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Labor/Employment


Apology Ends Suit Against 3 Reporters

Apr. 3, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A trade publication has apologized to three former reporters whom it accused of stealing trade secrets when th...


Civil Rights


Suits Against Smoky Bars May Proceed

Apr. 3, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that nearly two dozen lawsuits against Los Angeles area bars, accusing them of p...


Energy Law


Whistle-Blower Files Suit Over L.A. Utility

Apr. 3, 2002
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles County and the county's school and community college districts are joining with a private consulta...


Government


Judge Gets Bid for U.S. Attorney Post

Apr. 3, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - After months of anticipation, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has been nominated as U.S. attorney fo...


Civil Rights


Former Prison Guards Go on Trial

Apr. 3, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday made the bases for criminal civil rights charges against two former Pelican Bay St...


Judges and Judiciary


Predictably Unpredictable

Apr. 3, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - If you've argued a case before the California Supreme Court any time in the last dozen years, surely you remem...


Personal Injury & Torts


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco jurors gave $33.7 million to a cancer-stricken entrepreneur and his wife last week, the largest ...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - Local civil rights lawyers don't deserve fees for combating an attack on their earlier victory in a long-runni...


Criminal


Casting Death-Penalty Net Wider

Apr. 3, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - If alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is convicted and sentenced to lethal injection in the federal ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO -As the rest of world watches in dread the mounting tension and bloodshed in the Middle East, local lawyers and ...


Column by Garry Abrams - One does not have to be a fan of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks to wonder whether Parks is...


Intellectual Property


DMCA Faces Crucial Test at Trial

Apr. 3, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for the government and a Russian software company Monday debated the constitutionality of a landmark fede...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Has Three-Strikes Doubts

Apr. 3, 2002
By Tamara Scott

SAN DIEGO - Judge Frank A. Brown likes to call the shots. "I get great satisfaction about putting my spin and my touch on the ...


Entertainment & Sports


Picturing Justice

Apr. 2, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Murder on a Sunday Morning," the Academy Award winner for best documentary, ...


Law Practice


Dicta - By The Rodent - In law, as in sports, there is such a thing as home court advantage. Law students learn about this in ...


Commercial Law


Forum Column - By James Acret - For two years the California Law Revision Commission has been confronting the simple propositi...


Environmental


Focus Column - By David Pettit - State and local governments have enacted many laws to protect us from pollution and contamina...


Firm Watch


Michael Delehunt , a 20-year commercial litigation partner at Oakland's 220-lawyer Crosby Heafey Roach & May , says client...


Transactions


Gap Inc. closed a two-year secured credit facility worth $1.4 billion. The deal closed March 7. The lenders were Citigroup Inc...


Douglas Barton has stepped down as managing partner of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy , the firm ann...


Large Firms


New Kids on the Block

Apr. 2, 2002
By Erik Cummins

The marriage between Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner and California's Weissburg & Aronson seemed like a match made in heav...


Firm Watch


Civil litigator James Gilpin has taken the helm at the San Diego office of Best Best & Krieger . Gilpin became managing pa...


Transactions


SiRF cq Technology Inc. closed its eighth round of financing March 11. SiRF grabbed more than $19 million in this round. The i...


Transactions


CADENCE ANNOUNCES IT WILL TAKE PLATO DESIGN

Apr. 2, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Plato Design Systems Inc. in a deal worth $57 million. The deal was announce...


Transactions


CIRCUIT MANUFACTURER PLUGS IN TO $25 MILLION

Apr. 2, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Resonext Communications Inc. brought in $25 million in its third round of funding, which was completed March 11. INVESCO Priva...


Transactions


Creative Technology Ltd. has agreed to acquire 3Dlabs Inc. The $103 million deal was announced March 11. Singapore's Creative ...


Solo and Small Firms


Bring It On

Apr. 2, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

For a small firm, O'Neill Lysaght & Sun sure does get around. The Santa Monica litigation boutique has found its way into ...


Transactions


CardioNet Inc. closed a third round of funding that raised nearly $19 million. The deal was announced March 11. The investors ...


Transactions


Partner Uses Savvy to Cement Creative Deal

Apr. 2, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Partner Steve Bochner combined the legal skills from his 20-year career with the business knowledge he's acquired representing...


Brobeck Phleger & Harrison moved from its old Geng Road address in Palo Alto to a new building in the same city on March 1...