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Constitutional Law


Civil Rights Suit Protests INS Jailing

Sep. 11, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...


Criminal


Career Prosecutor Received His Dying Wish

Sep. 11, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...


Contracts


Firm Sues Ex-NBA Star Over Unpaid Legal Bills

Sep. 11, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...


Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...


Government


Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Eminent Domain Rule Altered

Sep. 11, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...


Law Practice


Firms Pull Together After Terrorist Attacks

Sep. 11, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...


Front Page


PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan

Sep. 11, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...


Public Interest


Person of Interest

Sep. 10, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...


Law Practice


James Frolik, Attorney, 81, Tennis Pro

Sep. 10, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...


Firm Watch


Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...


Transactions


Valley Business Park May Change Hands

Sep. 10, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...


Litigation


Fault Lines

Sep. 10, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...


Firm Watch


Gray Cary Cuts Loose 55 Associates, Staff

Sep. 10, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...


Firm Watch


Orrick Herrington Loses Corporate Leader

Sep. 10, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...


Litigation


June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...


Transactions


Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...


Firm Watch


With her employment litigation practice "going gangbusters," Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's Angela Bradstreet is pleased a...


Litigation


David M. Ring of Taylor & Ring didn't take a single deposition in pursuing a sexual assault and negligence lawsuit against...


Transactions


NetScreen Will Buy OneSecure For $40 Million

Sep. 10, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Most problems have solutions - and the potential for lots of money to be made along the way. Case in point: Sunnyvale's OneSec...


Large Firms


Looser Lips

Sep. 10, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Meet Courtney Weber, the new voice of traditionally tight-lipped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. If history is any indic...


Litigation


The Association of Trial Lawyers of America named David S. Casey Jr., partner at San Diego's Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk, pr...


Litigation


The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services will...


Firm Watch


Haight Brown Duo Goes to Boutique

Sep. 10, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Gary Ottoson has left Haight, Brown & Bonesteel for the Los Angeles office of Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson. The Sa...


Litigation


After 20 years on the bench, Judge Alban Niles will retire Oct. 4. Niles, 69, has been sitting as a Superior Court judge since...


Litigation


New Assignments

Sep. 10, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge James Bascue recently issued the following assignment orders: As of Monday, crimina...


Litigation


Lawsuit Sends Schools a Message

Sep. 10, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

If you bash, you pay. That's the message Derek Henkle and his lawyers want to send to school districts nationwide after settli...


Personal Injury & Torts


This Won't Hurt A Bit

Sep. 10, 2002
By Matthew Heller

To Shawn Khorrami, they are victims of an insidious poison implanted in the mouths of millions of Americans. One is a Newport ...


Litigation


If you're planning to take your case around the world, check out the Bar Association of San Francisco's "One Dispute, Two (or ...


Litigation


Religion teaches tolerance, a sentiment that may help resolve by the end of the month a land use dispute between an Orange Cou...