in parallel merge...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Civil Libertarian

Oct. 8, 2002
By Don De Benedictis

James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers ...


Construction


Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson and Georgia M. Linkletter - California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to...


Immigration


Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...


Judges and Judiciary


And Now!! Live!! The Justices!!

Oct. 8, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...